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To: SunkenCiv; Dustbunny

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"Punishments were written by professional curse writers invoking the assistance of a chosen god to harm the thief in question. They were then rolled up and pinned to the wall of a shrine. The kind people at Leicester University sent us an image of the tablet in question - it's small, brown and a bit squiggly, not what I had in mind as a message to them upstairs..."

6 posted on 12/03/2006 12:45:49 AM PST by Fred Nerks (MEDIA + ENEMY = ENEMEDIA!)
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To: Fred Nerks

All this was years before the government required unleaded curses...


10 posted on 12/03/2006 10:46:07 AM PST by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on Thursday, November 16, 2006 https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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