Okay, fun-lover's, April 1st is coming! Now is the time to plan to "get back" at someone (finally), or put a special person into the fool's category for the rest of the year until next April 1st rolls around. There are enough "fool's" running and scurrying about already among us "saner's", so you can easily spot these people. They don't look like "us".

April Fool's Day or All Fool's Day began in Europe sometime I don't know when; I did not research this at all. I do know that if you sought-out any number of gullible dopes on this day and sent them on a fool's errand, like telling them to get a left-handed wrench, or to put air on the tire, or better yet for dad, to tell him to get 20 packages of hot dog buns on the way home for a surprise party. If you were in France and were victimized on this day, you would be ridiculed as a "poisson d'avril"...or "April Fish". True! In France you are a "fish", not a "fool", but fishes DO have small brain's, don't they?

How many remember in 1996 when Taco Bell announced they were buying the Liberty Bell, and would put it in front of the headquarters, re-naming Taco Bell to "Taco Liberty Bell". This one went on for awhile until Taco Bell quelled the fury in the US. I don't think it did much for sales, however.

In the same respect, on April Fool's day when Clinton was President, someone said in the audience in a press conference, that the Lincoln Memorial was bought by some company. Clinton popped on this real quick-like and said, "Oh yes...it was Ford Motor Company who bought the Lincoln Memorial - the new name will be the Ford Lincoln Mercury Memorial". Ho-hum!

Or, one can do "ostension". This being fake evidence, like retouched photos of flying UFO's, the Loch Ness Monster and ghosts, like the recent CNN showing of Michael Jackson walking in his bedroom via "transparent shadow" photography. There is also pseudo-ostension and quasi-ostension, but jokes like cattle mutilation's said to be caused by that Mexican killer animal or by space aliens are attributed as a bad April Fool's joke.

So, we have plenty of "fool's" to go around, don't we? But I think most "fool's" will be prepared for their upcoming commemorative day, and one has to be pretty slick to capture that Kodak moment! I'll leave it up to you what you plan next week. Hope it's a good one! ~ J T Jackie King