Message-ID: <1572415.1075840638571.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 04:57:00 -0700 (PDT) From: jfbosu@hotmail.com To: mark.guzman@enron.com Subject: Fwd: FW: Remember to Vote Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: "Jeff Burns" X-To: Mark.Guzman@enron.com X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \mark guzman 6-28-02\Notes Folders\Discussion threads X-Origin: GUZMAN-M X-FileName: mark guzman 6-28-02.nsf Hey Guz- how's it going? I hear you took that job where you are working those funky hours. I thought you would appreciate this little story about the ant and the grasshopper!!! Remember to vote!!! Later, Jeff >From: Nathan Bennett DNET >To: "'Jennifer Yax'" , "'jfbosu@hotmail.com'" > >Subject: FW: Remember to Vote >Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 09:01:03 -0700 > >My dad sent this to me. I think you will enjoy this. > >Subject: FW: Rember to Vote > > >Ant it the truth! > > > Subject: FW: Remember to VOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > > > A story you must read! > > > > THE 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 grasshopper has no food or shelter so he > > dies out in the cold. > > > > THE 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 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." > > > > Bill and Hillary Clinton make a special guest appearance on the CBS > > Evening News to tell a concerned Dan Rather that they will do everything > > they can for the grasshopper who has been denied the prosperity he > > deserves by those who benefited unfairly during the Reagan summers, or >as > > Bill refers to it as "temperatures of the 80's." > > > > 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. > > > > 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-Ant 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 gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a >Defamation > > suit against the ant. The case is tried before a panel of federal >judges > > that Bill appointed from a list of single-parent welfare recipients who > > can only hear cases on Thursday's between 1:30 and 3:00 PM when there >are > > no talk shows scheduled. 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 since he doesn't maintain it. > > The ant has disappeared in the snow. And on the TV, which the >grasshopper > > bought by selling most of the ant's food, they are showing Bill Clinton > > standing before a wildly applauding group of Democrats announcing that a > > new era of "fairness" has dawned in America. 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. > > > > Remember to Vote _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.