Hillay's crash

[gunny]

Hillary Clinton and her driver were cruising along a country road. One evening when an ancient cow loomed in front of the car.



The driver tried to avoid it but couldn't - the aged bovine was struck and killed.



Hillary told her driver to go up to the farmhouse and explain to the owners what had happened. She stayed in the car making phone calls to lobbyists.



About an hour later the driver staggered back to the car with his clothes in disarray. He was holding a half-empty bottle of expensive wine in one hand, a rare, huge Cuban cigar in the other and was smiling happily, smeared with lipstick.



"What happened to you," asked Hillary?



"Well," the driver replied, "the farmer gave me the cigar, his wife gave me the wine, and their beautiful twin daughters made mad passionate love to me."



"My God, what did you tell them?" asked Hillary.



The driver replied, "I just stepped inside the door and said, I'm Hillary Clinton's driver and I've just killed the old cow.



The rest happened so fast I couldn't stop it."

[meese]

What, again? You must really be bored. OK, I'll play along.

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[gunny]

What, again? You must really be bored. OK, I'll play along.

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Traditional Parable:

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 ant is warm and well fed.

The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!
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Modern Variant:

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 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."

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.

Nancy Pelosi & John Kerry 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 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 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.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote

[messenger13]

What, again? You must really be bored. OK, I'll play along.

Umm...Kenneth? Are you implying that the joke had no humor attached to it what-so-ever just because of it's political slant? How narrow-minded of you. To be quite frank, I'm a little disappointed. I would've chuckled no matter who "the lady" was in the joke. Seems pretty petty to me to think otherwise, no?

[meese]

No. :)

I just never understood those "jokes" that keep getting repeated, with the name of the main characters getting changed out to suit someone's own political or social bent. The last time we heard the ant/grasshopper story it was the UK Labour Party vs. the Conservative Party. I find them simple and demeaning, with little redeeming value. Of course, I often have that reaction whenever politics and/or religion are involved. ;)

[kriach]

"simple and demeaning, with little redeeming value" pretty accurately describes politics in your country, my country, and in the UK from everything I have seen and read lately. :D



Ken
:)

[messenger13]

"simple and demeaning, with little redeeming value" pretty accurately describes politics in your country, my country, and in the UK from everything I have seen and read lately. :D I think your vision is 20/20 Ken. :)

[meese]

Hey, I said politics and/or religion, but to each their own. :)

[cccpastorjack]

Hey, I said politics and/or religion, but to each their own. :)


Gotta ask a question...

Imagine this scenaro...You're in the roughest, baddest part of LA in the night, somehow you took a wrong turn and then...your car/bike breaks down. It's dark...you can't get it cranked...when out of a dark door walk 4 large men toward you...coming down the sidewalk straight toward you and your stranded car... Here's my question: Would it make any difference to you if those four men were leaving a Bible Study? Be honest.

Not preaching....but just asking...'cause it's a VERY broad statement to say that religion has little redeeming value....very broad.

[messenger13]

Here's my question: Would it make any difference to you if those four men were leaving a Bible Study? Be honest.Depends what they wuz doin at that Bible Study?! :rotf:

Now that there's funny, I don' care who ya are! :D

[meese]

Would it make any difference to you if those four men were leaving a Bible Study? Be honest.Only if they hit me with the bibles. Or worse, tried to convert me. :eek:

And yeah, it's a bit over the top. But then again, you don't seem to mind the political derision at all. Hmm.