When humans are long dead, What things will baffle aliens about us?

[Gothic Sponge]

I'll start:

They thought Gallagher was funny?

[Loonman]

1. The Thighmaster

Full House reruns, too.

[teach1st]

2. Waffle Irons

and bowling alleys.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

8. Too freaky!!!!!!!!!!!!............

I was thinking waffle irons even before I opened the post. wierd!!!

[teach1st]

9. The word "baffle" in the question

The word "baffle" in the question may have set off the image.

[dweller]

3. our porcelain shrines n/t

:hurts:

[TheDebbieDee]

4. Mount Rushmore.........

They'll wonder if it was a depiction of the Gods of the indigenous peoples.

[parasim]

5. why

did they allow themselves to be led around town by dogs with a little plastic bag ready to pick up their dog's shit every day?

[ladjf]

6. Nuclear weapons.

[Az]

7. Toilets

Toilets will be one of the few things to survive the centuries. Porcelan does not decay. Most of our other artifacts will oxydize and corrode away from this planet. But our toilets will last for eons.

[mac56]

10. Our mating rituals.

Specifically: the phrase "Let's just be friends."

[TrustingDog]

11. The Idiotic Swiffer landfill promoter nt/

[forgethell]

12. Why they couldn't

learn from history. We learn from mistakes; we don't have to make them all ourselves.

[LynneSin]

13. They allowed a chimp to rule a country

even though the other guy had more votes

:crazy:

[Commendatori]

14. Rap and techno

It will appear to be part of a tribal ceremony designed to keep one;s intelligence limited.

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

15. How we survived as long as we did.

[Sabriel]

16. Why we worshipped at the temple of Starbuck n/t

[Squeech]

17. How we allowed ourselves to screw up the ecology

But there are a lot of good answers in science fiction.

I can't remember what book it was in, but I remember a good joke where an alien discovers we have an organization called the Junior Chamber of Commerce, and mis-translates it as the Hall of Childish Tradespersons.

And you can also get some insights from an old comic monologue by Theodore Bikel, called "Digging the Weans."

"I shall call these people the Weans, since they lived in the land of WE, or US."