Will: I thought you were going to tell me to stop whining given the weather in Canada.
Theorris: hilarious even though I had to look it up the reference--cold enough to freeze the balls off. Nice connection to Will as it looks like a Canadian phrase.
I ran into the supposed origin:
That one's pretty simple to explain... The *monkey* (as it was called) was a brass triangle fixed on shipdecks to hold a pyramid of canonballs. The holding triangle was brass, the canonballs, iron. In low temperatures, brass contracts more quickly than iron, so the canonballs would spill out of their brass frame ... that's when it was *cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey.*
Saturday: High 9* Low -1* 
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Wow. That looks like an Ottawa forecast...
Nope. Bring in the brass monkey.
Will: I thought you were going to tell me to stop whining given the weather in Canada.
Theorris: hilarious even though I had to look it up the reference--cold enough to freeze the balls off. Nice connection to Will as it looks like a Canadian phrase.
I ran into the supposed origin:
That one's pretty simple to explain... The *monkey* (as it was called) was a brass triangle fixed on shipdecks to hold a pyramid of canonballs. The holding triangle was brass, the canonballs, iron. In low temperatures, brass contracts more quickly than iron, so the canonballs would spill out of their brass frame ... that's when it was *cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey.*
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