Naughty Nicole: The Story of April Fool's Day... You fool
On Today’s episode of The World In My Eyes, we’re looking at the most mysterious and most beloved...
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April 2, 201730m 9sExplicit
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Show Notes
On Today’s episode of The World In My Eyes, we’re looking at the most mysterious and most beloved and hated of all holidays… April fool’s day and it’s rather appropriate that April fool’s Day - the time devoted to pulling pranks and having fun- has an interesting history.
No one is quite sure how April Fools' Day started, though it is celebrated globally. Most believe the day, which is marked on April 1, has something to do with the changing of the seasons and celebrations of the end of the dark days of winter and welcoming the warmer spring season.
Ancient Romans, Persians and Hindus all had holidays set aside for frivolity, including pranks, costumes and masks, but with its annual onslaught of awkward political gags, careless media blunders, eye-roll-inducing ad campaigns, mean-spirited pranks and, if you’re lucky, maybe an actual laugh.
But probably not.
So how did we get this most annoying of holidays do you ask? Well, you can blame the Dutch who first referenced April Fools’ in a 16th-century text or the maybe the French who overhauled their annual calendar in the 1500s, confusing “fools” who didn’t adapt. Or maybe the U.K., home of the first April Fools’ Day prank on record, or Germany, which popularized fake April Fools’ news stories. And certainly the good ol’ U.S.A. — because who else would be tickled by the idea of renaming a national monument the “Taco Liberty Bell?”
No one is quite sure how April Fools' Day started, though it is celebrated globally. Most believe the day, which is marked on April 1, has something to do with the changing of the seasons and celebrations of the end of the dark days of winter and welcoming the warmer spring season.
Ancient Romans, Persians and Hindus all had holidays set aside for frivolity, including pranks, costumes and masks, but with its annual onslaught of awkward political gags, careless media blunders, eye-roll-inducing ad campaigns, mean-spirited pranks and, if you’re lucky, maybe an actual laugh.
But probably not.
So how did we get this most annoying of holidays do you ask? Well, you can blame the Dutch who first referenced April Fools’ in a 16th-century text or the maybe the French who overhauled their annual calendar in the 1500s, confusing “fools” who didn’t adapt. Or maybe the U.K., home of the first April Fools’ Day prank on record, or Germany, which popularized fake April Fools’ news stories. And certainly the good ol’ U.S.A. — because who else would be tickled by the idea of renaming a national monument the “Taco Liberty Bell?”
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