April Fools' Day

2022 - 3 - 31

April Fools

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This is how April Fools' Day started and some of the brand pranks ... (USA TODAY)

After the COVID shutdown curbed April Fools' Day in 2020, brands started pranks even earlier. Does it always work? Ask Volkswagen.

The announcement comes with a pretty obvious hint: "This launch is conveniently timed to April Fools’ Day." "April Fool’s Day is definitely useful as a way of breaking through the clutter of messaging most of us are exposed to," McGrath said in an email exchange. The Catholic Church also may have had a hand in bringing April Fools' Day to the fore earlier in history. By the 19th century, April Fools' Day had become a mainstay of American culture. Among last year's April Fools' best teases: Velveeta's new line of V by Velveeta's beauty products including moisturizer and night cream. Back to Volkswagen's name change stunt, the company eventually confessed on March 30, 2021 that the announcement was an April Fools' joke. At the time, White House spokesperson Mike McCurry played along, the Inquirer recalled on last year's 25th anniversary of the stunt, saying, “We’ll be doing a series of these things. The joke feature wound up attached to many emails, unintentionally, and had to be turned off. "Even before widespread social media, this caused a major stir," McGrath said. But it turned out to be a poorly played joke. So how did it become a time for jokes and pranks? It's the latest twist on a holiday that has its beginnings centuries ago.

When is April Fools' Day 2022? Date, what is its history, and ideas ... (NationalWorld)

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Just make sure you know how to change the settings back. The same prank can also be achieved by changing the settings on someone’s television, even if it’s just adding foreign subtitles. April Fools’ Day is not a bank holiday in the UK, or most of the world. Is April Fools’ Day a bank holiday? What is the history of April Fools’ Day? When is April Fools’ Day 2022?

April Fools' Day 2022: Why is it called April Fools' Day? Holiday ... (al.com)

Tradition holds that April Fools' Day dates to 1582, when France made the move from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar. The change by Pope Gregory ...

Today, April Fools’ Day is celebrated by young and old alike, and an increasing number of businesses are joining in the fun. Tradition holds that April Fools’ Day dates to 1582, when France made the move from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar. And while people around the world mark “Fools Day,” its exact origin is unclear.

April Fools Day (Fergus Falls Daily Journal)

While it is a day to pull pranks and concoct major hoaxes at the expense of friends, family and co-workers, a lot of really important things occurred on ...

History's greatest April Fools' Day pranks — from Sidd Finch to Great ... (Gadsden Times)

Seemingly cited online more than any other prank as the best, the story behind the Great Spaghetti Harvest began with the reputable and (usually) serious ...

The response was immediate and highly negative, from listeners to political pundits. The April 1, 1985, edition of Sports Illustrated arrived in folks' mailboxes with a story on an unknown New York Mets prospect named Sidd Finch. This led to a mountain of calls to the BBC as to how people could grow their own spaghetti trees. Mets players and coaches went along with the ruse. Here are a few of the most memorable April Fools' Day pranks ever played. The story even showed people picking spaghetti strands from trees.

These 'Classic' April Fools' Day Food Pranks Need to Stop (The Takeout)

On April 1, your taste buds might experience some trauma. You've been warned.

But if you do, be prepared to make good with a coffee or a non-compromised cookie afterward. Beyond that, you have to make sure you purchase toothpaste that is purely white, and which also doesn’t carry a strong minty scent lest you be found out immediately. The general aim of this prank is to ruin someone’s morning coffee—and ruining such a sacred part of the day is downright cruel. To carry out this prank at the most expert level, making your efforts undetectable, requires a lot of work. As the perpetrator of the prank, are you willing to take that risk? They’re not fun, they’re not funny, and they amount to a lot of waste (or wasted meal potential). Here are some of the April Fools’ Day antics we wish would be banished forever.

April Fools' Day might be the world's longest-running joke. No one ... (NPR)

The true history of April Fools' has been a mystery for ages. The theories around its origin story have involved everything from Roman gods and fake popes ...

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