[Rhodes22-list] THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER

[Rik Sandberg]

Sorry Stan, that argument won't fly. The names Gore and Clinton as mentioned
in the ant and grasshopper story were brought up by the journalist who wrote
it. Since everyone knows that all journalists are liberals, your argument
that they were brought up originally by the ant's (conservative) side is
ludicrous and obviously incorrect. I would beg to submit to the court that
your position is indeed political and therefore against the bylaws of the
list and as such should be disallowed.

Respectfully submitted on October 25, the year of our lord 2002,
Eric O. Sandberg, esquire and chief cook and bottle washer


----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Grandholm" <paul@mi.chtechnology.com>
To: <rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 8:41 AM
Subject: [Rhodes22-list] THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER


> CLASSIC 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 he's 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.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
>  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 he's 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
> allowed to be warm and well fed while others less
> fortunate are cold and starving.
>
> CBS, NBC 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."
>
> Al Gore exclaims in an interview with Peter Jennings
> that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the
> grasshopper, and calls 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 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.
>
>
>
> ========================
> Paul Grandholm
> C&H Technology
> GrandPower Components Div.
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