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April Fool

... April Fool PINCH, pinch. It was, after all, April Fool’s Day. I hope the article headlined Red Alert was an April Fool’s Day teaser although the comment “Congestion is a major headache in the streets of Edinburgh” is very true and is a matter that mustrze ...

Published: Wednesday 06 April 1994
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 119 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

April Fool

... April Fool April I. or All Fools* Day. not a purely British custom, having been celebrated in India from time immemorial by a festival known as the Holi. It is celebrated much the same in this country, with the exception that the voung Hindus are addicted ...

Published: Saturday 20 January 1934
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 196 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

APRIL FOOL

... APRIL FOOL. The April fish, the poisson d'Avril, is the French term for what we call an April fool. The custom of sending people on fool's errands on April Lit is probably due to the change of the calendar in France in 1564; but there is Hindu feast ...

Published: Friday 08 July 1910
Newspaper: Mid-Lothian Journal
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 76 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

AN APRIL FOOL

... AN APRIL FOOL. TI ere is an Cunifierland worthy named Toni H who has reached the mature age of eighty, but his eye is not yet dim nor his rustle wit abated. A pert young fellow tried to play a trick upon him the First of April, but the old man was not ...

Published: Saturday 30 June 1900
Newspaper: Leith Burghs Pilot
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 496 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

April Fool

... April Fool From the elementary banana-skin to set-piece, all things may be considered fun to someone else. For the dedicated practical joker, it is April Fool's Day every e; ; 3 But for the more humdrum type, April Ist is the little man’s chance to get ...

Published: Thursday 13 April 1972
Newspaper: Dalkeith Advertiser
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 179 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

April fool?

... April fool? Sir, — The advent of the new environmental agency, Scottish Natural Heritage, could be an April fool for most of us, if the politicians continue to interfere, as they did with its predecessors. Under the present Government, we have seen the ...

Published: Monday 06 April 1992
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 196 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

April Fool

... April Fool INGREDIENTS 15 02 Granberries (or any soft fru Sudar, V 2 pt-Double Cream, § oz ¢ Macaroons, 4oz toasted Hozelr 4tbsp The Macallan Mul;l 113 o o MELHIO ; Purée the fruit with the sugar| then ¢hill. Whip the crédam and fold i the fruit ixlurt ...

Published: Wednesday 01 April 1987
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 87 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

April Fool

... April Fool ) Place, — :3 138, 198 Sir, — | was amused to fead Donaid_MacDonell-Sanderson's had been taken in April rfl?“ because h:;: aflc’ml', tfi»muha: Muflr regarding . the article on the tunnel to be drilled the Coe R |g 70 true — how emb Si R. K. Cowan ...

Published: Tuesday 19 April 1988
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 463 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

April fool

... April fool « | HADN'T forgotten the midges. Here's A Reader: “At a hostelry in Applecross, | became aware, as you do, of a tremendous blast of garlic, emanating from a tourist from south of the Border. He told me, with some satisfaction, that he rubbed ...

Published: Thursday 17 September 1998
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 136 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

'' April Fool – Talk

... April Fool ’’ T talk which Scottish listeners “Apel to hear to-morrow 1s of an a foolish ” nature. It is gives by Muir © ee the identity of one of Edinbu humorous writers and speakers. ele ue talk “* Ovetlooked from Underneath,” and it pretends to be ...

Published: Monday 31 March 1930
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 133 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE PRACTICALJOKER AN APRIL FOOL

... THE PRACTICALJOKER AN APRIL FOOL. NIC TABLES. A rather comical can* « f tablo-torniih?, which for the annals of the Tnbunal C«irrccti*yal-like ...

Published: Thursday 12 April 1888
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 407 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Jim’s no April Fool – Walker

... Jim’s no April Fool - Walker JIMLEIGHTON'S last visit to Firhill left the Scotland No 1 red-faced, after an amazing blunder gifted Partick Thistle a precious point, writes DAVID HARDIE. But today Thistle keeper, Nicky Walker, jumped to Lelghton's defence ...

Published: Friday 31 March 1995
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 325 | Page: 34 | Tags: none