[Discussion] April fool

[ethanboyxxx]

I was just wondering is april fool for troll guys who invented it?

must be one hecka troll

 

[Snape Uchiha]

April used to be the first month. When the calender was changed, there were still people who celebrated April as the new year. Those people were called April Fools.

 

[Kαmi]

April used to be the first month. When the calender was changed, there were still people who celebrated April as the new year. Those people were called April Fools.

Is this an April Fool's Day joke or is this real? O_O

 

[ethanboyxxx]

April used to be the first month. When the calender was changed, there were still people who celebrated April as the new year. Those people were called April Fools.

I didn't know that ,now i know why when i was a kid i've always had my final terms in march, thanx for the info bro appreciate it

 

[Snape Uchiha]

Is this an April Fool's Day joke or is this real? O_O

It is real, at least it's what I've heard, I don't know how true it is.

 

[Rohan]

April used to be the first month. When the calender was changed, there were still people who celebrated April as the new year. Those people were called April Fools.

I never knew that, + Repped, Dattebayo!

 

[The7thHokage]

Is this an April Fool's Day joke or is this real? O_O

I read it was the real thing.

 

[-immortal-]

AH _ HA _ HA amazing

 

[LordRaikage]

April fools was a memorial to a guy they pranked so hard, well especially this day, because every day this dude gets pranked but, This day aka TODAY., they did a prank so deadly it killed him

though his body was destroyed his chakra lived on and it influences people to pull deadly pranks on others for payback.

it even causes planes to disappear in the air to trick people as well,

you tried to hard *claps*

 

[LordRaikage]

It is real, at least it's what I've heard, I don't know how true it is.

yea, it is real/true.

 

[Avani]

April Fools' Day Origins a Mystery

The origins of April Fools' Day are shrouded in mystery, experts say.

The most popular theory is that France changed its calendar in the 1500s so that the New Year would begin in January to match the Roman calendar instead of beginning at the start of spring, in late March or early April.

However word of the change traveled slowly, and many people in rural areas continued to celebrate the New Year in the spring. These country dwellers became known as "April fools," the story goes.

Boese, who has studied the holiday's origin, disagrees with that interpretation.

"[The French] theory is completely wrong, because the day that the French celebrated the beginning of the year legally was Easter day, so it never really was associated with April first," he said.

"Traditionally it was only a legal start to the year—people in France did actually celebrate [the New Year] on January first for as long as anybody could remember."

Boese believes instead that April Fools' Day simply grew out of age-old European spring festivals of renewal, in which pranks and camouflaging one's identity are common.

(Related: "April Fools' Day on Mars: Scientists Post Yearly Photo Joke")

April Fools' Day: The Joke's On Us

Joseph Boskin, professor emeritus of American humor at Boston University, has offered his own interpretation of the holiday's roots—as a prank.

In 1983, Boskin told an Associated Press reporter that the idea came from Roman jesters during the time of Constantine I in the third and fourth centuries A.D.

As the story goes, jesters successfully petitioned the ruler to allow one of their elected members to be king for a day.

So, on April first, Constantine handed over the reins of the Roman Empire for one day to King Kugel, his jester. Kugel decreed that the day forever would be a day of absurdity.

Kugel, incidentally, is an Eastern European dish that one of Boskin's friends had been craving.

The news agency was less than thrilled about the gambit, Boskin said. "I thought I should have been complimented for a quacky, quirky story that was fitted to the occasion."

Humor and pranksters can offer society some much-needed perspective, he added.

"Good humorists are basically secular shamans—they both heckle society on one hand and heal it on the other."

Boese of the Museum of Hoaxes also points out the day is an outlet for social inequalities to be openly confronted. For example, street urchins used to play April Fools' Day tricks on London gentlemen in the 1800s.

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[Funky Tiger]

I pushed some of my friends into the pool today.

 

[NarutoB]

I hate it, that's for sure

 

[Zee Seh]

People celebrate valentines day.. Hug day.. kiss day.. teddy day. Chocolate day. flower day and All the BullShit..

So wats wrong with a day for trolls . xd

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[Worm]

I pushed some of my friends into the pool today.

I expected something more brutal.

 

[UzumakiRam]

Aprill fools ia kinda wierd

 

[Funky Tiger]

I expected something more brutal.

Well, that's my flaw. I set the bar too high for myself and just don't deliver. Oh well.

 

[Funky Tiger]

Yeah, I need more from you.

How about convincing my friend that the bigass pimple in his cheek is actually a radioactive tumor?

 

[TheMaTrix]

April used to be the first month. When the calender was changed, there were still people who celebrated April as the new year. Those people were called April Fools.

Wow..
Never knew that.