According to a very reliable source Elizabeth Gaskell had a hideous fear of spiders and rats combined. One or the other didn't bother her, but if she saw two together she nearly went into apoplexy! :D
C.S. Lewis called his inner editor "Bonzo" after a clown he had seen and been inspired by as a six-year old child. :D Read the whole article here: C.S. Lewis Names Clown His Inspiration... :)
Shakespeare ate sardines and tea for breakfast every morning...I mean hey, fish oil is supposed to work wonders for the brain, right? No wonder he was such a genius!
Lucy Maud Montgomery was creeped out by red-haired people, but in order to do penance for how she had treated her red-haired cousin as a child, (according to a published version of her journal) she created a ginger-capped character for one of her books: Anne Shirley, who went on to become the most famous of all Montgomery's literary heroines!
J.R.R. Tolkien never meant for his books to be published when they were--he wanted to wait and have someone publish them post-humously, but the other Inklings coerced him into early publishing. :D Here's an interesting blog post about it...Talkin' Tolkien: Brainy But Bashful.
Aren't those hilarious? I was laughing so hard over some of them! Oh yeah, and I forgot the best fact of all! This one will really have you going...
......Ready?....
...Author Rachel Heffington counted April Fool's Day as one of her favorite semi-holidays. She wrote a blog post full of phony facts to make her friends smile, in hopes that they'd believe some of them. :)
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4 comments:
Hook. Line. And sinker.
You seriously had me. I was swallowing every single one of those, shaking my head and saying, "I nevuh knew that!!"
Wow. This was inspired. :D
And of course I didn't click on any of the links, so I was quite easily fooled.
Very, very clever, my dear!
How interesting!
Yes I was rather suspicious of that post! I happen to know that nobody knows how April Fools day began and it's more French than Scottish! Even though I missed reading your hint at the end this morning!
The clocks went back an hour on April Fools here which I am sure made fools of several people come monday mornging!
However I must go and write a post myself as I have been ... lately....
This is the only April Fools post I actually fell for.
Bad, bad girl.
Wait, wait, no. One of my friends on facebook posted they were turning Dr. Who's TARDIS red...and I fell for that and nearly died..but that was last night, which was Britain's April first anyway.
Haha! You got me:)
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