To those of you who don't pay attention to the calendar and just live life day-by-day, today is the first of April: April Fools Day. I personally am a huge nerd when it comes to knowing the origins of specific holidays and so I decided to do some research on this one to curb my curiosity. I was very confused however, when I found out that this holiday has no official origins; in other words, it evolved from basically no where.
The first official mention of April Fools day was in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales which was written in 1392. The "Nun's Priest's Tale" was set on the day of "March... thrirry dayes and two"; which in modern-day talk is March 32nd, or April 1st. In this part of the story, the character of the cock is tricked by a fox.
Along with this comes many other poets writing stories about tricks played on the first of April and referencing these people as the "April Fool". In 1539 a poet known as Eduard de Dene wrote wrote about a nobleman who sent his servants to do funny and stupid errands on April 1st.
The first British reference was in 1686, when a man called it "Fools Holy Day".
April Fools Day here in Canada is celebrated all day, with the pranks going from sun-up to sun-down. In other countries, however, pranks come to a halt at 12:00 noon.
Here are some April Fools jokes that made headlines:
In 1998, the famous Burger joint Burger King announced they were now offering a special "Left-Handed Whopper". The only difference between the two was that the condiments were supposed to drip out the right side of the burger when holding it. People fully believed the ads and ordered the left handed burger, and others specially ordered the right handed burger.
Another famous prank was one played in 1957. BBC did a documentary on a strange type of tree that grew spaghetti. People did not know enough about the pasta to guess otherwise. People called in asking where to get one of these spaghetti trees for themselves. They were told to "place a sprig of spaghetti on a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best".
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Anyway, good luck with any pranks you try to pull on this April Fool's Day and let me know how they worked out!
So until next time,
Live, Love, Laugh
Missy A
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Hello Darlin!!! I want a pasta tree... can I get it in bow ties or spagatini?!?! either way... It would make me extremely happy!
ReplyDeletelol! I have never pulled a mean prank on anyone... I have pulled pranks... they just werent mean. when I was in middle school a guy put ex-lax in the teachers coffee... I told her not to drink it though... Im just a nice person. :P
unlike 'sally'... what a bitch! she could have caused some serious brain damage or something like that. Do you know that if she had punched too hard in the wrong place the girl could have been killed and she would live her life under manslaughter conviction. Dipshit kids these days eh?
anyway... seeing as how you are trying to study french and I am yackin away... on the computer and sitting at the same table... jezzzz you ask a lot of questions :P anyway.. I shall end this comment and get back to listening to cher.
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