Content Type Axioms

• All Content Types inherit from Item. No Exceptions.
  
• All Content Types have a Title field. No Exceptions.
  
• The Event Contrtol Block (ECB) Menu is hooked into the Title field of the Item Content Type.
  
• Permissions cannot be assigned to a Content Type.
  
• SharePoint Designer workflows cannot be attached to Content Types.

Hopefully, this will save you weeks of googling "Content Types".

Here are some quotes from the experts about renaming or deleting the Title field in the Item Content Type:

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Farm Admin: What do you mean, "biblical"?
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Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...
Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!