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[kelvinismyname]

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
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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.."

[BuffaloHelp]

kelvinismyname, on Jan 25 2006, 01:22 PM, said:

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.

[elevenmil]

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

[TeK FLaShOv3R]

BuffaloHELP, on Jan 25 2006, 02:07 PM, said:

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.

yup yup

[unicornrose]

BuffaloHELP, on Jan 25 2006, 12:07 PM, said:

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.

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[Zythrix]

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?

[bucksta]

I barely do anything on April Fool's day...It's just another day to me. But I never knew that...

[initial]

BuffaloHELP, on Jan 25 2006, 12:07 PM, said:

It's not a holiday. It's an observed day, much like the Valentines Day. Schools are

yeah that's right. But its weird how some peopel celebrate it like a holiday, but really just suppose to observe it.

[Dart-kun]

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*

[Sprnknwn]

Well, we don´t have April´s Fools Day here in Spain. But for what I know about it I think it´s 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, it´s called the Innocents Day or Holy Innocents.

Maybe you also celebrate it and already know this... but I don´t know if you also make pranks on this day. Don´t ask me for the relation within a children massacre and joking, it seems a little contradictory... but it´s like that. By the way, it´s also an observed day, everybody works and that.