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HOLIDAY SCHMOLIDAY: Meg Gold does not find April Fool's Day amusing.
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Meg Gold does not find April Fool's Day amusing. In fact, she finds it so unamusing that she holds a one-woman protest every April 1. This year, we found the 30-year-old mother and actress with one of her daughters on the Plaza, her cheeks painted with glitter, handing out miniature picket signs on popsicle sticks emblazoned with slogans such as "Express Your Humanity/Stop the Insanity," and "HIV Thrives on Lies." We decided to try to get to the bottom of Gold's ongoing battle with this seemi...
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HOLIDAY SCHMOLIDAY: Meg Gold does not find April Fool's Day amusing.
Santa Fe Reporter
; Meg Gold does not find April Fool's Day amusing. In fact, she finds it so unamusing that she holds a one-woman protest every April 1. This year, we found the 30-year-old mother and actress with one of her daughters on the Plaza, her cheeks painted with glitter, handing out miniature picket signs on
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April Fool's Day fading from the scene, Expert says a lack of marketability is part of the reason holiday has lost popularity
Charleston Daily Mail
; THE SACRAMENTO BEE SACRAMENTO, Calif. - In case you've forgotten, today is April Fool's Day, an occasion traditionally set aside for fibbing, finagling and embarrassing friends and family members. Across the globe, people will find themselves victims of trickery. But here in politically correct
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Pranks expected, welcomed on April Fool's Day
Charleston Gazette
; TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The French started it. Great literary figures like Herman Melville embraced it. Radio stations live for it. And right now, your shoelace is untied. Ha! April Fool! Yep, it's today: April 1, known as April Fool's Day. The day you check the sugar bowl before you mistakenly
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Your shoelace is untied _ April Fool!
Tallahassee Democrat (Tallahassee, Fla.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)
; Byline: Gerald Ensley TALLAHASSEE, Fla. _ The French started it. Great literary figures like Herman Melville embraced it. Radio stations live for it. And right now, your shoelace is untied. Ha! April Fool! Yep, it's today: April 1, known as April Fools Day. The day you check the sugar bowl before
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April Fool's Day.(Opinion & Editorial)
Manila Bulletin
; APRIL Fool's Day is sometimes a good time to play a few practical jokes. The custom of designating the first day of April as April Fool's Day'' is European in origin. Some say it originated where the calendar was changed and one more day was added to the calendar that year. Others say April Fool's
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Listeners Share Best of April Fool's Day
All Things Considered (NPR)
; 00-00-0000 Listeners' best April Fool's Day stories cover the gamut from calling the Bronx Zoo looking for mink, a ``for sale'' sign on the lawn, a visit from the Queen of England, and calling the morgue. DANIEL ZWERDLING, Host: Many of us are going to look like fools tomorrow, with any luck, if a
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Your shoelace is untied _ April Fool!(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; TALLAHASSEE, Fla. _ The French started it. Great literary figures like Herman Melville embraced it. Radio stations live for it. And right now, your shoelace is untied. Ha! April Fool! Yep, it's today: April 1, known as April Fools Day. The day you check the sugar bowl before you mistakenly sprinkle
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APRIL FOOL IS NO LONGER THE MAJOR HOLIDAY OF OUR YOUTH.(LOCAL)
The Virginian Pilot
; Byline: Guy Friddell April Fool! Caught you, didn't I? It used to be a major holiday, among children, anyway. We looked forward eagerly to April Fool almost as much as we did to the Fourth of July. The Fourth of July was physical, what with our firing great balls of fire from Roman candles,
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APRIL FOOL'S E-PRANKS ARE SERIOUS BUSINESS
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
; JOAN VERDON, Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 03-31-2000 APRIL FOOL'S E-PRANKS ARE SERIOUS BUSINESS By JOAN VERDON, Staff Writer Date: 03-31-2000, Friday Section: YOUR TIME Edition: All Editions -- Four Star B, Three Star B, Two Star P, One Star B Joe Falzarano isn't going to fall for
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April Fool's column leaves some readers totally schnookered
Daily Breeze
; I do this April Fool's thing every year and every year some good people buy into it. First there was this from good sport Rick Gerety: "I just read your shocking article you wrote in today's paper regarding a second LAX to be built in Hawthorne. I am just floored. How come no one knew about it?
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