Comments on: Time To Come Clean http://www.greaterfalls.com/index.php/2007/04/01/time-to-come-clean/ A weblog ("blog") about Great Falls, Montana! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:19:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: An April Fool | Greater Falls! http://www.greaterfalls.com/index.php/2007/04/01/time-to-come-clean/comment-page-1/#comment-585429 An April Fool | Greater Falls! Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:48:33 +0000 http://www.greaterfalls.com/index.php/2007/04/01/time-to-come-clean/#comment-585429 [...] April 1, 2007: Time To Come Clean [...] [...] April 1, 2007: Time To Come Clean [...]

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]]> By: Walter Greenspan http://www.greaterfalls.com/index.php/2007/04/01/time-to-come-clean/comment-page-1/#comment-48318 Walter Greenspan Sun, 01 Apr 2007 17:56:01 +0000 http://www.greaterfalls.com/index.php/2007/04/01/time-to-come-clean/#comment-48318 When the western world employed the Julian Christian calendar, years began on March 25. Festivals marking the start of the New Year were celebrated on the first day of April because March 25 fell during the then Christian Easter Holy Week. The adoption of Pope Gregory's Gregorian Christian calendar during the 1500s moved the New Year to January 1 (the Feast of the Circumcision). According to the most widely-believed origin postulated for April Fools' Day, those who could be tricked into believing April 1 was still the proper day to celebrate the New Year earned the sobriquet of April fools. To this end, French peasants would unexpectedly drop in on neighbors on that day in an effort to confuse them into thinking they were receiving a New Year's call. From that supposedly grew the tradition of testing the patience of family and friends. Source: www.snopes.com/holidays/aprilfools/origins.asp When the western world employed the Julian Christian calendar, years began on March 25. Festivals marking the start of the New Year were celebrated on the first day of April because March 25 fell during the then Christian Easter Holy Week.

The adoption of Pope Gregory’s Gregorian Christian calendar during the 1500s moved the New Year to January 1 (the Feast of the Circumcision).

According to the most widely-believed origin postulated for April Fools’ Day, those who could be tricked into believing April 1 was still the proper day to celebrate the New Year earned the sobriquet of April fools. To this end, French peasants would unexpectedly drop in on neighbors on that day in an effort to confuse them into thinking they were receiving a New Year’s call. From that supposedly grew the tradition of testing the patience of family and friends.

Source: http://www.snopes.com/holidays/aprilfools/origins.asp

]]> By: Todd http://www.greaterfalls.com/index.php/2007/04/01/time-to-come-clean/comment-page-1/#comment-48314 Todd Sun, 01 Apr 2007 17:42:30 +0000 http://www.greaterfalls.com/index.php/2007/04/01/time-to-come-clean/#comment-48314 You are sooooooo full of goose poop! You are sooooooo full of goose poop!

]]> By: GiftShoppeGuy http://www.greaterfalls.com/index.php/2007/04/01/time-to-come-clean/comment-page-1/#comment-48309 GiftShoppeGuy Sun, 01 Apr 2007 17:13:04 +0000 http://www.greaterfalls.com/index.php/2007/04/01/time-to-come-clean/#comment-48309 Odd?.. I never had much trouble with the goose dookies. Odd?..
I never had much trouble with the goose dookies.

]]> By: Dona Stebbins http://www.greaterfalls.com/index.php/2007/04/01/time-to-come-clean/comment-page-1/#comment-48263 Dona Stebbins Sun, 01 Apr 2007 14:51:11 +0000 http://www.greaterfalls.com/index.php/2007/04/01/time-to-come-clean/#comment-48263 Thank heaven I didn't fall for that one! Although at the beginning, I got a sinking feeling in the pit of my tummy, when I got to the part about the goose poop and the snow, I knew my leg was being pulled! Happy April Fool's Day! Thank heaven I didn’t fall for that one! Although at the beginning, I got a sinking feeling in the pit of my tummy, when I got to the part about the goose poop and the snow, I knew my leg was being pulled! Happy April Fool’s Day!

]]> By: Cindy http://www.greaterfalls.com/index.php/2007/04/01/time-to-come-clean/comment-page-1/#comment-48140 Cindy Sun, 01 Apr 2007 08:26:34 +0000 http://www.greaterfalls.com/index.php/2007/04/01/time-to-come-clean/#comment-48140 You don't fool me...April Fool's! You don’t fool me…April Fool’s!

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