Useless knowledge

This post may highlight my deep knowledge of useless information, but I am very often thinking of an episode of Green Acres lately. Remember Green Acres? Eva Gabor, Arnold Ziffle...? No, just me? Oh well.

Anyway, the episode stuck in my head centers around Eva Gabor's character (Lisa) had advertised for Eddie Albert's character (Oliver Wendall Douglas). He was an attorney on the show and at that time it was considered unethical (perhaps even illegal) to advertise for clients. He was quite upset with Lisa. (Background music in my head is the theme song!)

Now, in 2006, I see Danny Cline and Jan Dils commercials and find myself humming their damn jingles in the car. PUH LEASSSSE! I would like to see someone invent a filter to keep that crap out of my head. You see, I suffer from useless knowledge-osis. Go ahead and ask me some obscure question that is so totally not relevant to any topic of current conversation. I will probably know the answer. My mother once asked me to remember the kind of wood that some cabinets she admired were made from. Years later, after she decided against her previous kitchen remodel (and had moved from that house), I can be shopping with her or eating dinner and I will have an unstoppable need to say "The cabinets were PECAN!"

As far as Green Acres goes, even though the final season aired four years before I was born, how can you not watch a show based in HOOTERVILLE?

Heather