18 September 2010

Excellent mascots

The Passengers are enjoying a weekend in fabulous Hong Kong. Last night we propped up the bar at a basement members club. Here is an extract from the best conversation of the night:

Passenger H & Passenger J are introduced to another patron of the establishment.
Pleasant Stranger (to Passenger J): So what do you do?
Passenger J: I'm an Art Historian.
Pleasant Stranger: That's great! I went to Art School!
Passenger J (interested): Oh really! Where?
Pleasant Stranger: Rhode Island School of Design.
Passenger H (excitedly, over J's shoulder): Go Nads!

For those of you who are not well versed in the mascots of university ice hockey teams, the RISD team is called the Nads.  Passenger H has been waiting for the opportunity to work that one into  a conversation for a very long time and was ready when the moment came.

4 comments:

Carrie said...

Hilarious!

Unknown said...

Well played. Well played...

Passenger J said...

Thanks for reading, you two. It's nice to have comments, too. Carrie, I removed your previous missive because we are trying to keep our names separate from the blog. We will have to get together next time I am home.

Janelle said...

Wow...that's all I got. Totally obscure bit of trivia. Dorks.