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Literature | Poisson d'Avril An April fool. The poisson d'Avril is the mackerel, and we have the expression "You silly mackerel," and silly indeed are those who allow themselves to be caught by the palpable jokes engendered on the 1st of April. The Scotch say "hunting the gowk" (cuckoo). It is said that the best explanation is a reference to Matt. xxix. 2. The mackerel, says Oudin, is called the poisson d'Avril, "parce que les macquereaux se prennent et se mangent environ ce mois-la." A correspondent of Notes and Queries (June 20, 1891, p. 494) says that the April fish is the aurata, sacred to Venus. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Movie/TV Titles | Poisson d'avril (1954) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "'-a-d-i-i-l-n-o-o-p-r-s-s-v" | |
-2 letters: provisionals. | |
-3 letters: provisional. | |
-4 letters: displosion, provisions, sponsorial. | |
-5 letters: doornails, iodopsins, isopodans, parvolins, pavilions, provision, spandrils, vindaloos. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 4F 49 53 53 4F 4E 44 27 41 56 52 49 4C |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01001111 01001001 01010011 01010011 01001111 01001110 00100000 01000100 00100111 01000001 01010110 01010010 01001001 01001100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P O I S S O N   D ' A V R I L |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 004F 0049 0053 0053 004F 004E 0044 0027 0041 0056 0052 0049 004C |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5049435353494823893556524346 |
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