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Wayne.B
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Balls of a Brass Monkey (on topic)
On 01 Aug 2004 16:05:08 GMT,
(Gould 0738) wrote:
Sailors referred to this phenonenon as "freezing the balls
of a brass monkey," the keyword being "of", not "off", and hence the expression
was literally true at the time.
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Frankly I doubt it (athough it's a good story nevertheless). I
suspect it was used by sailors as a humorous expression just as it is
now, made all the more humorous by the fact that "brass monkeys" did
in fact exist aboard ship.
Sort of a double entendre as it were. (extra style points will be
awarded for the first submission of a triple entendre with half
gainer)
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