April Fools EST

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 4/1/06 at 12:05am

Happy April Fools. Enjoy whatever may come.

[Liam]

Posted: 4/1/06 at 12:12am

my name is not Liam its Joe


APRIL FOOLS!!!

[wonderwaiter]

Posted: 4/1/06 at 12:14am

I hate crack. It's whack.

[MatthewAddison]

Posted: 4/1/06 at 12:24am

Happy April Fools.

May you all use this day to be conniving, back-stabbing, deceitful, and instigative...all in the name of FUN!

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 4/1/06 at 12:27am

I hate April Fool's Day

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 4/1/06 at 12:28am

I'm Chita Rivera.

[cturtle]

Posted: 4/1/06 at 12:29am

i'm cleaning my oven.

[Kringas]

Posted: 4/1/06 at 12:30am

All this talk of April Fool's (Fools? I could see it going either way) Day (and the first April Fool's "joke" I saw on here tonight inspired me to uncover the origins of the day.

Did you know that ...

Many of the ancient cultures such as Romans and Hindus and the medieval Europeans used to celebrate New Year's Day on sometime near the vernal equinox that could range from March 20th to April 5th. In the Julian calendar, April 1st was designated as the New Year's Day and was so celebrated till 1582, when Pope Gregory XIII ordered the adoption of the new Gregorian Calendar, which specified January 1st as the New Year's Day. However, due to slow communications and resistance of people to change their traditions, many people continued to celebrate New Year's Day as before on 1st of April. Scottish only adopted the new calendar in 1660, Germans, Danish and Norwegians in 1700 and English in 1752.

Many French resisted the change and neoiites dubbed them as fools and played pranks on them. They started sending them on 'fool's errands', sent them the fake invitations for parties and tricked them into believing something false. The victims were called 'Poisson d'Avril' or 'April Fish' as the naïve fish gets caught easily and children would often tag of a fish's picture on someone's back. Thus, April Fool's Day originated and was popularly celebrated in England and in the American colonies. It evolved and was caught on quickly throughout the world to trick each other and have fun. Even today, people play pranks on each other on this day in the memory of those tradition-obsessed 'fools'.

The Fool's Day

Updated On: 4/1/06 at 12:30 AM

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 4/1/06 at 3:38am

Liam! or Joe... where have you been my child! We've missed you! DP told me you got in a street fight! He was going to help you but I heard he got a restraining order.
Welcome back!

Back to April Fools!

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 4/1/06 at 8:40am

Me & Dollypop are going out for a few drinks tonight

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 4/1/06 at 7:29pm

I remembered when I was in high school my friend drove to school. She was normally in my first period class but wasn't there on Arpil 1st so I assumed she was sick.

I called her after school to see if she was ok and she said she had gotten into a car accident. I hadn't even thought of the date so I juste listened. She told me when she called her mom to tell her, her mom didn't believe her and kept saying "Kristin, I'm not stupid, it's April fools day." It wasn't until the cop got on the phone that her mother realized that it was real.