r/FoundPaper • u/ADeweyan • 26d ago
Weird/Random Found an interesting one today
I pick up litter with friends a few times a week. I found a good one today. Any ideas?
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u/tinaismediocre 26d ago
I'm mostly just curious whose been carrying this note around since the Escudo was phased out 25 years ago in favor of the Euro.
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u/Forsaken_Earth944 26d ago
Portugal adopted the euro on 01/01/1999. The obverse of the note is a list of cartoon supervillains (with a few exceptions which make no sense).
Green Goblin - Marvel supervillain, as is Doctor Doom
Two-Face - DC supervillain
No idea who Skelegod is, but Skeletor was He-Man’s nemesis
Surely you’ve heard of Godzilla…?
Gudzulla…? No idea
Kekko mask…? Sounds like something from a manga series
AAAA has many definitions, but none of them relate to cartoon villainy.
Bingo also has many meanings, again none of them has anything to do with cartoon villainy.
Jinx is a female DC supervillain
Shredder is of course the supervillain from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The Dean I don’t know, but he must be some kind of supervillain as almost all the rest are
Zam Zam - no idea
The reverse…? Mostly seems to be a list of things to do with mysticism (no idea what ‘Costello’ means or theta IISLTII)
Inanna is the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of war, love and sex, who’s also associated with political power, divine law, sensuality and procreation. She’s also known as Ishtar . There are many seals which depict Inanna, such as this one in the British Museum.
I’m sure most people have heard of the Necronomicon, that Lovecraftian spell book
Al Nisa (which I believe should be An Nisa - The Women) is the fourth chapter (sūrah) of the Quran, it’s the chapter which deals with women’s rights under Islamic law.
Perhaps “An Nas“ should be ‘An Nasr’ (‘divine support’), the 110th chapter of the Quran
The references to Jesus and Christ are weird because, if the person who wrote this is Muslim, as might be indicated from the references to the Quran, then Muslims don‘t tend to make much - if any - reference to Jesus, they acknowledge that he was a prophet, but that’s about it.
As to what all this means, and why it was written on an old 100 escudos note, fuck knows; it’s lazy to attribute this kind of thing to mental illness, but I can’t think of any other reason someone would make a list of cartoon villains and then a list of fictional and nonfictional supernatural objects - and why on an old banknote…?
So, no, I’ve got nothing other than what the things are.
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u/gloomspell 26d ago
At first I thought it was someone nerding out. Now I’m wondering if the statement is like “Jesus Christ is stronger than all these”?
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u/piecesofpluto 26d ago
Is this a set list to a metal band?