Have a Ball -- Turkey Testicle Festival is on!

If you happen to be hanging out at Ft. Myers Beach, Florida, why not stop by the forth-annual Turkey Testicle Festival.

That's the message the Surf Club Bar wants to get out, now that the Fort Myers Beach Council voted 4-1 Monday to allow the Surf Club bar to use the Turkey Testicle Festival name.

Planners were left hanging while councilmen Bill Shenko and Garr Reynolds grappled with the issue. "Who cares what the name is," Mayor Dennis Boback said. "Money is going for a worthy cause." The festival has raised $3,000 a year on average for the Harry Chapin Food Bank. Says event planner Harry Satchels, "next year, in Mayor Boback's honor, we'll be changing the location and calling the event the fifth annual Boback Mountain Testicle Festival."

Fort Myers Beach residents were going nuts, placing over 300 'testicalls' into council headquarters. Even the military was polarized on the issue. Marines were calling for a boycott, while Seamen splurged for tickets.

Testicle Festivals are more popular than you might imagine. The Rock creek Lodge in Clinton, MT served up Bull Balls in their 24th annual Testicle Festival this past September; Buzzard's Cowboy Cuisine in Calgary, Alberta, Canada serves up, for a few weeks every summer, an unusual cowboy dish--prairie oysters (that's calves' testicles to you and me), and everyone's favorite breakfast--Biscuits, Balls and Gravy (shown). Not to be outdone, Frank and Carol's famous Turkey Testicle Festival in Union St. Station, Byron, IL serves up scrumptious scrotum to raise money for various charities, including Operation Santa Claus. Now that takes balls. Tired of this testicular testimonial? Don't start bawling, take a load off and listen to the Turkey Testicle Festival Song.