Today a co-worker reminded me that April Fool's Day in France is a day for "poissons d'avril." According to him, when you're little, you spend all of April 1 sitting at your desk drawing and coloring fish, cutting them out, and sticking them to people's backs to make them look silly. Teachers pretend to not notice the poissons surreptitiously (or not) attached to their backs. Given that I am an inherently bad liar and thus nulle in pulling pranks, I like this version a lot better.
Co-worker also claims every paper puts a "poisson" in its 4/1 edition. Sometimes they're obvious or are labeled as fish, sometimes not.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
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