April Fools!
by So today's April 1st and I never really knew why people played jokes on eachother today...so I decided to look it up...and took the liberty of posting it for you all....more ways to waste ur time!
April Fool's Day
(April 1)
In sixteenth-century France, the start of the new year was observed on April first. It was celebrated in much the same way as it is today with parties and dancing into the late hours of the night. Then in 1562, Pope Gregory introduced a new calendar for the Christian world, and the new year fell on January first. There were some people, however, who hadn't heard or didn't believe the change in the date, so they continued to celebrate New Year's Day on April first. Others played tricks on them and called them "April fools." They sent them on a "fool's errand" or tried to make them believe that something false was true. In France today, April first is called "Poisson d'Avril." French children fool their friends by taping a paper fish to their friends' backs. When the "young fool" discovers this trick, the prankster yells "Poisson d’Avril!" (April Fish!)
Today Americans play small tricks on friends and strangers alike on the first of April. One common trick on April Fool's Day, or All Fool's Day, is pointing down to a friend's shoe and saying, "Your shoelace is untied." Teachers in the nineteenth century used to say to pupils, "Look! A flock of geese!" and point up. School children might tell a classmate that school has been canceled. Whatever the trick, if the innocent victim falls for the joke the prankster yells, "April Fool! "
The "fools' errands" we play on people are practical jokes. Putting salt in the sugar bowl for the next person is not a nice trick to play on a stranger. College students set their clocks an hour behind, so their roommates show up to the wrong class - or not at all. Some practical jokes are kept up the whole day before the victim realizes what day it is. Most April Fool jokes are in good fun and not meant to harm anyone. The most clever April Fool joke is the one where everyone laughs, especially the person upon whom the joke is played.
Sort of interesting...right?!
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the guy at work switched all the keys on this other guys keyboard... kinda funny...
jano.. you're shoes are untied
One common trick on April Fool's Day, or All Fool's Day, is pointing down to a friend's shoe and saying, "Your shoelace is untied.
hahaha... that is so lame.
Another common trick on April Fool's Day is to tell somebody to "quick look at this pencil!" and when they look, RAM IT INTO THEIR EYE!!! and then it's even funnier if you dump a whole lot of salt right on their eye after that and then say "Quick drive to the hospital!" and when they get in their car, you've activated a car bomb and the car EXPLODES into a giant FIREBALL and they die. isn't that hysterical!?
HAHAHA! ur a freak....and yes it IS lame...hence the category fer my story is LAME! lol
lame, but funny in a zany/stupid sort of way :)
Why so much anger, funky?? Is there really a need for all this violence?
Last night my little sister goes "Dad, how do you get blind?" he goes " LIKE THIS! BOINK! and goes to poke her in the eyes just missing her eyes by a fraction of an inch...it was SO funny
i hate it when my 'care' explodes...
fine, mock me. meanwhile you TOTALLY missed the point of my comment
maybe i did...maybe i didn't. was your point something to do with terroristic threats on this foolish holy day?
no it was that accidents CAN happen. but usually when they do, even if they are on purpose, laugh out loud. cuz hey, life is funny.
Hehe. I bust a nut laughing everytime I read this
do u normally read the same comments over and over again? haha
and do you enjoy "busting" nuts?
ouch...
you are one twisted little kid, do you know that??? i think you do.
I remember last year, Ian linked his OLD website to ezabel.com and no one understood what happened...."but IIIIIIII did, and IIIIIIII kneeeeeew"
(btw, that was a quote from the bouncing souls: quick chek girl)
i was gonna mention that, but then i thought... gee that would be dumb (nbl nbl!)
thanx for lookin it up man...my service group was wondering where the idea came from....Now i get to say it tomorrow and sounds all smart hahaha....U know gotta make up for where i LACK :P
so...there doesn't seem to be a pagan origin. can we celebrate it then?
i dont think so...cause its based on the whole new years eve deal.
yeah, besides it's like mothers day, shouldn't you love your mother every day? why not make people feel like total IDIOTS every day instead of just one day out of the year?
in the new system, would we have an annual fools day for the fools that take no note?