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Title: Brass monkey warning!!1
Post by: EagleKeeper on January 27, 2014, 04:07:50 PM
I was just talking to my parents on the phone and my Dad warned me that I need to bring my brass monkey in out of the cold for tonight !

 :rofl:
Title: Re: Brass monkey warning!!1
Post by: obumazombie on January 27, 2014, 04:37:31 PM
Yikes !
Title: Re: Brass monkey warning!!1
Post by: Dori on January 27, 2014, 05:03:34 PM
I had to nadin that  :-)
Title: Re: Brass monkey warning!!1
Post by: obumazombie on January 27, 2014, 08:38:59 PM
I had to nadin that  :-)
How crunchy was it ?
Title: Re: Brass monkey warning!!1
Post by: Dori on January 27, 2014, 08:50:58 PM
How crunchy was it ?

Well, it does have a lot of meanings.  I went with the colloquial expression.

The phrase "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey" is a colloquial expression used by some English speakers.
Title: Re: Brass monkey warning!!1
Post by: Chris_ on January 27, 2014, 08:52:05 PM
This shit is too cold for me.  I left the house this morning and it was in the mid-30s.  I was fine.  When I left work at 5pm, it was 20 degrees.  I stopped to fill up for gas and felt like I was being smacked around by Mike Tyson. 

I remembered to dig my scarf out of the closet when I got home.  Never underestimate a good scarf.
Title: Re: Brass monkey warning!!1
Post by: Purple Sage on January 27, 2014, 09:23:15 PM
It's 40 here right now, but after looking at the radar map, a huge pink mass is bearing down on us.  It appears that I could throw a rock and hit it from here.  I assume the temp is about to drop or it's freezing rain that will just be rain by the time it hits the ground. 

Title: Re: Brass monkey warning!!1
Post by: longview on January 27, 2014, 10:32:02 PM
Dave Dedrick, KELO TV weatherman, used to put out "brass monkey" alerts in his broadcasts in Rapid City.  I heard what I think was his first one in Jan. 2009 broke up the whole crew!

Two days ago it was over 50 here.  Today only 16.  I love this place!
Title: Re: Brass monkey warning!!1
Post by: Dblhaul on January 27, 2014, 11:15:02 PM
I haven't seen above 32 in awhile..  strange winter, no snow.
Title: Re: Brass monkey warning!!1
Post by: Gina on January 28, 2014, 07:48:56 AM
Reminds me of that white rapper song....brass monkey...
Title: Re: Brass monkey warning!!1
Post by: JohnnyReb on January 28, 2014, 08:35:33 AM
The brass monkey was a device that held a stack of cannon balls on the ships of old. In extreme cold weather, the brass would shrink(contract) enough that the stack of cannon balls would fall off....thus the phrase "Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey".
Title: Re: Brass monkey warning!!1
Post by: Eupher on January 28, 2014, 01:55:34 PM
At 4AM while walking the dogs it was 1 degree. No wind, which is a helluva lot more comfortable than it was yesterday when it was 9 degrees with a 25 mph wind out of the north.

FML.
Title: Re: Brass monkey warning!!1
Post by: Karin on January 28, 2014, 03:15:27 PM
One day a couple weeks ago (I've lost track of time in this all-white world), our town had the dubious honor of being the coldest in the lower 48.  It was something like 35 below. 

This January has been absolutely brutal, complete with an ice storm, and a giant snowstorm (five feet).  It's been snowing and blowing all day. 

 :censored: :bird: :rant: :banghead: :mad: :argh:
Title: Re: Brass monkey warning!!1
Post by: Eupher on January 29, 2014, 11:05:59 AM
One day a couple weeks ago (I've lost track of time in this all-white world), our town had the dubious honor of being the coldest in the lower 48.  It was something like 35 below. 

This January has been absolutely brutal, complete with an ice storm, and a giant snowstorm (five feet).  It's been snowing and blowing all day. 

 :censored: :bird: :rant: :banghead: :mad: :argh:

H5 just for surviving to talk about it.  :bow: