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The more you know, the more you know you don’t know, and never thought of asking.

This post marks the beginning of a new biweekly column about empuzzlements underperused and unpursued, those thrumdrum wonderings that lie low in a pocket of question mark at the back of our brains, neglected curiosities that have not - yet - killed the cat.

Lost in absolute quotidian routine, these questions will set your spine a-tingle - but only once we’ve set them squarely in the spotlight. So get ready. And prepare to be quizzified.

We’ll start humbly with this one:

Why don’t soda bubbles go down?

Why, indeed?

Wow. Allergy season is upon us and I know that for me, this has been one of the worst hayfever seasons ever. I’ve been sneezing and itchy-eyed for what seems like months now. I should buy stock in Kleenex considering the amount of their lotion tissue I’ve used lately. I mean really…who can use tissue without lotion!? The little extra money you pay for the lotiony softness is so worth it.

I think I’m pretty lucky in the scheme of things though. Why? Well, because I’m only allergic to trees and grass…and dust…and cats. There are some people who are allergic to milk or wheat or sunshine. My life would be over if I had to stop drinking milkshakes or eating pizza or sitting on the beach. Period. I mean…I live in a beach town, folks. There are only but so many things you can request from a girl!

Anyway, back to me…and my allergies…I’ve basically learned to live with it. I just avoid cats at all costs (read “I give them evil looks when they try to come near me”) and carry tissues with me during the pollen-rich months of the Spring. It’s manageable.

Stop sneezing! Put away the dust masks! In the spirit of the season, WikiAnswers challenges you…ok I challenge you…to ask and answer questions about allergies!

Remember when you actually called relevant friends and family members when you had a question about something? You’d call Aunt Harriet when you wanted party-planning advice, or Joe from your old office when you were looking to buy a new car. We relied on the people around us who knew everything about something; those are the people we looked to for guidance.

I love it how WikiAnswers is kind of that on a global scale. Have a question about bathing your cat? Formatting a hard drive? The absolutely powerful thing about WikiAnswers is that all those everyday experts are doing their best to give good, solid, useful answers - and they are doing it 24/7. Real questions, real people, real expertise. It’s like a global Q&A village… spanning thousands of topics and dozens of countries on one site.

This post was inspired by… Question Shop.