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    Posted: 23 Feb 06 at 5:03pm
But the Atlantic is more cold so the sailors wear more gear..... balances out.
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The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
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already had that one, u cant say them more than once. Im sorry but you have lost 
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Originally posted by Bumble

But the Atlantic is more cold so the sailors wear more gear..... balances out.


Spot the deliberate mistake...
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more cold?
lifes to short to sail slow boats!

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The phrase "Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey" is an old naval saying. A monkey was a brass plate bolted to the deck of the ship, which iron cannon balls were stored on. When it got very cold the brass would contract, but the iron cannon balls would not and therefore they would fall off the brass monkey!
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Originally posted by hurricane

The phrase "Cold enough to freeze the
balls off a brass monkey" is an old naval saying


Unfortunately it isn't,

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-bra1.htm
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Anecdotal etymologies are often apocryphal, aren't they?
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Originally posted by Black no sugar

Anecdotal etymologies are often
apocryphal, aren't they?


My dictionary tells me that I should agree
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Originally posted by hurricane

more cold?


I was thinking that if boats float higher in the Med and lower in the Atlantic, then when sailors wearing more gear on boats in the Atlantic then this will only exagerate the problem rather than balancing it out.
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