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1april fools＇ day or all fools＇ day though not a holiday in its own right is a notable day celebrated in many countries on april 1 the day is marked by the commission of hoaxes and other practical jokes of varying sophistication on friends and neighbors or sending them on fools＇ errands the aim of which is to embarrass the gullible in some countries april fools＇ jokes (also called april fools) are only made before midday [1] it is also widely celebrated on the internet
2origin
the origin of this custom has been much disputed many theories have been suggested
what seems certain is that it is in some way or other a relic of those once universal festivities held at the vernal equinox which beginning on old new year＇s day the 25th of march ended on the 1st of april
it has been suggested that europe derived its aprilfooling from the french [2] france was one of the first nations to make january 1 officially new year＇s day (which was already celebrated by many) by decree of charles ix this was in 1564 even before the adoption of the gregorian calendar (see julian start of the year) thus the new year＇s gifts and visits of felicitation which had been the feature of the 1st of april became associated with the first day of january and those who disliked or did not hear about the change were fair game for those wits who amused themselves by sending mock presents and paying calls of pretended ceremony on the 1st of april french and dutch references from 1508 and 1539 respectively describe april fools＇ day jokes and the custom of making them on the first of april
though the 1st of april appears to have been anciently observed in great britain as a general festival it was apparently not until the beginning of the 18th century that the making of aprilfools was a common custom in scotland the custom was known as hunting the gowk ie the cuckoo and aprilfools were aprilgowks the cuckoo being there as it is in most lands a term of contempt in france the person fooled is known as poisson d＇avril this has been explained from the association of ideas arising from the fact that in april the sun quits the zodiacal sign of the fish a far more natural explanation would seem to be that the april fish would be a young fish and therefore easily caught
the dutch celebrate the 1st of april for other reasons in 1572 the netherlands were ruled by spain＇s king philip ii roaming the region were dutch rebels who called themselves geuzen after the french gueux meaning beggars on 1 april 1572 the geuzen seized the small coastal town of den briel this event was also the start of the general civil rising against the spanish in other cities in the netherlands the duke of alba commander of the spanish army could not prevent the uprising bril is the dutch word for glasses so on 1 april 1572 alba lost his glasses dutch people find this joke so hilarious they still commemorate the first of april
the french traditionally celebrated this holiday by placing a dead fish on the back of friends today the fish is substituted by a floppy kerk
chaucer＇s story the nun＇s priest＇s tale written c1400 takes place on 32 march that is 1 april it is chanticleer and the fox a story of two fools
3wellknown hoaxes
alabama changes the value of pi the april 1998 newsletter of new mexicans for science and reason contained an article claiming that the alabama legislature had voted to change the value of the mathematical constant pi to the biblical value of 30 this claim originally appeared as a news story in the 1961 scifi classic stranger in a strange land by robert a heinlein
spaghetti trees the bbc television programme panorama ran a famous hoax in 1957 showing the swiss harvesting spaghetti from trees they had claimed that the despised pest the spaghetti wevil had been eradicated a large number of people contacted the bbc wanting to know how to cultivate their own spaghetti trees
south park april 1st was advertised as being the premiere of the show＇s second season―and also the resolution of a cliffhanger where eric cartman was about to discover the identity of his father fans spent weeks speculating on the father＇s identity but when they tuned in to the episode they were instead treated to a halfhour of terrance and phillip fart jokes the true resolution to the cliffhanger aired several weeks later the show＇s creators trey parker and matt stone claim during the dvd introduction to this episode that they received death threats over pulling the prank although there were not any police reports to prove this
left handed whoppers in 1998 burger king ran an ad in usa today saying that people could get a whopper for lefthanded people whos
e condiments were designed to drip out the right side
taco liberty bell in 1996 taco bell took out a fullpage advertisement in the new york times announcing that they had purchased the liberty bell to reduce the country＇s debt and renamed it the taco liberty bell when asked about the sale white house press secretary mike mccurry replied with tongueincheek that the lincoln memorial had also been sold and would henceforth be known as the ford lincoln mercury memorial
lies to get you out of the house in 1985 the la weekly printed an entire page of fake things to do on april fools day by which hundreds of people were fooled
kremvax in 1984 in one of the earliest online hoaxes a message was circulated that usenet had been opened to users in the soviet union
san serriffe the guardian printed a supplement in 1977 praising this fictional resort its two main islands (upper caisse and lower caisse) its capital (bodoni) and its leader (general pica) intrigued readers were later disappointed to learn that san serriffe (sans serif) did not exist except as references to typeface terminology (this comes from a jorge luis borges story)
fbi crackdowns on online file sharing of music such announcements on april fools day have become common
metric time repeated several times in various countries this hoax involves claiming that the time system will be changed to one in which units of time are based on powers of 10
smellovision in 1965 the bbc purported to conduct a trial of a new technology allowing the transmission of odor over the airwaves to all viewers many viewers reportedly contacted the bbc to report the trial＇s success this hoax was also conducted by the seven network in australia in 2005
tower of pisa the dutch television news reported once in the 1950s that the tower of pisa had fallen many shocked people contacted the station [citation needed]
wrapping televisions in foil in another year the dutch television news reported that the government had new technology to detect unlicensed televisions (in many european countries television license fees fund public broadcasting) but that wrapping a television in aluminium foil could prevent its detection
breast exams by satellite in the 1990s portuguese national television network rtp announced the ministry of health would perform free breast exams by satellite causing thousands of women to go out topless [citation needed]
assassination of bill gates many chinese and south korean websites claimed that cnn reported bill gates the founder of microsoft was assassinated [3]
write only memory signetics advertised write only memory ic databooks in 1972 through the late 1970s
wheel of fortunejeopardy double switch in 1997 pat sajak the host of wheel of fortune traded hosting duties with jeopardy＇s alex trebek for one show in addition to sajak hosting jeopardy he and cohost vanna white appeared as contestants on the episode of wheel hosted by trebek white＇s position was filled by sajak＇s wife leslie [4]
comic strip switcheroo cartoonists of popularly syndicated comic strips draw each others＇ strips in some cases the artist draws characters in the other strip＇s milieu while in others the artist draws in characters from other visiting characters from his own cartoonists have done this sort of switcheroo for several years the 1997 switch was particularly widespread
the trouble with tracy in 2003 the comedy network in canada announced that it would produce and air a remake of the 1970s canadian sitcom the trouble with tracy the original series is widely considered to be one of the worst sitcoms ever produced several media outlets fell for the hoax
national television station (tvm) in malta in 1995 tvm announced the discovery of a new underground prehistoric temple with a mummy another year tvm announced that malta would adopt the european continent convention of driving on the righthand side of the road [citation needed]
free wine for allthe norwegian newspaper bergens tidende announced in 1987 that the state＇s alcohol monopoly had 10000 litres of illegally smuggled wine that had been confiscated the inhabitants of bergen were invited to the main store in town to receive their share of the goods rather than to spill good wine down the drain that morning staff were met by about 200 men & women with bottles buckets and other suitable vessels for carrying the prized goods legislation in norway causes alcohol to be relatively expensive and have limited availability [citation needed]
rain drop power on april 1st 2006 norwegian media had a onepage story concerning rain drop power which could replace oil as a primary energy source
one could write to the energy c
ompany bkk in bergen in order to be a volunteer and receive the power generated for free
the canadian news site bourqueorg announced in 2002 that finance minister paul martin had resigned in order to breed prize charolais cattle and handsome fawn runner ducks
sars infects hong kong in 2003 during the time when hong kong is seriously hit by sars it was rumored that many people in hong kong had become infected with sars and become uncontrolled that all immigration ports would be closed to quarantine the region and that tung chee hwa the chief executive of hong kong at that time had resigned hong kong supermarkets were immediately overwhelmed by panicked shoppers the hong kong government held a press conference to deny the rumor the rumor which was intended as an april fools＇ prank was started by a student by imitating the design of ming pao newspaper website he was charged for this incident
(announcement of hong kong government denying this rumor)
china decapitates taiwan in 2005 an undergraduate nicknamed skymirage who was wellknown in taiwan for his humor fabricated a series of news that china＇s airforce was bombarding office of president taiwan
water on mars in 2005 a news story was posted on the official nasa website purporting to have pictures of water on mars the picture actually was just a picture of a glass of water on a mars candy bar
annual bmw innovations see a new cuttingedge invention by bmw advertised across british newspapers every year examples including
warning against counterfeit bmws the blue and white parts of the logo were reversed
the toot and calm horn (after tutankhamun) which calms rather than aggravates other drivers so reducing the risk of road rage
mini cars being used in upcoming space missions to mars
ids (insect deflector screen) technology using elastic solutions to bounce insects off the windscreen as you drive
shef (satellite hypersensitive electromagnetic foodration) technology which sees the car＇s gps systems synchronise with home appliances to perfectly cook a meal for the instant you return home
marquewiper miniwipers for each exterior bmw logo coming as standard on all future models
uninventing the wheel to counter the eu ban on righthand drive cars and
zoom impression pixels (zip) to counter new slow cameras
sheng long electronic gaming monthly＇s infamous hoax of a secret character in street fighter ii
there have been several other egm pranks that readers have fallen into among them claiming that some street fighter ii characters possessed unlisted special moves including chunli hurling her bracelets at an opponent sega mascots sonic and tails appearing as playable characters in super smash bros melee and the release of a graphicallyremade the legend of zelda the wind waker as a preorder bonus all such pranks have been met with praise and equal hatred from its readers as can be seen in the april fools letters section in the may issue
egm tried the sheng long hoax again with street fighter iii and once again got some people to believe it
coldplay to back the tories on april 1 2006 the uk guardian journalist olaf priol claimed that chris martin of rock band coldplay had decided to publicly support the uk conservative party leader david cameron due to his disillusionment with current new labour prime minister tony blair [3] even going so far as to produce a fake song talk to david that could be downloaded via the guardian website [4] despite being an obvious hoax the labour party＇s media monitoring unit were concerned enough to circulate the story throughout most of the government [5]
4sideeffects of april fools＇ day
the frequency of april fool hoaxes sometimes makes people doubt real news stories released on 1 april
hawaiians running from an approaching tsunami in hilo hawaiithe 1 april 1946 aleutian island earthquake tsunami that killed 165 people on hawaii and alaska resulted in the creation of a tsunami warning system (specifically the pacific tsunami warning center) established in 1949 for pacific ocean area countries the tsunami is known in hawaii as the april fools＇ day tsunami due to people drowning due to thinking the warnings were an april fools＇ prank
gmail＇s april 2004 launch was widely believed to be a prank as google was known to include joke pages on their website until that point
the merger of square and its rival company enix took place on april 1 2003 and was originally thought to be a joke fans of the long running square series final fantasy often claim that the merger was in fact a joke due to the decline of the series after the merger
the 2005 death of comedian mitch hedberg was originally dismissed as an april fo
ols＇ joke the comedian＇s march 29 2005 death was announced on april 1 2005
demashita powerpuff girls z was announced for production by aniplex cartoon network and toei animation on 1 april 2005 and was originally discredited but turned out to be true when poster art and clips from the series were revealed days later
people obeying hoax messages to telephone mrclion and mrlefant and suchlike at a telephone number that turns out to be a zoo sometimes cause a serious overload to zoos＇ telephone switchboards
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4月1日西方节日愚节整理关愚节英语文章供家学
1april fools＇ day or all fools＇ day though not a holiday in its own right is a notable day celebrated in many countries on april 1 the day is marked by the commission of hoaxes and other practical jokes of varying sophistication on friends and neighbors or sending them on fools＇ errands the aim of which is to embarrass the gullible in some countries april fools＇ jokes (also called april fools) are only made before midday [1] it is also widely celebrated on the internet
2origin
the origin of this custom has been much disputed many theories have been suggested
what seems certain is that it is in some way or other a relic of those once universal festivities held at the vernal equinox which beginning on old new year＇s day the 25th of march ended on the 1st of april
it has been suggested that europe derived its aprilfooling from the french [2] france was one of the first nations to make january 1 officially new year＇s day (which was already celebrated by many) by decree of charles ix this was in 1564 even before the adoption of the gregorian calendar (see julian start of the year) thus the new year＇s gifts and visits of felicitation which had been the feature of the 1st of april became associated with the first day of january and those who disliked or did not hear about the change were fair game for those wits who amused themselves by sending mock presents and paying calls of pretended ceremony on the 1st of april french and dutch references from 1508 and 1539 respectively describe april fools＇ day jokes and the custom of making them on the first of april
though the 1st of april appears to have been anciently observed in great britain as a general festival it was apparently not until the beginning of the 18th century that the making of aprilfools was a common custom in scotland the custom was known as hunting the gowk ie the cuckoo and aprilfools were aprilgowks the cuckoo being there as it is in most lands a term of contempt in france the person fooled is known as poisson d＇avril this has been explained from the association of ideas arising from the fact that in april the sun quits the zodiacal sign of the fish a far more natural explanation would seem to be that the april fish would be a young fish and therefore easily caught
the dutch celebrate the 1st of april for other reasons in 1572 the netherlands were ruled by spain＇s king philip ii roaming the region were dutch rebels who called themselves geuzen after the french gueux meaning beggars on 1 april 1572 the geuzen seized the small coastal town of den briel this event was also the start of the general civil rising against the spanish in other cities in the netherlands the duke of alba commander of the spanish army could not prevent the uprising bril is the dutch word for glasses so on 1 april 1572 alba lost his glasses dutch people find this joke so hilarious they still commemorate the first of april
the french traditionally celebrated this holiday by placing a dead fish on the back of friends today the fish is substituted by a floppy kerk
chaucer＇s story the nun＇s priest＇s tale written c1400 takes place on 32 march that is 1 april it is chanticleer and the fox a story of two fools
3wellknown hoaxes
alabama changes the value of pi the april 1998 newsletter of new mexicans for science and reason contained an article claiming that the alabama legislature had voted to change the value of the mathematical constant pi to the biblical value of 30 this claim originally appeared as a news story in the 1961 scifi classic stranger in a strange land by robert a heinlein
spaghetti trees the bbc television programme panorama ran a famous hoax in 1957 showing the swiss harvesting spaghetti from trees they had claimed that the despised pest the spaghetti wevil had been eradicated a large number of people contacted the bbc wanting to know how to cultivate their own spaghetti trees
south park april 1st was advertised as being the premiere of the show＇s second season―and also the resolution of a cliffhanger where eric cartman was about to discover the identity of his father fans spent weeks speculating on the father＇s identity but when they tuned in to the episode they were instead treated to a halfhour of terrance and phillip fart jokes the true resolution to the cliffhanger aired several weeks later the show＇s creators trey parker and matt stone claim during the dvd introduction to this episode that they received death threats over pulling the prank although there were not any police reports to prove this
left handed whoppers in 1998 burger king ran an ad in usa today saying that people could get a whopper for lefthanded people whos
e condiments were designed to drip out the right side
taco liberty bell in 1996 taco bell took out a fullpage advertisement in the new york times announcing that they had purchased the liberty bell to reduce the country＇s debt and renamed it the taco liberty bell when asked about the sale white house press secretary mike mccurry replied with tongueincheek that the lincoln memorial had also been sold and would henceforth be known as the ford lincoln mercury memorial
lies to get you out of the house in 1985 the la weekly printed an entire page of fake things to do on april fools day by which hundreds of people were fooled
kremvax in 1984 in one of the earliest online hoaxes a message was circulated that usenet had been opened to users in the soviet union
san serriffe the guardian printed a supplement in 1977 praising this fictional resort its two main islands (upper caisse and lower caisse) its capital (bodoni) and its leader (general pica) intrigued readers were later disappointed to learn that san serriffe (sans serif) did not exist except as references to typeface terminology (this comes from a jorge luis borges story)
fbi crackdowns on online file sharing of music such announcements on april fools day have become common
metric time repeated several times in various countries this hoax involves claiming that the time system will be changed to one in which units of time are based on powers of 10
smellovision in 1965 the bbc purported to conduct a trial of a new technology allowing the transmission of odor over the airwaves to all viewers many viewers reportedly contacted the bbc to report the trial＇s success this hoax was also conducted by the seven network in australia in 2005
tower of pisa the dutch television news reported once in the 1950s that the tower of pisa had fallen many shocked people contacted the station [citation needed]
wrapping televisions in foil in another year the dutch television news reported that the government had new technology to detect unlicensed televisions (in many european countries television license fees fund public broadcasting) but that wrapping a television in aluminium foil could prevent its detection
breast exams by satellite in the 1990s portuguese national television network rtp announced the ministry of health would perform free breast exams by satellite causing thousands of women to go out topless [citation needed]
assassination of bill gates many chinese and south korean websites claimed that cnn reported bill gates the founder of microsoft was assassinated [3]
write only memory signetics advertised write only memory ic databooks in 1972 through the late 1970s
wheel of fortunejeopardy double switch in 1997 pat sajak the host of wheel of fortune traded hosting duties with jeopardy＇s alex trebek for one show in addition to sajak hosting jeopardy he and cohost vanna white appeared as contestants on the episode of wheel hosted by trebek white＇s position was filled by sajak＇s wife leslie [4]
comic strip switcheroo cartoonists of popularly syndicated comic strips draw each others＇ strips in some cases the artist draws characters in the other strip＇s milieu while in others the artist draws in characters from other visiting characters from his own cartoonists have done this sort of switcheroo for several years the 1997 switch was particularly widespread
the trouble with tracy in 2003 the comedy network in canada announced that it would produce and air a remake of the 1970s canadian sitcom the trouble with tracy the original series is widely considered to be one of the worst sitcoms ever produced several media outlets fell for the hoax
national television station (tvm) in malta in 1995 tvm announced the discovery of a new underground prehistoric temple with a mummy another year tvm announced that malta would adopt the european continent convention of driving on the righthand side of the road [citation needed]
free wine for allthe norwegian newspaper bergens tidende announced in 1987 that the state＇s alcohol monopoly had 10000 litres of illegally smuggled wine that had been confiscated the inhabitants of bergen were invited to the main store in town to receive their share of the goods rather than to spill good wine down the drain that morning staff were met by about 200 men & women with bottles buckets and other suitable vessels for carrying the prized goods legislation in norway causes alcohol to be relatively expensive and have limited availability [citation needed]
rain drop power on april 1st 2006 norwegian media had a onepage story concerning rain drop power which could replace oil as a primary energy source
one could write to the energy c
ompany bkk in bergen in order to be a volunteer and receive the power generated for free
the canadian news site bourqueorg announced in 2002 that finance minister paul martin had resigned in order to breed prize charolais cattle and handsome fawn runner ducks
sars infects hong kong in 2003 during the time when hong kong is seriously hit by sars it was rumored that many people in hong kong had become infected with sars and become uncontrolled that all immigration ports would be closed to quarantine the region and that tung chee hwa the chief executive of hong kong at that time had resigned hong kong supermarkets were immediately overwhelmed by panicked shoppers the hong kong government held a press conference to deny the rumor the rumor which was intended as an april fools＇ prank was started by a student by imitating the design of ming pao newspaper website he was charged for this incident
(announcement of hong kong government denying this rumor)
china decapitates taiwan in 2005 an undergraduate nicknamed skymirage who was wellknown in taiwan for his humor fabricated a series of news that china＇s airforce was bombarding office of president taiwan
water on mars in 2005 a news story was posted on the official nasa website purporting to have pictures of water on mars the picture actually was just a picture of a glass of water on a mars candy bar
annual bmw innovations see a new cuttingedge invention by bmw advertised across british newspapers every year examples including
warning against counterfeit bmws the blue and white parts of the logo were reversed
the toot and calm horn (after tutankhamun) which calms rather than aggravates other drivers so reducing the risk of road rage
mini cars being used in upcoming space missions to mars
ids (insect deflector screen) technology using elastic solutions to bounce insects off the windscreen as you drive
shef (satellite hypersensitive electromagnetic foodration) technology which sees the car＇s gps systems synchronise with home appliances to perfectly cook a meal for the instant you return home
marquewiper miniwipers for each exterior bmw logo coming as standard on all future models
uninventing the wheel to counter the eu ban on righthand drive cars and
zoom impression pixels (zip) to counter new slow cameras
sheng long electronic gaming monthly＇s infamous hoax of a secret character in street fighter ii
there have been several other egm pranks that readers have fallen into among them claiming that some street fighter ii characters possessed unlisted special moves including chunli hurling her bracelets at an opponent sega mascots sonic and tails appearing as playable characters in super smash bros melee and the release of a graphicallyremade the legend of zelda the wind waker as a preorder bonus all such pranks have been met with praise and equal hatred from its readers as can be seen in the april fools letters section in the may issue
egm tried the sheng long hoax again with street fighter iii and once again got some people to believe it
coldplay to back the tories on april 1 2006 the uk guardian journalist olaf priol claimed that chris martin of rock band coldplay had decided to publicly support the uk conservative party leader david cameron due to his disillusionment with current new labour prime minister tony blair [3] even going so far as to produce a fake song talk to david that could be downloaded via the guardian website [4] despite being an obvious hoax the labour party＇s media monitoring unit were concerned enough to circulate the story throughout most of the government [5]
4sideeffects of april fools＇ day
the frequency of april fool hoaxes sometimes makes people doubt real news stories released on 1 april
hawaiians running from an approaching tsunami in hilo hawaiithe 1 april 1946 aleutian island earthquake tsunami that killed 165 people on hawaii and alaska resulted in the creation of a tsunami warning system (specifically the pacific tsunami warning center) established in 1949 for pacific ocean area countries the tsunami is known in hawaii as the april fools＇ day tsunami due to people drowning due to thinking the warnings were an april fools＇ prank
gmail＇s april 2004 launch was widely believed to be a prank as google was known to include joke pages on their website until that point
the merger of square and its rival company enix took place on april 1 2003 and was originally thought to be a joke fans of the long running square series final fantasy often claim that the merger was in fact a joke due to the decline of the series after the merger
the 2005 death of comedian mitch hedberg was originally dismissed as an april fo
ols＇ joke the comedian＇s march 29 2005 death was announced on april 1 2005
demashita powerpuff girls z was announced for production by aniplex cartoon network and toei animation on 1 april 2005 and was originally discredited but turned out to be true when poster art and clips from the series were revealed days later
people obeying hoax messages to telephone mrclion and mrlefant and suchlike at a telephone number that turns out to be a zoo sometimes cause a serious overload to zoos＇ telephone switchboards
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