It's real simple. There is no ban on plain old hyphens - . Smuggle 'em out and put some curve in 'em later once you are loose. Now if someone figures that out, you may have to smuggle out some ( and straighten them later.
You do know that the female tildes are laying eggs in there, right? They lay thousands of eggs at a time. Also, baby tildes cause intense itching when they're squirming around in there.
That's a seven hour flight to Bogota, Randy. They started hatching right when your flight took off from LA. Maybe you should have picked the aisle seat instead of the window seat.