Census Night - Use The Force Luke

Census Night tonight.  Every 5 years we’re asked to fill in a comprehensive form detailing ourselves and our families and strangely enough any visitor that may be staying overnight.  I always found that interesting given that future infrastructure decisions can be influenced by the fact you had your Aunty Mary from Tamworth staying at your place that night… Just doesn’t provide a 100% accurate picture.

And what if you’re on the town and you’re a single man and you manage to pick up a young lady and head back to her place?  Do you have to sit together and do the census?  “Sorry, what was your name again?  I have to put you on my form?”  Imagine that, a one night stand enshrined in census data.

Also, I always like the question about religion and maybe its these sensitive times with the “War On Terror™” but I have missed this time around the jokes about if you put your religion down as Jedi and they get 10,000 Jedi’s on the census then they are forced to list it as an official religion.  Those jokes seem to be absent this week… maybe its because the new Star Wars movies weren’t as successful as they thought.

The biggest movie in the last 5 years have been the Lord of the Rings.  Perhaps people could list their place of birth as Rivendell or “The Shire” and state their age as “One Hundred and Eleventy First”.  Religion:  Dark Disciple of Mordor perhaps?

The possibilities for buffoonery are endless… and why not, its not like the government’s actually going to do anything constructive with the data with the exception of putting all Muslims on “a list”…. mmm, you don’t think they will???

[Edit] - Daniel Bowen's Blog has a similar story on Jedi's and Census. First time I have seen it mentioned this time around.