How April Fools Day Began? - i always wonder the story behind this
kelvinismyname
Jan 25 2006, 06:22 PM
ok since the last two two topics were interesting topics relating to the calendar..it got me interesting this question ...why is april the first april fools day
here is what i learned......
if you never herd about april fools day here is what it is: April fools day is a holiday celebrated on april 1st ,it is a day where you play pranks on people or simply try to make them fool.
whats the story behind it:... it is a holiday that started back in the 16th century in France. During that time the accepted calendar was the Julian calendar. The julian calendar was a calandar that ,used april 1st as its new years day, that meant on april first every body will have a grand big new years party with gifts ect..on april the first.
Now here is where the confusion came: sometime during that century King Charles IX declared that France would begin using the new Gregorian calendar, this calendar had New Year's Day as being January 1st. ( this meat that people would not need to celebrate new years day on April 1st)
(but I supposed back then getting a message out to the public was difficult), so in france, some of the people still belived that they would be celebrating april 1st as new years day. Those who knew that new years was on january 1st decided to play jokes on the ones that did not. They sent gifts and invited them to bogus parties , & basically made fun at them for celebrating New years on the wrong day. from then on every April 1st became april fools day. yep that the reason ................................................................................ .....................................
" i doubt u will find any body celebrating april 1st 2006 as new years day so in-order to celebrate this day you have to see if people will fall for other pranks.."
April fools day is a holiday celebrated on april 1st ,it is a day where you play pranks on people or simply try to make them fool.
It's not a holiday. It's an observed day, much like the Valentines Day. Schools are still open and post office still delivers mail
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" i doubt u will find any body celebrating april 1st 2006 as new years day so in-order to celebrate this day you have to see if people will fall for other pranks.."
You need to use that in QUOTE tag. Just like the above.
Ah, good 'ol April Fools Day, a day where pranks are plentiful and the people immature . Back in my grade school days I frequently traded pranks with people, especially my family. One day I came home, sat my parents down, and told them I had gotten a girl pregnant! And they believed it! Another time I had dyed my hair a disgusting purple and showed it to my dad before work, telling him this was going to be my new look. Knowing that he absolutely would hate me for doing it, I did it (only it was a wash away dye that would go away just by showering ).
Interesting story you gave us. I was never actually sure how April Fool's Day came about, but I'm sure I've heard the story, probably a long time ago though.
This will be an interesting thread, maybe we'll get a variety of pranks I can possibly use this upcoming April
It's not a holiday. It's an observed day, much like the Valentines Day. Schools are still open and post office still delivers mail You need to use that in QUOTE tag. Just like the above.
It's not a holiday. It's an observed day, much like the Valentines Day. Schools are still open and post office still delivers mail You need to use that in QUOTE tag. Just like the above.
Actually Buffalo if he wrote or paraphrased it from the orginal content. Meaning it was his own words for what he learned then no he should not have to quote it. If he copied it directly form the source then yeah I think he should use a quote. It felt like he was speaking in his own words to me. But hey thats the way the cookie crumbles...
Okay so I forgot to mention what I thought of this topic. Its very interesting that it came from a change in how a holiday is celebrated. That is kind of mean if you think about it. Then again alot of people sometimes do mean things on April Fool's Day. There you go. LOL Anyway stuff like this you know little known facts are good to learn cause it gives you stuff to talk about when you can not think of anything else to say. Its also good for parties. You know if you ever want to be the smart aleck of the group.
This is by far MY day. Ever since I knew how to prank, I've never let a year go by without the obligatory pranks. I have no lines as to who I will or will not prank. I'd prank the pope, my grandma, a high school principal.. ANYONE. =) Anybody got any good prank stories?
Heh, April fools day, I always wondered how that came to be, much like valentines (which I still don'tknow how started, and is to lazy to look up) I knew it had started some time in France, but thanks for the exact. It's actually kinda funny when you think about it. *is going to invite a bunch of people to a "new years" party*
Well, we donīt have Aprilīs Fools Day here in Spain. But for what I know about it I think itīs more or less the same idea that we celebrate on 28th December between Christmas and New Years Day. This is supposed to remember the day king Herodes ordered to kill newborn babies in order to kill Jesuschrist that way, obviously without success. As long as these murdered babies were inocent, itīs called the Innocents Day or Holy Innocents.
Maybe you also celebrate it and already know this... but I donīt know if you also make pranks on this day. Donīt ask me for the relation within a children massacre and joking, it seems a little contradictory... but itīs like that. By the way, itīs also an observed day, everybody works and that.
In France, instead of pulling usual pranks on people (like sticking whoopie cushions on people's chairs), children stick pictures of fish on people's back. When the person finally realizes the fish is there, the kids shout, "Poisson d'Avril (April Fish Day)."
I always find "April Fools Day" to be more of an irritant than anything (visualize images of rotten school children taunting a feeble, curmudgeonly misanthrope with scornful glee and rotten tomatoes). Take yesterday morning for an example. I was innocently enduring my morning treadmill torture whilst listening to my favorite (i.e. tolerable) morning radio talk show, Uncovering the Truth by privacy rights advocate Katherine Albrecht when I found myself besieged by a news blurb she had read on mercola.com that went something like this:
Medical experts have found that fish oil massaged into the scalp will make hair grow back on a bald head. (note: I am neither bald nor fond of fish, but morbid curiosity had me by the ears). Fish oil from a capsule or bottle, however, will not suffice. No - one must procure an entire fish, preferably dead, proceed to cut it open and release it's essential oils onto one's bald head. Yes, it will stink something awful. Never mind how nauseated you will feel with fish oil dripping into your eyes from your bowling ball of a head. The ends justify the means, and a few days of misery is worth the prospect of seeing hair sprout on your previously barren scalp. But what of your spouse? You will want to rent a hotel for the night, for your spouse will not stomach the stench of your close and foul proximity. Or, if you're like most men obsessed with the amount of hair on your head (or anywhere else), you're probably single and quite narcissistic.
Pardon the poor rendition, but I assure you, the original announcement from the usually credible Dr. Mercola sounded very official and very believable and I fell for it hook, line and sinker. I should have known better when the quoted expert was a Dr. Poisson d'Avril. As the fates would have it, Poisson is French for fish, and Avril, of course, is French for April. Apparently, the French decided to associate fish with April 1st, though I can find no rational reason why. But why expect anything rational or meaningful from this day? Such are the horrors of April the first. Thank God the next April Fool's day is a good year away.
Moral of the story: learn your French if you don't want to be taken in next time this horrible "event" rolls around.
Never new how April Fools had began. Unfortunately I was expecting something else... something done by mistake I guess, but I guess those French where some prankers...
I am shocked that I completely missed this post about April fool's day, and a few people are correct in that April 1st is not an official holiday, because it is not profitable day for the corporate store owners. I highly doubt you see holiday cards, fake presents, and stuff like that in stores for people to buy. So it is rather a day for people to let loose and get a good laugh at pranking someone, and usually they are good as the ones done by google with all these new products that would never come, and one I saw on PCworld about bringing DOS back as well. Of course, I myself never really new the origins of why this came to be and it does make sense because of all these calender systems that were being used.
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. Back in my grade school days I frequently traded pranks with people, especially my family. 
One day I came home, sat my parents down, and told them I had gotten a girl pregnant! And they believed it! Another time I had dyed my hair a disgusting purple and showed it to my dad before work, telling him this was going to be my new look. Knowing that he absolutely would hate me for doing it, I did it 
By the way, itīs also an observed day, everybody works and that.
