April Fools Barnstar (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
A shout-out and thanks to my friend, Ginny, who sent me the link to this story. It was posted in HUFF POST today. What follows is a portion of that article:
Let’s be clear: April Fools’ Day is not a religious holiday.
It does, however, trace its origins to a pope.
The day began, most believe, in 1582, when Pope Gregory XIII decreed the adoption of the “Gregorian calendar” — named after himself — which moved New Year’s Day from the end of March to Jan. 1.
The change was published widely, explains Ginger Smoak, an expert in medieval history at the University of Utah, but those who didn’t get the message and continued to celebrate on April 1 “were ridiculed and, because they were seen as foolish, called April Fools.”
Even though the annual panoply of pranks meant to mock the gullible or to send a friend on a “fool’s errand” may not be grounded in any ancient religious merrymaking, the notion of “holy fools” does have a long and respected place in Judeo-Christian history.
Hebrew prophets were often scorned as mad or eccentric for pronouncing unwelcome or uncomfortable truths. The Apostle Paul talked to the Corinthians about becoming “fools for Christ.” And Eastern Orthodoxy still sees the “holy fool” as a type of Christian martyr.
Such views are wrapped up in paradox.
“If the wisdom of the world is folly to God, and God’s own foolishness is the only true wisdom,” argues British clergyman John Saward in “Perfect Fools: Folly for Christ’s Sake in Catholic and Orthodox Spirituality,” “it follows that the worldly wise, to become truly wise, must become foolish and renounce their worldly wisdom.”
Personally my April Fool’s Day was uneventful! But oh how I remember the April Fool’s Days of my youth. Putting salt in the sugar bowl or sugar in the salt shaker. Telling a friend that her mother was looking for her, switching our seats in school, sending my mother running into the living room because I told her the dog pooped on the rug. I also had a plastic ice cube that had a fly imbedded in it and one of the those buzzer gadgets you put in your palm when you shook someone’s hand. What crazy funny things did you do today or get done to (interesting English grammar there)?
april fools 2010 (Photo credit: Sean MacEntee)
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TEN More Questionable Best Picture Awards
March 28, 2014 by pbenjay
English: Studio publicity portrait of the American actress Elizabeth Taylor. Français : Portrait publicitaire pris en studio de l’actrice américaine Elizabeth Taylor. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
As always I have an opinion I’m more than happy to share with you all about movies, the good ones and the bad ones. I agree with the comments my nephew, Justin, left for me on Facebook. He was upset about the obvious politics that must go into the choices for Best Picture! So here are 10 more what I call questionable Best Picture Award winning films.
Well that’s it folks, my 10 more worst Best Picture picks. What do you think? Please do leave us your picks! Oooh that reminds me I promised one of my readers to include his erudite comment and observation: ” …1981, where Chariots of Fire beat out Reds, On Golden Pond, Atlantic City and Raiders of the Lost Ark, possibly belongs in that category as well.”
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