The Ant and the Grasshopper

[Tomo]

The ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER

 

This one is a little different.... Two Different Versions.... Two Different Morals

 

OLD 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 and the rain 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 allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.

 

Channels 7, 9 and 10,the ABC and SBS 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.

 

Australia 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.'

 

Acorn stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, 'We shall overcome.'Cardinal George Pell then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.

 

Prime Minister Rudd condemns the ant and blames John Howard, Robert Menzies, Capt James Cook, and the Pope for thegrasshopper's plight.

 

Bob Brown exclaims in an interview on Today Tonight 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, Labour in conjunction with the Greens draft the Economic Equity & 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 and given to the grasshopper.

 

The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because thegrasshopper doesn't maintain it.

 

The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.

 

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 ramshackle, once prosperous and once peaceful, neighbourhood.

 

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2011.

 

 

[flying dog]

Ya know, it is weird but I have just read the same joke somewhere else and can't remember where.

 

 

[hihosland]

NES 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, after spending his entire 15 day lifespan flying, copulating and flying again.

 

MORAL OF THE STORY: You gotta go. So you may as well go doing what you enjoy

 

 

[pudestcon]

flying, copulating and flying again.

I like the sound of that:thumb_up:

 

Pud

 

 

[Old Koreelah]

Good analogy, but I'd like to think that the Greens were more focussed on ensuring that future summers didn't get so hot that gathering supplies became impossible...

 

 

[hihosland]

the ant of course spent all his time gathering, dragging and storing supplies into the big house that he and all his other castrated mates had built for their queen who did shamelessly did exploit them.

 

However because she was a real queen they all did love her though they did but see her passing by.