[Director] Bill [Brown] asked us to come up with a “rah-rah” chant to accompany our greeting as old school fellows. Eric and I know each other very well and our sense of humor usually leads us to outlandish discoveries/choices that Bill usually cuts before too long. It started off as a simple salute between school mates with our swords, something we may have done in the academy. I looked up fight songs and school songs on the internet and the oldest one I could find was Eton’s boating song from the 1800s. Time was scarce and Bill wanted us to come up with something that afternoon. Eric and I decided that we thought the characters had not gotten very far in their schooling so our new search led us to children’s songs from the time period. We found a Scottish song titled” Soldier’s Joy” which included the lines “Do you want some bread and butter with your tea, young man.” Those simple lyrics made us laugh to the point of tears and we were off to the ludicrous races. The salute itself with the grade school lyrics got longer and longer. Bill finally had to reign us in and we solidified it to the point we have now. Bill’s final suggestion was that we needed a button to cap it all off and Eric and I went back to work. We looked up a place where a Scotsman and an Irishman might both have attended boarding school. We settled on Aberdeen.  The Dragons mascot was a joke but it stuck. Eric and I still laugh about it all and try to modify it to keep it fresh and fun. If you come you’ll get your own unique little salute from Maclachlan and Fitzpatrick. Go Aberdeen Dragons!