People are playing a match of ping-pong inside of a legislative building where lawmakers are watching on. A couple of lawmakers turn to each other.
Legislative buildings are not meant to play ping-pong in.
Why are they playing ping-pong?
Nobody had a coin?
scene: a courtroom description: People are playing a match of ping-pong inside of a legislative building where lawmakers are watching on. A couple of lawmakers turn to each other. uncanny: Legislative buildings are not meant to play ping-pong in. entities: Table_tennis, Recess_(break). caption: Nobody had a coin?
Hard decisions are sometimes made by flipping a coin --- the joke here is not only that the supreme court makes decisions in this reasoning-free way, but also, when a coin isn't available for them to make a judgment, that the opposing lawyers win their case in a similarly vacuous way: by winning a game of ping pong.