Yesterday you could have made a lot of money by betting that there were over 100 brains in Texas at any given time.  I know lots of people who would have taken that bet and spotted you half a dozen brains.  Myself included.

Turns out, there were.  But not the living kind.  In a headline obviously written by an Aggie —

Come to find out, in the 1980s a Texas mental hospital bequeathed  200 brains taken during autopsies of patients and placed in jars with formaldehyde to the University of Texas. Later, the brain of Charles Whitman, the man who took to the tower at UT with a high powered rifle and killed 16 students, was added to the collection.  During his autopsy, it was discovered that the former Marine had an undetected brain tumor.

The brains were put into to storage, moved a couple of times, and have now disappeared.  No one knows where they went.  However, I think we can rule out Mississippi, the Texas House of Representatives, the Governor’s office, and Fox News.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

UPDATE:  The brains have been found.  They are in San Antonio.  Which is where I’d go if I had a brain.  UT still has them, but they got moved to the San Antonio campus.  Or they hailed a cab.

Thanks to Mary for the heads up.