To: Trumpinator; null and void
I think it’s more of a joke than that. He’s calling the ‘epicures’ idiots, basically, but some of them, by continually eating the calves brains become smart enough to at be able to at least tell their own brain from a whale calve’s.
9 posted on
03/30/2016 7:45:40 PM PDT by
Roos_Girl
(The world is full of educated derelicts. - Calvin Coolidge)
To: Roos_Girl
Hmmmm. By golly, I think you're right. Darn.
nvrmnd
10 posted on
03/30/2016 7:52:31 PM PDT by
null and void
("when authority began inspiring contempt, it had stopped being authority" ~ H. Beam Piper)
To: Roos_Girl; alexander_busek; null and void
Yes, it is mid 19th century humor so it is a little flowery and dense. This is not a early citation of a brain eating disease. I think the person got mixed up reading “calf” and brains.
23 posted on
03/30/2016 8:49:24 PM PDT by
Trumpinator
("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said.)
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