Show origin of april fool if some one plays an april fool joke on you and then declares oh you poor fish instead of the in more ore familiar retort april fool he or she will be but doing that which used to be done in france on april 1 I and is still done among our french speaking people in canada because the french equivalent of ou our r april flold is poi poisson ason damril dAv ril april 1 has from time immemorial been all fools day why that is a question not so easy to answer its origin lies somewhere in the backwaters of the history of old europe for it was not introduced into england until the eighteenth century but once there its observance spread rapidly probably from the mere tact fact that when april comes in england one wants to ta get out into the country and get exuberant and for those who were unable to travel afield to pick prim roses the opportunity to let off the sarini spring fever was to make a fool out of those nearest and dearest to one in a harmless way of course |