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* ''[[Literature/A Man In Full|A Man In Full]]'' by Tom Wolfe has a sex scene in which the characters do "that thing with the cup". Wolfe has admitted that he himself [[Noodle Implements|has no idea what they're doing.]] Nowadays, an [[wikipedia:Two Girls One Cup|infamous]] [[Shock Site]] turns this into [[Nausea Fuel]].
* Saki's story "The Unrest-Cure" involves a practical joker in pre-WWI England (near Saki's "present day") convincing a sedate gentleman that he's planning to "massacre every Jew in the neighborhood." The gentleman exclaims that it will be "a blot on the Twentieth Century!" but the story ends with the century "unblotted." Later on, the century got good and blotted.
* Prior to the release of the fifth ''[[Harry Potter]]'' book, a filk of "Cell Block Tango" from ''[[Chicago]]'' that contained various fans' predictions on who would die in that book was posted on the ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131009183826/http://www.harrypotterfilks.com/ Harry Potter Filks]'' website. The irony of the filk lies not so much in the fact that the character that ''did'' die in that book was not among those listed, but that two books later, three of the ones listed did after all. [http://www.harrypotterfilks.com/places/theorybay.htm#Death_Row_Tango Read at your own risk] if you haven't finished the series yet.
** Another Potter one: Back in ''[[Harry Potter and
** Early in ''HBP'', Ron and Harry are talking about hoping that the new DADA teacher, {{spoiler|Snape}}, will succumb to the trend of DADA teachers leaving after only one year. Harry flippantly says something along the lines of "I'm hoping for another death". Well, {{spoiler|Snape}} certainly leaves the post after another death...
** Almost every scene with Sirius and Dumbledore.
*** Especially then scene with the Mirror of Erised in the first book. Warm pair of socks, anyone?
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*** Same with Cedric "That'll be something to tell your grandkids Ced. You beat Harry Potter!"
**** Everything Amos Diggory says to or about Cedric involves him living to a ripe old age. One can only assume Rowling did that on purpose.
** In ''Goblet of Fire'': "If the Hogwarts Express crashed tomorrow and George and I died, how would you feel knowing the last thing we heard from you was an unfounded accusation?" {{spoiler|As of ''Deathly Hallows'', jokes about Fred dying are [[Harsher in Hindsight|rather unfortunate]]...}}
** Even worse, the last thing
** Harry near the end of "[[Harry Potter and
** In
** After the anthrax scare following 9/11, it's more than likely that more than a few insensitive fans have made at least one inappropriate joke about Rita Skeeter sending prank mail infested with anthrax spores to Hermione (an incident from ''Goblet of Fire'').
* In ''Sewer, Gas and Electric'', a [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]] [[Cyberpunk]] parody from 1997, the Empire State Building has been replaced by a mile-high skyscraper called the Phoenix. The original building had been destroyed by a colliding airliner. No longer funny in hindsight.
** Given how the building had already had a plane crash into it in the past, it probably had this effect on some at the time it was written too.
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