Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for June 09, 2014

I, for one, would like to see all ten verses.

Me too.

Ditto.

At least her version is cleaner than what we sang while marching in Basic Training. :)

Glad I’m not an ant.

Dead ant, dead ant, dead ant dead ant dead ant dead aaaaaaaaaant dead dead dead dead ant. (To the “Pink Panther” theme song).

OK, I suppose it’s kinda mean…but since people asked, I’ll try to fill in for Janis….

The ants go marching one by one..hurrah, hurrah….The little one’s life will soon be done…and he won’t go marching on….to get out of the Raid…..

The ants go marching two by two..hurrah, hurrah….The little one’s face is turning blue…and he can’t keep marching on….to get out of the Raid…..

The ants go marching three by three…hurrah, hurrah….The little one can’t escape from me..and the rest go marching on….to get out of the Raid…..

The ants go marching four by four..hurrah, hurrah….The little one falls onto the floor…and he’s done with marching on….to get out of the Raid…..

The ants go marching five by five…hurrah, hurrah….But none will make it out alive…Oh they can’t go marching on….to get out of the Raid…..

The ants go marching six by six…hurrah, hurrah….But they’re falling like a ton of bricks..and they’ll soon stop marching on….to get out of the Raid….. The ants go marching seven by seven.hurrah, hurrah….The little one’s on his way to heaven…and he won’t be marching on….to get out of the Raid….. The ants go marching eight by eight..hurrah, hurrah….The little one stops to meet his fate…and he just stopped marching on….to get out of the Raid….. The ants go marching nine by nine..hurrah, hurrah….The little one was no friend of mine…So I stopped his marching on….to get out of the Raid….. The ants go marching ten by ten..hurrah, hurrah….But they’ll never be doing that again…cos they can’t go marching on….to get out of the Raid….. boom boom boom….

She’s treating the symptom, not the cause. Send in the pros to find the source of the infestation, otherwise you’re going to need a word that rhymes with twenty. Hmm, “plenty” works.

If she’s killing them off shouldn’t she be counting backwards?

Well done susansunshine.And I'm w youimafuzzyfan, seems like a lousy commercial for bug killer juice…

It was “to get out of the rain” when we used to sing it.

I think we should just spray toxic chemicals all over the house. Oh, shut up and drink your aspartame.

We laughed when the song used in Diehard 3 when they are stealing the gold.

Great ditty, Susan!

Watch out Aunt Martha…

if “the little one stops and meets his fate” shouldn’t those numbers be going down?

Yes, the number should be going down. After she kills one she should go to Seven, not Nine.

I’ve been catching and drowning chipmunks for the last couple of days with a Havaheart trap. If it weren’t for the owner’s cats who like to wander in the backyard, I’d setup bear traps. The chipmunks setup home in the space between the basement ceiling and the 1st floor floor. Their constant chewing was driving me insane. The home owner cries over each one caught. I wouldn’t mind this, except she didn’t do the same for the mice I caught and drown last spring. “But they’re so much cuter.” “Not when they’re wet, see.” I hold out a dead chipmunk; fur matted and slick from its recent bath. “Oh god, I’m going to be sick.” She runs up stairs to ball her eyes out and dry heave. When she’s finished, she comes back down to make dinner: potatoes with olive oil and a spinkling of fresh parsley and chives, and chunks of white meat from the rotisserie chicken carcass from Costco; the neck has been spliced and bent in such a manner that you can easily imagine how it would look if it were still attached.

The ants go marching one by one, hurrah, hurrah.The ants go marching one by one, hurrah, hurrah.The ants go marching one by one;The little one stopped to see the sun (or whatever)And they all ran home; they thought it was going to rain.

(That’s the version we learned in California 60 or so years ago. It scans better when sung to the tune of “When Johnny Comes Marching Home.”)

To kill an ant nest put out a mix of sugar and Borax. The ants will bring it all in, feed it to the queen and the babies and in a few days, problem solved.

I’ve found pledge works great for removing the indoor trail and killing them with direct contact without harming the funiture or our kitty. but I’ve been told that dawn in water works just as well and kills the same way.

Insects breathe through their skeletons, plain old soap and water suffocates them and also wipes out the scent trails they follow each other in on. Zero need for poisons.

Wouldn’t they start “ten by ten” and decrease from there?