.....and what's new this tuesday evening, dazzlenation?...well, i'm still on april fool's day....remember monty's prank - regarding 4U prefects....asked to wait outside of his office for a 'stand'...they all assumed that it would be a musical 'stand' i.e. what they used for recorder playing in assembly....although why it would take all of them to carry it back - seems to have eluded them...."so you've had a stand - now clear off!" etc etc.....anyway, the entry for ireland upon wiki - made me laugh....so many possible ways it could go....if the recipient were feeling kind, they would immediately etc etc however, if they were not?...go figure:
In Ireland, it was traditional to entrust the victim with an "important letter" to be given to a named person. That person would read the letter, then ask the victim to take it to someone else, and so on. The letter when opened contained the words "send the fool further.
oh and there's the scottish, too....hmmm....remember MI6 'cuckoo clocks' conflated with maths programs?....more laughter...i can remember james forrest trying 'that one' on me - asked me to take a letter to vizard...i opened it on the way - then decided to try the prank upon evans....who decided to take his revenge upon forrest....backfired a bit, let us say:
In Scotland, April Fools' Day was originally called "Huntigowk Day".[32] The name is a corruption of "hunt the gowk", gowk being Scots for a cuckoo or a foolish person; alternative terms in Gaelic would be Là na Gocaireachd, "gowking day", or Là Ruith na Cuthaige, "the day of running the cuckoo". The traditional prank is to ask someone to deliver a sealed message that supposedly requests help of some sort. In fact, the message reads "Dinna laugh, dinna smile. Hunt the gowk another mile." The recipient, upon reading it, will explain they can only help if they first contact another person, and they send the victim to this next person with an identical message, with the same result.
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