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bigkahuna past-moderator Offline Posts: 3894 Delaware, USA Gender:	Who's celebrating Festivus this year? Dec 8^th, 2005 at 1:11am Any fellow celebrants out there?
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bigkahuna past-moderator Offline Posts: 3894 Delaware, USA Gender:	Re: Who's celebrating Festivus this year? Reply #1 - Dec 8^th, 2005 at 3:16am Festivus is a celebration for the rest of us. Any one who doesn't feel quite in tune with the current holiday fare.
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beaverbutt8 Ex Member	Re: Who's celebrating Festivus this year? Reply #2 - Dec 8^th, 2005 at 2:31pm Quote: What's Festivus? Festivus is a holiday that George Costanza's dad, on the TV show, sienfeld made up
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Douglas_The_Black Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Hakkaa päälle! Posts: 3491 Salineville Ohio Gender:	Re: Who's celebrating Festivus this year? Reply #3 - Dec 8^th, 2005 at 6:33pm ah yes i remmember now. they had a pole or something didnt they? and whats his name use to get dolls? I dont watch the show but my brother does.
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Re: Who's celebrating Festivus this year?
Reply #4 - Dec 8^th, 2005 at 7:57pm

Actually, my dad and I put up the pole on the evening of the third, and on the 11Th, when we have our Big Damn Festivus Feast, we hold our airing of grievences (I got a lot of problems with you people and you're going to hear it!) and the Feats of Strength. This year, it's dad versus my younger sister, Should be a good fight. Mom ain't quite in on the Festivus spirit, and my sister may try to think of a way to excuse herself from the FOS. Dad and I, though, we love Festivus.

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bigkahuna past-moderator Offline Posts: 3894 Delaware, USA Gender:	Re: Who's celebrating Festivus this year? Reply #5 - Dec 9^th, 2005 at 12:04am MammotHunter your celebration description warms my heart
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Chaotic Rage Senior Member Offline Vous etes saoul! Posts: 465 Gender:	Re: Who's celebrating Festivus this year? Reply #6 - Dec 9^th, 2005 at 11:03am Yes! Festivus certainly is a great holiday. I don't put anything on the tree, though. I find tinsel distracting.
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Re: Who's celebrating Festivus this year?
Reply #7 - Dec 9^th, 2005 at 12:08pm

Precisely! that's why we have the bare aluminum pole up. High strength to weight ratio, you see. Well, to be honest, we also have the Christmas tree up. Despite how Dad and I feel about the direction Christmas has been taken, Mom and my sister, Chris, both insisted we have a tree. Ironic, really. We all spent the better part of the afternoon and evening looking for, buying, cutting, wrapping and setting up and decorating the tree, and I spent all of two minutes setting up a 5-foot aluminum pole.

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Douglas_The_Black Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Hakkaa päälle! Posts: 3491 Salineville Ohio Gender:	Re: Who's celebrating Festivus this year? Reply #8 - Dec 9^th, 2005 at 12:49pm people these days eh? always want to go the hard way.
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Re: Who's celebrating Festivus this year?
Reply #9 - Dec 9^th, 2005 at 11:07pm

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Actually, my dad and I put up the pole on the evening of the third, and on the 11Th, when we have our Big Damn Festivus Feast, we hold our airing of grievences (I got a lot of problems with you people and you're going to hear it!) and the Feats of Strength. This year, it's dad versus my younger sister, Should be a good fight. Mom ain't quite in on the Festivus spirit, and my sister may try to think of a way to excuse herself from the FOS. Dad and I, though, we love Festivus.

Ah yes, i remember from sienfeld:

"It's time for FEATS OF STRENGTH ON FESTIVUS!!!!!"

lol. Personally, i don't celebrate it. It's a pointless, dumb holiday. But it was quite funny on sienfeld Cheesy

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bigkahuna past-moderator Offline Posts: 3894 Delaware, USA Gender:	Re: Who's celebrating Festivus this year? Reply #10 - Dec 10^th, 2005 at 2:18am Oh, I suppose you feel the same way about Talk Like A Pirate Day also, Humm?
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Reply #11 - Dec 10^th, 2005 at 10:47am

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Oh, I suppose you feel the same way about Talk Like A Pirate Day also, Humm? Angry

Yeah, and "pebble awarness" day, and "steel mill awarness day" and "brother's day" and "AIDS awareness day" and New Years, and "Bush is bad" day and "Plant a tree" day and "Hilary duff's birthday" and "play outside" day and "Chinese newyear" and "Communist awareness" day and "Worship Mao Zedong" day ( perfect for freaks ) and "Rodney King awareness day" ( that's where we talk about how evil the L.A.P.D is Tongue

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Re: Who's celebrating Festivus this year?
Reply #12 - Dec 10^th, 2005 at 11:16am

Festivus isn't pointless. It's about snubbing the rabid commercialist orgy that americans and others have made of Christmas, and returning to simpler, more toned down holiday celebrations, and celebrating the spirit of the thing, not the amount of loot you can rake in. trust me, I was out on Black Friday,and I was severely disappointed in the kind of behaviour I saw out of those people. Grown adults trampling each other, to death, in some places, just to save some money.

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Douglas_The_Black Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Hakkaa päälle! Posts: 3491 Salineville Ohio Gender:	Re: Who's celebrating Festivus this year? Reply #13 - Dec 10^th, 2005 at 8:09pm man did you hear about those xbox360? People have just come short of killing each other for them.
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beaverbutt8 Ex Member	Re: Who's celebrating Festivus this year? Reply #14 - Dec 10^th, 2005 at 8:41pm Quote: man did you hear about those xbox360? People have just come short of killing each other for them. Haha! That's amusing - if they're dumb enough to do so, i'm not gonna be pittying them if they do
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