FYI (forwarded to me from a Mingle friend)

CANNON BALLS !!! DID YOU KNOW THIS?

> It was necessary to keep a supply of cannon balls near the cannon on old war ships.
But how to prevent the cannon balls from rolling about the deck was a problem.

One method was to stack them as a square based pyramid, with one ball on top, resting on four, resting on nine, which rested on sixteen. A supply of 30 cannon balls could be stacked next to the cannon.
How to prevent the bottom layer from sliding/rolling from under the others?

The solution was a metal plate with 16 round indentations, called a Monkey.

If the Monkey were made of iron, the iron cannon balls would quickly rust to it. The solution to make the Monkey of brass.
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Brass contracts much more and much faster than iron when chilled. When the temperature drops too far, the brass indentations shrink so much that the iron cannon balls come off the monkey.
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>Thus, the saying: Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey!

well that's some useful information.....

I thought this was going to be about the Beastie Boys

May I ask why we are talking about Balls??
I mean, are the Pirates coming back to take the world over?



j/k





Any thread is better than no thread.

A little lady sent this to me.

The things that women know...well....since I live in Alaska, maybe the subject was on her mind.

I will not be satisfied until I have World Domination!

Is that all?

I mean...is that when the real fun starts??

Can anyone here make me laugh please... I just received 4 very mean emails , and I just want to laugh, I am tired of crying.

Well...then stop letting idiots that send mean stuff get to you. Pretty simple actually.

If that doesn't work...just try to picture a cat stomping it's feet. Works for me every time. ;-)

I laughed hard enough to accidently report the thread! I am so sorry , I did send another explaining I was not upset in any way.



yes, I found out who it was. Boy you are harch aren't you?

but I did laugh. Thank you