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HOWTO curse in Yiddish -- WARNING

Cory Doctorow at 7:09 am Mon, Feb 28, 2005

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Swearasaurus is a directory of curses in languages other than English. The Yiddish curse section is stupendous. I'm taking notes.
He should give it all away to doctors...
He should crap blood and pus...
He should have a large store, and whatever people ask for he shouldn’t have, and what he does have shouldn’t be requested...
All his teeth should fall out except one to make him suffer...
I should outlive him long enough to bury him.
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