Your joke is well taken however, FYI, a brass monkey was a device used by
the British to keep cannon balls stacked in a pyramid. When the weather got
cold enough, and the brass contracted, the cannon balls wouldn't stay
put..... hence the phrase "freeze the balls off a brass monkey"........... I
think that's right.

"Jeff Wisnia" wrote in message
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Ray wrote:

You know, the Chinese iron balls with the chimes inside like
http://www.uran.net/zlb/cloisonneexerciseballs.htm ?
Some are chrome plated and quite smooth. They've been around for
hundreds
of years, though I don't know if they originally had the chimes inside.
I'd
hate to have to cut one open to find out!



Maybe they dip brass monkeys in liquid nitrogen?

Jeff

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