Scotch and Irish are respectively whisky and whiskey, not rum. A
Scotsman may be Scottish, but never Scotch, although the good ones
imbibe it!
Brian
Whittaker, Dewey (EHCOE) wrote:
> Funny you should mention that. On my Grandmothers' sides of the family
> are good German stock and my great-great-great-???-Great-grandfather was
> Roger Williams (1st Governor of Rhode Island). On my Grandfathers side
> was an eclectic bunch of English, Scotch and Irish rumrunners and
> pirates who migrated to the Caribbean Islands. I ran into a few of the
> descendants when I was in Grand Cayman. That may explain the term Jolly
> Roger.
> Dewey
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 1:37 PM
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>
> Maybe it was a long lost relative of Dewey? Gotta give them their props
> for
> creativity though.... :-)
> Dharma
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Gregory [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
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> Awwwww, bummer. Sounded good though...
>
> Makes you wonder who it was that came up with a story like this, and why
> they would.
>
> Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dharma Kemp-Bresett [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
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>
> Hi Steve,
> I just checked snopes and it looks like, as amusing as it is, this
> tidbit
> may be false....
>
> http://www.snopes.com/language/stories/brass.asp
>
> Thanks,
> Dharma
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Good Day All!
>
> I was going to wait until Friday, but seeing how it's "hump" day, I
> thought
> I'd break up the week and post this little tidbit of information that
> one of
> the engineers that I work with sent me....
>
> Steve
>
> It was necessary to keep a good supply of cannon balls near the cannon
> on
> old war ships.
> But how to prevent them from rolling about the deck was the problem. The
> best storage method devised was to stack them as a square based pyramid,
> with one ball on top, resting on four, resting on nine, which rested on
> sixteen.
>
> Thus, a supply of 30 cannon balls could be stacked in a small area right
> next to the cannon.
> There was only one problem -- how to prevent the bottom layer from
> sliding/rolling from under the others.
>
> The solution was a metal plate with 16 round indentations, called, for
> reasons unknown, a Monkey. But, if this plate were made of iron, the
> iron
> balls would quickly rust to it. The solution to the rusting problem was
> to
> make them of brass - hence, Brass Monkeys.
>
> Few landlubbers realize that brass contracts much more and much faster
> than
> iron when chilled. Consequently, when the temperature dropped too far,
> the
> brass indentations would shrink so much that the iron cannon balls would
> come right off the monkey.
>
> Thus, it was quite literally, cold enough to freeze the balls off a
> brass
> monkey. And all this time, you thought that was just a vulgar
> expression,
> didn't you? You must send this fabulous bit of historical knowledge to
> at
> least a few uneducated friends.
>
>
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