[mellow velo]

Funny that the author also included mention of "Bologna University".

(Yes, there's a University of Bologna in Italy, but it was a clever play on words that added to the joke.)

[rfp1234]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierrot

[KamperKen]

I missed that. Too funny!

What will be interesting is how many wokesters and and ‘news’ sites will run with it as a true story.