Details

I like details, finding out what things mean.
For instance R.S.V.P., now most people know if you are invited to a party and receive an R.S.V.P. it means they want to know if you are coming so you have to contact the invitor and let them know.
My husband and I were puzzling over what the R.S.V.P. stood for, he thought it may mean respond very promptly. He's close, but no cigar. I was watching Martha Stewart one day, I know, she can be a bitch, but she's a very informative bitch and I enjoy her show. Guess what, I learned,  R.S.V.P. stands for  répondez s'il vous plaît, meaning “reply please” or "please respond". I can even correctly enunciate it, thanks to Martha.
Now I know nobody loses any sleep over these details, but it makes me feel somewhat smarter to know these things.
I have even learned I can impress some people with my vast array of meaningless knowledge. I work for the census bureau off and on, during one of the decennial censuses lucky me got stuck with an area in which every other form was a long form with many personal questions that pissed alot of people off,  I was interviewing a college professor and had to ask him about his and his wife's ancestry. He said," my wife is English, but it goes so far back she's almost French." To which I replied, "Oh you mean when William the Conqueror sailed over in 1066 and conquered England." This took him aback, I mean here you have the lowly census worker who happens to know a random historical fact. I could see the surprised look that came over his face, he was so impressed he made me a cup of good old English tea.
During one other instance a woman came out of her house all pissed off, I simply remarked on her houseplant, "what a lovely clivia miniata." Her whole perspective towards me changed. Knowing meaningless trivia can be really good.
Now I'm going on a bit of a rant here. As most people know I am a conservative, so here's the rant, being a conservative doesn't give one the right to be stupid. I heard on a conservative show during the last census, oh my God, the government is going to count illegal aliens during the census. Newsflash, the government has always counted illegal aliens, as far as I know, during the 4 decennial censuses I have been involved with, we have never asked if someone is a citizen. So reporters get your facts straight before you report, otherwise you come out looking like a pack of idiots.
If more people researched what is fact / truth as opposed to what is fiction / lies there would be less idiotic statements made. Thus ends my blog.