Carpet and Floor Cleaning Industry Chat Forum : The ant & the grasshopper...... https://www.kleenkuip.com/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:17:10 +0000 Mon, 21 Nov 2005 13:53:28 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.06 360 https://www.kleenkuip.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=2112 <![CDATA[Carpet and Floor Cleaning Industry Chat Forum]]> https://www.kleenkuip.com/forum/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png https://www.kleenkuip.com/forum/ <![CDATA[The ant & the grasshopper...... : lol spruce... ur crackin me up........]]> https://www.kleenkuip.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2112&PID=56005&title=the-ant-the-grasshopper#56005 Author: papagator
Subject: 2112
Posted: 21/November/2005 at 1:53pm

    lol spruce... ur crackin me up.....  thanks I needed a good laugh today bud!!!]]> Mon, 21 Nov 2005 13:53:28 +0000 https://www.kleenkuip.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2112&PID=56005&title=the-ant-the-grasshopper#56005 <![CDATA[The ant & the grasshopper...... : THE AMERICAN MODERN VERSION:The...]]> https://www.kleenkuip.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2112&PID=55754&title=the-ant-the-grasshopper#55754 Author: spruce
Subject: 2112
Posted: 20/November/2005 at 12:15am

THE AMERICAN 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.]]> Sun, 20 Nov 2005 00:15:15 +0000 https://www.kleenkuip.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2112&PID=55754&title=the-ant-the-grasshopper#55754 <![CDATA[The ant & the grasshopper...... : Spruce your story sounds similar...]]> https://www.kleenkuip.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2112&PID=55717&title=the-ant-the-grasshopper#55717 Author: John L
Subject: 2112
Posted: 19/November/2005 at 6:59pm

Spruce your story sounds similar to this>>>

You probably already know that Canada is famous for
its huge social programs...

... Like free health care, the Guaranteed Income
Allowance (otherwise known as 'The Allowance'), and
federal training and employment programs...

It's even written in the Canadian Constitution that
the richer provinces have to share their wealth with
the poorer ones - a program commonly referred to as
"equalization."

What you might not know is that there's a unique
situation right now in Canada that is allowing
Americans to fund part or nearly all of their
retirement.

It's a program a lot like "equalization," except that
regular Americans, can take
advantage.

In short, it's a government-created program, now
being funded by private Canadian businesses. And it's
making some savvy Americans quite rich...

Right or wrong Canadian friends????????????

 

 

]]> Sat, 19 Nov 2005 18:59:44 +0000 https://www.kleenkuip.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2112&PID=55717&title=the-ant-the-grasshopper#55717 <![CDATA[The ant & the grasshopper...... : Adwa....hahahahahah!!!!!!! maybe.......... I&#039;m...]]> https://www.kleenkuip.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2112&PID=55716&title=the-ant-the-grasshopper#55716 Author: John L
Subject: 2112
Posted: 19/November/2005 at 6:51pm

Adwa....hahahahahah!!!!!!! maybe..........

I'm not John I'm B.Gates.....lol!!!!! I wish...........

]]> Sat, 19 Nov 2005 18:51:59 +0000 https://www.kleenkuip.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2112&PID=55716&title=the-ant-the-grasshopper#55716 <![CDATA[The ant & the grasshopper...... : Thanks Steamer? ]]> https://www.kleenkuip.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2112&PID=55710&title=the-ant-the-grasshopper#55710 Author: doug
Subject: 2112
Posted: 19/November/2005 at 6:07pm

Thanks Steamer?]]> Sat, 19 Nov 2005 18:07:36 +0000 https://www.kleenkuip.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2112&PID=55710&title=the-ant-the-grasshopper#55710 <![CDATA[The ant & the grasshopper...... : Yeah thats right... doug is anything...]]> https://www.kleenkuip.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2112&PID=55637&title=the-ant-the-grasshopper#55637 Author: MR. STEAMER
Subject: 2112
Posted: 19/November/2005 at 4:43pm

Yeah thats right... doug is anything but humble]]> Sat, 19 Nov 2005 16:43:57 +0000 https://www.kleenkuip.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2112&PID=55637&title=the-ant-the-grasshopper#55637 <![CDATA[The ant & the grasshopper...... : Lee: How I wish that were true?...]]> https://www.kleenkuip.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2112&PID=55635&title=the-ant-the-grasshopper#55635 Author: doug
Subject: 2112
Posted: 19/November/2005 at 2:39pm

Lee: How I wish that were true?]]> Sat, 19 Nov 2005 14:39:31 +0000 https://www.kleenkuip.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2112&PID=55635&title=the-ant-the-grasshopper#55635 <![CDATA[The ant & the grasshopper...... : It&#039;s hard to tell John..........they...]]> https://www.kleenkuip.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2112&PID=55600&title=the-ant-the-grasshopper#55600 Author: Adwa
Subject: 2112
Posted: 19/November/2005 at 1:19pm

It's hard to tell John..........they all moved to the States. ]]> Sat, 19 Nov 2005 13:19:13 +0000 https://www.kleenkuip.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2112&PID=55600&title=the-ant-the-grasshopper#55600 <![CDATA[The ant & the grasshopper...... : Sometimes the need to mess with...]]> https://www.kleenkuip.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2112&PID=55598&title=the-ant-the-grasshopper#55598 Author: John L
Subject: 2112
Posted: 19/November/2005 at 11:28am

Sometimes the need to mess with someones head outweighs the milestone of humiliation...spruces article does ring a bell...Phone

Who's lazy....Look who has most of the money....And they look pretty paleface to me....Nah, nah

http://www.forbes.com/lists/2005/54/Rank_1.html

Do you have a "The Richest Canadian list"?????????



Edited by John L]]> Sat, 19 Nov 2005 11:28:07 +0000 https://www.kleenkuip.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2112&PID=55598&title=the-ant-the-grasshopper#55598 <![CDATA[The ant & the grasshopper...... : True, Doug is a true example of...]]> https://www.kleenkuip.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2112&PID=55597&title=the-ant-the-grasshopper#55597 Author: LilNiteRidrhood
Subject: 2112
Posted: 19/November/2005 at 9:53am

True, Doug is a true example of humble success.]]> Sat, 19 Nov 2005 09:53:53 +0000 https://www.kleenkuip.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2112&PID=55597&title=the-ant-the-grasshopper#55597