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Deirdre
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From today's Writer's Almanac.
| Quote: | Today is April Fools' Day, a holiday celebrating practical jokes of all kinds. Some people say that April Fools' Day began in France in 1582 when the Gregorian replaced the Julian calendar, making New Year's Day fall on January 1st instead of April 1st. At the time, news of such things traveled slowly, and it took many years for everyone to get up to speed. People who continued to celebrate New Year's on April 1st came to be known as April Fools.
The news media have been responsible for some of the greatest April Fools' Day pranks in history. In 1977, the London newspaper The Guardian published a seven-page supplement commemorating the anniversary of the independence of San Serriffe, a completely imaginary small island nation located in the Indian Ocean. The article described the geography of the nation — it consisted of two main islands, which together formed the shape of a semi-colon; the northern one was called "Upper Caisse" and the southern one, "Lower Caisse."
The island's natives were of "Flong" ethnicity, but there were also the descendents of Europeans settlers who had colonized the nation: "colons." The two groups had intermarried over the years; their offspring were "semi-colons."
The capital of the nation was Bodoni and the national bird, the "Kwote."
In the supplement, there were even advertisements from real companies. Texaco announced a contest whose winner would receive a two-week vacation to the island's Cocobanana Beach. Kodak placed an ad saying, "If you have a picture of San Serriffe, we'd like to see it."
The day it ran, The Guardian was flooded with calls for more information. Travel agents and airline companies complained to the editor because the news had been disruptive to their businesses — customers refused to believe that the islands were only imaginary.
The Guardian has reused the prank on a few other April Fools' Days — in 1978, 1980, and 1999 — and each time the island has changed location, moving from the Indian Ocean to the South China Sea to the North Atlantic. |
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todd ellis
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that's mean ... did you mention bosnia in that conversation?
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One April Fool's Day years ago I was on the radio and I announced every song as either "You're So Vain" by Carly Simon or "Brown Sugar" by the Rolling Stones...every song. Of course when I played those actual songs I gave the opposite title and name. Judging by the phone calls quite a few folks got it, and quite a few didn't...thought I'd had a stroke or something.
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The worst thing I ever did was as a kid. My brothers and I ran into the family room frantically screaming to our mom that the frequently-overflowing-toilet in our bathroom had flooded the bathroom again. We quickly ran back to the bathroom and waited. After a few minutes, Mom shows up with the bucket, mop, towels, cleanser, etc. and we're all howling with laughter. Pity I can't remember the next couple days.
Speaking of the day, I ran across this fun little ditty.
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For the first time ever I've posted an april fools' entry on my blog... it started as a joke on Easter and just rolled from there...
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Greg and Dave FTW.
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LOL! Missed ya, Dave!  That's a great chart.
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dave made me laugh.
yoda made me hork coffee.
worth the price of admission right there.
thank you.
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Over here for April Fools', one of the telly stations ran this great nature footage on tons of penguins flying to their winter home. They got me! What a magnificent sight I thought.  These must be special penguins because they can fly.
The next day they showed the rest of the footage, ... the penguins are flying to their winter home in the rainforests.
Yeah, right! 
However, the story about the pregnant man turns out to be a true one! 
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