April 1: April fools' day - Ziua pacalelilor

Mark Twain defined April Fools'day as "the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year." This is the day that everyone fools everyone. April Fools' Day is celebrated in many countries on April 1 every year as a day when people play practical jokes ad hoaxes on each other.In Italy, France and Belgium, children and adults traditionally tack paper fishes on each other's back as a trick and shout "April fish!" in their local languages (pesce d'aprile!, poisson d'avril! and aprilvis!). In the UK, an April fool joke is revealed by shouting "April fool!" at the victim, who becomes the "April fool".
In Scotland, April Fools' Day is traditionally called Hunt-the-Gowk Day ("gowk" is a cuckoo or a foolish person), although this name has fallen into disuse. The traditional prank is to ask someone to deliver a sealed message requesting help of some sort. In fact, the message reads "Dinna laugh, dinna smile. Hunt the gowk another mile". The recipient, upon reading it, will explain he can only help if he first contacts another person, and sends the victim to this person with an identical message, with the same result.
In Poland, prima aprilis ("April 1" in latin) is a day full of jokes; various hoaxes are prepared by people, media (which sometimes cooperate to make the "information" more credible) and even public institutions.
In Germany  the jokes are followed by saying "april april". In Spain we don't celebrate April fools' day, we celebrate an equivalent day on 28th of December which is also the Christian celebration of the "Day of the Holy Innocents".
In Romania April fools' day is called Ziua pacalelilor.

There are some superstitions here in Romania on first of april:
- A joke has to be played before noon, otherwise it will bring bad luck.
- If you do not play a joke on somebody on 1 April, you will be the one who is going to be fooled the whole year.
- It is not a good thing for a couple to get married on the 1 April because the marriage will not last or the woman will be the boss in the house.

Here you can find the best jokes of all the time.

Al :)