Report Abuse. This is one definition of Brass Monkey: The English expression is 'It's cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey' Every sailing ship had to have cannon for protection. Cannon of the times required round iron cannonballs. brass monkey was a stand used for cannon balls on ships centuries ago. In cold weather the cannon balls would shrink & fall off it ........... hence brass monkey weather & cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey.
Mini Bio (1). Michael Gove was born on August 26, 1967 in Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland as Michael Andrew Gove. He is an actor, known for Late Review (1994), Question Time (1979) and Election 2010 (2010). He has been married to Vine, Sarah since 2001.
Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn asked Brett to head his Government 2.0 Task Force in order to create strategies for innovating government and the civic process. The Task Force helped launch Seattleâs Code for America project. Brett advised Ushahidi, the crowdsourced crisis response platform original deployed to fight election fraud in Kenya. Brett helped on their experimental 'Playsourcing' initiative. Brett is also a co-founder, and now board member, of Lumana Credit, a micro-finance co-operative based in Ghana.