It's a Festivus miracle!

[TwoGloves]

Happy Festivus everyone! To celebrate, I've made a donation in the name of every SportsJournalists.com member to The Human Fund.

 

[Buck]

It's still Festivus Eve in California, but Happy Festivus.

 

[murphyc]

I have a lot of problems with you people.

 

[Buck]

I find tinsel distracting.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

It's time for the feats of strength.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

Let's not skip the airing of grievances.

I've got a lot of problems with you people!

 

[dooley_womack1]

Festivus for the rest of us!

Actually just saying that because someone had to. Frankly one of the lamer Seinfeld bits, down there with George's fiancee dying of bad envelope glue and the finale.

 

[dixiehack]

Dools, you couldn't smooth a silk sheet with a ... ahh ... ahh ... I lost my train of thought.

 

[TwoGloves]

FESTIVUS IS YOUR HERITAGE!

 

[Chef2]

Happy Festivus everyone! To celebrate, I've made a donation in the name of every SportsJournalists.com member to The Human Fund.

$20,000?

 

[User 1019]

We had a very fun Festivus celebration in Afghanistan, last year. Complete with feats of strength and the airing of grievances. That was a good evening. The skinniest kid in the company pinned our commander (who is a pretty stout guy, but was recovering from the flu). We then blasted one another for things like leaving the computers locked, tying up the free phones, downloading music and eating up all the bandwidth, etc.

 

[TwoGloves]

Happy Festivus everyone! To celebrate, I've made a donation in the name of every SportsJournalists.com member to The Human Fund.

$20,000?

Apiece!

 

[Buck]

Krueger, have you seen the pole?

 

[EStreetJoe]

How often do Festivus, Hanukkah, and Shabbat fall on the same day?
Any of my fellow members of the tribe know if Feats of Strength are permitted on Shabbat? <g>
Additionally, should you do the Airing of the Grievances before or after kiddush and motzi? <g>

 

[TwoGloves]

I'll get the pole out of the crawl space

 

[HejiraHenry]

I'll get the pole out of the crawl space

So to speak.

 

[TwoGloves]

Sad day. The pole is going back into the crawl space for another year ...

 

[NickMordo]

No offense, Frank, but this holiday is a little [trumpet noise]

 

[Birdscribe]

How often do Festivus, Hanukkah, and Shabbat fall on the same day?
Any of my fellow members of the tribe know if Feats of Strength are permitted on Shabbat? <g>
Additionally, should you do the Airing of the Grievances before or after kiddush and motzi? <g>

Not that I'm a rabbinic school graduate or anything, ESt., but I'm guessing the feats of strength aren't permitted on the Shabbat.

I'd go with airing the grievances after the Motzi. Easy transition there.

And Dools, with you on the Susan dying from bad envelope glue, but Festivus is brilliant. Last Thanksgiving weekend, we were in Ventura County for one of my daughter's soccer tournaments. After her games that day, we were back in the hotel room cleaning up before dinner and flipped on Seinfeld.

The Festvus episode was on and everything stopped. We were supposed to meet a bunch of the other soccer families in the lobby before dinner. Well, we weren't going anywhere until the episode was done. I ignored five, six, seven texts wondering where the hell we were, but I kept stalling them and stalling them.

Certain Seinfeld episodes can do that. That was one of them.

 

[waterytart]

How often do Festivus, Hanukkah, and Shabbat fall on the same day?
Any of my fellow members of the tribe know if Feats of Strength are permitted on Shabbat? <g>

Not that I'm a rabbinic school graduate or anything, ESt., but I'm guessing the feats of strength aren't permitted on the Shabbat.

Hagbah, anyone?