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Re:France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall by dsfyu404ed on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @12:35PM (#20393606)
> When was the last time you took a train from Paris to New York?

Right after I sold my beachfront house in Arizona.

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Re:France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall by benj111 on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @01:06PM (#20394056)
Surely 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.'

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Re:France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall by donarb on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @01:31PM (#20394386)
The 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.
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Re:France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall by dsfyu404ed on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @02:25PM (#20395057)
It'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.

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Re:France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall by jsymolon on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @02:49PM (#20395282)
Also, see the plot from the 1978 Superman movie.
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