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Agreed. You have to believe in your joke and be OK that some people won't be hit over the head with it.

• fossuser 6y ago
  I honestly wasn't going for a one-liner joke, I really do find the SFO gate this way when walking towards it. Being HN, I figured I'd explicitly spell it out. On Twitter you'd be right.
  • rameshs 6y ago
    Is it embarrassing to admit, op helped me understand the joke with the additional lines?
    • tF73d78kq8t3R6n 6y ago
      I’m right there with you. Perhaps I’m extra dense because Florida.
      • kolinko 6y ago
        Why florida?
        • drewzero1 6y ago
          Far from SF? WI here, I can relate. No idea what people flying to SF are wearing.
    • exmadscientist 6y ago
      Perhaps you, like me, were thrown because the first line is actually wrong. "The SFO airport gate" is actually "one of the gates at SFO", which is to say, it's a gate in San Francisco Airport. The better phrasing would be "gate for SFO". With that change, the first sentence lands perfectly for me (at least as far as I can tell). A single word can make or break the whole thing. Jokes are interesting like that.
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      • slowwriter 6y ago
        This is the most HN discussion of a joke I've ever seen.
        • fsflover 6y ago
          But... it wasn't a joke!
          • slowwriter 6y ago
            Hahaha, that just makes it even funnier! :D
      • onlinejk 6y ago
        "... lands perfectly..." claps vehemently
      • SZJX 6y ago
        Exactly lol. Spent a minute trying to wrap my head around how the hell would one be able to find the gate to an airport while driving/taking public transport, by looking at other people's headphones.
  • booleandilemma 6y ago
    And you don’t even need an /s tag!
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