Castles
...pulling into Windsor station a sign hove into view: "Welcome to Windsor" underneath the castle on the hill. Tourists next to me "Wow, which castle d'you think that is?"

Or at work more recently:

Colleague 1: [reading from website] My god! jumbo jet narrowly misses famous Tokyo tower.

Me: How?

Colleague 3: Well it is really high

Another one at work

Colleague 1: [reading about the tsunami from website] My god! 1,500 swedes missing!

Colleague 2: My god, Swedes!? Oh...right...they were in Asia?
(peludodan, Fri 7 Jan 2005, 13:57, Reply)