April Fools' Day

April Fools' Day is celebrated every year on April 1 by playing practical jokes and spreading hoaxes. The jokes and their victims are called April fools. People playing April fool jokes expose their prank by shouting April fool. Some newspapers magazines and other published media report fake stories, which are usually explained the next day or below the news section in small letters. Although popular since the 19th century the day is not a public holiday in any country. What of April Fools' Day is pretty clear in the U.S. at least, Friday will be a time for pranks for better or for worse. But the why is a mystery. Though many holidays have cloudy origins the history of April Fools' Day is particularly blurry, as there are several competing claims for the invention. Some see the holiday's sources in a storybook while others consider it an evolution of the general rejoicing of springtime. On April Fools Day in 1989 billionaire Richard Bran-son designed a hot air balloon to look like a UFO and hired a dwarf in an E.T. costume to come out and scare whoever was near it when it landed It has become tradition on the first of April to pull jokes of the harmless variety on those near and dear to us. We plot and we scheme and often the yaks are funnier in our imaginings than how they play out in reality but that doesn’t stop us from sending the little kid in us out on a rampage. Even the most staid among us have been known to indulge in a practical joke or two, so beware of trusting anyone on that day. How the custom of ranking on April 1 came about remains shrouded in mystery.  when the western world employed the Julian calendar years began on March 25. Festivals marking the start of the New Year were celebrated on the first day of April because March 25 fell during Holy Week. The adoption of the Gregorian calendar during the 1500s moved the New Year to January 1. According to the most widely believed origin postulated for April Fools’ Day those who could be tricked into believing April 1 was still the proper day to celebrate the New Year earned the sobriquet of April fools. To this end French peasants would unexpectedly drop in on neighbors on that day in an effort to confuse them into thinking they were receiving a New Year’s call. Out of that one jape supposedly grew the tradition of testing the patience of family and friends. Current tastes seem to run more to funny phone calls and media-driven extravaganzas. But it’s still okay to reach back to older times for inspiration. Be a traditionalist on April 1 send a co-worker to fetch a tube of elbow grease or 50 feet of shoreline. The uncertain origins of a foolish day April Fools' Day, sometimes called All Fools' Day is one of the most light-heated days of the year. Its origins are uncertain. Some see it as a celebration related to the turn of the seasons while others believe it stems from the adoption of a new calendar. There are at least two difficulties with this explanation. The first is that it doesn't fully account for the spread of April Fools' Day to other European countries. The Gregorian calendar was not adopted by England until 1752 for example but April Fools' Day was already well established there by that point. The second is that we have no direct historical evidence for this explanation only conjecture and that conjecture appears to have been made more recently. Traditionally April fools day has been celebrated by millions through out the world as just a simple joke or a practical prank that have been practice by young and old alike, there is no age barrier. When questions are asked what is April fools day? Where did it come from, and how did you learn of it. Most people say their first experience was in grammar school most targeting groups between 1st grade and 2nd grade habitually practicing the bun but harmless jokes all the way through collage and continuing o to now end. The humorous fun is an excellent excuse to play it on people you may not like and b the same token you love just as well. Everyone and anyone can be a target for a April fools gag and not be held responsible for there own foolishness whether you are the fooled or the foolery.