Brrr......it's gold outside! 'Two-Stroke' his forwarded these pictures to me shot by his good pal Mark Farrow of MDF Y
"Ice road trucking Swedish style!" says TS. "Mark took these great winter wind pump pictures and sent yhem to me last night. This was in
And if you want to know how cold it was click through here to take a look at this shot!
I promised to tel you how cold it was...
How does -28 degrees celsius grab you....? Enough to freeze the balls of a brass monkey. And for a (frozen) pie what WAS a brass monkey?
Thanks TS--and apologies if can't find Mark's original captions--lost in the mists of time (and Biglorryblog's inbox)
Brian,
A "brass monkey" was a device used to hold cannonballs - this was made from brass to prevent the iron cannonballs from rusting to it!
When brass is chilled, it contracts quicker than iron, hence the saying, "it's cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey"!
Joe
A brass monkey was a tray used on the deck of a ship to store cannon balls.
A Brass monkey was the brass ring that cannon balls were neatly stacked on to form a cone on ancient war ships. When it got really cold the brass shrunk so the nice neat stack of balls would fall off.
DOnald
Hi BLB: methinks a brass monkey was a cannon on the old navy sailing ships of yore, thus the balls would be cannon balls, non?
I guess those balls wouldn't move too well if they were frozen (there's an human analogy here somewhere, but I'll leave that to BLB).
A brass monkey was the device used to store connon balls.
Yes, minus 28 degrees C is a mite chilly alright but when I was talking to my brother from Northern Saskatchewan recently he mentioned that they had just experienced a week of minus 44-C and that the wind-chill was sucking it down to minus 50! Brass monkeys? You betcha!