The University of Nebraska Medical Center published guidelines on holiday decorations for its employees.  Some of them are just good sense, such as:

Do not block the view of exits signs or the fire alarm strobes.

Then there’s this one, which I don’t even understand:

Candles are OK as long as the wicks are cut out of them.

Either I don’t understand how candles work, they don’t understand how candles work, or this is a euphemistic way of saying, “candles are okay to display, but don’t light them.”