thurg--I have rarely seen it either, though the school librarian I mentioned was wearing it on the Paddy's Day I mentioned, as her version of "celebrating" a day that wasn't being celebrated school-wide, just in her homeroom in the library. It was bizarre beyond belief, actually.

Yet, when I thought of it this a.m. when I logged in to the Mudcat St. Paddy's discussions, I thought it odd that there is so much folklore and urban legend surrounding something that I thought must only be happening in rare instances (as is often the case with folklore and urban legend).

Yet, there seems to be something of a new cottage industry springing up, if those pages of commercial products I linked to above are anything to go by...