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Dem dare berds r-ah gettin' edjumacated ya'll.

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Got this from Bdoc via email and just had to pass it on:

CANNON BALLS!!! BET YOU DIDN'T KNOW THIS?

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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 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.

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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.

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Thus, it was quite literally, cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey. And all this time, folks thought that was just a vulgar expression? You must send this fabulous bit of historical knowledge to at least a few friends.


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(Thanks Barry)
 
Nudist skydiving. The inverted tatas look like they might come in handy for air brakes, but now I have to poke my eyes out with a sharp stick.

Jenkem, if you are soooo hard up that you have to resort to sniffing s h i t
to catch a buzz, then you need some serious drug counciling.
The users say that they dislike the taste of s h i t that often lingers in their mouth after wards. No F/N doubt.

Whats wrong with torching up a big fatty like most of us do.
 
Nudist skydiving. The inverted tatas look like they might come in handy for air brakes, but now I have to poke my eyes out with a sharp stick.

Jenkem, if you are soooo hard up that you have to resort to sniffing s h i t
to catch a buzz, then you need some serious drug counciling.
The users say that they dislike the taste of s h i t that often lingers in their mouth after wards. No F/N doubt.

Whats wrong with torching up a big fatty like most of us do.

I am right with you, Mon!
 
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