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Posted this on Freaky Trigger:

I am here to report that it took me till age 59 to notice that invalid ("being without foundation or force in fact, truth, or law; logically inconsequent") and invalid ("suffering from disease or disability; sickly; of, relating to, or suited to one that is sick") are both spelled the same.

The only rhyming word that Merriam Webster could unearth is "corn salad."

Do the British say "corn" or "maize"?

British recipes maize = About 20,300,000 results (0.39 seconds); British recipes corn = About 1,560,000 results (0.32 seconds). But the first hit on each is Cooks.com English Pea Corn Salad, whose first link is Shoe Peg Corn Salad. First hit when I Google boot heel corn salad is "Missouri's Bootheel Region is Fertile Ground." First hit when I Google yummy shoe tree dessert is "Vidal, California: Shoe Tree - Gone," but I believe that Google believed that I actually meant "desert." Here are photos. Hot boot polish sundae gets us arts and crafts projects where sundae and shoe polish are different items, the former only linked. No boot mentioned, so Google lied.
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Reveals and ratings, the ratings for the lyrics as opening lines, not for the songs. Asterisks when line isn't the first, but rather is the first not to contain the title.

1. "Ya shoulda loved me baby when I was nothin', nothin' at all" - Courtney Love, "Life Despite God," starts angry, gets desperate, woman taking sandpaper to the universe just to get attention. I think the singing is masterful, though I know at least one person here disagrees. The line's anger grabs you, though barely foreshadows the destruction to come. (So not up there with Ashlee's "What's she got that I don't have?" as an opening, though I'll admit that Courtney's singing on this shreds Ashlee's on "I Am Me," which is quite a compliment from me, since Ashlee tears the temple down on that one.) 8
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First lines shuffled on MP3 playa (or first non-title-quoting lines, where this is the case I has used an ASTERICKS) - artist/title pls!

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BONUS QUESTION (more interesting than the actual quiz): Which of the ones you don't know would intrigue you, as a first line? (assuming they were performed OK) And which would put you off?

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