The history of April Fool's Day, also called All Fool's Day, remains clouded. The theory about the reform of the Gregorian calendar in the late sixteenth-century, is likely to be the most widespread and most accepted.
France was the first country to switch from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar in 1582. Pope Gregory XIII introduced the calendar for the Christian world. The significance of this switch was that the beginning of the year has moved from April 1st to January 1st.
However, there were some people who did not hear about the switch or did not believe it or just refused to accept the change of the date and they continued to celebrate New Year's Day on April 1st. Others took this opportunity to play tricks on them and called them "April Fools". In essence, they tried to make them believe that something false was actually true and send them on a "Fools Errand". Today in France, April 1st is called "Poisson d'Avril", April Fish. The children of France fooling their friends by taping a paper fish to their friends back and when they discover the prank, the prankster yells "Poisson d'Avril", (April Fish!).
France was the first country to switch from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar in 1582. Pope Gregory XIII introduced the calendar for the Christian world. The significance of this switch was that the beginning of the year has moved from April 1st to January 1st.
However, there were some people who did not hear about the switch or did not believe it or just refused to accept the change of the date and they continued to celebrate New Year's Day on April 1st. Others took this opportunity to play tricks on them and called them "April Fools". In essence, they tried to make them believe that something false was actually true and send them on a "Fools Errand". Today in France, April 1st is called "Poisson d'Avril", April Fish. The children of France fooling their friends by taping a paper fish to their friends back and when they discover the prank, the prankster yells "Poisson d'Avril", (April Fish!).
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You can be a Monkey Puppet! My friends would love you...and not just because you're a damn fine bartender. Speaking of which, a couple weeks ago, a friend of mine and I went to a bar and met a really cool bartender named Mark, and I thought of you as we were sitting at the bar keeping him company.
I did hear you were in Indy...what were you doing here? I'm about 2 1/2 hours from Indy, so it's not close, but not SUPER far away.
Have a fantabulous weekend!