@danbruno My favorite usage is (according to a friend of mine) "absolute avant-garde" in using the emojis to mean completely different things
🛃 isn't "customs", it's "chatting". "typing on a computer". "you're typing nonsense"
🛂 isn't "passport_control", it's "reading". "closely inspecting your post".

then there's the reactions that mean absolutely nothing that I absolutely adore
🚉 means nothing. not even station. it just Looks Funny, and so I use it on reactions sometimes when it Feels Right.
🎑 is another one of these.