Funny pic/gif thread...

So, I walked-in on my cats this morning and saw this....

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Captions, anyone?
 
SpiderWebComm said:
So, I walked-in on my cats this morning and saw this....

sqautsies.jpg


Captions, anyone?
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It like my wife says, "It's the redheads that you have to worry about!"

Side note, If you replace the white cat with a black one, then you might have well just been in my house. This happens on a nightly basis there!
 
cmbwsu said:
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.

View attachment 156686Few 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.

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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)
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"Freezing the Balls Off the Brass Monkey," a Navy Phrase about Cannon Balls-Fiction!






Summary of the eRumor
This piece of alleged history explains that in the olden days of sailing ships, cannon balls were stacked on the decks on brass plates called "monkeys." The plates had indentions in them that held the balls on the bottoms of the stacks. Brass, however, expands and contracts with the temperature and if it got cold enough, the cannon balls could fall...giving real foundation to the phrase "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey!"
The Truth
According to the United States Navy Historical Center, this is a legend of the sea without historical justification. The center has researched this because of the questions it gets and says the term "brass monkey" and a vulgar reference to the effect of cold on the monkey's extremities, appears to have originated in the book "Before the Mast" by C.A. Abbey. It was said that it was so cold that it would "freeze the tail off a brass monkey." The Navy says there is no evidence that the phrase had anything to do with ships or ships with cannon balls.
 
joelpope said:
"Freezing the Balls Off the Brass Monkey," a Navy Phrase about Cannon Balls-Fiction!
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Figured as much .... I thought it was "funny" when I got it and it did have "pics" too so I thought, "Why not put it in the funny/pics thread".....kind of a novel idea.
 
Big Head Todd is in the middle.
Monkey boy from the Ten in One circus side show tent would be my guess.
Some serious inbreeding been happening for a while.
Someone needs to clean that gene pool.
 
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