other possibilities for the below

deep fried mars bars; NASA; that video from the 1970s where the town decides to blow up the beached dead whale and everyone is suprised to be covered in and/or crushed by tons of whale blubber; "news" stories about how you should eat more vegetables or exercise; the thing where you are outraged by library fines on a book you KNOW you returned and send angry emails and make angry phone calls but then you find the book under your bed; making high-handed arguments in bottom-line situations; being betrayed by politicians; rich people doing yoga; cars; electricity; bridges; making marijuana illegal; ascribing human mores to animals when it comes to licking buttholes or humping things, for example; henry VIII of england; the human genome project; picking at your skin when you know you shouldn't; hangovers; astronauts; the fact that evolution is a "controversy"; the vehicle known as the hummer; martyrdom; everyone thinking they are descended from knights and nobles rather than washerwomen and garbage pickers; no one thinking their ancestors were siblings and cousins; the davinci code; tom hanks; the fact that madonna and cyndi lauper used to be equals and madonna seems to have pulled ahead; clothes on dogs; pictures of cats in sinks.