Nipples!

app flap · Post by **app flap** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 10:12 pm

... you heard right, there's nipples all over this city tonight that are hard enough break frozen-together hotdogs apart.

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i'm moving to mexico... as soon as i get my truck started.

ski_bum · Post by **ski_bum** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 10:17 pm

Thank god there is no wind!

Guido · Post by **Guido** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 10:32 pm

Jebus!

Hello winter!

mikegtzg · Post by **mikegtzg** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 10:35 pm

Well at least you all up there are making some good ice with that weather. The ice road users, ice fisherman, and snowmobilers will be happy.

Also very glad your 7 hours North!!

sprucemonkey · Post by **sprucemonkey** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 12:25 am

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can it get any colder???

twotter · Post by **twotter** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 1:37 am

Hey, it's not just you who is freezing.. check this out.. We don't accept this kind of temperature..

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I don't really know how we do it but somehow we will survive this situation. It's not supposed to freeze here but apparantly it does.

Cheers to those of you in the frigid areas, I feel for you..

ScudRunner · Post by **ScudRunner** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 2:49 am

My Poor Monkey!

Cleared to FL370 · Post by **Cleared to FL370** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 3:32 am

I remember those days very well, be thankful there is no wind. I remember those temps plus a 30 knot wind up in YRT.

VicMackey · Post by **VicMackey** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 3:50 am

I am trying to warm you up

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Feel this breeze??
ooo it is my air conditioning

grimey · Post by **grimey** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 5:35 am

sprucemonkey wrote:
can it get any colder???

Unfortunately yes. Had to record a temperature of -47 in Thompson a couple months after I arrived. No dew point as it was too cold for the instruments to measure one (mercury freezes at -37, dewcell stops working at -45, and there's no way in hell I'm putting an ice coat on an alcohol thermometer at that temperature).

app flap · Post by **app flap** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 7:30 am

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Benwa · Post by **Benwa** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 7:43 am

Driving Rain · Post by **Driving Rain** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 8:31 am

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That wind chill is a killer.

-50C

CLguy · Post by **CLguy** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 10:36 am

From the Maldives, in case any of you are interested:

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sigmet77 · Post by **sigmet77** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 12:47 pm

And now everyone hates you

TopperHarley · Post by **TopperHarley** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 1:11 pm

The really frustrating thing about this weather is that our "trusty" herman nelson decided to call it quits today. What a perfect day for it to die.

As far as the nipples go, I'd prefer that our passengers cover up

Makes me warm and fuzzy knowing that it's my last night in YTH. Hopefully YWG is much warmer!

Doc · Post by **Doc** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 1:31 pm

CLguy...BITE ME!

Can anybody tell me where the term.."It's cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey"....came from?

HavaJava · Post by **HavaJava** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 1:42 pm

I believe the "Brass monkey" was the rack that held cannon balls on old English warships. Apparently the brass rack would contract in the cold more than the iron cannonballs and cause the balls to pop of the rack..

Saw that on TV somewhere

shimmydampner · Post by **shimmydampner** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 1:55 pm

That's what I read some years back.

invertedattitude · Post by **invertedattitude** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 3:41 pm

HavaJava wrote:I believe the "Brass monkey" was the rack that held cannon balls on old English warships. Apparently the brass rack would contract in the cold more than the iron cannonballs and cause the balls to pop of the rack..

Saw that on TV somewhere

[edit] Cannonballs
One theory, of sufficient popularity as to be an example of so-called folk etymology, is that a brass monkey is a brass tray used in naval ships during the Napoleonic Wars, for the storage of cannonballs, piled up in a pyramid. The theory goes that the tray, would contract in cold weather, causing the balls to fall off. This theory is discredited by the US. Department of the Navy[7] and the etymologist Michael Quinion and the OED's AskOxford web site[3] for five main reasons:

The Oxford English Dictionary does not record the term "monkey" or "brass monkey" being used in this way.
The purported method of storage of cannonballs ("round shot") is simply false. Shot was not stored on deck continuously on the off-chance that the ship might go into battle. Indeed, decks were kept as clear as possible.
Furthermore, such a method of storage would result in shot rolling around on deck and causing a hazard in high seas. Shot was stored on the gun or spar decks, in shot racks—longitudinal wooden planks with holes bored into them, known as shot garlands in the Royal Navy, into which round shot were inserted for ready use by the gun crew.
Shot was not left exposed to the elements where it could rust. Such rust could lead to the ball not flying true. Indeed, gunners would attempt to remove as many imperfections as possible from the surfaces of balls.
The physics do not stand up to scrutiny. All of the balls would contract equally, and the contraction of both balls and plate over the range of temperatures involved would not be particularly large. The effect claimed possibly could be reproduced under laboratory conditions with objects engineered to a high precision for this purpose, but it is unlikely it would ever have occurred in real life aboard a warship.

I have no idea, but I had to be curious

Cat Driver · Post by **Cat Driver** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 3:51 pm

If cold worked on my dick like it does on a womans nipples I'd head back up to the high Arctic.

snaproll20 · Post by **snaproll20** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 6:27 pm

yeah, cannonballs off brass supports is what I heard too.
Somewhere, they actually stacked the cannonballs in pyramids until they popped off, so I cannot imagine how risky that was.

snaproll20 · Post by **snaproll20** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 6:32 pm

try http://www.brassmonkeys.co.uk/history
or, it is in the
"Uncle John's Bathroom Reader" book

reminds me of the time when it was minus 67 outside......................

Doc · Post by **Doc** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 8:52 pm

Correct.

The way it works on Cat's, um, er, little wee friend, is the main reason you will not find many nude beaches on Lake Superior.

Driving Rain · Post by **Driving Rain** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 8:59 pm

CLguy wrote:From the Maldives, in case any of you are interested:

VRMM 301700Z 08018KT 9999 SCT017 FEW018CB 27/25 Q1013 CB N WNW

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Guess who's riding your sno-mobile?