Idiom question

[James E. Clapp]

Beverly Flanigan wrote:
>
> Those of us "in the know" don't need to see
> the whole animal to tell the difference (though urban folk might--or would
> they know even then?)

Maybe not.  I dimly recall hearing within the last few years of someone
running for office in Vermont (I think it was) being ridiculed because he
couldn't answer questions like "How many teats does a cow have?"

James E. Clapp