April Fool's Day (poisson d’avril)

People who were slow to get the news or failed to recognize that the start of the new year had moved to January 1 and continued to celebrate it during the last week of March through April 1 became the butt of jokes and hoaxes and were called “April fools.” These pranks included having paper fish placed on their backs and being referred to as “poisson d’avril” (April fish), said to symbolize a young, easily caught fish and a gullible person.

You all know someone who has no clue what is going on. People play pranks on them because they believe just about anything. Are you a prankster?

I told this guy I wanted to kiss the flowers on his hands and he ran as fast as his second-life legs could (he could have just flown out of there or teleported somewhere else).

"The First of April some do say

Is set apart for all Fool’s Day

But why the people call it so

Nor I nor they themselves do know "

April Fool's Day can be fun of course when you are playing those pranks or maybe you are at the end of one of the pranks, just remember it has centuries of tradition behind it. Better yet, don't believe everything you hear or read and that is vital in these days. I met these two pigeons and they said: 

Pigeon flying in the sky
But baby pigeon said, "I can't make it; I'll get too tired." His mother said, "Don't worry; I'll tie a piece of string to one of your legs and the other end to mine."
The baby started to cry.
"What's wrong?" said the mother.
"I don't want to be pigeon towed!"

So don't be a poisson d'avril and get caught in a joke. It reminds me of a story I used to read to my students in the classroom: Don't let the pigeon ride the bus and this book was full of fooling the audience into something they were not supposed to do.

Even Punxsutawney Phil tries to trick you into believing the weather will be warm and sunny when it is not and that is a whole other story for another day. 

Good News, here in Second Life you can make it spring, summer, winter, or fall anytime you want and you can fly and you can even be a pigeon...it is all possible and no this is not an April's Fool, it is all true.