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    Gripper's Avatar Dexter's Apprentice.
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    Ok new one for ya "Its cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey",do you know the origins to this one

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    Tikibonbon's Avatar It'll Get Ya Drunk!
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    I dunno, but I hear yer ugly 'nuff to make a freight train take a dirt road tho. :-P
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    I'm as bored as fuck.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Lilmiss
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    I always liked "who gives a rats ass " .

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    ...back to square one....I know it's origins, but do you?

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    Quote Originally Posted by nigel123
    ...back to square one....I know it's origins, but do you?


    Nope , wish I did .

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    I still like "clichés are ten a penny"

    The origin is a bloke I used to know, who said it in all seriousity. With nary the slightest hint of irony.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gripper103.2
    Ok new one for ya "Its cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey",do you know the origins to this one
    Thats a naval/military one, belonging to the artillery I believe.

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    Well done Ratface in the old days cannonballs were stored on a brass monkey,which when it gets cold shrinks and the balls go rolling away

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