BRASS MONKEY REMAINS? SCAR2026 Traditional Cache

Another MONKEY idiom....you will hear it almost every winter if you hang with the right people ha ha!  

Here are the remains of the last brass monkey seen this past/never-ending winter! THIS CACHE IS HIDDEN FOR SCAR 2026 AND SHOULD NOT BE LOOKED FOR/FOUND/LOGGED UNTIL AFTER 530PM ON FRIDAY MAY 22....

The phrase "freeze the balls [or nuts] off a brass monkey" is a 19th-century slang idiom for extreme cold, often erroneously attributed to naval lore. The popular myth claims that brass trays ("monkeys") holding iron cannonballs contracted in the cold, causing the balls to roll off, though this is likely a myth.

Key Aspects and Origin Stories:

• The Mythical Naval Origin: The story goes that in the cold, brass trays (monkeys) used for storing cannonballs on ships contracted faster than the iron balls, causing them to fall off, according to Grammar-Monster.

• Debunking the Myth: Idiomation and West Yorkshire Steel note that the story is likely a, “backronym” or fabricated story, as brass and iron contraction rates wouldn't work that way, and ships used wooden shot garlands, not brass plates.