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Last week brought on plenty of questions. Isn’t it amazing how there are always people asking questions, all the time, no matter how weird the questions seem?

Like, for instance, Neatorama asking if it’s possible to lick your own elbow. Well, one might need to know that, right? I wouldn’t want to go my whole life trying only to find out at the very end that I can’t.

On the other hand, there are questions that are indisputable in their importance for the sake of a solid education, like the dates of World War I, as Barbara’s Blog shares.

Then you have the timely questions that find their place throughout the year and crop up when they become relevant, as The 500 Inc welcomes St. Patrick’s Day with wondering what ‘erin go braugh’ means (turns out, we’re not even spelling it right!).

I’ll leave off with one more question- first asked here - which is very much related to today’s post and the goal of WikiAnswers in general: What does ‘questio verum’ mean? Forgetting your Latin? Better click to remember.

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.