Adopted Grandpa-

Pot...meet kettle. Dude, you just quoted someone else. Irony alert! Irony alert! :biggrin

minutia
n. pl. minutiae
a small or trivial detail

Minutiae is about knowledge, good buddy. Now, what you DO with the knowledge is what matters. My younger brother called me about a month and a half ago to settle a bet about why you say the word "stop" at the end of a sentence when you're writing a telegram. My older brother once had me settle an argument about who holds the honor of being the first NFL team. My sister once called to tell me she accidentally put too much salt in her soup and to ask what she should do about it. I USE my minutiae.

When I was 14, my dad told me that I "had to remember these three things, even if I never remembered anything else he said":
1. Always carry money on you. You never know when you'll need it.
2. Always wear clean underwear.
3. Never live at the bottom of a hill.
When my dad was watching the hurrican coverage on CNN, he said, "Al, the people in New Orleans forgot rule #3."
"Never live at the bottom of a hill?"
"Never live at the bottom of a hill."
Now that may seem a small piece of information, but my dad has followed that my whole life. We've had flooding problems around us in several places we've lived, but we've never born the full brunt because we (wait for it) never lived at the bottom of a hill.

Want your minutia for the day? :biggrin
No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

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"You are you. Now, isn't that pleasant?"
-Dr. Seuss