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This is the illusionist in which I, Helen Salzman, try to forgive language for the word

webinar. Coming up in today's show is something that is kind of like a wishing well, but for

insults. This episode contains one category A and one category B, swear. Right, on with the

show.

Somebody has really ticked you off. You're all steamed up inside and you want to vent that

ray using words, but you don't want to confront the person directly because you're either

too polite or too cowardly. So, do you A, subtweet them, B, with your finger, scroll an insulting

message into the dirt on their car, or C, get a small sheet of lead, scratch into it, a

message cursing your enemy, roll it up and throw it into your nearest sacred spring. Oh,

I forgot to mention, it's 1700 to 2000 years ago and you're living in the ancient Roman

Empire, so the answer is C, a lead curse tablet.

If we look in this case to the right, we can see half a dozen curse tablets here. And

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