In
France, April Fools day is called "Poisson d'Avril" meaning
April Fish. The tradition is that French children will tape paper
fish to the backs of their friends. When they would discover
the fish on their back, the prankster would yell "Poisson
d'Avril!" The origin of this is unknown but it sounds like
a heck of a good time.
In Scotland the April fool is called April "gowk" which
is Scottish for cuckoo. The Cuckoo is an emblem of simpletons.
One newscaster on the news show CBO Morning announced that
the clock in Ottawa's Peace Tower was being switched to digital.
On 1 April 1957 on BBC's show Panorama opened with a line
about Spring coming early this year, prompting the spaghetti
harvest in Switzerland to be early as well. In the normal
news manner, spaghetti's oddly uniform length was explained
as the result of years of dedicated cultivation. The report
stated that the ravenous spaghetti weevil had been conquered.
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