Whether you pronounce it "vafancul", "bahfangool" or any of the other myriad variations, all roads lead to Rome (as the saying goes).

For a little more on this, our Don Malta's Godfather Trilogy website has an educational page of foul vulgarities that may make you the life of the party (or, more likely, get you encased in cement):

X-Rated "Essential" Italian

Look under "culo". (Sorta sounds like a Stephen King book, doesn't it?)

Caution: The language is quite vulgar, so consider yourselves warned.

Signor V.

"For me, there's only my wife..."

"Sure I cook with wine - sometimes I even add it to the food!"

"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?"

"It was a grass harp... And we listened."

"Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? Every, every minute?"

"No. Saints and poets, maybe... they do some."