I'm shivering like a mobster in a tax office.

It's so cold that the local flasher was caught "describing" himself to women.

It's so cold you have to open the fridge to heat the house.

It was so cold the lawyers had their hands in their own pockets.

It was so cold that if my thermometer had been an inch longer, I would have frozen to death.

I don't believe you

The sun has just set and the mercury is already dropping.

If I was in Chiang Rai yesterday, it was so cold, I would have been frozen to the Chiang Rai forum.

it's so cold, I'm snuggling up to my PC to stay warm.

It's cold enough to freeze the balls off a billiard table.

It's cold enough to freeze the balls on a brass monkey.

that....I woke up with three little kitties curled around my feet under the blanket.

Funny how quickly we forget winters back "home"

I lived in Edmonton with minus forty for three months. When it got "up" to the temps we're seeing in Chiang Rai,

people were in shorts and t-shirts playing in the snow.

Back home means different things to different people. I never lived where it snowed and have lived here for nearly 38 years so all things being relative, this is cold for me.

It's that cold the flame on me lighter as just froze.

It's so cold that I've stopped eating ice cream. Now that's serious!

It's so cold i wear a jacket.

It is so cold I have had to turn my airconditioning to reverse cycle and bask in the warmth.

It's so cold that...Starbucks is serving coffee on a stick!

It was so cold...
I tried to take the garbage out - but it didn't want to go!

'brass monkey' is an interesting term ... has nothing to do with animal 'monkeys' actually

It's so cold I even turned down the a/c.

Only Half fill my beer glass with ice when sitting outside at midnight.......Sky is as clear as a bell.....beautiful...

It's so cold your false teeth chatter, and they are still in the glass.

I don't believe you

I do, but I don't believe everything. When Superman and Batman do all that great stuff I usually say to the wife..."I don't believe that"....she's still wondering if I'm serious or not, She gives me some strange looks, you know the type..."What a looper I have here'?

'brass monkey' is an interesting term ... has nothing to do with animal 'monkeys' actually

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US patent 4634021 describes "A release mechanism is disclosed for releasing an object such as a ball from a body under the force of gravity. A bimetallic element obstructs or opens an opening in the body for retaining or releasing the object depending upon the temperature of the bimetallic element. The release mechanism may be incorporated into a novelty "brass monkey" for "emasculating" the monkey when the temperature decreases to a predetermined temperature at which the balls in the "brass monkey" are permitted to drop to a base which is designed to produce an audible sound when struck by the balls."^[17]

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Funny how quickly we forget winters back "home"

I lived in Edmonton with minus forty for three months. When it got "up" to the temps we're seeing in Chiang Rai,

people were in shorts and t-shirts playing in the snow.

Minus 58 Celsius .... October 1984 in North Eastern Alberta.

A freak cold spell set in...even the locals had never experienced it that cold that early in the beginning of the cold season.

Cheers

'brass monkey' is an interesting term ... has nothing to do with animal 'monkeys' actually

ventions[edit]

US patent 4634021 describes "A release mechanism is disclosed for releasing an object such as a ball from a body under the force of gravity. A bimetallic element obstructs or opens an opening in the body for retaining or releasing the object depending upon the temperature of the bimetallic element. The release mechanism may be incorporated into a novelty "brass monkey" for "emasculating" the monkey when the temperature decreases to a predetermined temperature at which the balls in the "brass monkey" are permitted to drop to a base which is designed to produce an audible sound when struck by the balls."^[17]

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Many years ago I read a definition of a Brass Monkey as being a metal plate with indentations that cannon balls were piled upon. When it got really cold the metal would shrink flattening the metal and the balls would roll off. I like my definition better.

I have stopped having the fan on while sleeping. It took me a while to actually do it due to disbelief. In BKK, that is.