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From: George Pope 
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 03 20:29:16 +0100
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On (03 Nov 03) Heather Lennox wrote to George Pope...
 HL>  GP> What would YOU know about "ball-freezing" cold, or anything
 HL>  GP> else?
 HL>
 HL> Hear the sound of clanging in the street outside? That's the ball's
 HL> freezing off a pawnbroker's sign.

Apparently, in days of olde, when ships used cannons for
offense/defense, they stacked the cannonballs up in a pyramid shape atop
a little brass device called a "monkey" that had holes in it to hold thi
bottom row of balls. . . Because brass contracts in the cold more than
the steel cannonballs, when it got cold enough, the bottom 'brass
monkey' would contract so as to loosen the bottom layer of balls from no
longer having a well-seated connection, and the whole stack would go
flying, thus the saying, "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass
monkey"!

 HL>  - From the insane desk of Supernerd
 HL>  - How many licks does it take to get to the center of a frozen cat?

Do you mean frozen ?

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