<div>Avri wrote: "does every culture celebrate 1 april with practical jokes?"</div>
<div>Certainly, this is a funny hobby here in Cameroon. </div>
<div>You know what? I arrived the office and my boss told me that the former Minister of Finance of my country (currently undergoing Police interrogations for alleged malfeasance) committed suicide at night. And the source for the information was that some one "highly placed" called my boss from Yaounde where the police questioning is taking place.</div>
<div>I followed the news in the morning and no such thing was reported. I told myself that may be such exclusive information might have not reached local media organs. And for over three hours, surfed through the web sites of news organs in the world that I know and none could, say, announce the information.</div>
<div>My interest in such a story, you could ask? I wanted to know how a former authority could commit suicide at the Police premises and with what means. </div>
<div>Frustrated that no media organ was confirming the information nor that I am yet to understand the circumstances of such an act, I moved up to my boss, wearing a dejected look, to complain that no media organ was yet to confirm the info, only to be told "Aaron, April fool". </div>
<div>That is it about April fool here,</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Aaron <br><br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/3/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Avri Doria</b> <<a href="mailto:avri@psg.com">avri@psg.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><span class="q"><br>On 3 Apr 2008, at 09:30, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5241.txt" target="_blank">http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5241.txt</a> (IETF will now sells the<br>
rights to protocol fields to raise money)<br><br></blockquote><br><br></span>ouch.<br><br>the problem with most ad-absurdum is that is bears too much resemblance to reality.<br><span class="sg"><br>a.</span>
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