An inventory published in 1650 makes note of "Short Brasse Munkeys alias Dogs." The handle used to aim the cannon was called the "Monkey's Tail." The Beastie Boys wrote a song and named it after booze that was in turn named after a large gun. The name comes from ancient forms of the cannon, referred to as Monkeys, Drakes, or Dogs. Rant Casey from Zionsville, InThe Brass Monkey liquor did NOT get its name from a device to maintain a pyramid stack of cannonballs.Rachel from Nashville, TnI thought the big history-changing lawsuit was Rick James vs MC Hammer for his sampling/blatantly stealing "Super Freak.".Are the Beastie Boys ever gonna come back - or are they too old now? My uncle "Horneigh" said that way back in 1986 when he & my Dad were in University of Kansas that the Beastie Boys were BIG at KU & he recalled "Brass Monkey" but he preferred other songs by the Beastie Boys over it. "Brass Monkey" got played a lot too, but I never liked it that much. They hit it big way before I was born, but I caught their songs on alternative FM radio in the 2000's. Randy from Fayettevile, ArI'm not gonna waste time talking about alcoholic drinks, so I'll stick to the Beastie Boys. Randy, one of the members Adam Yauch passed from cancer (it's actually the 5th anniversary of his death tomorrow), and i'm sure they realized that 2 Beasties didn't make sense. Rachel, no the article is correct Biz was first. Dee from PhiladelphiaRob is the winner, OE & orange juice.so a little less than 200 degrees Fahrenheit. Long story short, if the base of the pyramid was one meter long, the change in temperature needed to shrink the brass 1 millimeter with relation to the cannonballs would have to be close to 100 degrees Celsius. In addition, the coefficient of expansion of brass is 0.000019 that of iron is 0.000012. However, a pyramid of round objects will topple if it rocks more than 30 degrees - not to mention any sudden forceful shock to the stack - which would rank the pyramid shape among the worst shapes to use on a boat, seeing how there is an abundance of rocking and shocking to be had at sea. Brass tends to really expand and contract with the weather, and when it got really cold the indents would get smaller, causing the cannonballs to be dislodged, hence the saying, "It's cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey." They found that if they used iron, when it got wet the cannonballs would rust, so they used brass and called it a brass monkey. To solve this problem, they used a large metal plate with indents in which to place the bottom rows of cannonballs. However, they would roll around the deck if there weren't something to hold them in place. This conserved space and made it easy to load them. The term "Brass Monkey" comes from the figure of speech, "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey." An actual brass monkey was thought to be a naval contraption - here's the story we heard:īack in the day of naval wars being fought with the old fashioned cannons, they would stack the cannonballs in a pyramid.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |