[Sca-cooks] RE Fwd: [Fwd: Yeah so?]] - OT OOP

[Christina Nevin]

	The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a
	brass monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones
	used in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid
	formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold
outside,
	they would crack and break off... Thus the saying.

Item # 94,583 Tina's Memory Bank of Useless Information
Actually, this has an older, English nautical origin - the 'brass monkey'
was a brass ring that was placed around a pyramid of cannon balls to stop
them rolling around the decks. When it got too cold, the metal ring would
contract (as metal is wont to do in cold), toppling the cannon balls off the
brass monkey and thus giving rise to the saying.
Not sure what that has to say for the accuracy of the rest of the quotes
(though they are amusing!).

Ciao
Lucrezia


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