Always Check Your Calendar Before Believing an Email
So, today the internet is supposed to implode or something, right? Yeah, okay. So, where's this big virus? What's the date? Oh, yeah...
So, April Fool on us, right?
Dunno. Maybe there was some big doings going on, but warnings got people to head it off in time. Yeah, maybe...
Remember this bit of April Fool's Genius?
I started to wonder where April Fool's day comes from and I found this:
From the Manila Bulletin????
The origin of April Fools’ Day is not clear. There are varying accounts as to how it began. One version has it that it was first celebrated soon after the adoption of the Gregorian Calendar and the term "April Fool" referred to someone who still adhered to the Julian Calendar that it replaced. Another account has it that in pre-Christian cultures, May Day (May 1) was celebrated as the first day of summer that signaled the beginning of the spring planting season, and an April Fool was someone who celebrated the season prematurely – in April. Still another source, which is based on an English newspaper article published on April 13, 1789, traces the origin of April Fools’ Day to the day when Noah sent off a raven too early, before the waters had receded; it is said that the day the raven was sent off corresponded to the first day of the Hebrew month of April.
Yeah, that really cleared things up, didn't it?
Well, if at 11:59 tonight my computer starts smoking and shooting CD-Rs across the room like a clay pigeon tosser, well, April Fool's on me, then, right?
So, April Fool on us, right?
Dunno. Maybe there was some big doings going on, but warnings got people to head it off in time. Yeah, maybe...
And Gmail ran this today that I missed but Lori pointed out for me:
Remember this bit of April Fool's Genius?
I started to wonder where April Fool's day comes from and I found this:
From the Manila Bulletin????
The origin of April Fools’ Day is not clear. There are varying accounts as to how it began. One version has it that it was first celebrated soon after the adoption of the Gregorian Calendar and the term "April Fool" referred to someone who still adhered to the Julian Calendar that it replaced. Another account has it that in pre-Christian cultures, May Day (May 1) was celebrated as the first day of summer that signaled the beginning of the spring planting season, and an April Fool was someone who celebrated the season prematurely – in April. Still another source, which is based on an English newspaper article published on April 13, 1789, traces the origin of April Fools’ Day to the day when Noah sent off a raven too early, before the waters had receded; it is said that the day the raven was sent off corresponded to the first day of the Hebrew month of April.
Yeah, that really cleared things up, didn't it?
Well, if at 11:59 tonight my computer starts smoking and shooting CD-Rs across the room like a clay pigeon tosser, well, April Fool's on me, then, right?
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