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Couldn't wait for Forum funnies. This was too good to leave out.
Classic 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 ant is warm and well fed. The shivering grasshopper has no
food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
The Modern Australian 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 ant is warm and well fed. 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 like him are cold and
starving. The ABC and Channel 9 show up to provide live coverage of the
shivering grasshopper, with cuts to a video of the ant in his
comfortable warm home with a table filled with food. Australians are
stunned that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is
allowed to suffer so while others have plenty. The Democrats, the
Greens and the Coalition Against Poverty demonstrate in front of the
ant's house. The ABC, interrupting an Aboriginal cultural festival
special from North Queensland with breaking news, broadcasts them
singing "We Shall Overcome." Bob Brown rants in an interview with Jana
Wendt that the ant has gotten rich off the backs of grasshoppers, and
calls for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his "fair
share." In response to polls, the Liberal Government drafts the
Economic Equity and Grasshopper Anti-Discrimination Act, retroactive to
the beginning of the summer. And the ALP quickly passes it through the
Senate.
The ant's taxes are reassessed and he is also fined for failing to hire
grasshoppers as helpers. Without enough money to pay both the fine and
his newly imposed retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the
government. The ant moves to Asia, and starts a successful Agribiz
company. The TV stations later show the now fat grasshopper finishing
up the last of the ant's food though Spring is still months away, while
the government owned house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's
old house, crumbles around him because he hadn't maintained it.
Inadequate government funding is blamed, Kim Beazley is now appointed
to head a commission of enquiry that will cost $10,000,000. The
grasshopper is soon dead of a drug overdose, the Sydney Morning Herald
blames it on the obvious failure of government to address the root
causes of despair arising from social inequity. The abandoned house is taken over by a gang of immigrant spiders, praised by the government for
enriching Australia's multicultural diversity, who promptly terrorize
the community. Who says we don't live in a democracy?
Thanks Chan$
Regards
Couldn't wait for Forum funnies. This was too good to leave out.
Classic 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 ant is warm and well fed. The shivering grasshopper has no
food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
The Modern Australian 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 ant is warm and well fed. 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 like him are cold and
starving. The ABC and Channel 9 show up to provide live coverage of the
shivering grasshopper, with cuts to a video of the ant in his
comfortable warm home with a table filled with food. Australians are
stunned that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is
allowed to suffer so while others have plenty. The Democrats, the
Greens and the Coalition Against Poverty demonstrate in front of the
ant's house. The ABC, interrupting an Aboriginal cultural festival
special from North Queensland with breaking news, broadcasts them
singing "We Shall Overcome." Bob Brown rants in an interview with Jana
Wendt that the ant has gotten rich off the backs of grasshoppers, and
calls for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his "fair
share." In response to polls, the Liberal Government drafts the
Economic Equity and Grasshopper Anti-Discrimination Act, retroactive to
the beginning of the summer. And the ALP quickly passes it through the
Senate.
The ant's taxes are reassessed and he is also fined for failing to hire
grasshoppers as helpers. Without enough money to pay both the fine and
his newly imposed retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the
government. The ant moves to Asia, and starts a successful Agribiz
company. The TV stations later show the now fat grasshopper finishing
up the last of the ant's food though Spring is still months away, while
the government owned house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's
old house, crumbles around him because he hadn't maintained it.
Inadequate government funding is blamed, Kim Beazley is now appointed
to head a commission of enquiry that will cost $10,000,000. The
grasshopper is soon dead of a drug overdose, the Sydney Morning Herald
blames it on the obvious failure of government to address the root
causes of despair arising from social inequity. The abandoned house is taken over by a gang of immigrant spiders, praised by the government for
enriching Australia's multicultural diversity, who promptly terrorize
the community. Who says we don't live in a democracy?
Thanks Chan$
Regards