# Happy Festivus

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-festivus/221192>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 27, 2003, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-festivus/221192 "2003-12-27T01:00:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![DarthTurk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@DarthTurk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarthTurk)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-festivus/221192/1 "2003-12-27T01:00:15Z")

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\<Seinfeld reference\>Did any of you Dopers bask in the beauty of the Festivus pole and partake in the Feats of Strength?\</Seinfeld reference\>

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**Author:** ![danixa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5daacb/32.png) [@danixa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danixa)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-festivus/221192/2 "2003-12-27T02:16:38Z")

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Festivus for the rest of us. 🙂 Happy Festivus!

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**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-festivus/221192/3 "2003-12-27T02:27:44Z")

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I must say, I’ve been very disappointed with all of you this past year.

😉

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**Author:** ![danixa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5daacb/32.png) [@danixa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danixa)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-festivus/221192/4 "2003-12-27T02:35:54Z")

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You’re a little late, though, it’s celebrated on December 23rd. 😃 I’ve found two pages on Festivus: [here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festivus) and [here](http://www.karber.net/seinfeld/festivus/default.htm).

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**Author:** ![Marine\_One](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marine_one/32/3461_2.png) [@Marine\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marine_One)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-festivus/221192/5 "2003-12-27T02:36:50Z")

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- I lifted Uncle Phil for 23 seconds.
- 7 feet of 4 inch aluminum tubing for the Pole this year. With accents of orange, red and purple.
- I continued a family tradition of contributing to the Human Fund.
- I gotta lot of issues with you, DarthTurk!!!

We must remember those who are oppressed and aren’t allowed to celebrate Festivus. Who amongst us hasn’t felt the suffering of little children on this day…without…a pole of their own.  
Those poor souls without any Grievances to Air…their hate boiling over like a festering bowl of pus.

Yes, Virginia, there is Festivus. It’s in our hearts, our minds, our spleens…  
It lives, just a surely as the waving wheat sure smells sweet, as the wind comes right behind the rain.  
Please sir, can I have some more?? Yes, more Festivus! More Festivus indeed…for whom amongst us can deny the joy, the miracle…nay…the cream-filled delight of THE most sweat inducing holiday of them all!

I cried because I had no shoes…until I saw a man who had no Festivus.

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**Author:** ![Chimpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@Chimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimpy)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-festivus/221192/6 "2003-12-27T13:22:26Z")

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Yes Happy Festivus: Feats of Strength. Poles. Grievences aired. 'tis all good.