I can't think of much to say about snowballs. I like the moist snow that falls in big flakes that allows you to make snowballs and snowmen. But it quickly freezes and becomes icy snow, which I don't like.
I remember learning that snowballs with a rock inside are dangerous! That's something I never tried...
I remember seeing Abel Gance's silent movie Napoleon. In one early scene, when he was at military school, the cadets had a snowball fight. Napoleon's group was outnumbered, but thanks to his tactical skills they gave the other side a licking!
In Orwell's Soviet allegory The Animal Farm there's a pig called Snowball who clearly represents Trotsky. (His name must come from the expression "as much chance as a snowball in hell.") And I think the comic strip Steve Canyon had a Chinese guerrilla leader called Princess Snowball. (On second thought, she was Princess Snowflower!)
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