Thing 1: Allan Sherman's 1964 comic song "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah" was printed as a children's book, with illustrations, and one couplet was left out: "And the head coach wants no sissies / So he reads to us from something called Ulysses."

Thing 3: Denunciations of, e.g. Harry Potter for teaching dangerous paranormal practices are common. Actually, all that Harry Potter will teach you if you try that is dog-Latin.