Snooker is not billiards.

Billiards is not pool.

8-ball and 9-ball are certainly not the same.

Well, that’s right there in the name.

None of the names are the same.

Sure but you could be fooled into thinking that pool is billiards, but if you think 8-ball is 9-ball you’ve obviously missed a crucial part of the sentence.

That 8 and 9 are different numbers.

That 8 and 9 are different numbers. See, you get it.

Well, sure, but I thought we were listing different pool-like games, that are not the each other.

Well, no two games are each other. Otherwise they wouldn’t be two games, they’d be one game.

Of course, but that was why I was listing 8- and 9-ball.

But who thinks they are the same game?

They could be the same game, but played with an extra ball.

I suppose.

So that’s is why…

But how does saying they aren’t the same dislodge that? Wouldn’t those same people think – well they are just different due to the number of balls.

Like Hitler.

Hitler was different but not because of his number of balls.

And yet that was also different.

This is true! Hitler’s balls were not snooker.

And snooker is not Snooki.

And Snooki is not Sookie.

Oh man, would you watch Jersey True Blood?

True Shore? Blood Shore?

I Would watch none of these.

I would prefer to play pool.

Not billiards?

No. However, possibly snooker, though finding a snooker table is hard these days.

In this country, yes.

Well I do not want to fly to a different county simply for a game of snooker.

No, that would be silly.

I agree.

So…

Yes?

Are we going to the pool place, or what?

Well, yeah, isn’t that what started this?

Asking me to remember that far back into ancient times is just ridiculous. Back then, dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

You’re saying we strayed a bit, conversationally?

Like continental drift, man.