no.stupid.answers

What a week for WikiAnswers in the blogosphere! I’m loving the asking and answering happening on all kinds of blogs. Diversity rules and as I’ve said, WikiAnswers has got plenty of that.

With Saint Patrick’s Day on Monday, everybody - including Beer on the Brain, Pieces, Too… and Heather and Jed - gave a happy exclamation of Erin go braugh (still don’t know what it means? Get the translation here).

Some, like World Passenger 2.0, needed first to know what the true meaning of St. Patrick’s Day is… but that’s ok. On the Tenure Track needed to know what all the pinching is about. I actually learned something new from Letters from the Moon -the game of hockey actually has its roots in Ireland!

But then Monday ended and so did the holiday of green beer. But bloggers moved on to other meaningful topics:

• Soul searching was the rage over at Evil Woobie, who seems to be in a quarter life crisis… it’ll get better! I hope.
• But if it doesn’t, well, you can ponder the life expectancy of Germans over at Scattered Snapshots.
• And while you’re making it to the life expectancy, The Smirking Cat! wants you to watch out for pathological liars.
• Of course, if you do not look forward to reaching the life expectancy, you can study the reversal of entropy with Potent Potables.

I used to hate St. Patrick’s Day as a child. I was always so scared of the boys on the school playground who didn’t really care whether or not the girls were wearing green… we all got pinched. All day long. We could have dressed as asparagus stalks and they’d still have tormented us with pinches.

I’m not bitter.

It did get better though. Once I got to university, the holiday turned into an excuse to drink and dance and try to speak with an Irish accent. No one really pinched anymore. And now I’m a few years out of university and we still drink and dance and try to speak with Irish accents…responsibly, of course.

Doesn’t it seem funny that people outside Ireland celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with such vigor? Where did the holiday originate and why/how has it become such an international affair!? Thanks to WikiAnswers, I wonder no more!

Check out WikiAnswers now to ask and answer questions about leprechauns, green beer and St. Pat himself - the man, the myth and the legend.