dooley
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| Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 11:45 pm Post subject: Ants in your pants! |
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The word antsy comes from an old saying,"What's wrong with you, do you have ants in your pants?"
This was addressed to children who couldn't dit still and were always moving around. The term was eventually shortened to say they were antsy. Jittery would be another term for it. People now call them hyper. Dooley
In reference to a question in my blog about the summer reading program. Dooley
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Frank
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| Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 11:58 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the answer Dooley. I don't think I've ever heard anybody use the word before, definitely not back in Ireland anyhow. We use hyper 
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jubabe296
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| Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 3:40 am Post subject: |
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My Mama always told us to stop being antsy when we were kids especially when we were supposed to be still during chruch service!! I can still hear it in my head! hehe!!
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dooley
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| Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 3:57 am Post subject: |
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I don't know when I first heard it. My mom used it and when I was typing the blog I didn't stop to think about what I wrote. I guess it isn't used much any more. dooley
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Frank
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| Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 8:49 am Post subject: |
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At first I read it as 'artsy' 
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catkins
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| Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 9:52 am Post subject: |
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Anyone ever had ants in their pants?? I have RED ants at that!! nuff said
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eileen
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| Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 10:04 am Post subject: |
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OUCH!!!!!Imagine them getting inside your clothes!! 
We have an ants nest under the patio but the birds do a good job of keeping the numbers down. They're only the common black ants thankfully.
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dooley
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the best thing for ant control is horned toads. They eat a ton of them. They will sit right on top of the hill and enjoy their meal. Dooley
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Primsong
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| Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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We always use "antsy" - my folks were from the Midwest of the US, so maybe it's more common there - they taught me all kinds of little phrases that don't seem to be used as much over here on the West Coast.
Red ants - ack! We don't have them here and I don't regret it. I usually just have to deal with either carpenter ants or little black sugar ants.
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dooley
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| Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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We have some red ants and those little black ants that raise welts when they bite. They eat the corn and other sweet things they find in the garden.
I'm originally from the midwest (Illinois and Wisconsin). Maybe that's why I know the antsy saying. Dooley
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catkins
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| Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 1:14 pm Post subject: |
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Those red ants bite you in places you didnt know you had if you sit on their nests, my girls still have visions of me running round the garden, whacking myself, with my shorts and underwear wrapped around my ankles!
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eileen
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Oh Catkins the mind boggles. Pity they didn't have a camera handy!!!!  
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catkins
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thank goodness for small mercies Eileen!!
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