Quote Originally Posted by cutponies View Post
Come to Canada and you'll never complain about English weather again. After the first of Nov. we stop saying minus or below zero. It's understood. The coldest temperature ever recorded in the Northern Hemisphere was -59C (-87 with chill factor) in Wawa, only a few kilometers from where I live.

Do you know where the term " Cold enough to freeze the balls off of a brass monkey " comes from?

Skipperbob?
At first I thought a brass monkey was a brass plate on the deck of a ship with indentations to hold cannonballs, thus the saying But alas, this appears to be wrong No one is sure where the phrase started and cannonballs were kept in racks on the gun and spar deck, not in pyramids piled up on deck The first sighting of the phrase was in the 1850's, and also included the monkey's tail, ears etc... (I am cheating with this part as I did a little research before answering this question) Thus, it is one of history's mysteries where this phrase came from. Speaking of mysteries sir, why is the St Lawrence region called Lower Canada, and the Great Lakes, Upper Canada It seems backward to me I must now stop before I get kicked off this thread for being off topic Always look forward to hearing more from you

HEY! AND WHERE ARE MY BLACK BALLBUSTIG BEAUTIES!