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Weird how Trump's counterfeit Presidential Seal seems to have a coronavirus at the top. https://twitter.com/bdavisauthor/status/1357444502219345938
Holy shit apparently The Great Seal of the United States has a coronavirus at the top.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Seal_of_the_United_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Seal_of_the_United_States
I will now read the Wikipedia article to find out what whoever designed it thought their coronavirus actually was.
So the Great Seal was designed by committee over six years.
It looks it.
Also the coronavirus is called a glory which is supposed to resemble a saint's halo which... corona, you know, crown, sun...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_(optical_phenomenon)
It looks it.
Also the coronavirus is called a glory which is supposed to resemble a saint's halo which... corona, you know, crown, sun...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_(optical_phenomenon)
It's weird how the first USian dudes were like "Fuck yeah! We're our own country! K, now we gotta have our own heraldry just like the aristocracy we just escaped."
Also they broke the rules of traditional Western heraldry and they don't even seem to have worked in any puns which feels like a waste of time really.
If I ever had my own coat of arms there would be puns.
A thread about heraldry I think probably. I was just looking for the part about ballsack puns though. https://twitter.com/EbThen/status/1174310988323184641
Anyway apparently the US Catholic Church really really likes canting arms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canting_arms#Ecclesiastical_coats_of_arms
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canting_arms#Ecclesiastical_coats_of_arms
So there's this place in the Netherlands called Hensbroek and their coat of arms is a hen sitting on top of a pair of breeches.
Apparently there was some etymological weirdness because the broek part of the name is actually about a brook. But.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hensbroek
Apparently there was some etymological weirdness because the broek part of the name is actually about a brook. But.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hensbroek
As a rebus I can't wait until someone looks at the coat of arms and thinks the place is called Chickenpants.
One kind of canting arms is a rebus where the actual symbols are meant to be read literally as the name of the armiger. Or locale.
I used to come across rebuses at school sometimes. One common example is "been", represented by picture of a bee followed by the letter n.
I used to come across rebuses at school sometimes. One common example is "been", represented by picture of a bee followed by the letter n.
Then there's Princess Beatrice, formerly of York. Her coat of arms has three bees on it. The bees are in part a reference to her mother's family arms, which also feature a bee, but also a rebus: Bee Thrice = Beatrice.
My guess is people who like word-based logic puzzles probably also like canting arms.
I like the coat of arms of Schattendorf in Austria.
Schatten = shadow
Dorf = village
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canting_arms#/media/File:AUT_Schattendorf_COA.svg
Schatten = shadow
Dorf = village
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canting_arms#/media/File:AUT_Schattendorf_COA.svg
Here's a great thread about the punning behind Hensbroek. https://twitter.com/theyseemetweetn/status/1358124764288733184
And I just followed some links to this thread about a doodler who possibly had heard about Hensbroek. https://twitter.com/TheMERL/status/1048543324196495361
