en(un)lightened
Very interesting!
Here's one:
The phrase "Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey"?
"Brass monkey" refers to the one-piece, berm-type perimeters on the decks of old fighting ships which served to "store" a pyramidal stack of cannonballs.
As these were forged of brass, their expansion/contraction rates differed substantially from that of the cannonballs; extremely cold weather thus resulted in "loose" ammo rolling about the decks.
"Researchers have already cast much darkness on the subject, and if they continue their investigations, we shall soon know nothing at all about it."
-Mark Twain
OK, then, what kind of ammo did the proberbial "witch's titty" contain?
en(un)lightened
Ice Milk?Originally posted by TIDE-HSV@28 April 2003 - 16:58
OK, then, what kind of ammo did the proberbial "witch's titty" contain?
"Researchers have already cast much darkness on the subject, and if they continue their investigations, we shall soon know nothing at all about it."
-Mark Twain
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