So cool that the people writing the Local Government Finance Act of 1992 learned from history and weren't condemned to repeat it. It would be awful if our current taxes were tied to a single out-of-date property valuation from the Cold War. 🙃
Pretty sure that was Nastrodamas's thing. He was also the first Riddler. Everyone sees it after😂😂😂 like he's kicking the future in the ass. He must have been a badass, quatraine says, come back next year.
Well, the Domesday (likely pronounced doomsday - as it was the 'final authority') Book was a pretty decent survey of property, law, occupations and other assorted whatnot in 11th century England, and it was written at the request of William the Conqueror...so, yep, I think that is cooler.
"Ever since the last crusade failed and the King died by the hand of the Saracen the court sorcerer has been cloistered in his study, doomscrolling non-stop."
"Lord protect his soul. He knows that's gotta be bad for him."
The word “doom” originally meant “lawful sentence” your doom was handed down by a lord or judge. So a Doom Scroll would be what they wrote a persons sentence on.
Hell YEAH! That would have of course been a 12th lvl or higher wizard or 16th or higher level warlock spell, if you got lucky and Orchis or Demogorgon dropped it when you looted their corpse at the end of the dungeon? Module A-12, right; Death to Demons! That's a A.DnD Classic, bro...
Kinda not really? The Domesday Book was just a list of all the property in England so the conquering Normans could figure out how to tax and control it. Basically what the DOGE children are working on
Laws are created by the dominant socioeconomic of a given nation. Don’t do anything illegal. Be the unruly child in the back of the class room. I dare you draw artwork on signs that scream MONOPOLY 🥰
Nope! It would probably being a boring spreadsheet of local taxes. Doom used to mean "an accounting".
Behold the Domesday Book (Doomsday in modern English) commissioned by William the conqurer after capturing England, it is a dry ledger of land holdings, lords, and the taxes they paid.
"Magna Carta? Methinks more liken to a Meager Farta!"
"Scribe, takest thee down above witty jibe and inscribe it on my doomsday scroll, then gallop thee far and wide, proclaiming the jest so that we may ownest yonder libs!"
It's actually more optimistic: The chinese believe that everybody will eventually leave hell, and get reincarnated elsewhere (precise details depend on the religious tradition) The last scene of the hell scrolls shows the king in charge of the process https://people.reed.edu/~brashiek/scrolls/seriesE/10/index.html
A person's descendants can shorten the time their ancestor spends in hell by doing acts of merit and/or reciting religious texts. Usually the descendants would request priests to do the recitation and associated rites. It was for these rites that the hell scrolls were created.
these scrolls are still produced today for use in funerals, albeit printed rather than hand-painted. you sometimes get compressed versions where all 10 levels are split between 2 scrolls (as shown below)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesday_Book
For good reason.
Excellent visual. -E
which peasants were doomed to die that day.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/normans/doomsday_01.shtml
https://youtu.be/c-aX0ISddW8?si=bWSPSh_Cn3lg4oHy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/normans/doomsday_01.shtml
“right away master”
[reading large scroll]
“oof they’re raising tariffs on eyes of newt”
"Lord protect his soul. He knows that's gotta be bad for him."
but thou, thine scroll be doom as shit
This violin's got a doom scroll
Only the wealthy got a vote.
Doom scroll (v.) = awful
"But then madam, I must ask with much haste who was telettrofono"
Behold the Domesday Book (Doomsday in modern English) commissioned by William the conqurer after capturing England, it is a dry ledger of land holdings, lords, and the taxes they paid.
"Scribe, takest thee down above witty jibe and inscribe it on my doomsday scroll, then gallop thee far and wide, proclaiming the jest so that we may ownest yonder libs!"
"Wait a minute, I can't read."
Oh man
*keeps reading*
This is hopeless I’m so upset
*gets to the end of the scroll and starts over*
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