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> When was the last time you took a train from Paris to New York? Right after I sold my beachfront house in Arizona.
by dsfyu404ed 7y ago
> When was the last time you took a train from Paris to New York?
Right after I sold my beachfront house in Arizona.
- benj111 7y agoSurely for the joke to work you'd have to suggest that sea levels were much lower, not higher. Eg: 'When I sold my Manhattan mountain lodge.'
- donarb 7y agoThe beachfront Arizona joke is usually not about rising sea levels but rather about earthquakes in California causing that state to break off from the continent.
- dsfyu404ed 7y agoIt's a line from an old country song and it's a joke about the fact that AZ has no coastline. Usually it's used to imply something is obviously false and impossible. While there is no song about a train from NYC to Paris the similarity should be obvious.
- jsymolon 7y agoAlso, see the plot from the 1978 Superman movie.