Admit it, don’t you love lists? Those informational peep shows for the terminally curious.
They may be about history or sports or pop culture. They’re often trivial; occasionally useful; inevitably interesting; and always diverting. And they are necessarily arbitrary, which means they’re fun to weigh in on.
Perhaps you saw this recent one, compiled by the TV Land cable network: “The 100 greatest catch phrases in TV.” They’re eclectic and they’re evocative. And definitely incongruous.
They range from John F. Kennedy’s “Ask not what your country can do for you