damn all that global warming, anyway…
In the USMC we used mountains of The Big Island (Hawaii) for cold weather training. It is colder than:
(pick just one)
1. A witch’s tit
2. A well-digger’s butt
3. A bean counter’s heart.
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I found myself wondering how much of an accumulation they got. I’m thinking an inch or two at most.
I remember being in Galveston, TX “the year it snowed”. (72/73) Having grown up in Buffalo, I found it entertaining that two inches of snow could paralyze a city and close down everything.
The folks were having a ball playing in it, though. I saw a bunch of adults rolling a huge snowball down the street. People didn’t brush the snow off of their cars, they pushed it to the middle of the roof and drove around with miniature snowmen.
Kerr: Was the ‘00 Galveston Hurricane really as bad as they say?
P.S. I mean from your personal recollection. The event itself lacked any humor.
Dunno, Oink. I was still cleaning up in Manila. George Dewey had made a helluva mess there.
And how much fun could the Russo-Japanese war have been? Our newspapers admired the sneak attack those tricky Yellow Devils pulled on the Russians. Heh Heh, 37 years later the joke was on us.
Harking back to the topic (what-the-hell), I believe we at BMEWS have talked about the expression, “Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey”. A brass monkey is a pyramid-shaped pile of cannon balls. So the expression isn’t dirty at all. I omitted it from my original list of choices.
Been to Hawaii - never saw snow...............
Have to agree with you Stin, having grown up in Rhode Island, most people in other states panic at the mention of snow - have witnessed it here in St. Louis many times - God forbid people can’t get out for a day or two..............Back in R.I. we prepared for the winter & were able to survive major snowstorms/blizzards for many days............
Then there’s this.
Sort of a damned if you do and damned if you don’t problem, eh?
Psssst! Trying to fix Global Warming causes Global Warming. Pass it on ....
Damn Chimpbushitlerhaliburton! This is all his fault!
As cold as Hillary’s (Hitlerie’s) heart.....
Aparently parts of Central Europe and Russia are also enjoying a blast of glow-ball “warming”, as well, with temps between -30 and -49 deg F. Bettter there than here, Ghunga Din…