diff --git a/test/utils_test.exs b/test/utils_test.exs
index 835af64..c7fb6c5 100644
--- a/test/utils_test.exs
+++ b/test/utils_test.exs
@@ -1,57 +1,78 @@
 defmodule ExIrc.UtilsTest do
   use ExUnit.Case, async: true
 
   use Irc.Commands
 
   alias ExIrc.Utils, as: Utils
   alias ExIrc.Client.ClientState, as: ClientState
 
   doctest ExIrc.Utils
 
   test "Given a local date/time as a tuple, can retrieve get the CTCP formatted time" do
   	local_time = {{2013,12,6},{14,5,0}} # Mimics output of :calendar.local_time()
   	assert Utils.ctcp_time(local_time) == "Fri Dec 06 14:05:00 2013"
   end
 
   test "Can parse a CTCP command" do
     message = ':pschoenf NOTICE #testchan :' ++ '#{<<0o001>>}' ++ 'ACTION mind explodes!!' ++ '#{<<0o001>>}'
   	expected = %IrcMessage{
       nick: "pschoenf",
       cmd:  "ACTION",
       ctcp: true,
       args: ["#testchan", "mind explodes!!"]
     }
     result = Utils.parse(message)
     assert expected == result
   end
 
   test "Parse INVITE message" do
     message = ':pschoenf INVITE testuser #awesomechan'
     assert %IrcMessage{
       :nick => "pschoenf",
       :cmd =>  "INVITE",
       :args => ["testuser", "#awesomechan"]
     } = Utils.parse(message)
   end
 
   test "Parse KICK message" do
     message = ':pschoenf KICK #testchan lameuser'
     assert %IrcMessage{
       :nick => "pschoenf",
       :cmd =>  "KICK",
       :args => ["#testchan", "lameuser"]
     } = Utils.parse(message)
   end
 
   test "Can parse RPL_ISUPPORT commands" do
     message = ':irc.example.org 005 nick NETWORK=Freenode PREFIX=(ov)@+ CHANTYPES=#&'
     parsed  = Utils.parse(message)
     state   = %ClientState{}
     assert %ClientState{
       :channel_prefixes => ["#", "&"],
       :user_prefixes =>    [{?o, ?@}, {?v, ?+}],
       :network =>          "Freenode"
     } = Utils.isup(parsed.args, state)
   end
 
+  test "Parse Slack's inappropriate RPL_TOPIC message as if it were an RPL_NOTOPIC" do
+    # NOTE: This is not a valid message per the RFC.  If there's no topic
+    # (which is the case for Slack in this instance), they should instead send
+    # us a RPL_NOTOPIC (331).
+    #
+    # Two things:
+    #
+    # 1) Bad slack!  Read your RFCs! (because my code has never had bugs yup obv)
+    # 2) Don't care, still want to talk to them without falling over dead!
+    #
+    # Parsing this as if it were actually an RPL_NOTOPIC (331) seems especially like
+    # a good idea when I realized that there's nothing in ExIRc that does anything
+    # with 331 at all - they just fall on the floor, no crashes to be seen (ideally)
+    message = ':irc.tinyspeck.com 332 jadams #elm-playground-news :'
+    assert %IrcMessage{
+      :nick => "jadams",
+      :cmd =>  "331",
+      :args => ["#elm-playground-news", "No topic is set"]
+    } = Utils.parse(message)
+  end
+
 end