[JustAmy]

October 4, 2011



Graphic by MamaBear

I was playing golf. I swung, missed the ball, and got a big chunk of dirt.
I swung again, missed the ball, and got another big chunk of dirt.
Just then, 2 ants climbed on the ball saying "Let's get up here before we get killed!"
Unknown

If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?
Marie Dressler

At high tide the fish eat ants; at low tide the ants eat fish.
Thai Proverb

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

Good funny stuff on ants! :-)

[left that other site]

That Thai proverb is profound.

[jaycee]

This was a very cute opening, Amy. Thank you!

I will try to get back later and answer more pings!

Have a Trouble-free Tuesday!!

[yorkie]

THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER (revised)

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 allowed to 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.’

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

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.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ants 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 in 2012.

[tiapam]

Interesting graphic and quotes!! Especially the Thai Proverb!! Thank you!

[geologist]

There are hairy ants coming ... that are causing all sorts of problems with electronic equipment and AC, and invading our territory. So far they are difficult if not impossible to kill.

God be with us.

Is this an attack from Satan?

[oldteen]

That is quite different but none the less a great one! :)

Thank you!

[oldteen]