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<\/a>Suzanne and I have made a tough decision, based on personal factors, after nearly 13 years of first, Morning News in Verse<\/em>,<\/strong> which appeared every Tuesday and Friday from August 2011 to March 2012, then From A Bird\u2019s Eye View<\/strong>, <\/em>which has appeared every Monday morning from March 2012 until today, that this will be our last blog<\/strong> . . . this week.<\/sub><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/sub>OK, when I haven\u2019t been traveling, the history of the most current holiday seems to attract my attention, and this week, rather than try to explain why we celebrated the resurrection of Christ by hiding colorful bunny eggs, I decided to explore April Fool\u2019s Day.\u00a0 I know it’s not really a holiday, it\u2019s a . . . well, I\u2019m not sure what it is!!\u00a0 But, I\u2019m sure you are sitting on pins and needles wondering, \u201cWhat the heck is the incredible history of this crazy day?\u201d\u00a0 Well, wonder no more.<\/p>\n Or maybe you better keep wondering, as April Fool\u2019s Day\u2019s true origin is unknown and probably unknowable.\u00a0 What you may not know is that the day is celebrated around the world, in many different ways.\u00a0 To wit . . .<\/p>\n In Ireland<\/strong>, it is traditional to entrust the victim with an “important letter” to be given to a named person. That person would read the letter, then ask the victim to take it to someone else, and so on. The letter when opened contained the words “send the fool further”.<\/strong><\/p>\n Danes, Finns, Icelanders, Norwegians <\/strong>and Swedes<\/strong> celebrate April Fools’ Day with most news media outlets publishing one false story on the front page of their local newspaper.<\/p>\n In Poland<\/strong>, April 1 has been a\u00a0traditional day of pranks, where very sophisticated hoaxes are perpetrated by people, media In France<\/strong> where the fool was called an \u2018April Fish\u2019 instead of an \u2018April Fool\u2019; due to the prank of taping a paper fish to someone\u2019s back without them knowing it. (Replaced by ‘Kick Me’ in the U.S.)\u00a0 On a possible historic note, in France, in 1564, Charles IX<\/strong>\u00a0decreed that the new year would no longer begin on Easter, as had been common throughout Christendom, but rather on January 1. Because Easter was a lunar and therefore moveable date, those who clung to the old ways were the \u201cApril Fools.\u201d<\/p>\n In Scotland<\/strong>,\u00a0the day is Gowkie Day<\/strong>, a day for fools and may have been associated at one time with sexual license.\u00a0 The PG rating for our blogs prevents me from any further explanation.<\/p>\n In England<\/strong> there is reference to April 1st<\/sup> in Chaucer\u2019s Canterbury Tales<\/strong>, where the rooster, Chauntecleer <\/strong>is tricked by the fox.\u00a0 Also in England, on April 1st<\/sup>, starting in 1698, people were tricked into going to the Tower of London to “see the Lions washed”<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Hope you had a Happy Easter, and if you were duped on April 1, you\u2019ve joined a worldwide brotherhood of \u2018Fools\u2019.\u00a0 \u00a0And sorry for those who had hopes of not having our drivel pop up in their email every Monday morning, but we\u2019re not increasing our prices!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Bob Sparrow Suzanne and I have made a tough decision, based on personal factors, after nearly 13 years of first, Morning News in Verse, which appeared every Tuesday and Friday from August 2011 to March 2012, then From A … read more![\"\"](\"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Born-yesterday.jpg\")
<\/a> and even public institutions. \u00a0Serious activities are usually avoided; every word said on April 1st could be untrue, as a day of pranks is a centuries-long tradition, but it only lasts until noon.<\/p>\n