brass monkey in terms of the beastie boys however reffers to a common "adult beverage" from the late 80's/early nineties-----
recipie:

take one fourty ounce malt beverage, drink the first quarter i.e. 10 ounces....
fill the remainder with orange juice. place thumb over the top and turn upside down.
return to upright position properly mixed and proceed to get fuxcked up.

learning is half the battle kiddies....the more ya know!

 

^ so are you adding another defenition of brass monkey or implying that the one from the email is purely fictitious

 

play nice boys...

and I'm a sailor so I knew the brass monkey one.

 

its all good here don

 

The one you listed is correct. As soon as I read it. It jogged my memory enough to recall the book, if I can get hold of Marines who had it. I will most definitely post. The title, but HAVOC You have it right