[Linganth] Mensa

[Christie Lopez]

Does anyone know how the word "mensa", derived from the Latin word table, I believe, came to have the meaning of "stupid" in Spanish?
It seems rather removed from "table" and it just gives me such a chuckle whenever anyone is discussing the Mensa organization.
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