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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
by 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 agoThis is the most HN discussion of a joke I've ever seen.
- fsflover 6y agoBut... it wasn't a joke!
- slowwriter 6y agoHahaha, that just makes it even funnier! :D
- onlinejk 6y ago"... lands perfectly..." claps vehemently
- SZJX 6y agoExactly 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.