Funny Jokes - The African Ant and Grasshopper
THE ORIGINAL LEGEND
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An ant and a grasshopper live in the same field. During the summer the ant
works all day and night, bringing in supplies for the winter and he
prepares his home to keep him warm during the cold winter months ahead.
Meanwhile the grasshopper hops and sings, eats all he wants and procreates.
Come winter, the grass dies, and it is bitterly cold. The ant is well fed
and warm in his house, but the grasshopper has not prepared for the winter,
so he dies, leaving a whole hoard of little grasshoppers without food or
shelter. The moral of the story is that one should work hard to ensure that
you can take care of yourself.
THE AFRICAN VERSION
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The first part is the same, but because it happens in South Africa, there
are a few complications. The starving, shivering offspring of the
grasshopper demand to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and
well fed, while next door they are living In terrible conditions without
food or proper clothing. A TV crew show up and broadcast footage of the
poor grasshoppers, contrasting this with footage of the ant, snug in his
comfortable home with a pantry full of food. The public is stunned. How can
this be, in this beautiful field, where the poor grasshoppers are allowed
to suffer, while the ant lives in the lap of luxury. In the blink of an
eye, the AGU (African Grasshoppers Union) was formed. They charge the ant
with aspecies bias and claim that grasshoppers are the victims of 30
million years of green oppression. They stage protest in front of the ant's
house and trash the street. The TV crew interviews them, and they all state
that if their demands are not met, they will be forced into a life of
crime.
Just for practice, they took the TV crew's luggage and hijack their van..
The TRC (Take and Redistribute Commission) justifies their behaviour by
saying that this is the legacy of the ant's discrimination towards the
oppression of the grasshoppers. They demand that the ant apologies to the
grasshoppers for what he has done, and that he make amends for all the
other ants in history who have done the same thing to other Grasshoppers.
PAGAD (People Against Grasshopper Abuse and Distress) state that they are
starting a holy war against ants.
The president appears on the 8 o'clock news and says that he will do
everything he can for the grasshoppers who have been denied the property
they deserve by those who have benefited unfairly during the summer. The
government drafts up the EEGAD (Economic Equity for Green and
Disadvantaged) act retroactive to the beginning of summer. The ant is fined
for failing to employ a proportionate number of green insects and having
nothing left to pay back-taxes, his home is confiscated by the government
for redistribution.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing off the last of the
ant's food while the government house he's in (which just happens to be the
ant's old house) crumbles around him because he does not know how to
maintain it. Showing on the TV (which he and a couple of friends stole from
another ant) the president is standing before a group of wildly singing and
dancing grasshoppers announcing that a new era of equality has dawned on
the field. The ant in the meanwhile is not allowed to work because he has
historically benefited from the field. In his place, ten grasshoppers only
work two hours a day and steal half of what they actually harvest. When
winter comes again and not enough food has been harvested, they strike and
demand a 150% increase in their wages so that they can buy more food, which
has now been imported because the grasshoppers are not productive enough to
produce food locally.
The ant packs his things and moves to another field. He starts a highly
successful food company and becomes a millionaire by selling food to the
field from where he came from.
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