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(~‾▿‾)~THE OFFICIAL FRIDAY SILLINESS~(‾▿‾~)

Posted on 03/11/2016 6:19:13 AM PST by Lucky9teen

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, ABC and CNN 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 MSNBC 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.

Democrat leaders, in every media outlet they can find, exclaim that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper and 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 Barack Obama 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.

MORAL OF THE STORY:
Be careful how you vote this year.


TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: friday; ofst; silliness
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1 posted on 03/11/2016 6:19:13 AM PST by Lucky9teen
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Woohoo!! Friday!!


2 posted on 03/11/2016 6:19:31 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: Lucky9teen
Top 5?!?

Happy Friggday!! d:^)

3 posted on 03/11/2016 6:23:05 AM PST by CopperTop
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To: Lucky9teen

Heh, the “modern version” reminds me of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFc


4 posted on 03/11/2016 6:25:32 AM PST by 20yearsofinternet (Border: Close it. Illegals: Deport. Muslims: Ban 'em. Economy: Liberate it. PC: Kill it. Trump 2016)
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5 posted on 03/11/2016 6:26:43 AM PST by Lucky9teen (God's blessing has been on America from the very beginning, and I believe God isn't done yet. TCruz)
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6 posted on 03/11/2016 6:27:06 AM PST by Lucky9teen (God's blessing has been on America from the very beginning, and I believe God isn't done yet. TCruz)
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Top 10


7 posted on 03/11/2016 6:27:15 AM PST by barmag25
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in before. the jinn


8 posted on 03/11/2016 6:27:42 AM PST by Iron head mike (Dirty deeds done dirt cheap)
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Top ‘O the Morning! !


9 posted on 03/11/2016 6:28:20 AM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try.)
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Top 10.. woohoo!


10 posted on 03/11/2016 6:28:23 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (GOPe - Enriching the consultant class while selling out their constituents.)
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To: Lucky9teen

Good Morning!
:-)


11 posted on 03/11/2016 6:28:23 AM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Lucky9teen

Mississippi squirrel revival.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K16fG1sDagU


12 posted on 03/11/2016 6:29:07 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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13 posted on 03/11/2016 6:30:28 AM PST by JRios1968 (I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
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14 posted on 03/11/2016 6:30:29 AM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Lucky9teen

Good morning.

Isn’t that the kid who invented a clock?

What happened to him? I think he went to the middle east and that is the last I heard of him.


15 posted on 03/11/2016 6:31:07 AM PST by moviefan8
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16 posted on 03/11/2016 6:32:31 AM PST by dragonblustar
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To: Lucky9teen

http://www.ifc.com/shows/comedy-bang-bang/blog/2015/03/10-things-idiocracy-got-right-about-the-future


17 posted on 03/11/2016 6:34:50 AM PST by stump56 (Freedom isn't free.)
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18 posted on 03/11/2016 6:35:50 AM PST by PROCON
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19 posted on 03/11/2016 6:38:15 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
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Knocked it out of the park. A perfect exact example of how the system of the morally corrupt MSM and the government work together to steal from the responsible and give to the irresponsible these days.


20 posted on 03/11/2016 6:40:56 AM PST by jsanders2001
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