POISSON D'AVRIL!!!

Here they have, not the April Fools, but the April Fish.

Apparently back when everyone was tricking one another about the old vs. the new new year's day, people were not allowed to fish in the rivers for fear of catching fish that were not yet grown. Someone got real wild and crazy and started throwing salt water fish in the rivers, shouting "April Fish!"

The English English teacher at school claims that this fishing of young fish was associated with perverse older men preying on younger women, and hence the French tradition of sticking paper fishes on people's backs on the first of April is tantamount to calling people perverts, though it was so long ago everyone has forgotten about it. He comes up with some pretty crazy stuff...

Maude says it has to do with the end of Lent and everyone eating fish...apparently in the Catholic country of Poland (oh, the homeland!) they also have April Fish...

Traditions are weird...

Speaking of fish...

Someone sent me this really cool magic eye...click on the title of the blog, and then on picture 7. Apparently people with way too much time on their hands have been developing these "three layer" stereoscopic images, so you see the original design, then the second, 3D image (like your traditional magic eye)...but if you keep looking you'll see the third layer, which is a picture of a fish...when I found it it was a little blurry, buy you can distinctly see the fins of the tail in the bottom right hand corner...it took me a little while...I finally ended up finding the first 3d picture and looking farther into it to find the other one...I think squinting and tilting my head very slowly to the side helped too...let me know if you find it!