'April Fool's Day ends at noon'
Um... What??
shareYeah I didn't get that either.
shareTraditionally you're not supposed to play any April Fool's pranks on anyone after 12pm that day.
shareOk why? The day isn't over at noon.
shareThats the way they do it in England. (Shrugs)
"Cry me a river, build a damn bridge, and make your way across."
In the UK, an April fool joke is revealed by shouting "April fool!" at the victim, who becomes the "April fool". A study in the 1950s, by folklorists Iona and Peter Opie, found that in the UK and those countries whose traditions derived from there, the joking ceased at midday. A person playing a joke after midday is the "April fool" themselves. But this practice appears to have lapsed in more recent years. (source.....Wikipedia)
I'm from the UK and as a child was taught the rhyme, "April Fools is dead and gone and you're the fool for carrying it on"
This rhyme was said to anyone who tried to play a prank after "noon".
I was walking down the skyway my way...
Yeah, I'm from the UK and the tradition is that you don't play gags after midday. I didn't know it was different in the US.
Seemed optimistic that they thought the killer would stop trying to kill them after midday though.