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Showing posts with label april 1. Show all posts

Saturday, April 1, 2023

Apr 1 2023 - April Fool's Etiquette

 

The year's April Fools' Pranks happen like New Year's.  There's a wave around the world as the day blossoms and the pranks unfold.  I guess there is some etiquette - making fun of one's own brand and not the competition.  Here's how Australia did so far this year: 

"Royal Caribbean International unveiled a new Australian-only “Quantum Class” ship called Crikey of the Seas, with features including a cricket field, BBQs on the balcony suites, and cocktails including Vegemite mojitos, lamington mudslides, fairy bread margaritas and a pavlova spritz.

"The beloved ice cream brand announced their Giant Twins ice cream was getting a new flavour: Sweet Spiced Gherkins.

“When you bite in, you’ll experience a tangy and pickled flavour explosion, teamed perfectly with Giant Twins’ signature choc coating,” their social media post said.

“Hurry, this is a limited release only and when stocks are gone, they’re gone!”

"No longer just a doughnut store, Krispy Kreme unveiled an ambitious plan to open a series of fine dining restaurants across the state, combining their delicious pastries with high-end ingredients such as lobster, caviar and Wagyu beef.

“Culinary perfection meets Krispy Kreme confection,” their post said.

Moving on to Britain, there must be some Harry and Meghan pranks.  Well, so far only one that has made the top spot on the headlines in Britain.  I guess the etiquette of not making fun of others goes out the window there:

"The Sun have gone all-in on their prank this year which is a report on a Prince Harry and Meghan Markle video game in the style of Grand Theft Auto. The 'game' called 'Harry and Meghan: Call of Duke-y' has been mocked up with realistic looking video game graphics and is apparently due for a release in May - just a week before the King's coronation."

Let's see what the US does as the day progresses.  They have a lot of Fools to make Pranks of.  And etiquette does not rule there.


Here's one of my favourite flowers - a Fritillaria.  I've given it a background in keeping with its colourful square pattern.  Who would guess this is real?
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Wednesday, April 1, 2020

April 1 2020 - Rooster Fools

April 1st as April Fool's Day is associated with the vain rooster, Chauntecleer, in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.  

But this is not the Chaunticleer that Chanticleer Gardens is named for.   And there are large rooster statues at the entrance gates, and throughout the garden.  So one wonders how this pretty garden in the Philadelphia area got its name.


"The Chanticleer estate dates from the early 20th-century, when land along the Main Line of the Pennsylvania Railroad was developed for summer homes to escape the heat of Philadelphia. Adolph Rosengarten, Sr., and his wife Christine chose the Wayne-St. Davids area to build their country retreat. The family's pharmaceutical firm would become part of Merck & Company in the 1920s."

"Mr. Rosengarten's humor is evident in naming his home after the estate "Chanticlere" in Thackeray's 1855 novel The Newcomes. The fictional Chanticlere was "mortgaged up to the very castle windows" but "still the show of the county." Playing on the word, which is synonymous with "rooster," the Rosengartens used rooster motifs throughout the estate."


Chanticleer was used as the proper name of the cock in the literary cycle of Reynard the Fox.  Its definition refers to this:  a domestic rooster or cock, especially in fables and fairy tales.  
On to rooster jokes, as there aren't any Chanticleer jokes. They are mostly profane, given the job of a rooster.  On jokes sites this is the approach:
 
 


This is pretty well it for the rooster jokes.  A long, long listing of this box.  And generally, it is the same joke with variations.

So here are the remaining two jokes:


What do you call a rooster that stares at lettuce all day long?
Chicken sees a salad.

Why didn't the rooster tell Dad Jokes?
He was afraid his kids would crack up!


It's railroad day today.
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Sunday, March 29, 2020

March 29 2020 - Google's no Pagan Fool

Here's a question?  Is April 1st a pagan holiday?  Every holiday seems to have 'pagan roots'.

The 'pagan' term comes from Christians describing the Roman Empire who practiced polytheism. Equivalent terms were hellen, gentile, and heathen.  So it is a label that Christianity applied to others. "Anyone not Christian" is how it started out.  So was April Fool's Day a pagan tradition?


The first written reference to April 1st as a day of tricks comes from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.  This reference is disputed.  What is confirmed is the French poet Eloy d'Amerval refer to a poisson d'avail in 1508, considered the first reference to the celebration in France. 

Wikipedia says this: "Although no Biblical scholar or historian is known to have mentioned a relationship, some have expressed the belief that the origins of April Fool's Day may go back to the Genesis flood narrative."

Reader's Digest claims that the likely origins are the Roman Festival of Hilaria.  It took place around March 25 in honour of the first day of the year longer than the night (equinox).  

Because the origins are unknown, there are lots of articles and sites who weigh in on their version. And so it goes.  


However, with this year's Covid-19 concerns, there is April Fools' news!  Google has officially canceled its April Fools' joke.

Here's the list since year 2000.  We'll have to revisit them instead of getting a new one.  This turns out quite fun. Google's first April Fools' Day hoax, the MentalPlex hoax, invited users to project a mental image of what they wanted to find whilst staring at an animated GIF. Several humorous error messages were then displayed on the search results page, all listed below:
  1. Error 005: KUT Weak or no signal detected. Upgrade transmitter and retry.
  2. Error 466: Multiple transmitters detected. Silence voices in your head and try again.
  3. Error 05: Brainwaves received in analog. Please re-think in digital.
  4. Error 4P: Unclear on whether your search is about money or monkeys. Please try again.
  5. Error 445: Searching on this topic is prohibited under international law.
  6. Error CK8: That information is protected under the National Security Act.
  7. Error 104: That information was lost with the Martian Lander. Please try again.
  8. Error 007: Query is unclear. Try again after removing hat, glasses and shoes.
  9. Error 008: Interference detected. Remove aluminum foil and remote control devices.
  10. Error: Insufficient conviction. Please clap hands 3 times, while chanting "I believe" and try again.
  11. Error: MentalPlex™ has determined that this is not your final answer. Please try again.
And our image today is the flower 'Statice' - this came from the greenhouse tour last year (on this weekend).  This was the Prins greenhouse.
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