While there may be humor in the Pit, that forum is really for airing grievances that you just HAVE to let out. I don’t think that we really NEED another thread in which people people are looking for reasons to bitch to each other. In other words, I’d really rather not, as I can foresee it getting out of hand really quickly.
Lynn
Can you leave the aluminum pole outside? It strikes me as the sort of thing kids might want to try to touch with their tongues in sub freezing conditions.
I do seem to recall that lamps like the one the kid’s dad got were available somewhere online.
I thought so Lynn, that’s why I thought it better to ask first. In retrospective, it would be rather uncool.
Thanks for the answer 
Just so you guys know, I put up at Festivus pole at work today. We all had a good laugh! It was another Festivus miracle!
Sounds like a “Feat of Strength” to me!
Los Angeles Channel 13 reran this episode on Tuesday, 17 Dec.
Who says there isn’t a God?
Yeah I saw it for the first time last night. After reading this thread, it was so bizarre hearing the characters say the lines out loud. Though they pretty much said them the same way I imagined it.
Great episode, that. We are SO celebrating Festivus at my house this year!!
That episode was also amazingly dense, i.e., loaded with intertwined plotlines: Jerry and the woman who looks different in every light, Kramer going back to H&H Bagels, George making donations to The Human Fund (“Money for People”), Elaine and the fake phone numbers, etc.
Wow, I can’t believe that was all one episode! The miracle of Festivus continues…
You could use Bobunk, the holiday from Sabrina the Teenage witch. Since a magic spell made it go away so that nobody would remember it, they can’t compain that it is over. So say to that stranger, “Hello! And Joyous Bobunk as well, dear friend.”
That’s what was so good about Seinfeld. The plots always intertwined together in such subtle ways.
Just so you all know, I’ve made a donation to The Human Fund in everyone’s name in this thread.
I’m going to a Festivus party this Saturday! (It’s the closest we could get to the 23rd.)
Oh, there’ll eating, drinking, Airing of the Grievances, then some shouting, more drinking, the Feats of Strength, followed by thirst-quenching drinks, and finally, wild unrestrained dancing around the “aluminum”* pole! Oh, the joy of the season!
*It’s aluminium to us; hearing “aluminum” is inexplicably hilarious.
I am sooo jealous!!! I need to throw a Festivus party one day. Let us know how it went. I need details so I can throw my own Festivus party!
So did I. Didn’t you see the card?
whilst dancing, don’t forget the thumbs and the kicks! (Elaine syle)
A. As the self-declared SDMB Official Semi-Religious Jew*, I personally grant you a dispensation to kick firmly, in the butt, any Jew who has the “I don’t celebrate Christmas! I’m not Christian!” standard-amongst-some-moron-Jews hissyfit. You may remind them that we are (or should be) commanded to not have hissyfits when someone offers honest good wishes.
B. There is no point B. I just like lists.
Fenris
*By me. I just so declared.