“I’ve been posting here since 1996, surly I have more posts than I am getting credit for.”
I think that they deduct points for being surly.
In fact, surely they do.
;-))
My spell checker failed me.
If you aren’t Shirley, you have nothing to worry about.
I’ve been posting here since about 2003, but I admit I’ve used a couple different user names, so I don’t demand a recount.
My brain hurts.
Barkydog
The monkey wrench was named after it’s inventor Charles Moncky.
keith
I’m sorry but in the sailing day they didn’t put cannon balls in a pyramid in the deck.
“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.”
If you stacked cannon balls with such a device, they would A. get in the way, and B. fall over in heavy seas. Cannon ball (ammunition) was stored (mostly) either on heavy wooden shelves with holes cut into them for the shot to sit in, to keep them in place in heavy seas, or on metal bars set into heavy timber or made completely of metal. And taken out when needed.
rwee2000, you take things way too seriously. Do you know the difference between a Sea Story and a Fairy Tale? A fairy Tale starts off “Once upon a time.”