Setting your roommates clock ahead a few hours. Pouring food coloring into your housemates shampoo. Hoisting a car on top of a roof (if youre an MIT student, that is). These are fine tricks to pull on April Fools Day, but putting over a prank that fools the country is reserved for a very few. Joseph Boskin, a professor emeritus of history in the College of Arts & Sciences, managed it without really trying. In 1983, BUs public relations office gave Boskin a call, with a question: was it OK to pitch him, a historian and a purveyor of popular culture, as an expert on the history of April Fools Day? Not giving the request much thought, he jokingly said yes. That week, he headed to Los Angeles to meet with director Norman Lear. Boskin planned to write a history of Lears series All in the Family. The PR contact reached him there, asking him to talk to a reporter from the Associated Press. The AP reporter asked Boskin about the origins and history of April Fools Day. I said, I dont know anything about the holiday, and I really cant be of help to you, Boskin recalls. The reporter said, Dont be so modest. When the reporter kept pushing, Boskin says, I created a story. One of Boskins closest friends had always loved the Jewish noodle pudding kugel. That popped into his head, and he decided to tell a story about a jester who became king — King Kugel. One of Boskins fields was medieval history, so he concocted a convincing tale. Since I was calling New York, where kugel is famous ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mar7BkEbY4&hl=en
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