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World's Least Obscure Song Quiz

1. Walk on your tip toes, don't try No Doz



2. Hit it in its funny bone, that's where they expect it least



3. Three nights and days we sailed the sea
   me think of girl constantly



4. We are vain and we are blind
   I hate people when they're not polite



5. 'Cause all the children know
   They're all slidin' down into the valley
   They're all slipping on the same snow



6. I'll shout and scream, I'll kill the king, I'll rail at all his servants



7. And I forget just why I taste
   Oh yeah, I guess it makes me smile

Syntactic heresies OR Clearly there's something wrong with me

I opened up Eats, Shoots & Leaves, and I do not make it through the acknowledgments before snidely thinking to myself "Oh, the author's one of those grammarians." Which is to say, she has not seen the light and so does not use the serial comma. Apparently that inelegant ambiguity is more tolerated in her native Britain, however, which I should perhaps take as an extenuating circumstance.