Mother Goose and Grimm by Mike Peters for January 14, 2025

if they butcher it, will the meat taste funny?

Shirley, you jest!

Normally I would think this was funny, but I remember the Mad Cow Disease crisis and that wasn’t funny at all. I, and my family still can’t donate blood because we may have been exposed to it during our time in Europe all those many years ago.

The concern about Mad Cow Disease is still evolving. Now people want to go beyond just plain Ear Tags and force ranchers and farmers to use Ear Tags with RFID chips in them.

I wonder if Laughing Cow was related?

Mad Cow Disease puns? I was going to say “too soon,” but since the last really big outbreak was in the mid-90s, I think I’ll say “too late” instead.

“In ancient Rome, a balatro (/ˈbɑːlɑːtroʊ/ BAH-lah-troh) was a professional jester or buffoon.” from Wikipedia

Shouldn’t that cow be wearing a Napoleon hat instead?

Cows are female, so it would be “her lawyer.” The boys are bulls.

My milk tastes funny.