Bautista Gomila
1-April Fools' Day or April Fool's Day (sometimes called All Fools' Day) is an annual custom on April 1
consisting of practical jokes and hoaxes. Jokesters often expose their actions by shouting "April fools" at
the recipient. Mass media can be involved in these pranks, which may be revealed as such the following
day. The day is not a public holiday in any country except Odessa in Ukraine, where the first of April is an
official city holiday. The custom of setting aside a day for playing harmless pranks upon one's neighbor
has been relatively common in the world historically.
2-Many countries have adopted the April Fools’ tradition of playing jokes on people every year on April
1. It is unknown exactly how this foolish holiday began, but it’s the one day of the year that people can
be unabashedly silly. It can also be taken to dangerous extremes, especially when it comes to fake news
headlines that maybe seem a bit too realistic.
Although the idea of April Fools’ Day is similar across the globe, there are small differences and
variations in celebration from one country to the next. For instance, France celebrates by putting fish
images on people’s backs (usually an activity for children), while people in the United Kingdom only play
pranks until noon. The unofficial holiday has spread to India, too, where children love to hoax their
friends and shout out “April fool!” to the joke’s victim.
3- disputed association between April 1 and foolishness is in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
(1392). In the "Nun's Priest's Tale", a vain cock Chauntecleer is tricked by a fox on Syn March bigan thritty
dayes and two. Readers apparently understood this line to mean "32 March", i.e. April 1. However, it is
not clear that Chaucer was referencing April 1, since the text of the "Nun's Priest's Tale" also states that
the story takes place on the day when the sun is in the signe of Taurus had y-runne Twenty degrees and
one, which cannot be April 1. Modern scholars believe that there is a copying error in the extant
manuscripts and that Chaucer actually wrote, Syn March was gon. If so, the passage would have
originally meant 32 days after March, i.e. 2 May, the anniversary of the engagement of King Richard II of
England to Anne of Bohemia, which took place in 1381.
In 1508, French poet Eloy d'Amerval referred to a poisson d'avril (April fool, literally "fish of April"),
possibly the first reference to the celebration in France. Some writers suggest that April Fools' originated
because in the Middle Ages, New Year's Day was celebrated on March 25 in most European towns,] with
a holiday that in some areas of France, specifically, ended on April 1, and those who celebrated New
Year's Eve on January 1 made fun of those who celebrated on other dates by the invention of April Fools'
Day. The use of January 1 as New Year's Day became common in France only in the mid-16th century,
and the date was not adopted officially until 1564, by the Edict of Roussillon.
4-it is something like a practical joke for example : Plant a grass garden in your coworker’s keyboard.
5-Create an infinite loop of shopping carts around their car
I think this is a very clever and fun joke to make, although it can be a little difficult to carry out.
6-Yes, definitely, I did not know that it was celebrated on April 1st and neither did I know that it was
celebrated in so many countries.
