Alrighty thar ye mother scuffers of scrawny sailors...git ye to them sails yer blowing ye stale air ain't gonna make this bucket of timbers move!! Jump to...I nain't say it agin!!!

Pirates...oh no...run fer the hills. lol

aaayyyyy ya scurves, seeings ya wont be keeping things shipshap, perhaps a treasure map would makes you scurves happy

http://www.rochedalss.eq.edu.au/mapp.htm

I'd jump in but I have a migraine. Probably from the parrot screaming lol.

That's funny - especially given your signature!

Ugh, I need some grog to swallow me Relpax.

CANNON BALLS!!! DID YOU KNOW THIS?

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?

Brilliant, Brain! I've never seen that one. Isn't etymology just way too fun?

This is a lovely segue point, for today happens to be National Talk Like a Ballerina Day.

Thanks for the pic of Jake, Cath!!!! I miss your animal stories.

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum. *and diet coke*

thanks brain that was cool i had not know this, cool

Would that include DM?