[Loch-Ruadh] Historical trivia
George & Pamela
sidhe01 at swbell.net
Wed Feb 20 21:09:34 PST 2002
Lady Bice
The story is true, That is exactly how the term "freeze the balls off a
brass monkey" came about.
Alaric
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Harper" <bice.pietro at charter.net>
To: <loch-ruadh at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 10:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Loch-Ruadh] Historical trivia
At 09:13 PM 2/19/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>I don't know how true this is but I read this in a Primitive Archer
magazine
>I subscribe to.
> Thus, it
>was quite literally, "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey".
> A little military trivia that you always thought meant something else
>Sean
I had read this somewhere before and had forgotten about it. It sounds
like something that is probably true, to me. Thanks for the reminder.
Bicé
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