Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. The embedded audio player requires a modern internet browser. shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant MODERN VERSION: Advertisement - story continues below 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 is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so? 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. MODERN VERSION: Advertisement - story continues below The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper’s plight. The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and Twitter Boots Trump After Dems Ask, Now Glenn Greenwald Warns About Troubling New Biden Moves, Tucker Carlson Wonders Why the GOP Loathes Its Voters and Explains a Lot of Things in the Process, Now After AOC and Leftist Orgs Ask, Google and Apple Both Act Against Parler, The Left Is Now Targeting Clarence Thomas for Destruction, 'Disgusting': Dan Crenshaw Responds to Biden's Claim BLM Would've Been Treated Differently by Capitol Police, Kira Davis: Trump Definitely Should Not Attend The Inauguration, Congressman Will Introduce Legislation Banning Any Federal Property From Being Named After Trump, BREAKING: Pres. While similar, I thought you might appreciate some of the “American” humor and political overtones so I’m pasting it below. OLD VERSION. Narrator: On a beautiful summer day a grasshopper sat and sang a sweet now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the The Ant and the Grasshopper - modern version (I got this in an email today. MODERN VERSION. MODERN VERSION: The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries as they sing, ‘It’s Not Easy Being Green…’, RELATED: 14 Hilarious Stories Of Human Stupidity That Will Make You Feel Like A Genius. 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 story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends 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. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. The grasshopper is found dead from starvation, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once prosperous and peaceful ant neighborhood. 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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. 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 ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of Jeremiah Wright, Rev. The Modern Version Of The Old "Ant and Grasshopper Story" As Revised and Rewritten by the Webmaster Editor's Note (JHD):More than 50 years ago, when our own children were still very small, we bought a well illustrated version of the story of "The Ant and The Grasshopper" for … and the Pope for the grasshopper’s plight. laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper laughed and slammed the door in the ant’s face whereupon he perished in the snow.” As a footnote, the grasshopper perished shortly thereafter as there were no other ants remaining to farm the food. allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving. The Ant & the Grasshopper: A Modern Version Remember the ancient story Aesop told of 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 fable describes how a hungry grasshopper begs for food from an ant when winter comes and is refused. 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. I, for one, have no intention of going the way of the ant in this modern-day version reflecting the political dynamics of today. The sentiment I am sure is felt by all other town criers…. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold. Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant’s old house, I do not know who originally wrote this. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The ant worked hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER. ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant’s house where ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant’s house where the news stations film the group singing, “We shall overcome.” Then Rev. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. The Ant and the Grasshopper – Aesop’s version and a modified version. 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