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  #11  
Old January 27th 10, 12:29 AM posted to alt.astronomy
Double-A[_3_]
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On Jan 26, 3:49*pm, "David Staup" wrote:
"Double-A" wrote in message

...
On Jan 23, 9:45 am, "David Staup" wrote:





this will make them cry


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.


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.'


ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news
stations film the group singing, We shall overcome. Then Rev. Jeremiah
Wright has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.


President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, President
Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight..


Nancy Pelosi & 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 & 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 Green Czar 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 ants 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 the grasshopper 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, neighborhood.


The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it..


MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2010.


I've sent this to you because I believe that you are an ant not a
grasshopper! Make sure that you pass this on to other ants. Don't bother
sending it on to any grasshoppers because they wouldn't understand it
anyway.


What flights of fantasy! *Let's shed a little cold reality on this.
The worker ant works hard in the withering heat of summer and has
little time for fun. *The grasshopper jumps about in a care free
manner and enjoys nature's summer smorgasbord! *Each lives out its
allotted two to three month expected life span and dies. *Neither has
to face the deprivations of the winter months. *But the grasshopper
enjoyed his life a lot more! *Which one was the fool?

Double-A

are you really that dense?

Metaphors are a way to describe something. Authors use them to make their
writing more interesting or entertaining.



Yeah, it's a way authors take unrealistic situations and use them to
brainwash people into their point of view!

Double-A

  #12  
Old January 27th 10, 12:50 AM posted to alt.astronomy
BradGuth
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On Jan 26, 3:49*pm, "David Staup" wrote:
"Double-A" wrote in message

...
On Jan 23, 9:45 am, "David Staup" wrote:



this will make them cry


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.


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.'


ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news
stations film the group singing, We shall overcome. Then Rev. Jeremiah
Wright has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.


President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, President
Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight..


Nancy Pelosi & 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 & 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 Green Czar 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 ants 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 the grasshopper 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, neighborhood.


The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it..


MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2010.


I've sent this to you because I believe that you are an ant not a
grasshopper! Make sure that you pass this on to other ants. Don't bother
sending it on to any grasshoppers because they wouldn't understand it
anyway.


What flights of fantasy! *Let's shed a little cold reality on this.
The worker ant works hard in the withering heat of summer and has
little time for fun. *The grasshopper jumps about in a care free
manner and enjoys nature's summer smorgasbord! *Each lives out its
allotted two to three month expected life span and dies. *Neither has
to face the deprivations of the winter months. *But the grasshopper
enjoyed his life a lot more! *Which one was the fool?

Double-A

are you really that dense?

Metaphors are a way to describe something. Authors use them to make their
writing more interesting or entertaining.


In the overall picture, within the global biodiversity there are far
more million tonnes of ants than grasshoppers. Lets say ants: 100,
grasshoppers: 1.

~ BG
  #13  
Old January 27th 10, 12:54 AM posted to alt.astronomy
BradGuth
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Posts: 21,544
Default not for left wing loones

On Jan 26, 4:29*pm, Double-A wrote:
On Jan 26, 3:49*pm, "David Staup" wrote:



"Double-A" wrote in message


....
On Jan 23, 9:45 am, "David Staup" wrote:


this will make them cry


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.


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.'


ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news
stations film the group singing, We shall overcome. Then Rev. Jeremiah
Wright has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.


President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, President
Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight.


Nancy Pelosi & 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 & 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 Green Czar 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 ants 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 the grasshopper 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, neighborhood.


The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.


MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2010.


I've sent this to you because I believe that you are an ant not a
grasshopper! Make sure that you pass this on to other ants. Don't bother
sending it on to any grasshoppers because they wouldn't understand it
anyway.


What flights of fantasy! *Let's shed a little cold reality on this.
The worker ant works hard in the withering heat of summer and has
little time for fun. *The grasshopper jumps about in a care free
manner and enjoys nature's summer smorgasbord! *Each lives out its
allotted two to three month expected life span and dies. *Neither has
to face the deprivations of the winter months. *But the grasshopper
enjoyed his life a lot more! *Which one was the fool?


Double-A


are you really that dense?


Metaphors are a way to describe something. Authors use them to make their
writing more interesting or entertaining.


Yeah, it's a way authors take unrealistic situations and use them to
brainwash people into their point of view!

Double-A


You think ants are "unrealistic"?

You realize that the oldest fossil ants look nearly identical to
modern ants.

~ BG
  #14  
Old January 27th 10, 01:16 AM posted to alt.astronomy
Double-A[_3_]
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Posts: 4,635
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On Jan 26, 4:54*pm, BradGuth wrote:
On Jan 26, 4:29*pm, Double-A wrote:





On Jan 26, 3:49*pm, "David Staup" wrote:


"Double-A" wrote in message


....
On Jan 23, 9:45 am, "David Staup" wrote:


this will make them cry


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.


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.'


ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news
stations film the group singing, We shall overcome. Then Rev. Jeremiah
Wright has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.


President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, President
Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight.


Nancy Pelosi & 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 & 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 Green Czar 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 ants 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 the grasshopper 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, neighborhood.


The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.


MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2010.


I've sent this to you because I believe that you are an ant not a
grasshopper! Make sure that you pass this on to other ants. Don't bother
sending it on to any grasshoppers because they wouldn't understand it
anyway.


What flights of fantasy! *Let's shed a little cold reality on this.
The worker ant works hard in the withering heat of summer and has
little time for fun. *The grasshopper jumps about in a care free
manner and enjoys nature's summer smorgasbord! *Each lives out its
allotted two to three month expected life span and dies. *Neither has
to face the deprivations of the winter months. *But the grasshopper
enjoyed his life a lot more! *Which one was the fool?


Double-A


are you really that dense?


Metaphors are a way to describe something. Authors use them to make their
writing more interesting or entertaining.


Yeah, it's a way authors take unrealistic situations and use them to
brainwash people into their point of view!


Double-A


You think ants are "unrealistic"?

You realize that the oldest fossil ants look nearly identical to
modern ants.

*~ BG



What about the oldest fossil grasshoppers?

Double-A
  #15  
Old January 27th 10, 01:18 AM posted to alt.astronomy
Double-A[_3_]
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Posts: 4,635
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On Jan 26, 4:50*pm, BradGuth wrote:
On Jan 26, 3:49*pm, "David Staup" wrote:





"Double-A" wrote in message


....
On Jan 23, 9:45 am, "David Staup" wrote:


this will make them cry


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.


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.'


ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news
stations film the group singing, We shall overcome. Then Rev. Jeremiah
Wright has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.


President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, President
Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight.


Nancy Pelosi & 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 & 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 Green Czar 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 ants 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 the grasshopper 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, neighborhood.


The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.


MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2010.


I've sent this to you because I believe that you are an ant not a
grasshopper! Make sure that you pass this on to other ants. Don't bother
sending it on to any grasshoppers because they wouldn't understand it
anyway.


What flights of fantasy! *Let's shed a little cold reality on this.
The worker ant works hard in the withering heat of summer and has
little time for fun. *The grasshopper jumps about in a care free
manner and enjoys nature's summer smorgasbord! *Each lives out its
allotted two to three month expected life span and dies. *Neither has
to face the deprivations of the winter months. *But the grasshopper
enjoyed his life a lot more! *Which one was the fool?


Double-A


are you really that dense?


Metaphors are a way to describe something. Authors use them to make their
writing more interesting or entertaining.


In the overall picture, within the global biodiversity there are far
more million tonnes of ants than grasshoppers. *Lets say ants: 100,
grasshoppers: 1.

*~ BG



So are you saying that ants win by majority rule?

Double-A

  #16  
Old January 27th 10, 02:52 AM posted to alt.astronomy
BradGuth
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 21,544
Default not for left wing loones

On Jan 26, 5:18*pm, Double-A wrote:
On Jan 26, 4:50*pm, BradGuth wrote:



On Jan 26, 3:49*pm, "David Staup" wrote:


"Double-A" wrote in message


....
On Jan 23, 9:45 am, "David Staup" wrote:


this will make them cry


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.


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.'


ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news
stations film the group singing, We shall overcome. Then Rev. Jeremiah
Wright has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.


President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, President
Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight.


Nancy Pelosi & 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 & 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 Green Czar 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 ants 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 the grasshopper 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, neighborhood.


The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.


MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2010.


I've sent this to you because I believe that you are an ant not a
grasshopper! Make sure that you pass this on to other ants. Don't bother
sending it on to any grasshoppers because they wouldn't understand it
anyway.


What flights of fantasy! *Let's shed a little cold reality on this.
The worker ant works hard in the withering heat of summer and has
little time for fun. *The grasshopper jumps about in a care free
manner and enjoys nature's summer smorgasbord! *Each lives out its
allotted two to three month expected life span and dies. *Neither has
to face the deprivations of the winter months. *But the grasshopper
enjoyed his life a lot more! *Which one was the fool?


Double-A


are you really that dense?


Metaphors are a way to describe something. Authors use them to make their
writing more interesting or entertaining.


In the overall picture, within the global biodiversity there are far
more million tonnes of ants than grasshoppers. *Lets say ants: 100,
grasshoppers: 1.


*~ BG


So are you saying that ants win by majority rule?

Double-A


They are extremely well engineered to out-survive most species, and
they tend to out-weigh most other species by a large margin. Ants are
far better suited to the greater environment of Earth than we are.

~ BG
  #17  
Old January 27th 10, 02:55 AM posted to alt.astronomy
BradGuth
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 21,544
Default not for left wing loones

On Jan 26, 5:16*pm, Double-A wrote:
On Jan 26, 4:54*pm, BradGuth wrote:



On Jan 26, 4:29*pm, Double-A wrote:


On Jan 26, 3:49*pm, "David Staup" wrote:


"Double-A" wrote in message


...
On Jan 23, 9:45 am, "David Staup" wrote:


this will make them cry


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.


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.'


ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news
stations film the group singing, We shall overcome. Then Rev. Jeremiah
Wright has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.


President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, President
Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight.


Nancy Pelosi & 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 & 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 Green Czar 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 ants 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 the grasshopper 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, neighborhood.


The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.


MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2010.


I've sent this to you because I believe that you are an ant not a
grasshopper! Make sure that you pass this on to other ants. Don't bother
sending it on to any grasshoppers because they wouldn't understand it
anyway.


What flights of fantasy! *Let's shed a little cold reality on this.
The worker ant works hard in the withering heat of summer and has
little time for fun. *The grasshopper jumps about in a care free
manner and enjoys nature's summer smorgasbord! *Each lives out its
allotted two to three month expected life span and dies. *Neither has
to face the deprivations of the winter months. *But the grasshopper
enjoyed his life a lot more! *Which one was the fool?


Double-A


are you really that dense?


Metaphors are a way to describe something. Authors use them to make their
writing more interesting or entertaining.


Yeah, it's a way authors take unrealistic situations and use them to
brainwash people into their point of view!


Double-A


You think ants are "unrealistic"?


You realize that the oldest fossil ants look nearly identical to
modern ants.


*~ BG


What about the oldest fossil grasshoppers?

Double-A


Perhaps, or at least why not. However, I think grasshoppers are a
more recent species.

~ BG
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Default  200 pounds of humans consume much more than 200 pounds of ants.


I once heard that there are more pounds of ants than humans.
True or not, 200 pounds of humans consume much more than 200 pounds of ants.
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Default  Mental poverty will kill you, financial poverty won't.


These days, “poverty/homelessness” per sé doesn't kill people.

Most die of old age; others die young from a form of mental illness
that makes them inject too much heroin, alcohol and pills ( mixed ).

Epileptic seizures ( and the requisite pills ) shorten lives.
Gambling can get you killed before your time.

Driving/Boating drunk/high gets the job done, as eveyone knows.

A close friend of mine ACCIDENTALLY died from hanging too long
off his door·knob ( while super high/drunk, no doubt ).

Amazingly, kids these days ( “gaspers” ) do that for the high;
it makes them “nut” ( cum ). Again, there's a mental problem here.

It's called “Breath Control Play” ( “Erotic Asphyxiation”, Waterboarding ).

Bottom line:
Mental poverty will kill you, financial poverty won't.
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Old January 27th 10, 07:24 PM posted to alt.astronomy
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Default  Sember, how do you get your exercise ?


wrote in message
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How do you get your exercise, Sember ?
Have you ever used a bidet ?


Yes, I have used a bidet, and I get plenty of exercise while training!

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