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# Was in the beer garden of a pub in Twickenham on Saturday (Gu or sommat - sells lots of burgers)
and they had loads of heaters. Trouble is, no-one could find the switch to turn them on!

Brass monkeys indeed
(, Mon 19 Jan 2009, 15:30, archived)
# Did you know "brass monkeys"
is a naval term, and not actually rude?
(, Mon 19 Jan 2009, 15:31, archived)
# Did you know
www.snopes.com/language/stories/brass.asp

:O)

SHIT doesn't stand for Ship High In Transport either
(, Mon 19 Jan 2009, 15:32, archived)
# Hahahaha
(, Mon 19 Jan 2009, 15:33, archived)
# I don't love you any more.
(, Mon 19 Jan 2009, 15:34, archived)
# *sloppy kisses*
I went around telling people that for a couple of years before I found snopes.

The trouble is, the Mother in Law still swears it's true because I told her and continues to tell people.

I haven't the heart to tell her and lose my status as the favourite in law.
(, Mon 19 Jan 2009, 15:37, archived)
# I'm going to do this.
I used to enjoy telling lies just to see how long it took for them to come back to me in the form of having happened to somebody's friend. I shall reinstate this hobby, methinks.
(, Mon 19 Jan 2009, 15:39, archived)
# Did you know...
Han Solo claimed that his Millennium Falcon "made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs". The funny thing is, a parsec is a unit of distance, not time!!! ZOMG!
(, Mon 19 Jan 2009, 15:33, archived)
# That's because he could go closer to the Maw black hole cluster...
/geek
(, Mon 19 Jan 2009, 15:36, archived)
# ^ this
It's a navigational thing!
(Although they might just have made up that story to explain away their little linguistic error)
(, Mon 19 Jan 2009, 15:43, archived)
# This is a load of rowlocks.
(, Mon 19 Jan 2009, 15:33, archived)