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... well-meaning attempts of the BBC to be humorous should so persistently recoil upon the head of the humorist This- morning’s April fool ’’ joke seems to have upset a lot of listeners and their comments on the performance have lacked nothing in punch” The truth ...
... for it in Scotland a gowk ” being a cuckoo though rhe reason for the allusion have never been able to discover In rance an April fool is called a poisson d’Avril (April fish) the reason probably being that young Spring fish are easily caught Are voul Better ...
... from ginning to end Mr J H Whitney who is on his hero from America to sen National’’ will be encouraged by 0 o ot o 150 April fool 33 Ardeen 100 Ani’n’R P 66 H'hanwnnvl 33 Balhtl'kart lOOjh’larua 55 100 Beggar’ E 150 lint Irmin 100 B Wonder Barton 20 ...
... thought be ought to act upon them immediately Another version is that the whole affair was a gigantic poisson d’Avril an April fool joke carried out a day after the proper date Berlin April 3 Lckalanzeiger what appear’ a semi-official statement describes ...
... Arbuthnot and Lady Muham had been am-ising themselves on March 31 1713 by contriving “ a li for to-morrow” In Scotland April fooling used to comprise he nrime joke was to send persons away with mc-ssugea to imaginary individual or persons disappointment ...
... eent out the raven on ita hopeless quest for dry land' and however tl at may be the Jews certainly used to iadilge in ’April-fooling at this jn commemoration of the event east of ools jiHE ancient Greeks too kept their east of ools and in old Rome no pne ...
... from a blue and cloudless sky The camellias magnolias mimnsa and sub-tropical ’’ plants have lost their look of being “April-fooled” and arc bravo with blossom The birds are singing and there is no wind save the gentle balmy breeze that caresses one’s ...
... imagination— and that since old Isaac’s day has been something to swear by L E AMOUS APRIL JOKES — or all the centuries that April fool-i ing has been practised and for all the countries which have been addicted to this custom there are on record sur-' prisingly ...
... Valentino's Day in ebruary is a favourite time for marrying S' is April in spite of the fear not few must have of making April fools of themselves or tome reason or another May is considered unlucky though on would think that a time when every bud in Nature ...