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“Our streets will go to the devil,” said Democratic Rep. Earle Banks of Jackson.

“You’re not going to tell me to go to the devil, are you?” he asked.

I’d just told the Kurowskis to go to the devil.

I’m sure Mrs. Wojcik has no idea she’s just been told to go to the devil in Yiddish, but from the look on her face, I think my sentiment is clear.

In any case, invitations — unless they are to “go to the devil” — are not insults.