CHAT April Fools (Was Re: Has Anyone Heard of This?)
| From: | David Peterson <thatbluecat@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 2, 2004, 2:04 |
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Jan wrote:
<<ROFLMAO! This is a really good one! I admit that hen I was driving home
today I did a lot of thinking about your message (when I should be breeding
a new IB News bit), but the thought of an April 1 joke didn't ever occur to
me.>>
As long as I amused some, I'm happy. I, however, did not know about the
entailment you refer to here, and which John explicates in the following:
John wrote:
<<Some hold (and I think this is the older view) that April Fool's jokes may
be
told only until noon: after noon, one may retort with
April Fool is dead and gone,
You're the fool and I am none.>>
I'd never heard of this. I've no doubt it exists, but for some reason it
wasn't passed down to me. Even so, mine was right after midnight, so it
worked. :) At any rate, is this a Germanic custom? Indo-European? I've
always been curious. Is there a website on it somewhere?
-David
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