I have no idea who Scalia was. Isn’t that the thing that people call themselves when they are furries but with reptiles?
You’re thinking of scalies. Scalia is a quantity that has magnitude but not direction.
You’re thinking of scalars. Scalia is an opera house in Milan.
You’re thinking of La Scala. Scalia is is a form of thermal burn resulted from heated fluids such as boiling water or steam.
You’re thinking of scalding. Scalia are subjective internal experiences.
You’re thinking of qualia. Scalia is the region of Northern Europe consisting mainly of Norway, Sweden, and Finland.
You’re thinking of scandinavia. Scalians believe in a religion founded by Claude Vorlihon, and that extraterrestrials (the Elohim) created life on Earth.
You’re thinking of
Raëlians. Scalia is the contagious, itchy skin condition caused by tiny burrowing mites.
Benedict: okay the history of the soviet union
Benedict: is sometimes pretty unbelievable
Maxie: oh?
Benedict: yeah so like
Benedict: tsar nicholas’s kid alexei, the
Benedict: idk if they called him the prince, like they didn’t exactly use that system? he was something called a tsarevich though which i assume boils down to the same thing
Benedict: like whatever, monarchies, call your heriditary business whatever you want
Benedict: anyway one of the noble dudes was agitating for a plan to gradually free the serfs, modernize things like the west
Benedict: and alexei had none of this and so he exiled the dude
Benedict: and like
Benedict: there’s a reason the ussr tended to kill its political dissidents rather than exile them
Benedict: because this guy, piotr, during all the revolution stuff, manages to get a telegram to alexei
Benedict: piotr had led one of the mass emancipations and was marching on the palace
Benedict: and the telegram said
Benedict: “serfs rise, ‘vich. bet you thought you’d seen the last of me”
Maxie: so, full disclosure
Maxie: i was distracted and saw the punchline first.
Benedict: aw
Benedict: idk whether to include the full disclosure in the basketball post
Benedict: what do you think
Maxie: I mean, don’t do it if you think it hurts the joke
Maxie: it’s not like Ivano be terrible, here.
Maxie: (I’m sure I’ve used that before, but bear with me, here.)
Maxie: (You gotta lemming get in what jokes I can.)
Benedict: i. really shouldn’t try to one-up you with soviet puns, should i
Maxie: eh, USSR the only judge of that.
Maxie: sorry, that one was pretty exkruschevating.
Benedict: fuck
Maxie: by the way, you know the big difference between the Siberians and the Mongols?
Maxie: at least, historically
Benedict: i don’t.
Maxie: well, the mongols, of course, were a culture very big on their horses
Maxie: but siberia never had the conditions to make horseback riding practical, so the people there ended up developing cross-country as a method of making long journeys instead.
Maxie: basically
Maxie: it’s a question of trot/ski.
Benedict: hhhhhhhhhh
Benedict: i have no one to blame but myself
Benedict: also you
Benedict: mostly you
Benedict: fuck you
Maxie: so stalin’s reading glasses started giving him a really bad headache later in life, but he refused to get a new prescription
Maxie: said it would be revisionism
Benedict: i’m gonna break something
Kimchi and Justice 