Blah-Blah-Blahg: Food For Nought

This week we celebrate April Fool's Day - a nifty holiday meant for the masses to enjoy high jinks, tomfoolery, and good old monkeyshines (translation for those uninterested in antiquated cliches and idioms: shenanigans). Many people believe the holiday began in France in 1852 as a result of the Julian Calendar being replaced by the Gregorian calendar. Imagine the confusion if you woke up one year and some dope of a pope (Gregory XIII) rearranged your whole schedule - no your whole friggin' calendar. Okay, so this new calendar did remediate the inaccuracies of the Julian calendar. But I get sort of comfortable in my routines, and apparently 16th century fools do as well. Without the aid of modern tools of communication, news of the calendar change spread slowly - think Pangaea. So people who were slow on the uptake continued to celebrate New Year's on April first and were dubbed April Fools.