Some definitions

EXTIRPATE
Verb applied only to heresies and corns.
FACE
The mirror of the soul. So some people must have very ugly souls.
INSTRUMENT
If it has been used to commit a crime, it is always “blunt,” unless it happens to be sharp.
LIGHT
Always say: “fiat lux” when a candle is lighted.
TOYS
Should always be educational.
—Gustave Flaubert, “The Dictionary of Received Ideas,” ed. and trans. by Robert Baldick and A.J. Krailsheimer

Some lists: 3

Inappropriate Muzak for the food court

  1. “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” by Gordon Lightfoot
  2. “O Fortuna,” the opening song of Carmina Burana, composed by Carl Orff
  3. “Always True To You (In My Fashion),” by Cole Porter
  4. (tie) “Synchronicity II”, by The Police; “In the Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus),” by Zager and Evans
  5. “You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught,” by Rodgers and Hammerstein

Inspired by a lite-jazz something I heard in Chick-Fil-A that sounded for a moment like #3.