The joke was- we were talking about Siberia and russian crime gangs. We mentioned that sometimes you get a bunch of tattoos when you're in the russian crime gang:

Me: "so you get the crucifixion when you've... I dunno, killed and eaten a guy in gulag."
Her: "well, not that, but okay, yeah?"
Me: "So what tattoo do you think you get when you win the nobel prize in literature?"