Posted on 12/09/2008 10:47:37 AM PST by Snickering Hound
OLYMPIA, Wash. - State officials, besieged by requests for more seasonal displays at the state Capitol, have approved several more - including a "Festivus" display honoring a faux holiday popularized by TV comedian Jerry Seinfeld.
The new display requests come on top of an anti-religion placard, a Christmas tree and a Christian nativity scene erected earlier this week and a pro-religion sign added Friday.
The state General Administration, which runs the state Capitol building, have OK'd four of the requests so far:
- On Saturday, Dec. 6: A balloon nativity shelter from a private citizen.
- On Sunday, Dec. 7: A demonstration by a group called "Private Citizens of Federal Way" against the atheistic sign will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. on the front steps.
- On Monday, Dec 8: A display will go up in the capitol from the Washington Values Alliance.
- On Wednesday, Dec 10: A Festivus display from a private citizen.
According to the online reference Wikipedia, Festivus is an annual holiday invented by writer Dan O'Keefe and introduced into popular culture by his son Daniel, a scriptwriter for the TV show Seinfeld.
Most people now celebrate the holiday on Dec. 23, as depicted on the December 18, 1997, Seinfeld episode "The Strike."
The holiday includes novel practices such as the "Airing of Grievances", in which each person tells everyone else all the ways they have disappointed him or her over the past year.
A demonstration against a sign? Sheesh....
Well, if you can’t prevent a holiday or display (speech, music, whatever), drown it with alternative noise.
Does the Festivus display include a shiny pole?
LOL!
This reminds me of when Moses was up on the mountain receiving the ten commandments and those below where creating idols of gold, raping, getting ripped with drink etc . . . and God was furious with them. They found out soon enough just how furious. Many of these folks are just so far gone from the foundation of what God desires for us and intends not unlike the group at the base (emphasis double entendre—base) of the mountain.
Made of aluminum because it has a high strength to weight ratio!
“I gotta lot of problems with you people!”
Yes, but only one reindeer, dancer. 
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Enjoy the Dark Ages!
Festivus isn’t over until you pin me.
Next up: the feats of strength!
George Costanza- every bit as absurd and with just as much gravitas as our president select. But a lot more entertaining.
WA ping
I believe the guy doing it WILL have a Fesitivus pole. And he is doing it to mock the atheist sign and the PC attitude of the State. The pole should probably come with a /S symbol somewhere.
I thought it was too late to submit for permission for a display. I thought that a good one would be a Satan Worshipping altar or something (diversity and all that) - but I’m not into that type of thing so not sure if they “celebrate” anything this time of year.
Perhaps I could do more of a Druid/Wiccan thing - what with the tree-worship and all.
FRANK: And at the Festivus dinner, you gather your family around, and you tell them all the ways they have disappointed you over the past year.
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