Buttended a bland old isaac

• Butthead: Parnell's boyhood nickname
  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake

• buttended: struck with the butt-end of a gun

• Butt ended → "Parnell ousted Isaac Butt from leadership [of the Irish Parliamentary Party]" – Joyce in a letter of 15 November 1926 to Harriet Shaw Weaver

• Butt Bridge: a bridge over the River Liffey in Dublin

• butted → goat → Jacob's goatskin (Genesis 27) → the zodiacal sign of Capricorn?

• pretended → scad