Today is, of course, April Fools’ Day, an annual custom on 1 April consisting of practical jokes and hoaxes. Jokesters often expose their actions by shouting “April Fools!” at the recipient.
A disputed association between 1 April and foolishness is in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales (1392). In the “Nun’s Priest’s Tale”, a vain cock, Chauntecleer, is tricked by a fox “Since March began, full thirty days and two,” i.e. the 32nd day from 1 March, which is 1 April.
In 1508, French poet Eloy d’Amerval referred to a poisson d’avril (April fool, literally “April’s fish”), possibly the first reference to the celebration in France.
As well as people playing pranks on one another on April Fools’ Day, elaborate pranks have appeared on radio and television stations, newspapers, and websites, and have been performed by large corporations. In one famous prank in 1957, the BBC broadcast a film in their Panorama current affairs series purporting to show Swiss farmers picking freshly-grown spaghetti, in what they called the Swiss spaghetti harvest. The BBC was soon flooded with requests to purchase a spaghetti plant, forcing them to declare the film a hoax on the news the next day.
Innocent double entendre
Bada BING!!!!
At the pharmacy…Are there any side effects to these pills besides bankruptcy?
Is the new “American Dream” watching Elon Musk go bankrupt, broke, and get deported?
You know you’re getting old when your vehicle’s heated seat is no longer for warmth… but instead for back pain.
Last one out the door at the Department of Education should erase the entire student loan database. Be a legend.
That awkward moment when you lay on the floor to do a sit-up but realize you can’t do a sit up and now you can’t get up either.
I don’t understand why people have to “get ready” for bed. I am ALWAYS ready for bed.
Donald Jr.: born 1977. Ivanka: born 1981. Eric: born 1984. Their mother Ivana didn’t become a U.S. citizen until 1988. If birthright citizenship gets revoked and kids start being deported, put them at the front of the line.
The billionaires have decided that the people with nothing have too much.
Instead of older and wiser, I’m getting older and wider.
People are now referring to Pete Hegseth as “WhiskeyLeaks” and I’m kinda mad that I didn’t think of it first.
This Pete Hegseth group chat story blew up like it was a Tesla.
Pete Hegseth now has to blow into a breathalyzer to unlock his phone.
Joe Rogan says he would rather go to Russia than Canada and I agree, I would also rather Joe Rogan go to Russia.
I’m a trust fund baby. My parents trusted me to fund myself.
A penny for your thoughts. Although that does seem a little pricey.
Of the states with the highest sex crimes against children per capita, seven of the top ten voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump. Because representation matters.
Heads up: losing your Social Security will sting way more than paying extra for eggs.
NOT EVERYONE IS GOOD AT THINKING
On this day in 1984, Marvin Gaye was shot dead by his father at his parent’s home in Los Angeles, California. The argument started after his parents squabbled over misplaced business documents, Gaye attempted to intervene, and was killed by his father using a gun he had given him four months before. Marvin Sr. was sentenced to six years of probation after pleading guilty to manslaughter. Charges of first-degree murder were dropped after doctors discovered Marvin Sr. had a brain tumor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC5PL0XImjw
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