- 1. Re: brass core plugs & brass monkeys (score: 1)
- Author: "griffco" <griffco@griffco.ca>
- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 07:28:09 -0700
- Interesting conversation! I had always heard that the opposite was true - ie that the brass 'monkey' contracted more during the extreme cold, while the iron balls did not. Therefore the brass tray (m
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- 2. Re: brass core plugs & brass monkeys (score: 1)
- Author: Terry Thompson <firespiter@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 07:43:54 -0800 (PST)
- Would you like to buy some water-front property in Arizona too? Though very cute, the story of the "brass monkey" coloquialism is absurd at best. Aside from the fact that cannon balls would have been
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- 3. Re: brass core plugs & brass monkeys (score: 1)
- Author: Joe Curry <Spitlist@gte.net>
- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 08:54:34 -0700
- Hey, it's a good investment! Cheap land prices and when the next major earthquake happens in California, the land values will soar! :) Eagerly awaiting cataclysm Joe P.S. Gotta get my son out of LA b
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