In this series by Lasso editor, Kate Karstens, well-known senior iconic duos in Mason are featured. This week, the spotlight is on Jack Rasmussen and Grinden Collins. If you believe that you are a member of an iconic duo or know of one, please email [email protected].
You’re eating in the alcove when suddenly, you spill your yogurt out of fright. Why are you scared? Grinden Collins has just scream-laughed after a joke cracked by Jack Rasmussen. Has this been the first time you’ve spilled your yogurt because of these two? Nope. Will it be the last? Certainly not.
On laughing at each other:
Grinden: We have inside jokes from ten years ago…and they’re still funny.
Jack: Grinden makes a lot of weird noises. He also sends me a lot of memes.
Grinden: I have so many memes.
Jack: When I wake up, there’s a text from Grinden and it’s a meme.
On transportation services:
Jack: I got the car first so I would drive him home from baseball practices.
Grinden: He would chauffeur me around.
Jack: He would slap me if I was driving slowly.
On advice they give to each other:
Jack: Grinden always comes over when I’m bored and we play video games. I’m always telling him not to suck.
Grinden: Jack, what advice do I always give to you?
Jack: You don’t give me any because I’m perfect.
On why they are friends:
Jack: We can make each other laugh without even saying a word.
Grinden: Same thing.
Jack: That’s lame. Grinden’s reason is because of my boyish, rugged good looks.
On giving the other $1000:
Jack: I would give it to Grinden but I wouldn’t actually have the money. We’d pull off a harebrained scheme. I’d rob a bank…we could pull an Oceans 11.
Grinden: I’ll be the one to pretend to be dumb and get their attention while Jack robs them.
Unidentified person in the alcove: That shouldn’t be too hard to pretend for you, Grinden.
Grinden: I would give him $1000, but we would use it to build statues of each other.
Jack: That’s the only reason I would want the money.
On where you can find them in 60 years:
Jack: Well, we’ve always talked about going to Europe together.
Grinden: And running a goat farm. Chickens, too.
Jack: We’ll have our own farm and make our own food until we die.
Grinden: Our last words will be memes.
