A SHORTAGE OF PUCKS N' PRANKS...
Copyright The Quipping Queen 2005.
A SHORTAGE OF PUCKS N' PRANKS...
Or, where have all the April Fools' Day greeting cards gone'
It's always been a mystery to me why I can never find April Fools'
Day cards in stores. There's a paucity of Pucks not to mention
pranks if ever there was one!
Who says loons and buffoons don't deserve their own card' Why has
Hallmark, (who keep us chortling on birthdays and holidays),
forgotten to commemorate this rather fine occasion with a card'
Perhaps by encouraging the 'Inner Fool' in all of us to come out
and play 'card companies think all hell will break loose, the sky
will fall on them, or even scarier 'they'll be sued up the
ying-yang by an emperor without any clothes on.
The origin of April Fools' Day dates back more than five hundred
years, to some powerful potentates in Europe who wanted a new
calendar. Or, maybe it had something to do with the Fickle Finger
of Fate's bad hair day!
Truth is, people got bored in the good old days. Let's face it
bread and circus performances were wearing a tad thin. And cooling
one's heels on a street corner in the hope of meeting a guy named
'Godot' wasn't all that much fun either.
Change is always hard 'especially if some poor fish wants to keep
the old calendar festive occasions, while new kids on the block
want to muck up everything. Not surprisingly, chaos ensued. (You
know 'the typical right hand not knowing what the left hand is
doing, the usual foot in the mouth games, not to mention the odd
tongue-in-cheek was bound to drive most clodplates, cretins and
cullies crazy.)
Naturally, the fools -- those who didn't celebrate the New Year in
January but liked a lot of hoopla to mark the birth of spring --
got the short end of the stick. But pucks (and for that matter
pixies) should never be under-estimated.
HOLIDAY IN
HADES?
Copyright by Theolonius McTavish 2004. All rights reserved.
HOLIDAY IN HADES'
-- Or, more about life in the nether world .....
January, June or whatever...what's a mundane month or two either
way among friends' People, people, people ...it's time to let go of
all that linear thinking and cogitate outside the box or color
beyond the lines for pity's sake!!
Which reminds me, who else but a fool can be relied upon to rush in
where wise men never go' By the way, Mars has gone retrograde so
don't act on that tip about a gold scheme in the jungles of
Indonesia 'unless of course you dream of playing with funny money
in a place called 'Fool's Paradise'!
Poppycock problems always demand super-sized solutions, so fools
got down to business. Turning tables on twits and twerps, not to
mention Tweedledees & Tweedledums, seemed like good idea at the
time.
And, thanks to those playful pranks on 'All Fools Day', tickling
funnybones is infinitely more entertaining than snapping chicken
(wish)bones.
So toss your troubles in the trashcan, face down your fear making a
fool of yourself in public, and start handing out your own
"frequent featherbrain" or "frequent flubber' cards!
After all, what better way to honor our "Inner Fool" than the gift
of glee. So get out there and enjoy a lick of laughter, a jolt of
joy, or maybe a taste of titillation at least one day a year!
About the Author
Samantha Tooting-Beck, an avid April Fools' Day prankster and
puckish pixie with a very fertile imagaination who spends way too
much time in the cockamamie Court of the Quipping Queen at
www.quippingqueen.blogspot.com
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