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PaperclipPerfector  4d ago (text post)   1771 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for December 5, 2025

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Would you have any examples of similarly witty compositions of his?

A law professor helpfully compiled all the times that Scalia was a big meany and rude to people in his dissents. (She looks exactly as you might expect). She only includes excerpts of those dissents, but if any catch your eye, it'd be worth tracking down the full thing to read.

Although specifically witty ones might be harder to pin down versus sarcastic ones. His dissents in culture war cases tend to be the latter.

Reminds me of the time the Independent compiled a list of Prince Philip's "most excruciating gaffes" – by which they meant, of course, a list of occasions on which Prince Philip was fucking hilarious. I dare say even the author probably had a chuckle at a few of them.

"How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?" Asked of a Scottish driving instructor in 1995.

"British women can't cook." Winning the hearts of the Scottish Women's Institute in 1961

"What do you gargle with – pebbles?" To Tom Jones, after the Royal Variety Performance, 1969. He added the following day: "It is very difficult at all to see how it is possible to become immensely valuable by singing what I think are the most hideous songs."

"If it has four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it."

"People think there's a rigid class system here, but dukes have even been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans."

Thanks for sharing, a few of those had me laughing out loud, and I couldn't explain them to my young children.

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