April Fools’ Day is one of the worst days on the calendar, especially for your respectable sources of snarky humor, The Guys. As noted earlier, we’re not fans of the day. The chief problem here is the Internet. That’s right, you’re about to get one of those “Bryan rants about the Internet” columns today.
The most popular theory as to where this holiday came from is the shifting of New Year’s Day from April 1 back to January 1 sometime in the 1500s, after that, we all thought it was a great time to make our friends feel really dumb. In 1698, a great prank was played on English citizens when they were sold tickets to the annual “washing of the lions” at the Tower of London. The only thing was, there was no such event, and the ticket holders were out of the cash they paid. Man, British humor was great even back then.
But today, it just sucks for all of us. Continue reading The McBournie Minute: That old trick