3612 – April 12, 2025 – This Ain’t No Joke –April Fools’ Day—occurring on April 1 each year—has been celebrated for several centuries by different cultures, though its exact origins remain a mystery. April Fools’ Day 2025 will be on Tuesday, April 1, 2025. Traditions include playing hoaxes or practical jokes on others, often yelling “April Fools!” at the end to clue in the subject of the April Fools’ Day prank. While its exact history is shrouded in mystery, the embrace of April Fools’ Day jokes by the media and major brands has ensured the unofficial holiday’s long life.

Origins of April Fools’ Day

Some historians speculate that April Fools’ Day dates back to 1582, when France switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, as called for by the Council of Trent in 1563. In the Julian Calendar, as in the Hindu calendar, the new year began with the spring equinox around April 1.

I wonder why they didn’t decide to change to daylight savings time… ON April 1 – seems it might have been appropriate.

Anyway… according to what I read, People who were slow to get the news or failed to recognize that the start of the new year had moved to January 1 and continued to celebrate it during the last week of March through April 1 became the butt of jokes and hoaxes and were called “April fools.” These pranks included having paper fish placed on their backs and being referred to as “poisson d’avril” (April fish), said to symbolize a young, easily caught fish and a gullible person.

I WAS PRANKED THIS MORNING! My husband got me. It was so unkind! He gives me a weather report most mornings (or I ask) AND this morning he volunteered that it was going to be sunny and warm… (knowing how I have longed for the end of winter) … I said, I thought it was going to be windy and cloudy… to which he said APRIL FOOLS! Hmmph!

 But the joke is now on him… storms are coming in later… BUT RIGHT NOW … the sun is shining!

Maybe it’s the weather man who has April fools most days! LOL

NOT AN APRIL FOOLS JOKE HERE. WE WELCOME OUR GOOD FRIEND DANIEL TURNER OF POWER THE FUTURE.

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