[Blue_Ridge_Mtn_Geek]

“Sam Johnson would’ve clobbered him one.”

Perhaps, though it is unlikely that Sam would have been stupid enough to make the crack about “oats for horses”.

[AnAmericanMother]

Sam DID make the crack about oats -- he was the man who made it originally. I believe it's in his famous Dictionary, as the definition of OATS - "A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people."

He was notoriously anti-Scot, but if he knew you he would always make an exception. Boswell, his autobiographer, was a Scotsman and a close friend, but he had to put up with a certain amount of anti-Caledonian sniping.