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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2018 18:16:38 GMT -5
Still 85° here
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Post by youp50 on Jan 2, 2018 19:10:15 GMT -5
My mother and my aunt would use the term 'freeze the balls of a brass monkey.' Not sure where the monkeys come from, they are all nutless now.
It was single digit this afternoon, I told a fellow that I thought it was midteens. Acclimated, that's what it is. Still, I would not be above punching Gore's gonads. After Mel,just for a bit of that global warming.
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Post by captbob on Jan 2, 2018 19:49:01 GMT -5
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Post by 1dave on Jan 2, 2018 20:38:12 GMT -5
My mother and my aunt would use the term 'freeze the balls of a brass monkey.' Not sure where the monkeys come from, they are all nutless now. It was single digit this afternoon, I told a fellow that I thought it was midteens. Acclimated, that's what it is. Still, I would not be above punching Gore's gonads. After Mel,just for a bit of that global warming. Brass Monkey - from sailing ships.
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Post by melhill1659 on Jan 2, 2018 21:02:01 GMT -5
Its been in the teens and 20’s in Mississippi REALLY??!!! Who picked up my South and moved it North when I wasn’t looking? My only working area that was warm is my sewing room. Boy is it clean now. @shotgunner 85° 😡
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Post by minerken on Jan 2, 2018 21:03:09 GMT -5
A balmy day here 17 deg F in NW Montana compared to the eastern part of the state in the -10 to -30's but here is what I am dealing with about ½ mile to get to the main road Its piled pretty high
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2018 21:18:56 GMT -5
Its been in the teens and 20’s in Mississippi REALLY??!!! Who picked up my South and moved it North when I wasn’t looking? My only working area that was warm is my sewing room. Boy is it clean now. @shotgunner 85° 😡 Huggz!
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Post by youp50 on Jan 2, 2018 22:05:30 GMT -5
For all you publicans and sinners, its only a temporary condition.
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Post by youp50 on Jan 2, 2018 22:36:10 GMT -5
And here I was convinced that pawn shop owners hung those poor monkey balls in front of their shop...
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Post by parfive on Jan 3, 2018 14:28:31 GMT -5
LOOK OUT!! Weather bombogenesis crawling up the East Coast . . . to be followed by the coldest weather of the season. Meanwhile, Al Gore’s laughin’ his ass off on a tropical beach sharing Mai Tais with Mary Ann Simpson.
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Post by lookatthat on Jan 3, 2018 16:56:53 GMT -5
The form the cannon balls are stacked in is called a "monkey." The story goes that they are made of brass which contracts at a different rate than the iron cannon balls, and when it was cold enough the brass would shrink and pop the cannon balls off. Thus, "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey."
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Post by lookatthat on Jan 3, 2018 16:57:48 GMT -5
Minerken, you need a cat.
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Post by Sabre52 on Jan 3, 2018 19:07:38 GMT -5
lookatthat: Cool story and I've heard it around the boat docks but a myth/old wives tale. No such thing as a brass monkey used on ships as cannon balls were usually stored differently below decks. Can't have your balls rusting or rolling around on deck creating a hazard. Whole bunch of naval sites debunk the myth. The brass monkeys were actual tourist souvenir monkeys made of brass popular in the 19th ad 20th centuries.....Mel
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Post by spiritstone on Jan 3, 2018 19:51:30 GMT -5
Maybe change it to? "cold as a set of balls on a swamp donkey". Lmao!
DEER LAKE, N.L. -- A group of snowmobilers pulled out their shovels to free a stuck moose after spotting its head poking out of freshly fallen snow in western Newfoundland. Jonathan Anstey, who owns a snowmobile riding clinic, said he and about seven other riders set out on the trails near Deer Lake, N.L., on Saturday, when for the first time in two weeks, the terrain was blanketed in a thick layer powder. As they veered off the main road, the group spotted a moose neck-deep amid the white expanse, buried in what Anstey estimated to be six feet, or 1.8 metres, of snow.
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Post by minerken on Jan 3, 2018 20:47:14 GMT -5
Minerken, you need a cat. I actually do, not a Caterpillar but a John Deer crawler, retired it for a pickup with a snow plow and a nice warm cab.
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Post by captbob on Jan 3, 2018 23:38:23 GMT -5
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Post by toiv0 on Jan 4, 2018 8:28:22 GMT -5
27 below right now and still fallin
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Post by geezer on Jan 4, 2018 8:46:07 GMT -5
Dang! Had to get out the ice pick and chip the neighbors dog loose from my hubcap this morning! Li'l devil didn't learn. Didn't notice he switched to the passenger-side hubcap. Took him for a spin this morning!
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Post by lookatthat on Jan 4, 2018 10:11:40 GMT -5
Sabre52, I didn't say anything about ships, somebody else did. But now I am going to have look this up and see if there is anything to it at all.
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Post by lookatthat on Jan 4, 2018 10:39:15 GMT -5
OK, here is the scoop on the brass monkey:
According to the Oxford Living Dictionary, and others, the term "brass monkey" did not appear in print until the mid-19th century. At that time, the phrase seemed to reference an actual figurine of a monkey made of brass, which apparently had become popular. (Opening of new trade routes, perhaps?) There was no mention of "balls", but plenty of other body parts, such as tails, ears, etc; such as, "cold enough to freeze the tail off a brass monkey." Later along the line, in our more modern, cruder era, "balls" became the common phrase. So apparently there never was any actual connection to the military, cannon balls, ships, etc. Thank you for pointing this out, Sabre52, as I don't want to spread along false information!
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