dumb question.
08-20-2006, 03:17 PM
#41
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Re: dumb question.
On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 22:01:12 UTC "DougW"
<post.replies@invalid.address> wrote:
> That's my feeling. Maby they will send me up to Peterson AFB this winter. :)
Still not needed, Doug. COS hasn't seen more than 2 days below zero
in a long time and AIR the coldest we saw this last winter was like
-5. This global warming thing is questionable in it's extreme
application, but we haven't had much winter for a good 8-10 years. Of
course, the decade following the last string like that made brass
monkies an endangered species <g>.
--
Will Honea
<post.replies@invalid.address> wrote:
> That's my feeling. Maby they will send me up to Peterson AFB this winter. :)
Still not needed, Doug. COS hasn't seen more than 2 days below zero
in a long time and AIR the coldest we saw this last winter was like
-5. This global warming thing is questionable in it's extreme
application, but we haven't had much winter for a good 8-10 years. Of
course, the decade following the last string like that made brass
monkies an endangered species <g>.
--
Will Honea
08-20-2006, 11:41 PM
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Re: dumb question.
On 20 Aug 2006 19:17:42 GMT, "Will Honea" <whonea@yahoo.com> wrote:
>On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 22:01:12 UTC "DougW"
><post.replies@invalid.address> wrote:
>
>> That's my feeling. Maby they will send me up to Peterson AFB this winter. :)
>
>Still not needed, Doug. COS hasn't seen more than 2 days below zero
>in a long time and AIR the coldest we saw this last winter was like
>-5. This global warming thing is questionable in it's extreme
>application, but we haven't had much winter for a good 8-10 years. Of
>course, the decade following the last string like that made brass
>monkies an endangered species <g>.
Ok, this is also OT, but serious-what is a "brass monkey", if anyone
knows (they very well may not)? It appears to be an old (circa
1890's-early 1900's) railroad term, but all efforts of historians to
find out have been so fruitless that no one can even speculate as to
what it was. I find the origins of old terms in our language
interesting, so I would love to know if ANYONE in here has any idea.
Dan
>On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 22:01:12 UTC "DougW"
><post.replies@invalid.address> wrote:
>
>> That's my feeling. Maby they will send me up to Peterson AFB this winter. :)
>
>Still not needed, Doug. COS hasn't seen more than 2 days below zero
>in a long time and AIR the coldest we saw this last winter was like
>-5. This global warming thing is questionable in it's extreme
>application, but we haven't had much winter for a good 8-10 years. Of
>course, the decade following the last string like that made brass
>monkies an endangered species <g>.
Ok, this is also OT, but serious-what is a "brass monkey", if anyone
knows (they very well may not)? It appears to be an old (circa
1890's-early 1900's) railroad term, but all efforts of historians to
find out have been so fruitless that no one can even speculate as to
what it was. I find the origins of old terms in our language
interesting, so I would love to know if ANYONE in here has any idea.
Dan
08-20-2006, 11:41 PM
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Re: dumb question.
On 20 Aug 2006 19:17:42 GMT, "Will Honea" <whonea@yahoo.com> wrote:
>On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 22:01:12 UTC "DougW"
><post.replies@invalid.address> wrote:
>
>> That's my feeling. Maby they will send me up to Peterson AFB this winter. :)
>
>Still not needed, Doug. COS hasn't seen more than 2 days below zero
>in a long time and AIR the coldest we saw this last winter was like
>-5. This global warming thing is questionable in it's extreme
>application, but we haven't had much winter for a good 8-10 years. Of
>course, the decade following the last string like that made brass
>monkies an endangered species <g>.
Ok, this is also OT, but serious-what is a "brass monkey", if anyone
knows (they very well may not)? It appears to be an old (circa
1890's-early 1900's) railroad term, but all efforts of historians to
find out have been so fruitless that no one can even speculate as to
what it was. I find the origins of old terms in our language
interesting, so I would love to know if ANYONE in here has any idea.
Dan
>On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 22:01:12 UTC "DougW"
><post.replies@invalid.address> wrote:
>
>> That's my feeling. Maby they will send me up to Peterson AFB this winter. :)
>
>Still not needed, Doug. COS hasn't seen more than 2 days below zero
>in a long time and AIR the coldest we saw this last winter was like
>-5. This global warming thing is questionable in it's extreme
>application, but we haven't had much winter for a good 8-10 years. Of
>course, the decade following the last string like that made brass
>monkies an endangered species <g>.
Ok, this is also OT, but serious-what is a "brass monkey", if anyone
knows (they very well may not)? It appears to be an old (circa
1890's-early 1900's) railroad term, but all efforts of historians to
find out have been so fruitless that no one can even speculate as to
what it was. I find the origins of old terms in our language
interesting, so I would love to know if ANYONE in here has any idea.
Dan
08-20-2006, 11:41 PM
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Re: dumb question.
On 20 Aug 2006 19:17:42 GMT, "Will Honea" <whonea@yahoo.com> wrote:
>On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 22:01:12 UTC "DougW"
><post.replies@invalid.address> wrote:
>
>> That's my feeling. Maby they will send me up to Peterson AFB this winter. :)
>
>Still not needed, Doug. COS hasn't seen more than 2 days below zero
>in a long time and AIR the coldest we saw this last winter was like
>-5. This global warming thing is questionable in it's extreme
>application, but we haven't had much winter for a good 8-10 years. Of
>course, the decade following the last string like that made brass
>monkies an endangered species <g>.
Ok, this is also OT, but serious-what is a "brass monkey", if anyone
knows (they very well may not)? It appears to be an old (circa
1890's-early 1900's) railroad term, but all efforts of historians to
find out have been so fruitless that no one can even speculate as to
what it was. I find the origins of old terms in our language
interesting, so I would love to know if ANYONE in here has any idea.
Dan
>On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 22:01:12 UTC "DougW"
><post.replies@invalid.address> wrote:
>
>> That's my feeling. Maby they will send me up to Peterson AFB this winter. :)
>
>Still not needed, Doug. COS hasn't seen more than 2 days below zero
>in a long time and AIR the coldest we saw this last winter was like
>-5. This global warming thing is questionable in it's extreme
>application, but we haven't had much winter for a good 8-10 years. Of
>course, the decade following the last string like that made brass
>monkies an endangered species <g>.
Ok, this is also OT, but serious-what is a "brass monkey", if anyone
knows (they very well may not)? It appears to be an old (circa
1890's-early 1900's) railroad term, but all efforts of historians to
find out have been so fruitless that no one can even speculate as to
what it was. I find the origins of old terms in our language
interesting, so I would love to know if ANYONE in here has any idea.
Dan
08-20-2006, 11:41 PM
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Re: dumb question.
On 20 Aug 2006 19:17:42 GMT, "Will Honea" <whonea@yahoo.com> wrote:
>On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 22:01:12 UTC "DougW"
><post.replies@invalid.address> wrote:
>
>> That's my feeling. Maby they will send me up to Peterson AFB this winter. :)
>
>Still not needed, Doug. COS hasn't seen more than 2 days below zero
>in a long time and AIR the coldest we saw this last winter was like
>-5. This global warming thing is questionable in it's extreme
>application, but we haven't had much winter for a good 8-10 years. Of
>course, the decade following the last string like that made brass
>monkies an endangered species <g>.
Ok, this is also OT, but serious-what is a "brass monkey", if anyone
knows (they very well may not)? It appears to be an old (circa
1890's-early 1900's) railroad term, but all efforts of historians to
find out have been so fruitless that no one can even speculate as to
what it was. I find the origins of old terms in our language
interesting, so I would love to know if ANYONE in here has any idea.
Dan
>On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 22:01:12 UTC "DougW"
><post.replies@invalid.address> wrote:
>
>> That's my feeling. Maby they will send me up to Peterson AFB this winter. :)
>
>Still not needed, Doug. COS hasn't seen more than 2 days below zero
>in a long time and AIR the coldest we saw this last winter was like
>-5. This global warming thing is questionable in it's extreme
>application, but we haven't had much winter for a good 8-10 years. Of
>course, the decade following the last string like that made brass
>monkies an endangered species <g>.
Ok, this is also OT, but serious-what is a "brass monkey", if anyone
knows (they very well may not)? It appears to be an old (circa
1890's-early 1900's) railroad term, but all efforts of historians to
find out have been so fruitless that no one can even speculate as to
what it was. I find the origins of old terms in our language
interesting, so I would love to know if ANYONE in here has any idea.
Dan
08-21-2006, 12:14 AM
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Re: dumb question.
http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq107.htm
"Hootowl" <ELN/zooo@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> On 20 Aug 2006 19:17:42 GMT, "Will Honea" <whonea@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 22:01:12 UTC "DougW"
>><post.replies@invalid.address> wrote:
>>
>>> That's my feeling. Maby they will send me up to Peterson AFB this
>>> winter. :)
>>
>>Still not needed, Doug. COS hasn't seen more than 2 days below zero
>>in a long time and AIR the coldest we saw this last winter was like
>>-5. This global warming thing is questionable in it's extreme
>>application, but we haven't had much winter for a good 8-10 years. Of
>>course, the decade following the last string like that made brass
>>monkies an endangered species <g>.
>
> Ok, this is also OT, but serious-what is a "brass monkey", if anyone
> knows (they very well may not)? It appears to be an old (circa
> 1890's-early 1900's) railroad term, but all efforts of historians to
> find out have been so fruitless that no one can even speculate as to
> what it was. I find the origins of old terms in our language
> interesting, so I would love to know if ANYONE in here has any idea.
>
> Dan
"Hootowl" <ELN/zooo@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> On 20 Aug 2006 19:17:42 GMT, "Will Honea" <whonea@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 22:01:12 UTC "DougW"
>><post.replies@invalid.address> wrote:
>>
>>> That's my feeling. Maby they will send me up to Peterson AFB this
>>> winter. :)
>>
>>Still not needed, Doug. COS hasn't seen more than 2 days below zero
>>in a long time and AIR the coldest we saw this last winter was like
>>-5. This global warming thing is questionable in it's extreme
>>application, but we haven't had much winter for a good 8-10 years. Of
>>course, the decade following the last string like that made brass
>>monkies an endangered species <g>.
>
> Ok, this is also OT, but serious-what is a "brass monkey", if anyone
> knows (they very well may not)? It appears to be an old (circa
> 1890's-early 1900's) railroad term, but all efforts of historians to
> find out have been so fruitless that no one can even speculate as to
> what it was. I find the origins of old terms in our language
> interesting, so I would love to know if ANYONE in here has any idea.
>
> Dan
08-21-2006, 12:14 AM
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Re: dumb question.
http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq107.htm
"Hootowl" <ELN/zooo@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> On 20 Aug 2006 19:17:42 GMT, "Will Honea" <whonea@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 22:01:12 UTC "DougW"
>><post.replies@invalid.address> wrote:
>>
>>> That's my feeling. Maby they will send me up to Peterson AFB this
>>> winter. :)
>>
>>Still not needed, Doug. COS hasn't seen more than 2 days below zero
>>in a long time and AIR the coldest we saw this last winter was like
>>-5. This global warming thing is questionable in it's extreme
>>application, but we haven't had much winter for a good 8-10 years. Of
>>course, the decade following the last string like that made brass
>>monkies an endangered species <g>.
>
> Ok, this is also OT, but serious-what is a "brass monkey", if anyone
> knows (they very well may not)? It appears to be an old (circa
> 1890's-early 1900's) railroad term, but all efforts of historians to
> find out have been so fruitless that no one can even speculate as to
> what it was. I find the origins of old terms in our language
> interesting, so I would love to know if ANYONE in here has any idea.
>
> Dan
"Hootowl" <ELN/zooo@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> On 20 Aug 2006 19:17:42 GMT, "Will Honea" <whonea@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 22:01:12 UTC "DougW"
>><post.replies@invalid.address> wrote:
>>
>>> That's my feeling. Maby they will send me up to Peterson AFB this
>>> winter. :)
>>
>>Still not needed, Doug. COS hasn't seen more than 2 days below zero
>>in a long time and AIR the coldest we saw this last winter was like
>>-5. This global warming thing is questionable in it's extreme
>>application, but we haven't had much winter for a good 8-10 years. Of
>>course, the decade following the last string like that made brass
>>monkies an endangered species <g>.
>
> Ok, this is also OT, but serious-what is a "brass monkey", if anyone
> knows (they very well may not)? It appears to be an old (circa
> 1890's-early 1900's) railroad term, but all efforts of historians to
> find out have been so fruitless that no one can even speculate as to
> what it was. I find the origins of old terms in our language
> interesting, so I would love to know if ANYONE in here has any idea.
>
> Dan
08-21-2006, 12:14 AM
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Re: dumb question.
http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq107.htm
"Hootowl" <ELN/zooo@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> On 20 Aug 2006 19:17:42 GMT, "Will Honea" <whonea@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 22:01:12 UTC "DougW"
>><post.replies@invalid.address> wrote:
>>
>>> That's my feeling. Maby they will send me up to Peterson AFB this
>>> winter. :)
>>
>>Still not needed, Doug. COS hasn't seen more than 2 days below zero
>>in a long time and AIR the coldest we saw this last winter was like
>>-5. This global warming thing is questionable in it's extreme
>>application, but we haven't had much winter for a good 8-10 years. Of
>>course, the decade following the last string like that made brass
>>monkies an endangered species <g>.
>
> Ok, this is also OT, but serious-what is a "brass monkey", if anyone
> knows (they very well may not)? It appears to be an old (circa
> 1890's-early 1900's) railroad term, but all efforts of historians to
> find out have been so fruitless that no one can even speculate as to
> what it was. I find the origins of old terms in our language
> interesting, so I would love to know if ANYONE in here has any idea.
>
> Dan
"Hootowl" <ELN/zooo@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> On 20 Aug 2006 19:17:42 GMT, "Will Honea" <whonea@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 22:01:12 UTC "DougW"
>><post.replies@invalid.address> wrote:
>>
>>> That's my feeling. Maby they will send me up to Peterson AFB this
>>> winter. :)
>>
>>Still not needed, Doug. COS hasn't seen more than 2 days below zero
>>in a long time and AIR the coldest we saw this last winter was like
>>-5. This global warming thing is questionable in it's extreme
>>application, but we haven't had much winter for a good 8-10 years. Of
>>course, the decade following the last string like that made brass
>>monkies an endangered species <g>.
>
> Ok, this is also OT, but serious-what is a "brass monkey", if anyone
> knows (they very well may not)? It appears to be an old (circa
> 1890's-early 1900's) railroad term, but all efforts of historians to
> find out have been so fruitless that no one can even speculate as to
> what it was. I find the origins of old terms in our language
> interesting, so I would love to know if ANYONE in here has any idea.
>
> Dan
08-21-2006, 12:14 AM
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Re: dumb question.
http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq107.htm
"Hootowl" <ELN/zooo@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> On 20 Aug 2006 19:17:42 GMT, "Will Honea" <whonea@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 22:01:12 UTC "DougW"
>><post.replies@invalid.address> wrote:
>>
>>> That's my feeling. Maby they will send me up to Peterson AFB this
>>> winter. :)
>>
>>Still not needed, Doug. COS hasn't seen more than 2 days below zero
>>in a long time and AIR the coldest we saw this last winter was like
>>-5. This global warming thing is questionable in it's extreme
>>application, but we haven't had much winter for a good 8-10 years. Of
>>course, the decade following the last string like that made brass
>>monkies an endangered species <g>.
>
> Ok, this is also OT, but serious-what is a "brass monkey", if anyone
> knows (they very well may not)? It appears to be an old (circa
> 1890's-early 1900's) railroad term, but all efforts of historians to
> find out have been so fruitless that no one can even speculate as to
> what it was. I find the origins of old terms in our language
> interesting, so I would love to know if ANYONE in here has any idea.
>
> Dan
"Hootowl" <ELN/zooo@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> On 20 Aug 2006 19:17:42 GMT, "Will Honea" <whonea@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 22:01:12 UTC "DougW"
>><post.replies@invalid.address> wrote:
>>
>>> That's my feeling. Maby they will send me up to Peterson AFB this
>>> winter. :)
>>
>>Still not needed, Doug. COS hasn't seen more than 2 days below zero
>>in a long time and AIR the coldest we saw this last winter was like
>>-5. This global warming thing is questionable in it's extreme
>>application, but we haven't had much winter for a good 8-10 years. Of
>>course, the decade following the last string like that made brass
>>monkies an endangered species <g>.
>
> Ok, this is also OT, but serious-what is a "brass monkey", if anyone
> knows (they very well may not)? It appears to be an old (circa
> 1890's-early 1900's) railroad term, but all efforts of historians to
> find out have been so fruitless that no one can even speculate as to
> what it was. I find the origins of old terms in our language
> interesting, so I would love to know if ANYONE in here has any idea.
>
> Dan
08-21-2006, 03:01 AM
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Re: dumb question.
Your most informative post confirms the vernacular usage most often
heard - and common to all parts of the South and West I've lived in.
Suffice to say that said creatures would lose reproductive capability
after exposure to the temperatures alluded to by the expression.
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 04:14:10 UTC "billy ray" <billy_ray@SPAMfuse.net>
wrote:
> http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq107.htm
>
>
> "Hootowl" <ELN/zooo@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:4caie2hs7pscg5bth54e8hu5pfrstpkg0o@4ax.com...
> > On 20 Aug 2006 19:17:42 GMT, "Will Honea" <whonea@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >>On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 22:01:12 UTC "DougW"
> >><post.replies@invalid.address> wrote:
> >>
> >>> That's my feeling. Maby they will send me up to Peterson AFB this
> >>> winter. :)
> >>
> >>Still not needed, Doug. COS hasn't seen more than 2 days below zero
> >>in a long time and AIR the coldest we saw this last winter was like
> >>-5. This global warming thing is questionable in it's extreme
> >>application, but we haven't had much winter for a good 8-10 years. Of
> >>course, the decade following the last string like that made brass
> >>monkies an endangered species <g>.
> >
> > Ok, this is also OT, but serious-what is a "brass monkey", if anyone
> > knows (they very well may not)? It appears to be an old (circa
> > 1890's-early 1900's) railroad term, but all efforts of historians to
> > find out have been so fruitless that no one can even speculate as to
> > what it was. I find the origins of old terms in our language
> > interesting, so I would love to know if ANYONE in here has any idea.
> >
> > Dan
>
>
--
Will Honea
heard - and common to all parts of the South and West I've lived in.
Suffice to say that said creatures would lose reproductive capability
after exposure to the temperatures alluded to by the expression.
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 04:14:10 UTC "billy ray" <billy_ray@SPAMfuse.net>
wrote:
> http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq107.htm
>
>
> "Hootowl" <ELN/zooo@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:4caie2hs7pscg5bth54e8hu5pfrstpkg0o@4ax.com...
> > On 20 Aug 2006 19:17:42 GMT, "Will Honea" <whonea@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >>On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 22:01:12 UTC "DougW"
> >><post.replies@invalid.address> wrote:
> >>
> >>> That's my feeling. Maby they will send me up to Peterson AFB this
> >>> winter. :)
> >>
> >>Still not needed, Doug. COS hasn't seen more than 2 days below zero
> >>in a long time and AIR the coldest we saw this last winter was like
> >>-5. This global warming thing is questionable in it's extreme
> >>application, but we haven't had much winter for a good 8-10 years. Of
> >>course, the decade following the last string like that made brass
> >>monkies an endangered species <g>.
> >
> > Ok, this is also OT, but serious-what is a "brass monkey", if anyone
> > knows (they very well may not)? It appears to be an old (circa
> > 1890's-early 1900's) railroad term, but all efforts of historians to
> > find out have been so fruitless that no one can even speculate as to
> > what it was. I find the origins of old terms in our language
> > interesting, so I would love to know if ANYONE in here has any idea.
> >
> > Dan
>
>
--
Will Honea