| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
| Moderator: | THEBAY::SYSTEM |
| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1192 |
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Note 1040.12 OZ _ A Japanese Retirement Villa 12 of 12
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Boy is it getting cold over here, talk about brass monkey weather.
Which brings me to the point where I feel, I too must torment you
blokes with some irrelevant trivia.
"A BRASS MONKEY"
A brass monkey just so happens to be a stand that was used to hold
cannon balls on those old square riggers. Apparently in cold weather
the brass monkey would contract, and the cannon balls would fall out
and start rolling around the deck. Hence, "FREEZE THE BALLS OFF A BRASS
MONKEY".
Just think of the money you could have made back in those days, if you
had the patent for steal capped boots! Would have saved many a nasty
toe injury. And here I was thinking it all had something to do with
testicles.
gb
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| 1015.1 | Hmpf. Try to keep up eh, Tom...!! :-) | RDVAX::KALIKOW | Buddy, can youse paradigm? | Fri Nov 13 1992 08:42 | 8 |
Been there, done that...
_vide_ 1007.0
!!
:-)
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| 1015.2 | COOKIE::EGGERS | Anybody can fly with an engine. | Fri Nov 13 1992 12:00 | 6 | |
Yup. I see it in 1007 now. I did do a title search before I posted
the base note, but I didn't remember it being buried in topic 1007.
Perhaps the moderator can delete this whole topic.
Keeping up is going to be impossible after 5pm today. TFSO. This
conference is one of the few things that has made Digital fun recently.
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| 1015.3 | Aieee. Best of luck, Tom Eggers! You are one of the Good'Uns. | RDVAX::KALIKOW | Buddy, can youse paradigm? | Fri Nov 13 1992 13:49 | 7 |
Keep in touch, if you settle in NetLand somewheres...
:-(
...Damn...
Dan
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| 1015.4 | CFSCTC::SMITH | Tom Smith AKO1-3/H4 dtn 244-7079 | Fri Nov 13 1992 14:40 | 8 | |
Another AXE case, I suppose. :-(
Unbelievable. I suspect that you'll have fewer problems than those
you'll leave behind, though.
Good luck, Tom.
-Tom
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| 1015.5 | and then go flying | COOKIE::EGGERS | Anybody can fly with an engine. | Fri Nov 13 1992 15:07 | 2 |
My fondest wish is that the stock go back to 100. Then I can retire
permanently.
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| 1015.6 | PASTIS::MONAHAN | humanity is a trojan horse | Sat Nov 14 1992 01:29 | 4 | |
Best of luck. I'm sure we'll all miss your contributions.
Dave
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| 1015.7 | JIT081::DIAMOND | It's been a lovely recession. | Sun Nov 15 1992 13:47 | 2 | |
Nothing new here, eh? For some time, management has already been
cold enough to freeze the brains off a past company.
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