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April Fools funny t-shirts at FunnyDesigns are here! Hey, April, don't be a fool. Check out this merchandise. April Fool's Day started back in the caveman days when a Neanderthal would hide some dinosaur meat from another on that special day and then cry, "Ack!" Of course, this came before language became developed. But you get the picture. Ack, eventually became, Ack Fool which turned into April Fools!
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Some of the best April Fool's pranks take a bit of pre-planning. Buy a lottery ticket and give it to the victim on March 31. The next day go out early and buy another ticket with the exact same numbers as the WINNING numbers from the day before. Put this ticket in the place of the ticket from the day before. Wait for them to check the numbers in the paper. They probably won’t notice the different date, and will think they just became a millionaire!
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Unlike most of the other nonfoolish holidays, the history of April Fool's Day, sometimes called All Fool's Day, is not totally clear. There really wasn't a "first April Fool's Day" that can be pinpointed on the calendar. Some believe it sort of evolved simultaneously in several cultures at the same time, from celebrations involving the first day of spring.
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April fools pranks were ... prevelant during the Renaissance. Van Gogh, it had been said, actually put the first coat of paint upon the Sistene Chapel. Michaelango comes along the night before and quickly paints his own characters all over the ceiling of the chapel. Van Gogh, actually cut off his ear because of this incident and not because of a female love interest as is so often quoted by uninformed fools. He mailed Michaelangelo his ear with a surly note that next time he could take the knife to Mikey and do a little carving on him.
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[One] explanation of the origins of April Fools' Day was provided by Joseph Boskin, a professor of history at Boston University. He explained that the practice began during the reign of Constantine, when a group of court jesters and fools told the Roman emperor that they could do a better job of running the empire. Constantine, amused, allowed a jester named Kugel to be king for one day. Kugel passed an edict calling for absurdity on that day, and the custom became an annual event.
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One of the great April Fool jokes took place on April 1st, 1957. The BBC TV programme Panorama did a documentary on 'spaghetti farmers' growing 'spaghetti trees.' The hoax Panorama programme featured a family from Ticino in Switzerland carrying out their annual spaghetti harvest. It showed women carefully plucking strands of spaghetti from a tree and laying them in the sun to dry.
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