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Originally Posted by Soupe du jour
I couldn't resist responding to this.
Did you know that -40 degrees is a special temperature? It is the exact temperature where Fahrenheit equals Celsius. -40F =-40C
That sure is one evil cold temperature! Both my father and husband's brother have special sayings for such a temperature.
My dad: "It's as cold as a witch's t*t in the Klondike." Actually, I think this is from my father's paternal grandmother. She was notorious for such sayings. Out of curiosity, I just googled this and apparently, some local New Jersey historian speculated on it at Origins of Cold as Balls and Cold as a Witch's Teet - Mr. Local History Project Everyone in my family lived in western NJ or right across the river in PA. If I had had children, they would know this, too.
B-i-l: "It's as cold as at 3 am at Kharkiv train station." Kharkiv train station is in Ukraine. Not sure of the exact origin.
Do you have any local sayings like this?
One more fact. At -44F the gas in a propane tank (such as for a gas grill) starts to cease vaporizing. They refer to that state as "boiling". |
I use the phrase "cold as a witches tit" a lot. I said it the other day in the "are you currently hot or cold" thread in the coffeehouse part of the site. I learned it from the movie Grumpy Old Men when I was 15.
My mom who got it from my grandma would say "its colder than molasses in January."
Then during the summer she would say "its hotter than blazes"