April 1 is the 91st day of the Gregorian Calendar year, Prickle-Prickle, Chaos 4, 3185 YOLD (discordian), And let us not forget 13.0.6.6.12 by the Mayan Long Count It is also April Fools Day, a day of pranks and tricks.
WHAN that Aprille with his shoures soote The droghte of Marche hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licour, Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne, And smale fowles maken melodye, That slepen al the night with open ye, (So priketh hem nature in hir corages: Than longen folk to goon on pilgrimages, And palmers for to seken straunge strondes, To ferne halwes, couthe in sondry londes; And specially, from every shires ende Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende, The holy blisful martir for to seke, That hem hath holpen, whan that they were seke.Or not, as the case may be ...
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Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift, look out kid, ...
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On this day in history: 1169 BCE - Eris tossed the golden apple and got the ball rolling. 1180 BCE - Odysseus tricked and then blinded Polyphemus. 1178 BCE - Odysseus landed at Ithaka, tricked and then slew Penelope's suitors. 1572 – The Watergeuzen captured Brielle. This is the original Dutch Surprise. 1789 – The US House of Representatives had its first quorum and elected its first speaker. 1970 – The first AMC Gremlins were released into North America. 1976 – Apple Inc. was formed by Jobs, Woz and Wayne. 1997 – Comet Hale–Bopp she bop she bop at perihelion. 2004 – Google announced Gmail.
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Born this day in: before time - Raven, Coyote, Loki, and Eris 40 BCE - Gaspar, Balthasar, and Melchior. 1755 – Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, gourmand and gastroomic essayist 1834 – James Fisk, robber baron and con man extraordinaire 1939 – Phil Niekro, knuckleballer Died this day in: 1580 – Alonso Mudarra, guitarist and composer 1976 – Max Ernst, painter and sculptor
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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such: Fossil Fools Day Edible Book Day
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Music goes here, iirc, well,
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Phil Niekro
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Have yourself a very foolish day. After all, did not the great Ludwig Wittgenstein tell us: "Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness."
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Remember, in spite of everything:
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Image is Cruel Present by Pascal and is public domain
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It's an open thread, so do your thing
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When this posts, I will be on the road to El Capitan State Beach via Fillmore and probably incommunicado.
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