"Plain bays for Jenny's"?

[Doug Harris]

Jim Landau notes:

Just to be annoying:  a "jenny" is a female mule, and a "mule" is a type
of slipper (according to MWCD10, "mule" for "slipper" antedates
"jenny").  Also there are bay mules.
--
And there's also bay rum. If a bay mule was under the weather, perhaps from
consuming too much Jenny beer, might he be said to be in a rum state? Or
only I Massachusetts?

(the other) doug

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