Actually, that website came up No 3 when googling "brass monkey
derivation," so it was no trouble at all. Took about 30 seconds to find
and scan content for applicability--about twice the time it should have
taken me, but I found the metric terms confusing and had to go to an
English scale conversion website in order to understand the science.
Ron May
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Ok, so there were no "brass monkeys" in English nautical terms. And, the
truly brass monkeys had no testicles and were not sailors. Got it. Takes a
lot
of brass to research a topic like that, thanks Virgil.
Ron May
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