The verbicide thread reminded me that on a shelf at my local barber’s shop, there’s a bottle that the manufacturer has intriguingly labelled ‘Barbicide’. Ah! The crime of killing barbers! I figured it must be a special poison he uses for finishing off rival cutters. But no, it simply contained a disinfectant to soak combs and scissors in. Shame.

Still, barbicide – sounds like a barbarous crime to me.