Services menu - how can I get rid of it?

The Services menu baffles me -- the menu items are always grayed out for me, so what's the point of it? I understand that a vanishingly few applications such as Safari can take advantage of the menu, but none of the applications I use does. So how can I just get rid of the menu?
George

George,
This is from Apple's Help menu and should explain what services are.
Some applications provide “services” that let you use features of that application while working in another application. For example, the Mail service in the Finder opens the Mail application so that you can email a file directly from the Finder without opening the Mail application separately.
To use an application’s services:
Select what you want to work with (such as a file or some text), and then choose the service you want to use from the application menu.
For example, to email a document on your desktop, select the file you want and then choose Finder > Services > Mail > Send File.
If the service is dimmed, you may have selected something that doesn’t work with that particular service. Try selecting something else and check the menu again.
Publishers have to write their software to take advantage of Services, but many don't.
To answer your question, you cannot get rid of the Services menu item, so just ignore it.
Keith

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