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Re: Scottish Highland games in Florida ?
- Subject: Re: Scottish Highland games in Florida ?
- From: "Mike Bostock" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 20:51:18 +0000
In your message regarding Re: Scottish Highland games in Florida ? dated
Mon, 22 Jan 2001 15:08:21 -0500 (est), William A. Flowers said that ...
<snipped>
>WAF-
>WAF- I think you are thinking of the phrase: "Cold enough to freeze the balls
>WAF- off a brass monkey".
>WAF-
>WAF- In the early days of artillery the shot of choice was an iron
>WAF- cannonball.
<snipped>
Nothing whatsoever to do with "The Artillery" - brass monkeys were used in
the "Royal Navy" - it was a brass rail which held the cannonballs in
position on a ship and difference in the rate of thermal
expansion/contraction did indeed have the effect described (so your
explanation was almost right - just the wrong Service).
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Mike Bostock
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