[Rhodes22-list] Fw: Cannon Balls

[Gardner, Douglas L. (LNG-DAY)]

Here's a good discussion of it...
http://www.snopes.com/language/stories/brass.htm

This is a great site for debunking urban legends and other myths.
It is particularly useful for checking out stories with "forward this to
everyone you know" at the bottom. (I hate that form of e-mail virus!)

HOWEVER, I enjoy the brass monkey story well enough that I still forward it
to friends.  Since when should truth stand in the way of a good story?  This
one is particularly compelling because I'm sure we've all seen those stacks
of  shot next to cannon at various landmarks, forts, battlefields, etc.  I
don't recall ever seeing a brass monkey beneath one, though!  

--Doug


-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Tavares [mailto:sprocket80@mail.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 11:41 AM
To: rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Fw: Cannon Balls


     Pure fiction....the saying is "...cold enough to freeze the tail off a
brass monkey.." 
 

Todd