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** There's an episode of ''[[Black Books]]'' where Fran is turned on by an ex-boyfriend's dramatic voice. She discovers he reads the Shipping Forecast and ends up... listening to it in bed...
* [[The London Underground]] map, originally just an experiment in applying electrical diagramming techniques to the Tube. Yet today, it's one of the best known symbols of London, and comes on posters, T-shirts and ash trays.
** [[Harry Potter and
** Also spawned a first-parody, now-real strategy game ''[[wikipedia:Mornington Crescent (game)|Mornington Crescent]]''.
* A lot of old filmstrips (usually from [[The Fifties]]) were meant to be educational, but are now considered hilarious. ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2kdpAGDu8s Duck and Cover]'' is the most famous of these. ''[[Gaia Online]]'', a forum site that makes no pretense of being educational, has a special part in its cinema gallery for filmstrips like ''Duck and Cover'', so people can laugh at them.
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