Posted on 03/31/2019 4:16:12 PM PDT by Twotone
I'm Gonna Miss You on Valentine's Day When I see all the young lovers together I'm Gonna Miss You on Washington's Birthday 'Cause I told a lie and I lost you I'm gonna feel like an April Fool When April first is due...
I don't suppose one in a gazillion folks knows the above song. Mel Tormé wrote it, and you get the gist pretty quickly: he's gonna miss you on Valentine's Day, Groundhog Day, Ramadan, Take Your Daughter To Work Day, you name it. The relationship of February 14th to romance is obvious, Washington's Birthday less so, but the dearth of April Fool's songs is more of a puzzler. There are plenty of April songs – "I'll Remember April", "April Love", "April Showers", "April In Paris", "April In Portugal", and a goofy little number from the young Frank Sinatra's days with the Tommy Dorsey band called "April Played The Fiddle"... Yet, in the midst of all this April inventiveness, there's no standard song built around the obvious premise: The word that most easily follows "April" is not "love" or "showers" or "snow" but "fool". And the omission is even more perplexing given that the notion of folly is pretty much built in to the concept of romantic love.
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My best April Fools gag (it really happened on April Fools Day): I was getting our ranch house grey vinyl sided, and when I came home in mid-afternoon, the crew was about 3/4 done. The guys were working on the last side.
I stopped in my driveway, went up to the foreman who said to me, “How does it look?” I paused, looked at the house. And then I said, “I thought it was supposed to be white siding.”
He stared at me like a deer in the headlights. The guys working on the side that wasn’t finished stopped, and looked at me. “Is it too late to change the siding?” I asked. More pause.
Then I said, “APRIL FOOLS!” I thought the guys with the hammers were going to throw them at me.
Cruel. Very cruel.
Didn’t know that one but Blue Moon and Chestnuts Roasting on an Open fire Are two of my favorites
Every year I play an April fools day joke on my ex-wife.
Tomorrow she’s going to get a warrant for her arrest in Broward county.
She lives in Rhode Island.
So AOC has her own special day!
On Monday, the 1st. of April, I will not believe any news stories.
I hate it when April Fools Day falls on a Friday the 13th.
How is that different from any other day?
Tomorrow is our 36th wedding anniversary.
Too true.
And funny as all get-out...
This is different how?
Greetings from Antarctica!
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