Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for April 01, 2018

Hic-up belch of laughter.

Humoring the Gelotologists

https://www.damninteresting.com/humoring-the-gelotologists/

wine glasses = cartoon gold

Chuckling Chuckie Norris!!!!

That one is more of a gelotoleptic misfit, if you want my opinion on the matter.

The stripey bear just couldn’t hold it together and had to rush out of the panel, in a hurry, even, stage right.

Laughter is contagious, another sick strip.

I had to look it up. For me, that is no laughing matter.

The brown character is either a botox victim or a resident of Deadpan Alley.

Can a cleverly disguised word of the day calendar still be lame?

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; frown, and become a citizen of Froglandia. I find that I can generally avoid gelotolepsy, but when it does seize hold the seizures are formidable.

And Sister knows how to punch my buttons. She somehow knows that I am a sucker for cute bears, both real and cartoon.

How does she know? Is this farcical?

The most widely accepted theory in France behind the legend of the April Fish originated in 1564. Before this date, April 1st was the official beginning of the New Year. But with the Edict of Roussillon, King Charles the IX modified the calendar, adopting what would become known as the Gregorian or Western calendar. It was put into general use by Pope Gregory the XIII in 1582, and it’s the calendar we still use today – even if the French used the Republican calendar between 1793 and 1806.

Before the calendar change, people gave each other gifts on April 1st, including food, to celebrate the New Year. One of those gifts may have been fish, the symbol of Lent, which is right around the end of March.

But apparently some people had trouble adapting to the new calendar, and others, simply not in-the-know, got left behind. They were mocked and given prank gifts on April 1st, including a paper fish stuck to their back. Many scholars have disproved the exactitude of this story, and they’ve also disclaimed the theory suggesting that a real herring was stuck to a fisherman’s ample clothing on opening day of fishing season, only to be discovered when the fish began to smell.

In 1686, John Aubrey referred to the celebration as “Fooles holy day”, the first British reference. On April 1, 1698, several people were tricked into going to the Tower of London to “see the Lions washed”.

Help. I can’t finish this senten