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Got way too much to do tonight, Denizens, so tonight’s nugget comes from LC Juandos:

OLD 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.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible

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, ABC & CNN 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.

Ted Kennedy & John Kerry exclaim in an interview with Dan Rather 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 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: VOTE

Early, often and for conservatives.

Not Republicans.&#160 Conservatives.&#160 There’s a difference.

Memo to all you Romo-haters:&#160 WITY&#153???

UBuffalo 0, at Boston College 41
Oklahoma 26, at Missouri 10
at TCU 26, Wyoming 3
Dallas 35, at Carolina 14

Even though my Arlington Heights Yellow Jackets didn’t play this week, the PFW curse lives.&#160 Turner Gill, being a Heights grad, watched as his Bulls managed minus twelve (-12) yards on the ground in generating ZipZeroNada&#153 against the BC Eagles.

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The Oklahoma Sooner defense stepped up for what seems like the first time this season, harassing Mizzou quarterback Chase Daniel and generally making his life miserable for four hours Saturday.

In fact, all OU’s points came off Mizzou errors.

“Opportunistic, I guess,” Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said. “I don’t know that this should be a surprise because we’ve been playing this way for several weeks now.”

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TCU started quickly against Wyoming, both offensively and defensively.&#160 Ballard took the Frogs on an 85-yard jaunt through the Cowboy secondary, en route to an early 6-0 lead.&#160 Wyoming fumbled the ensuing kickoff, allowing TCU to kick a field goal for a 9-0 advantage.

It would stay that way until the third.&#160 LoCoco nailed another field goal, then Marcus Brock added a 3 yard rush for a 19-0 lead.&#160 TCU outscored Wyoming 7-3 in the fourth for the final margin.

Not that I was paying that much attention to the game, y’understand.&#160 I had a date, see, and…well…

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Things didn’t start out too well for Dallas last night.&#160 Though they managed to contain Carolina for the first couple of possessions, eventually Jake Delhomme and company put a long drive together for a 7-0 lead.&#160 Tony Romo then threw a very&#160 iffy interception – “iffy” because not only did the refs blow the call, so did replay.

Carolina turned that into a 14-0 lead.&#160 Unbeknownst to the Romo faithful at the time, that’s all they would get.&#160 The defense put the clamps on the Carolina offense, and Romo got his legs under him and started moving Dallas’ own offense with some degree of efficiency.&#160 (The fact that Carolina had a bad case of the dropsies didn’t hurt things any.)

So Dallas is now 4-3 with the scary part of its three-game roadtrip out of the way, and the next two very winnable, if the ‘Pokes take care of business.

Which I think they will.&#160 And, seeing as I was right about Romo, how do you dare doubt me?

This week:&#160 3-1.&#160 Overall:&#160 27-18.

The PFW will return on Friday.