[ANSTHRLD] Lovecock, a cock rising (was: Eldwin's Submission IV)
Tim McDaniel
tmcd at panix.com
Wed Aug 4 11:56:02 PDT 2010
On Wed, 4 Aug 2010, Eldwin Nightowl <eldwin at loveshade.org> wrote:
> tmcd at panix.com:
>> Oh, and you missed something. You want multiple hearts and you want
>> them inverted. There's an Italian coat of arms with that, canting
>> arms for the Cullion family (or something spelled like that: see the
>> etymology at
>> <http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/cullion>)
>
> I had no idea what this was until I looked it up. Interesting. How
> would you blazon that?
Why, they're "hearts inverted", of course. That's our story and we're
sticking to it. Seriously, that IS the usual way they're blazoned, I
believe.
> (And also I'm not sure I want to tell the submitter about that
> possibility anyway....)
Wise.
So mentioning that they could be ermine (i.e., covered in fur)
is right out?
Pagan "up to the breach, you dogs! avaunt, you cullions!" Daystar
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Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com
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