Since at least the seventeenth century this day has been celebrated with practical jokes and spurious news. Mark Twain commented in his
Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar, “This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.”
Here's another from one of my student's Commonplace Book:
ReplyDeleteAdam and Eve had many advantages, but the principle one was that they escaped teething.
- Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
AND then the teens added : and puberty!