I had always heard the term “Freezing the balls of the brass Monkey”… well I took it to mean a real brass monkey but I guess the real truth was an old Navy saying…
Dad was a sailing man… all but in the Merchant Marines he served the country. It took many years for him to get qualification as a veteran even though he was shot at and sailed with the real Navy. He enlisted in the Navy with his best friend but due to a birth certificate problem he never made the Navy and waited out the time till he was taken by the Merchant Marines. Any way, to my story here… it has frozen the balls off… damn it got cold last night
“And Now the Rest of the Story – “Geez we lost the brass monkey!