# Choose your own Inferno!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-your-own-inferno/83854>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 26, 2001, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-your-own-inferno/83854 "2001-09-26T03:23:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![king\_of\_spain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7cd45c/32.png) [@king\_of\_spain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/king_of_spain)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2001, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-your-own-inferno/83854/1 "2001-09-26T03:23:20Z")

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Over in the [“Divine Comedy”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=89161) thread, **magdalene** mentions her school assignment on the _Inferno_:

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> “Create your own version of hell. What would your circles be, who would be in them, and why?”

What a wonderful idea! What’s _your_ hell like? Be sure to give famous examples of sinners and symbolically ironic punishments!

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**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2001, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-your-own-inferno/83854/2 "2001-09-26T12:54:50Z")

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Circles are so overrated. Ellipsoids are where it’s at. Of course, being the innovator that I am, I’d probably make hell a giant dodacahedron. Spammers would be at the very center.