April Fool's Day

However, modern Jews prefer to play pranks on April Fools' day. The civil and criminal trials of Simpson were not the only important legal cases that were spawned by the deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman on June 12, 1994. In Judaism, the traditional day of pranks, hoaxes and mockery is Purim. In June 2004, Simpson had planned a long series of news appearances to mark the tenth anniversary of the killings, but ended up being displaced by another story – the death and funeral of former President Reagan. It is believed that people should go out on this date in order to escape the bad luck of number 13. Carroll responded to the criticism by proclaiming "we respect our Heisman Trophy winners.". This day is called "Sizdah bedar" (Out-door thirteen). The Southern California coach Pete Carroll allowed Simpson to come onto the field and mingle with the players and pose for pictures.

In Iran, people play jokes on each other on April 3, the 13th day of the Persian calendar new year (Norooz). Prior to the 2004 Orange Bowl football game featuring Simpson's USC Trojans, the former football star showed up unannounced at a USC practice. The Flemish tradition is for children to lock out their parents or teachers, only letting them in if they promise to bring treats the same evening or the next day. Also, Simpson considered becoming a news commentator for actor Robert Blake's murder trial. This custom also exists in certain areas of Belgium, including the province of Antwerp. There were plans for him to have a reality TV show in the style of The Osbournes in 2003. In Spanish-speaking countries, similar pranks are practiced on December 28, the Day of the Holy Innocents. In 2001, he was involved in a road rage case that received some publicity, but he was again found not guilty.

The April 1 tradition in France includes poisson d'avril (literally "April's fish"), attempting to attach a paper fish to the victim's back without being noticed. In 1998 at the end of an interview conducted by Ruby Wax for BBC1, Simpson mimed stabbing her with a banana while mimicking the theme music from Psycho. They told the truth on the following week's show, where outtakes of Redknapp messing up his lines were also shown. He was accused of illegally accessing signals from DirecTV.
. He seemed to have a knack for appearing in news stories that often had nothing directly to do with him. The advent of the Internet as a worldwide communications medium has also assisted the pranksters in their work. Even after his two trials Simpson was never far from the news.

Even normally serious news media consider April Fools' Day hoaxes fair game, and spotting them has become an annual pastime. In 2000, Simpson won custody of his children in a second trial. Many media organizations have either unwittingly or deliberately propagated hoaxes on April Fools' Day. The ruling was thrown out when an appeals court determined that it was wrong to exclude evidence from the murder trial [1]. Children born on this day will experience good luck in most matters, except when it comes to gambling. In late 1998 Simpson won a custody trial filed by the Browns. It is believed that marriage on April Fools' Day is inadvisable for a man, for he will be permanently ruled by his wife. When Simpson was acquitted, he was given back custody over the children.

It is said that one fooled by a pretty girl will later marry, or at least become friends, with her. While Simpson was in prison during the murder trial, Nicole Brown's parents, Louis and Juditha Brown, had custody over Simpson's younger children Sidney and Justin. Anyone who fails to respond with a sense of humor to the tricks played on them is also said to be liable to suffer bad luck. It is still speculated among most people that he is guilty. This stipulation may have been contrived by annoyed parents and school teachers wanting a respite from a full day of pranks. Simpson has not filed for bankruptcy. Those done afterwards are supposed to bring bad luck to the perpetrator. In Florida a person's residence cannot be seized to collect a debt under most circumstances.

Traditionally, pranks are to be performed before noon. He subsequently moved from California to Miami, Florida. A far more natural explanation would seem to be that the April fish would be a young fish and therefore easily caught. A 2000 Rolling Stone article reported that Simpson also still makes a significant income by signing autographs. This has been explained from the association of ideas arising from the fact that in April the sun quits the zodiacal sign of the fish. However, California law protects pensions from being used to satisfy judgments, so Simpson was able to continue much of his lifestyle based on his NFL pension. In France the person befooled is known as poisson d'avril. Simpson was ordered to pay $33,500,000 in damages.

In Scotland the custom was known as "hunting the gowk," i.e. the cuckoo, and April-fools were "April-gowks," the cuckoo being there, as it is in most lands, a term of contempt. Attorney for plaintiff Fred Goldman (father of Ronald Goldman) was Daniel Petrocelli. Though the 1st of April appears to have been anciently observed in Great Britain as a general festival, it was apparently not until the beginning of the 18th century that the making of April-fools was a common custom. On February 4, 1997 a civil jury in Santa Monica, California found Simpson liable for the wrongful death of Ronald Goldman, battery against Ronald Goldman, and battery against Nicole Brown. Well before 1582 when King Charles IX of France brought in the new Gregorian calendar, French and Dutch references from respectively 1508 and 1539 describe April Fool's Day jokes and the custom of making them on the first of April. With the damage done to his public reputation, his acting career was ruined. However, it is unlikely that this explanation of April Fool's Day’s origin is correct. There have been significant criticisms of the prosecution and some still feel that Simpson should have been found guilty.

Thus the New Year's gifts and visits of felicitation which had been the feature of the 1st of April became associated with the first day of January, and those who disliked or did not hear about the change were fair butts for those wits who amused themselves by sending mock presents and paying calls of pretended ceremony on the 1st of April. After one of the most widely publicized arrests and trials in American history, Simpson was found not guilty. They were the first nation to adopt the reformed Gregorian calendar, Charles IX in 1564 decreeing that the year should begin with the 1st of January. Simpson was soon charged with their murders. It has been plausibly suggested that Europe derived its April-fooling from the French [1]. On June 12, 1994 his former wife Nicole Brown and friend Ronald Goldman were found dead outside Brown's condominium. The festival of the spring equinox is there termed the feast of Huli, the last day of which is the 31st of March, upon which the chief amusement is the befooling of people by sending them on fruitless errands. He was paying substantial child support.

This view gains support from the fact that the exact counterpart of April-fooling is found to have been an immemorial custom in India. Simpson had pleaded no contest to a domestic violence charge and was separated from Nicole. What seems certain is that it is in some way or other a relic of those once universal festivities held at the vernal equinox, which, beginning on old New Year's day, the 25th of March, ended on the 1st of April. He also hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live but he was the only host not invited to attend the program's 25th anniversary celebration special in 1999. The origin of this custom has been much disputed, and many theories have been suggested, e.g. that it is a farcical commemoration of Christ being sent from Annas to Caiaphas, from Caiaphas to Pilate, from Pilate to Herod, and from Herod back again to Pilate, the crucifixion having taken place about the 1st of April. Besides his acting career, Simpson had stints as a commentator for Monday Night Football and The NFL on NBC. . Simpson was spokesman for the pX Corporation, and he appeared in comic book ads for Dingo shoes.

The day is marked by the commission of hoaxes and other practical jokes of varying sophistication on friends and neighbours, or sending them on fools' errands, the aim of which is to embarrass the gullible. He would often be shown running through airports, as if to suggest he was back on the football field. April Fool's Day or All Fools' Day, though not a holiday in its own right, is a notable day celebrated in many countries on April 1. He was a spokesman for the Hertz rental-car company (Ford vehicles are usually found in Hertz rental fleets, hence the nickname 'Simpsons' for the cars). There have been cases when a hoax in a newspaper caused many readers to send mail to a nonexistent address, causing problems at postal sorting offices. Simpson's amiable persona and natural charisma landed him numerous endorsement deals. That prank, repeated across many people, causes serious problems for zoos' telephone exchanges. Simpson was considered for the lead role in The Terminator, before it was decided audiences might not accept him as a villain.

Fant (or various others) at a number that turns out to be a zoo. After his retirement from football, Simpson went on to a successful film career with parts in films such as the television mini-series Roots, and the motion pictures The Cassandra Crossing, Capricorn One, The Towering Inferno, and The Naked Gun trilogy. E. They had two children, Sydney Brooke Simpson (born October 17, 1985) and Justin Ryan Simpson (born August 6, 1988), and were divorced in 1992. L. On February 2, 1985 Simpson married Nicole Brown. Lion or Mr. That same year Simpson and Marguerite were divorced.

C. In 1979, Aaren drowned in the family's swimming pool a month before her second birthday. One type of April Fool's Day hoax is to leave a message telling someone to telephone Mr. Simpson (born April 21, 1970) and Aaren Lashone Simpson (born September 24, 1977). 1 April, 2005. Simpson (born December 4, 1968), Jason L. 1 April, 2004. Together they had three children: Arnelle L.

1 April, 2002. Whitley. Redknapp was being 'interviewed' on the training ground where his goalkeepers were getting to grips with bigger goals. On June 24, 1967 Simpson married Marguerite L. Using West Ham United manager, Harry Redknapp, the report claimed that the size of the goals would increase by two feet in height and four feet in length. Simpson has eight siblings named George, Sue, Emily, Abraham, Kyra, Kirsten, Bryant, and Jim. The BBC's Saturday lunchtime show 'Football Focus' broadcast a piece centred on the upcoming change of the size of goals. Away from football but within sports, he won the 1975 American Superstars competition.

Seattle area TV program Almost Live! set up a phony broadcast room and dressed actors as TV anchors to pull an April Fool's joke of legendary proportions. He is a member of the Bills' Wall of Fame. The Space Needle collapsed in a windstorm on April 1st, 1989. After being traded to the San Francisco 49ers in 1978, Simpson retired from the NFL the following year, and on January 23, 1985 became the first Heisman Trophy winner elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. It was later announced at the Sea FM dance party that it was a hoax. Simpson went on to earn All-Pro honors five times and amassed 11,236 rushing yards during his career. This left a huge number of under 21s angry and frustrated, and incited protests. He also had back-to-back 200 yard performances in both 1973 and 1976.

Change of drinking age: On the Gold Coast, Australia's biggest tourist destination (particularly amongst school leavers), radio station Sea FM announced the drinking age would be changed from 18 to 21. Over his career, Simpson ran for an NFL record 6 200-yard games, three of which occurred in 1973. The station played pop songs until 7:00 am, when Stern came back on. His 1973 performance earned him the Hickok Belt as top professional athlete of the year. Cancellation of the Howard Stern Show: The April 1st, 2004 show started off with an announcement by the station manager stating that due to increased pressure from the FCC, Viacom had cancelled the Howard Stern Show. "The Juice" powered one of the league's top rushing offenses, and ran behind the famed "Electric Company" offensive line. Shuttle landing: In 1993, a San Diego radio station fooled many listeners into believing that the space shuttle had been diverted from Edwards Air Force Base and was about to make an emergency landing at a small local airport. Simpson's yards per game average was ten yards higher than that of the closest competitor.

He invited his audience to jump in the air and experience "a strange floating sensation." Dozens of listeners phoned in to say the experiment had worked. Eric Dickerson holds the 16-game season and overall records with 2,105 yards rushing in 1984). that day. Although his 2,003 yard season has subsequently been eclipsed by four running backs, only Barry Sanders managed to match Simpson by rushing for 2,000 or more yards in 14 games (Weeks 3-16 of the 1997 season; including Weeks 1 & 2, Sanders rushed for 2,053 yards. Defy Gravity: In 1976 British astronomer Patrick Moore told listeners of BBC2 that unique alignment of two planets would result in an upward gravitational pull making people lighter at precisely 9:47 a.m. In 1973 Simpson ran for a then-record 2,003 yards, becoming the first player ever to eclipse the 2,000 yard mark, and was voted the league's Most Valuable Player. Mainstream media (including Channel 9's Today Show) picked up the story. Simpson was selected by the American Football League's Buffalo Bills, who held the first selection in the draft after finishing 1-12-1 in 1968 - the worst record in professional football.

New South Wales Premier Bob Carr was also in on the joke. After originally playing in Junior College at the City College of San Francisco, his talent landed him at the University of Southern California (USC) and won him the Heisman Trophy, Maxwell Award, the nickname "The Juice", and the distinction of being the first player selected in the 1969 professional football draft after winning the Heisman Trophy. Sydney Olympics: Australian radio station Triple J breakfast show co-host Adam Spencer announced in 1999 that he had a journalist on the line at the site of a secret IOC meeting and that Sydney had lost the 2000 Summer Olympics. While attending Galileo High School in San Francisco, Simpson played for the school's football team, the Galileo Lions. This hoax can also be considered a parody of late 1990s media consolidations.). . New Format: Radio station KFOG in San Francisco, claiming new corporate ownership, switched to a new format - the best 15 seconds of every song! All morning they mixed in bogus calls from perky listeners calling with compliments. He was found liable and responsible for their deaths in civil court in 1997.

Both DJs were later jailed for creating a public nuisance. He was acquitted in criminal court in 1995 after a lengthy, highly publicized and controversial trial. Several police were needed to deal with traffic gridlock and enraged listeners who threatened to harm the DJs responsible. Although considered to be one of the greatest running backs of all time, Simpson is now best known for being charged with the murder of his wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in 1994. Free Concert: Radio station 98.1 KISS in Chattanooga, Tennessee falsely announced in 2003 that rapper Eminem would be doing a free show in a discount store parking lot. Orenthal James Simpson (born July 9, 1947 in San Francisco, California), publicly known by the initials O.J., and nicknamed The Juice, was a Hall of Fame former college and professional football player and film actor. The pair were fired shortly thereafter. The Naked Gun 33⅓:The Final Insult (1994).

The rumor spread quickly across the city, eventually causing news stations to issue alerts denying the hoax. The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991). Menino happened to be on a flight at the time, lending truth to the prank as he could not be reached. The Naked Gun - From the Files of Police Squad! (1988). Death of a Mayor: In 1998, local shock jocks Opie and Anthony reported that Boston mayor Thomas Menino had been killed in a car accident. Capricorn One (1978). Google's hoaxes. The Cassandra Crossing (1976).

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