Sally and Ken Coe put up their Festivus pole. Ken Coe sees it as "no frills, just an opportunity to bring together friends and family." Using a metal pole with no decorations was popularized on the long-running sitcom "Seinfeld."
Sally and Ken Coe put up their Festivus pole. Ken Coe sees it as "no frills, just an opportunity to bring together friends and family." Using a metal pole with no decorations was popularized on the long-running sitcom "Seinfeld."
These are the kind of people who constituted "flash mobs" during their millisecond of popularity.
A very merry Festivus to all of you.
For the rest of us, only two more days.
As faux holidays goes Festivus beats Kwaanza hands-down.
I understand that she's a graduate of MSU's prestigious English Grammar program.
Happy Winter Solstice Day!
Great. Another fake holiday so we can keep anti-Christian liberals and other idiots happy.
No thanks. I think it's time we forced those jackasses to practice the tolerance they preach.
Festivus has more legitimacy than Kwanzaa.
Hmm, I thought that's what family Christmas was all about already.
It's not fictional if enough people celebrate it. Look at Kwaanza!
It is a joke on a sitcom...pleazzzzze!
And BTW
HAPPY KWANZAA!
" "Nobody else is writing about it, but it is out there - a very deep and widespread subculture," Salkin said. "I think it has to do with a need for tolerance and a holiday where you don't exclude anybody." "
Why feel excluded? Christmas isn't an exclusive club for practicing Christians. If you're not Christian, then enjoy the holiday on other merits than the religion aspect! Nothing is stopping you. I can enjoy Halloween without being a pagan or practicing witchcraft. If you feel excluded it's only because you've excluded yourself. I could go to France, if I were to ever want to go there again which I doubt, and feel a part of Bastille Day if I let myself or I could go to Israel and feel a part of Hannukah if I wanted. Or I could just pout and say it doesn't apply to me and be bitter and accuse others of excluding me. But the truth is it's only my attitude that would have excluded me.
Wow. If that isn't worth celebrating, what is?
"With all of the things that now make the Christmas season about political correctness, over-commercialization and greed, it is refreshing that Festivus separates itself from that," said Coe, who has been celebrating the fictional holiday for five years.
Coe said he bought the aluminum pole - a centerpiece of Festivus celebrations - a few years ago at Home Depot for $5. However, merchants are now selling them online for almost $40. "I wish we had thought of that at the time," Blake Coe said, laughing.
I guess the "over-commercialization and greed" really bothers him.
I heard an interview of the author on a local radio station. He said what his family , " practiced " , isn't quite what you see on Seinfeld, but, that's TV for you.
Why not put a pole from floor to ceiling in the bedroom and celebrate festivus all year round?
Keep in mind that "Seinfeld" was written by Larry David, "star" of the awful "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and one of Hollywood's leading Jewish Leftists.
Happy Ramahannakwanzmas. woot!
Kwanzaa was also invented in 1966, by Ron Karenga (aka Dr. Maulana Ron Karenga).
Both equally worthy of derision, but Festivus is at least funny. Must have been something in the air or water back in 1966.