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I was totally taken off guard by the end of the modern ant and grasshopper story. I thought the grasshopper was going to lose all the ant's money, savings, value in his home, due to a very hard to understand derivatives trading operation, receive funds from the government because he is too big to fail, and pay himself a big bonus. Then, the ant, facing the reality that he will have to work to his dying day to make up for the loss of his carefully husbanded savings, and underwater on his mortgage due to a grasshopper induced housing bubble, loses his job which has been exported to a country without safety and health regulations, dying finally of a sinus infection which he cannot afford to have treated, due to lack of health insurance, because he doesn't have a job. Meanwhile Congress calls a special session to debate how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. Boy was I wrong! What a relief. I much prefer your version. Devon From Agnes, the modern version of the Ant and the Grasshopper story 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 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 allowed to 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.' Acorn stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, 'We shall overcome.' Rev. Jeremiah Wright then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake. 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. Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity 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 Green Czar. The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ants 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. Agnes Boddington - Elloughton UK To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
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Ruth wrote: I've just heard on our radio station here in Australia that both the Daily Telegraph and the BBC are reporting that Britain is about to get a law forbidding cruelty to worms, slugs and snails! A fine of 25,000 pounds, and up to 12 months gaol is promised for those caught causing cruelty to these sorts of garden pests!!! It's true - sort of. A new animal cruelty law has been drafted, and as it stands we could be prosecuted for cruelty to worms, slugs and snails because they haven't been excluded. But the bill is in it's draft stage, and the final one will be more detailed so that nonsense can be weeded out. It's a complicated issue because, for instance, we can at the moment be prosecuted for cruelty to hedgehogs - is a person guilty of cruelty to a hedgehog if he puts down pellets to kill slugs and a poisoned slug is eaten by the hedgehog which then also dies from poisoning? We are supposed to be a nation of animal lovers, but when you hear that over the weekend the body of a pet cat was found (and I do mean the body) which had been killed by someone chopping off its head and tail, then we need animal cruelty laws. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/07/11/nslug11.xml; sSheet=/portal/2004/07/11/ixportal.html Jean in Poole To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Jean in Poole wrote:- . . . we need animal cruelty laws (for reasons given). We also need them because it is a way to catch career criminals early. It is becoming widely recognised that animal cruelty is frequently the first step on the way to far worse crimes against children and adults. So please, always report such things: don't just walk away in exasperation because it's only an animal. Linda Walton, (in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, U.K., who is leaving on Thursday to visit her sister, a retired forensic scientist). To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Please tell me this is a dastardly plot on behalf of British journalists to see how gullible the rest of the world really is!! I've just heard on our radio station here in Australia that both the Daily Telegraph and the BBC are reporting that Britain is about to get a law forbidding cruelty to worms, slugs and snails! A fine of 25,000 pounds, and up to 12 months gaol is promised for those caught causing cruelty to these sorts of garden pests!!! If it was April 1, I'd be thinking this was an April Fools day prank. Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia) Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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A bit of trivia for you!! True or False Can you guess which of the following are true or false? 1. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning. 2. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. 3. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 yrs. 4. People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more. 5. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop - even your heart! 6. Only 7 per cent of the population are lefties. 7. 40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute. 8. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old. 9. The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines. 10. The toothbrush was invented in 1498. 11. The average housefly lives for one month. 12. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year. 13. A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened. 14. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute. 15. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day. 16. Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep. 17. The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water. 18. The only 2 animals that can see behind themselves without turning their heads are the rabbit and the parrot. 19. John Travolta turned down the starring roles in An Officer and a Gentleman and Tootsie. 20. Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State Anthem. 21. In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk. 22. Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane just in case there is a crash. 23. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor. 24. Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth. They are reused in vein transplant surgery. 25. Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were 7th cousins. 26. If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green. Answers below. ALL OF THE ABOVE ARE TRUE !!! ( #16 really bugs me ) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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2. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. I don't understand this one. Was he BEAMED here from outer space or something??? Hatched from an egg? How can any person born of a woman not have a navel? Vasna Zago Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Prince Charles and Prince William don't usually travel on the same plane in case it crashes - we can't have the next in line and th next in line to the throne both killed at the same time. BUT They were allowed to travel on the same plane, and did, when Diana died. so never is incorrect. Jean in Poole To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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It is surely not possible to be without a belly button given that is where the umbilical cord, providing sustenance to the baby from the mother, enters the baby. I would have thought no umbilical cord no viable baby. Or does this simply mean there is a tiny protrusion rather than an indentation? Patricia in Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Inquiring minds want to know... and so they google... According to the first site I found, He had his bellybutton surgically removed, because, according to him, he thought they were disgusting. And we thought his films were bizarre... Clay It is surely not possible to be without a belly button given that is where the umbilical cord, providing sustenance to the baby from the mother, enters the baby. I would have thought no umbilical cord no viable baby. Or does this simply mean there is a tiny protrusion rather than an indentation? Patricia in Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
