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THE ORIGIN OF APRIL FOOLS • No one is really sure how April Fools Day came about. The traditional explanation is that it started in 1582 when Pope Gregory XIII ordered that the Gregorian calendar replace the old Julian calendar, which moved the first day of the new year to January 1st instead of April 1st. Those who still celebrated the new year on April 1st were ridiculed as fools. The problem with this explanation is that April Fools Day was already being celebrated when the calendars were switched over.
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• Joseph Boskin, a professor of history at Boston University, explained that April Fools began during the reign of Constantine, when a group of court jesters told the Roman emperor that they could run the empire better than he could. Constantine allowed a jester to be king for one day. The jester passed an edict calling for absurdity on that day, and the custom became an annual event. The Associated Press ran this story in many newspapers in 1983. There was only one catch: Boskin made the whole thing up. It took a couple of weeks for the AP to realize that they’d been victims of an April Fools joke themselves.
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• James Thurber’s mother was a practical joker. One day she was to meet an old friend that she hadn’t seen in thirty years. By prearrangement, Mrs. Thurber was to wear a red rose so her friend could recognize her at the train station. Mrs. Thurber arrived early, and spotted a very old woman sleeping on a bench. She quietly pinned the rose on the slumbering form and enjoyed the scene when her friend showed up, looked at the sleeping woman incredulously, and woke her up saying, “Why, Mame Thurber, how are you? You’re looking just fine!”
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• Robert Benchley invited his friend Frank Case to dinner at his house. Frank was the manager of the Algonquin Hotel at the time. When he was shown to the bathroom, Frank was dismayed to see that all the towels, as well as the soap, came from his hotel. At dinner, the silverware, plates, and napkins also bore the stamp of the Algonquin. Benchley had secretly arranged to “borrow” a truck load of Algonquin property for the evening.
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• Author Kathleen Norris once saw in a store window that her friend Frank Sullivan was coming up behind her. She whirled about suddenly and cried at the top of her lungs, “Not one penny more! You and your family have had all the money you’ll ever get out of me! You’ve bled me white!” A crowd started to gather. Her voice grew louder. “You’ve spent it all on drink rather than on your sick wife! I’ve given you everything I have—and still you hound me for more!” Sullivan fled.
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• At the Walt Disney studios, one artist boasted without ceasing about his new custom-built car and insisted everyone come out to admire it. Later, while he was working, his cohorts dismantled a wheelbarrow and reassembled it in his back seat, then filled it with water. It took the guy two hours just to dip the water out without wetting his fine upholstery.
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JOLLY JOKES • Newspaper humorist John Medbury and his wife liked to throw extraordinary dinner parties. At one, half of the invitations said the dinner was to be very formal, and half said dress was to be informal. Half the guests showed up wearing tuxes and gowns and the other half arrived wearing t-shirts and shorts. • Ben Franklin once entered an inn and found every seat next to the fire already occupied. He asked the innkeeper if he had any oysters, and the reply was yes. “Take a bucket of them out to the stable and feed them to my horse,” Franklin said. Everyone seated at the fire went out to see a horse eat oysters. When they came back in to say the horse refused to eat oysters, they found Ben seated at the prime position next to the flames. “Then bring the oysters in here and roast them for my supper!” he said. See the next page for more!
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JOLLY JOKES (continued): • Sportswriter Bill Hanna was walking down the street when he ran into fellow reporter Bill Phelon. Hanna remarked on how nice it was to run into his old friend, but mentioned he was looking ill. They parted company. Hanna walked a half a block farther when Phelon again approached him with surprise, saying how long it had been since they’d seen each other and how ill Hanna was looking. “But I just ran into you a moment ago,” cried Hanna. “Impossible!” replied Phelon and wandered off. A block further, here came Phelon, rushing to Hanna to pump his hand and mention how ill he was looking. “Please tell me you just saw me a few minutes ago!” hollered Hanna, which of course was denied by Phelon. Hanna hailed a taxi and took himself to the hospital. • On April Fools’ Day shortly before Mt. St. Helens erupted, a Massachusetts TV producer thought it would be funny to air the report that a local non-volcanic ski mountain was also erupting. Police were swamped with calls. The station apologized for the prank and the producer was fired. PERFECT PRANKS • A newspaper called “The Realist” once printed a prominently placed correction in its paper reading, “Our thanks to Jean Raymond for pointing out an error in last month’s issue in the article on ways to differentiate between mushrooms and toadstools. The two headings unfortunately got transposed. The heading ‘Edible Mushrooms’ should have read ‘Poisonous Toadstools’ and the heading ‘Poisonous Toadstools’ should have read ‘Edible Mushrooms.’ We apologize to our readers for any confusion this may have caused.” • A new plaque was to be unveiled at City Hall in St. George, British Columbia. Photographer Peter Duffy was to cover the event, which bored him. To liven things up, he snuck to the scene early and taped a large poster of a nude over the veiled plaque. When it was unveiled, the crowd was stunned, the mayor was apoplectic, and the photographer was fired.
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• When it comes to college pranks, Caltech holds all honors. One night students went into the faculty parking lot and painted over all the parking stripes as well as the names designating ownership of each space. Then they repainted them, making each space just a little larger, carefully arranged to totally erase the private parking space of an unpopular administrator. • When Caltech freshman Chuck Conner left for a weekend, his dorm mates plastered over the door to his room and even moved a light fixture to the blank wall. When he returned and asked his friends what happened to his room, they all pretended not to recognize him. • College students irritated with Dean William Bush Baer at New York University submitted his obituary to the New York Times and it was run on May 9, 1942. Baer arrived at work the next day to find the flags at half-staff and the choir singing dirges in the chapel. A retraction was in the paper the following day.
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• Soren Sorenson Adams was born in Denmark in 1879. When he was four years old, his family came to America and settled in New Jersey, where he went by the name of Sam Adams. In 1904, Adams got a job working for a company that produced dyes.
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• It was well known among the employees that a certain deep blue dye would cause uncontrollable sneezing when inhaled, and this was the source of much consternation for the owners of the company, and much amusement for the employees. Adams figured out how to extract the sneeze-inducing derivative from the dye, called dianisidine. When he tested the powder out by blowing it into the faces of a marching band during a parade, it disrupted their performance. He distributed small vials of the powder to his friends, and the demand was so large that he quit his job and went into business marketing his sneezing powder, which he called “Cachoo.” • In his first year, he sold 150,000 bottles of Cachoo. But when demand tapered off, Adams turned his attention to other tricks, gadgets, and gags. • Perhaps his greatest invention was the joy buzzer. This tiny mechanical device emits a loud vibrating buzz when two people shake hands, startling the unsuspecting victim. Adams traveled all the way to Dresden, Germany, to find a tool and die maker who designed parts small enough so that the buzzer could easily fit in the palm of a hand. The instant success of the joy buzzer allowed Adams to build a factory and hire a staff. Continued on the next page!
by Samantha Weaver • It was Nobel Peace Prize-winning philosopher Albert Schweitzer who made the following sage observation: “The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. That is possible for him who never argues and strives with men and facts, but in all experience relies upon himself, and looks for the ultimate cause of things in himself.” • In the United Kingdom it is illegal to deface paper money, but it’s perfectly legal to burn it. • Gene Cernan was the 12th -- and last -human to walk on the moon, in December 1972. While he was there, he scratched his daughter’s initials onto the lunar surface. Those initials, “TDC,” are likely to remain there for tens of thousands of years. • According to the folklore of Wales, fairies prefer traveling on the backs of corgis to any other mode of transport. • You may be surprised to learn that most Greek and Roman statuary and architecture weren’t originally the pristine white we see today. Archaeologists have found evidence that these structures and sculptures were brightly painted in ancient times; the paint has just worn off in the intervening centuries. • Most muppeteers are right-handed and use their dominant hand to operate their puppets’ heads; therefore, most muppets are left-handed. • If you have kids between the ages of 9 and 11, you might be interested to learn that nearly half of respondents in a survey believe that is the appropriate age for kids to begin helping vacuum the house. • The White House’s first display of fireworks to celebrate Independence Day occurred in 1797 and was hosted by President John Adams. *** Thought for the Day: “There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.” -George Bernard Shaw (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.
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• From there, it was onward and upward as he invented tricks, jokes, and pranks: the squirting flower, the dribble glass, the fake-fly-in-an-icecube, the snake in a nut can, itching powder, and the stink bomb.
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• On April 2, 1863, responding to acute food shortages, hundreds of women riot in Richmond, Virginia, breaking windows and looting stores, before Confederate President Jefferson Davis threw his pocket change at them from the top of a wagon. Davis ordered the crowd to disperse or he would order the militia to fire on them. • On April 3, 1882, one of America’s most famous criminals, Jesse James, is shot to death by fellow gang member Bob Ford. Detective magazines had glamorized the James gang, turning them into Robin Hoods. In reality, Jesse James was a ruthless killer who stole only for himself. • On March 31, 1931, Knute Rockne, the legendary Notre Dame football coach, is killed in a plane crash. He was 43. From 1918 to 1930, Rockne compiled a record of 105 wins, 12 losses and 5 ties, and won six national championships. • On April 1, 1948, Soviet troops begin stopping U.S. and British military trains traveling through the Russian sector to and from Berlin. In June, the Soviets began a full-scale blockade of the U.S.-British-French sectors. Thus began the Berlin Blockade, when U.S. aircraft began dropping supplies into Berlin. • On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. is shot to death at a hotel in Memphis, Tennessee. A single shot fired by James Earl Ray from more than 200 feet away struck King in the neck. The death of America’s leading civilrights advocate sparked a wave of rioting in black communities around the country. • On April 5, 1976, Howard Hughes, one of the richest men to emerge from the American West, dies while flying from Acapulco to Houston for medical treatment. Hughes’ bizarre behavior grew worse in his final years, as he became obsessed with privacy and sometimes worked for days at a stretch in a black-curtained room without sleeping. • On March 30, 1980, a floating apartment platform for oil workers in the North Sea 235 miles east of Scotland collapses, killing 123 people. No one was expecting that a large wave would collapse and capsize the platform. (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.
• Adams was a clever inventor and a shrewd businessman, which allowed his company to thrive, even during the Great Depression. He became known as the father of the novelty prank. His products, wrapped in colorful cartoonish packaging, were available in five-and-dime department stores nationwide, and were sold from ads in the back of comic books. He expanded into simple pocket-sized magic tricks, including the ball-and-vase, the magic coin box, and the three shell game. Trick decks of cards were a popular item.
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• In 1930, a Toronto rubber company offered Adams the rights to something they had invented: the Razz Cushion, now known as the Whoopie Cushion. Adams turned it down, deeming it “too vulgar” but quickly saw his error when it earned over $50,000 the first year it was on the market. He devised his own version of the gag and added it to his line-up. • Another of his more successful inventions was the exploding cigar. Exploding cigars became a slapstick comedy staple employed by everyone from Groucho Marx, to the Looney Tunes animated characters, to the Joker in the Batman comics. • Sam Adams claimed to have devised over 600 different items, and patented about 40 of them, making him the definitive king of professional pranksters. His original sneezing powder was eventually outlawed over health concerns. Sam Adams actively managed his company right up to his death in 1963 at the age 84. • The company he founded, now under new management, still sells many of Adams’ inventions, as well as items such as fake vomit, plastic dog poop, and gum that turns your teeth black. • Sam Adams would be proud to know that, just like snowflakes, no two pieces of fake vomit are the same.
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www.bismarcktidbits.com HILARIOUS HUGH TROY • Hugh Troy was born in Ithica, NY in 1906. After graduating from Cornell, he became a successful illustrator of kid’s books. He was a captain during WWII and lived in Washington D.C. until his death in 1964. Today he is remembered for his practical jokes. • Hugh Troy learned the art of pranking at a very early age and practiced on his grandmother. He wrote a letter to Sears and requested a corset, three yards of stovepipe, a teething ring, and two pounds of nails, then signed her name. When the package arrived addressed to Grandma, she exclaimed over their mistake and sent the package back with the letter explaining the error—a letter that was promptly intercepted by Hugh and replaced with another letter that said she needed quilt wadding, a hot water bottle, and two pounds of soft steel rivets. This went on ad infinitum. • When the Museum of Modern Art sponsored an exhibition of Van Gogh’s art, Troy made a replica of an ear out of chipped beef and mounted it in a blue velvet display case in the museum. A card identified it as the ear Van Gogh cut off. The exhibit drew more viewers than any other painting on display. • When he found a park bench for sale, he bought it. It was an exact duplicate of the benches in Central Park. He and a friend would take the bench to the park, and as soon as they saw a cop coming, they would proceed to carry the bench away—and would promptly be arrested. The bill of sale would then be produced and Troy would indignantly demand to be set free. He was arrested several times before the city police caught on. Continued on the next page!
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• Once a cherry tree on the Cornell campus miraculously bore apples with a little help from this wonderful joker. • His most successful college stunt was when he borrowed a trash can from a friend. The trash can had been formed from a rhinoceros foot, and with it, Troy made rhino tracks across the snowy campus and onto the ice-covered reservoir where they ended abruptly at a large hole in the ice. When zoologists confirmed that the tracks were those of a rhino, reports started flooding in from all over the city by people who claimed that their drinking water tasted of rhinoceros. • When his imagination was triggered by a seminar on ghost writing, Troy placed an ad in a local newspaper reading, “Too busy to paint? Call on the Ghost Artists! We paint it - you sign it! Why not give an exhibition?” He got hundreds of responses.
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• In 1932, Hugh Troy saved extra copies of the newspaper that announced in giant headlines, “Roosevelt Elected!” Three years later he turned Flash Back Trivia a few inebriated heads when he nonchalantly Answers rode the subways reading this paper on New 1. The Four Tops, in 1966. After two weeks Year’s Eve. at the top of the charts, it was bumped by “96 • Troy dressed as a worker and removed all Tears.” of the light bulbs from the halls of the Waldorf- 2. Andy Williams. In 1980, The Beat came out with a reggae version. Astoria Hotel without being questioned. 3. Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds, in 1971. • Troy once swiped a religious sign proclaiming, Years later, the Glen Campbell single had a typo “Jesus Saves.” He erected it the following day in on the cover sleeve, leaving out the R in “your.” front of the Ithaca Savings Bank. 4. James Taylor. 5. “You’ve Made Me So Very Happy,” first released in 1967 by co-writer Brenda Holloway and two years later by Blood, Sweat & Tears. Holloway’s version only reached No. 39 on the charts, but the BS&T version went to No. 2.
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