Wednesday, May 15, 2013

History of April Fool's Day

April 1 is known as April Fools Day in Indonesia as an April Fool's familiar. How history? April Fools 'Day, known as April Fools' Day in English, is celebrated annually on 1 April each year. On this day, people may be lying or giving jokes to others without being considered guilty. This day is marked by deceit-deceitful and other jokes on friends and neighbors, with the aim to embarrass them-they are easily duped. In some countries, the jokes only be done before noon. This day is also commemorated on the internet a lot.

If you hear this cry on the 1st of April, meaning there's one more person fooled! On this day people believe that legitimate deceive others. For example, calling people to come to work even though it was his day off or change the content of salt or sugar bowl with one hour advance so that he was present at an event earlier and many other classic jokes.

The mass media also often play a joke on which by some is considered obligatory to lie. According snopes2.com, Jokes successfully managed to spread a radio station in Canada, which broadcast that the Royal Canadian Mint, scoring two-dollar coins made of pure gold. listeners find their loose change in a collection. Until pegel hand guns also will meet.

One of the successful prank that broadcast media is ever reported by Panorama, British BBC TV show in 1957. Announcer said spring came early this year, thus harvest rose Italian spaghetti or noodles ready earlier. The report is accompanied by a video that describes women farmers were harvesting spaghetti from trees. Shortly after the broadcast, the BBC flooded with phone calls asking where exactly the event that harvest and where they could buy spaghetti trees! Heh ... what next? Trees fried rice?

April Fools Day is celebrated allegedly began in the 16th century in France,. According to the USIS website before beginning the new year falls on 1st April. How to celebrate like the present, with parties, dances dance until morning. Years later in 1562, Pope Gregory introduced a new calendar year begins in January. But there are some people who have not heard or did not believe in this change. So they continued to celebrate the new year on April 1. people is called April Fools or literally means people deceived in April.

Another theory that appeared in The Washington Post says the tradition began in ancient Roman times, when people celebrate the festival of Ceres early April. Ceres is the goddess of harvest who had his daughter kidnapped Pluto, god of the unseen world. Ceres is told to follow the echo of his screams, it is impossible, because the echo is very difficult to find the source of origin. So Ceres is said to carry "a fools Errand" or a fool's errand.

Habit of lying to friends and family members, allegedly spread from France, to England and Scotland, and the time of the emigration to America to the Europeans there. In France, called Poisson d'Avril or April Fish. They believe it's easy to get caught small fish. Scotland gowk April term, which means that there doves symbolize innocence. There, April Fools Day actually celebrated for two days. The second day specifically to tease limb and called Taily Day. Oke2 wrote that you stick to the words "Kick Me" on the butt of your friend. Another in the UK, if you cheated and called April noddie. In Indonesia, popularly known as April Fools. In Dutch mop mean prank. There is a full day of conclusion about this joke, quoting the famous writer Mark Twain: The first day of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

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