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11-07-2007, 8:39 AM Herschel Joined on 01-30-2006 Monterey, Louisiana Posts 3,149 The ant and the grasshopper. TRADITIONAL VERSION:  The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer  long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.  The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs  and dances and plays the  summer away.  Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.  The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out  in the cold.    MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!  --------------------------------------------------------- --------------------  MODERN VERSION The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer  long, building his house  and laying up supplies for the winter.  The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs  and dances and plays the  summer away.  Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press  conference and demands to know why the ant should be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving. > >>  CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide  pictures of the shivering  grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his  comfortable home with a table filled with food.   America is stunned by the sharp contrast.  How can this be, that in a country of such wealth,  this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so? > >> Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper,  and everybody cries when  they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.' > >>  Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the  ant's house where the news  stations film the group singing, 'We shall overcome.'  Jesse then has the group  kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.  Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry & Harry Reid exclaim in an  interview with Larry King  that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the  grasshopper, and both call for  an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share. > >>  Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity and  Anti-Grasshopper Act  retroactive to the beginning of the summer! The ant  is fined for failing to  hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having  nothing left to pay his  retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the  government. > >> Hillary Clinton gets her old law firm to represent the  grasshopper in a defamation suit  against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel  of federal judges that  Bill Clinton appointed from a list of single-parent  welfare  recipients.  The ant loses the case. > >> The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up  the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which just  happens to be the ant's old  house, crumbles around him because he doesn't t  maintain it. > >>  The ant has disappeared in the snow. > >>  The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related  incident and the house, now  abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who  terrorize the once peaceful  neighborhood. > >>  MORAL OF THE STORY: Be very careful how you vote in 2008 Herschel "Chief Instigator" Stop "Poly-Ticks" in Washington!! (definitian) Poly: many Ticks: blood suckin' insects    Report

11-07-2007, 10:31 AM twig/al Joined on 01-24-2006 Gadsden, Alabama Posts 4,627 Re: The ant and the grasshopper. Herschel, Good sound logic in that story!!! twig/al Alabama Prospecting Supply www.alabamaprospectingsupply.com Email: tom@alabamaprospectingsupply.com Southeast Treasure Hunters Forum www.southeasttreasurehunters.com    Report

04-15-2008, 2:47 PM goldhunter1992 Joined on 04-22-2007 hagerstown,maryland Posts 90 Re: The ant and the grasshopper. Nice story, I love it. GIT-R-DONE GOT-R-DID    Report

11-02-2008, 5:33 PM Herschel Joined on 01-30-2006 Monterey, Louisiana Posts 3,149 Re: The ant and the grasshopper. Thought this one needed a bump. Herschel wrote the following post at 11-07-2007 7:39 AM: TRADITIONAL VERSION:  The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer  long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.  The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs  and dances and plays the  summer away.  Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.  The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out  in the cold.    MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!  --------------------------------------------------------- --------------------  MODERN VERSION The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer  long, building his house  and laying up supplies for the winter.  The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs  and dances and plays the  summer away.  Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press  conference and demands to know why the ant should be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving. > >>  CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, MSNBC and ABC show up to provide  pictures of the shivering  grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his  comfortable home with a table filled with food.   America is stunned by the sharp contrast.  How can this be, that in a country of such wealth,  this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so? > >> Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper,  and everybody cries when  they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.' > >>  Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the  ant's house where the news  stations film the group singing, 'We shall overcome.'  Jesse then has the group  kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.  Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry & Harry Reid exclaim in an  interview with Larry King  that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the  grasshopper, and both call for  an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share. > >>  Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity and  Anti-Grasshopper Act  retroactive to the beginning of the summer! The ant  is fined for failing to  hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having  nothing left to pay his  retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the  government. > >> Hillary Clinton gets her old law firm to represent the  grasshopper in a defamation suit  against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel  of federal judges that  Bill Clinton appointed from a list of single-parent  welfare  recipients.  The ant loses the case. > >> The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up  the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which just  happens to be the ant's old  house, crumbles around him because he doesn't t  maintain it. > >>  The ant has disappeared in the snow.  Barak Obama accuses him of being selfish and spreads the ants wealth around after collecting the death tax. ABC, NBC,CBS, MSNBC, PBS and CNN dispatch reporters and members of ACORN to dig up dirt and to harrass the ants family. > >>  The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related  incident and the house, now  abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who  terrorize the once peaceful  neighborhood. > >>  MORAL OF THE STORY: Be very careful how you vote in 2008 Herschel "Chief Instigator" Stop "Poly-Ticks" in Washington!! (definitian) Poly: many Ticks: blood suckin' insects    Report

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