If its cold enough,...right!?
2007-01-19 07:30:07 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Other - Health
The term "Brass Monkeys" is an accepted phrase used in the English language to indicate that the ambient air temperature (or weather) is cold. This use stems from a longer phrase "It is cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey". This generally perceived as a humorous reference to some unfortunate Brass Monkey who loses his testicles if the weather is too cold. Another derived phrase (but irrelevant to our story) is "it's cold enough to freeze your balls off".
The origin and true meaning of this phrase is actually totally unrelated to any form of animal or its testicles. Back in time to the period of the Napoleonic War, the great gunships of this time carried many cannons on various gun decks. As an efficient method of storage and delivery of cannon balls to the cannon for firing, a "Monkey" (this term is used to define a table and/ or a rail) made of brass was used to hold the balls. In very cold temperatures the brass would contract or even break thus allowing the cannon balls to roll off the Monkey onto the gun deck. Hence the sailors would say "it is cold enough to freeze the balls off a Brass Monkey".
2007-01-19 07:38:30 · answer #1 · answered by rodandalisonthompson 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
At the health spa they have a cold plunge which you just drop into. fourty degrees. YES. I have lost my balls a few times. and actually found other mens balls laying at the bottom when I was searching for mine.I hope I put back the right ones
.then of course I turned in the extra balls I found.. damn. you would think they would have noticed them missing?
2007-01-19 15:42:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
i don't see why not. although the rest of you would probably already be frozen by then as well; generally, the freezing process starts with your extremities, like your hands and feet, your nose, etc., and works it's way into your core.
2007-01-19 15:38:34 · answer #3 · answered by KJC 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's just a saying so you can get your girlfriend to rub them.
2007-01-19 15:38:14 · answer #4 · answered by Zig Zag 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
nah just a myth and old expression
2007-01-19 15:32:45 · answer #5 · answered by jon f 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no, before they would ever feeze off you would be dead, using liquid nitrogen or some other rapid cooler, it is possible.... if thats what you desire.
2007-01-19 15:32:52 · answer #6 · answered by Charles S 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
nope, the retract sort of
2007-01-19 15:35:08 · answer #7 · answered by kurticus1024 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I wouldn't know?
2007-01-19 15:33:19 · answer #8 · answered by Sarah j 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
did ya lose yours.....lol sorry wouldnt know
2007-01-19 15:33:38 · answer #9 · answered by smiley_1 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
frostbite?
2007-01-19 15:37:31 · answer #10 · answered by Panda 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋