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just found out there was a medieval italian guy called bartolomeo coglioni which means "bartholomew balls" and his coat of arms was three pairs of balls and his war cry was "coglia! coglia! coglia!" which means "balls! balls! balls!"
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A real "when life gives you lemons" situation.
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That looks like six testicles.
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And a little something else.
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"Rumor has it that Bartolomeo was affected with polyorchidism, a rare congenital anomaly endowing one with an extra testicle." That's what we call N+2 redundancy in the tech industry.
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Balls couchant or rampant?
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This thread is Shakespeare itself, bravo.
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The correct description is "parted per fess gule and argent, three pairs of testicles counterchanged" 😂
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Come tutti (o quasi) i giovani bergamaschi sono andato a visitare in gita scolastica in 2°o3° media il castello di Martinengo, magione del succitato soldato di fortuna. Balle dappertutto! Sulle porte, sui muri delle sale, delle camere, finanche nelle cucine!
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Posso immaginare i commenti 😂
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Would you say they Honoréd de Ballsac?
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wrong naughty anatomical body part (but now I want to make these…)
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Wouldn’t take much reshaping
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And I thought "garlic".
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Got to give him credit for committing to the bit.
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It would certainly give me pause to see that on the other side of the battlefield
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Middle Ages by way of Beavis and Butt-Head.
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Wait, were you were just reading the same historical novel as me, where this features? 🤔
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You can't just say that without naming the novel! 👀
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:gets in line for this extremely vital information:
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Gregory Dowling, Ascension (mystery set in early 18c Venice).
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*ahem Per fess orange and argent, in chief two pairs of testicles argent the second emasculated by the first, in base a pair of testicles orange. 🤓
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Colleoni. Bartolomeo Colleoni. The other word is one of the current Italian less-than-polite ways to refer to testicles :) Indeed the two words come from the same Latin root, but Colleoni is still a surname in Italy!
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I mean, you really only have two options in that kind of situation. Giving up or running with it...
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Wait, he had a surfeit of balls??
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Surely a "sopranumerario" is featured in every Italian opera program?
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Well, sure, there weren't always enough natural basso profundos, and there were all these extra bits lying around from the castrati.
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The original "deez nuts" jokester.
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And yet people complain that Romeo and Juliet is unrealistic.
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I think Italian has an augmentative ending so he could be Bartholomew Big Balls.
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this is actually a more correct translation, yes