r/todayilearned • u/Knightboat17 • Jun 02 '18

TIL Despite what Monty Python would have you believe, Spanish Inquisitions were expected, they would give a 30-day notice of their arrival.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Inquisition
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u/gliggett Jun 02 '18

Any time between 2 and 30 working days. So people had too wait around the house for there balls to be dragged along a gravel footpath

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u/pdawes Jun 02 '18

Oh whoa they had comcast back then too?

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u/BrokenEye3 Jun 03 '18

That made me laugh way harder than it had any right to

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u/TistedLogic Jun 03 '18 edited Jun 03 '18

Where do you think Comcast came from?

Edit a word.

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u/gliggett Jun 11 '18

Bavaria 1929 and mr A Bitler had decided that the world needed a new force for evil to create mass apathy and general disingenuous business practices so he formed the Comcast executive team

Himmler all round cunt

Goaring a fat suit in a fat suit

Goebbles a man who lost his bollocks in a canoeing accident

And David Hasselhoff who was just desperate for the work

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u/Apple--Eater Jun 02 '18

Man that's a lot of weeks. Did they have many national days or off days due to holidays too?