What is April Fool all about?

April Fool
April 1 every year is the celebration for Fools. This year was no different as corps members in the lodge organised and woke up the whole lodge in the wee hours of the morning around 1.30am pretending to fight. All efforts to seperate or stop them from fighting proved abortive until like 15 minutes later when they shouted APRIL FOOL. This now kept me thinking that what is April Fool all about? I researched about it, so let me share some of my findings with you.

April Fools' Day is celebrated in different countries on April 1 every year. Sometimes referred to as All Fools' Day, April 1 is not a national holiday, but is widely recognized and celebrated as a day when many people play all kinds of jokes and foolishness. The day is marked by the commission of good-humoured or otherwise funny jokes, hoaxes, and other practical jokes of varying sophistication on friends, family members, teachers, neighbors, work associates, etc.
Traditionally, in some countries such as Canada, New Zealand, the UK, Australia, Cyprus, and South Africa, the jokes only last till noon, and someone who plays a trick after noon is called an "April Fool" and taunted "April Fool's Day's past and gone, You're the fool for making one."[1] Elsewhere, such as in Greece, France, Italy, South Korea, Japan, Russia, The Netherlands, Germany, Brazil, Ireland, and the U.S., the jokes last all day. In France and Italy children (and adults, when appropriate) traditionally tack paper fish on each other's back as a trick and shout "april fish!" in their local language ("poisson d'avril!" and "pesce d'aprile!" in French and Italian respectively).

So before you start fooling people, I hope you now have an idea about April Fool.

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