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Some of our questions just can’t be adequately answered in words. So we recruited Answers.com’s IT manager, aka The AnswerMan, to demonstrate novel uses of the common paper clip.

How many more uses can you come up with? Add them to: What can you do with a paper clip?

Note: First attempt at uploading the video showed an audio-video sync problem which led us to look for an answer to the problem: Why is the uploaded Youtube audio-visual sync way off?
We apologize to @WikiAnswers followers who saw multiple tweets about paper clips as we were trying to fix the problem.

Supervisor and mentor JoyceP has made the community proud by being featured in her local newspaper, The Franklin Sun, after taking home two WAmmy Awards this past January.  Joyce introduced thousands of readers to WikiAnswers.com in her interview.

Joyce garnered “Best Advice Answer” for “What steps can an abused woman take to protect herself and children?” and tied to win “Answer of the Year” for “What precautions should be taken before a hurricane hits?”.

The following is an excerpt from the article:

Winnsboro resident Joyce Parker is making a name for herself on the World Wide Web as an award-winning contributor for the fastest growing Q & A site on the Internet. WikiAnswers.com provides answers to visitor queries that cover a range of 4,700 topics. The site offers contributors, supervisors and mentors from all over the world, and yes, even Winnsboro.

Parker joined the Wiki family in 2008 where she was quickly promoted to Louisiana supervisor, one of only two in the state. In 2009, she received two WAmmy Awards for Best Answer of the Year and Best Advice Answer of the Year.

The answer Parker submitted for Best Answer of the year was to the question: “What precautions should be taken before a hurricane hits?” and “What steps can an abused women take to protect herself and her children?” received the Best Advice Answer of the Year.

“I feel the information I gave in those answers can help countless people, not just here in our local parishes, or just in the state of Louisiana,” said Parker, “but all across the country. I would like to get the information to as many people as possible.”

Way to go Joyce!

Since you’re following WikiAnswers on Twitter - you are following WikiAnswers on Twitter, right? - here’s the latest way to celebrate the Wiki way with the very best Q&A community around: #WikiWednesday. 

As you’ve realized, WikiAnswers Wednesday  is the weekly column we do on no.stupid.answers featuring the bizarre side of questions and answers. We want to extend that tradition of making Wednesday a day for wiki Q&A. 

So at some point today (and every other Wednesday), find a question you love, hate, smiled at, laughed at, or cried about… and tweet it with the #WikiWednesday hashtag. That way, we can all share and track the WikiAnswers Wednesday love by tweeting our favorites, retweeting others’, and viewing the growing collection of #WikiWednesday Q&A’s.

Ever wonder if you’re doing it all wrong? No, no, not your school work or your marriage or attempting to potty train your dog. I mean… pronouncing the word ‘wiki.’

How do you pronounce ‘wiki’?

After all, it’s originally a Hawaiian word, and as proven by the spelling of ‘Hawaiian,’ this is clearly a word not pronounced how it would seem obvious.

Is it weeki? Whickey? Weki? Wikee? Weekee?

Well, first of all, the word from which it is derived is wiki-wiki, which means ‘quick’ in Hawaiian. It seems to be that the Hawaiian pronunciation is ‘weekee’ or ‘veekee’ but the pronunciation associated with the website technology (like WikiAnswers or Wikipedia) is whickey.

While I’d be a true fool to compete with Google or YouTube in the realm of playing April Fool’s Day jokes, I will point out some interesting trivia about the springtime tradition; believe at your own risk.

• How did April Fool’s Day get its name?
• Traditionally, in some countries, the jokes only last until noon. If you play a trick on someone after this time you are the April Fool. (source)
• If you were born on April Fool’s Day what does it mean?
• In 1998, Burger King ran an ad in USA Today, saying that people could get a Whopper for left-handed people whose condiments were designed to drip out of the right side. Not only did customers order the new burgers, but some specifically requested the “old”, right-handed burger. (source)
• How did April Fool’s Day evolve?
• The frequency of April Fools’ hoaxes sometimes makes people doubt real news stories released on April 1st. (source)

Have to hand it to the contributor who helped me out with this one; he’s managed to answer a question I often wonder about:

What went wrong with burnt toast?

I don’t know what I’m doing wrong, but that’s why there is a Q&A community to come to the rescue…

You burnt it.

Because you left it in the toaster too long.

Oh, and here is some extra advice:

NEVER EAT BURNT STUFF! ESPECIALLY SMELLY SOCKS LEFT TO DRY IN THE SUN!

The bottom line:

Just remember to take out the toast at the right time.

It’s expected that the WikiAnswers community can give me answers I seek. Going further, it’s a great thing when WikiAnswers can give me great answers.

But what I love is when WikiAnswers can make me laugh.

Which, again, is why there is a WikiAnswers Wednesday section of this site. And also why there is a Most Amusing Questions Ever Asked on WikiAnswers category!

A virgin shark in Hungary gave birth to what some are referring to as ’shark Jesus’ - so if this shark turned water into wine could he live in it?

Though I have many theories on the matter, here is what a contributor has offered:

It depends on the type of wine. For example, the amount of dissolved carbon dioxide in a champagne or sparkling wine would poison the shark; but in most types of wine I would expect there is enough dissolved oxygen for the shark to breathe.

Indeed.