[AT] old expressions "Brass Monkey"

[Bob Seith]

Just think of the classic line from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence (1962):

"This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."

Or as my father used to say (another old expression coming up): "If it 
isn't true, it ought to be."

Bob Seith

George Willer wrote:

>Charlie,
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>The brass monkey thing is an example of a plausible exaggeration... much
>like "colder than a witches tit".  Nobody really knows how cold one might
>be, but imagination can fill in the blanks.
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>George Willer
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