Trivial Pursuits

Lounging on the couch yesterday, watching Chris dominate another computer team at ESPN NFL 2k5:

Mr.Chocolatae: Is there any ethnic [linguistic] group you're willing to name your children from besides black, Mr. Landlord?
Mr. Landlord: Look, it's just that "Arturo" doesn't work for me. It's gotta be different-different, like the rule.
Mr. Chocolatae: I think I want to name my son I-B-N. "Ibn."
Mr. Scrappykid: Isn't that Arabic for "son"?
Mr. Chocolatae: Yeah, "Son of Crosby."
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Mr. Chocolatae: How do you know that?
Mr. Landlord: Yeah, Mr. Scrappykid. You can't get mad when we ask you for random trivia when you keep pulling stuff like that out of your [backside].

I wanted to explain how much i'd read and loved George Alec Effinger's When Gravity Fails as a teenager, how i've done some light reading on Islam and the Muslim faith in my college classes, how it related to an insult a friend once taught me... but i just threw up my hands and went back to my comic book. I will forever be the awkward nerd.