Happy Festivus, everybody!

[Tristan Garrett]

Season's greetings, especially to those of you who are fed up with the commercialism and pressure of the holiday season, or just think there has to be a better way!

I got a lot of problems with you people! 

TG

[Norm]

We''l start with the airing of grievances, followed by feats of strength.

[Hoydie17]

It's ANOTHER FESTIVUS MIRACLE!!!!!

Who's got the Festivus Pole?  I have an old hat rack we can decorate?

[Michael Knight]

When the the term Festivus become popular. I first remember hearing Jerry Stiller use the term on Seinfield.  It seems to me that the term has become much more widely used this year.

[Tristan Garrett]

When the the term Festivus become popular. I first remember hearing Jerry Stiller use the term on Seinfield.  It seems to me that the term has become much more widely used this year.

How can you argue with a holiday formed after a fight over a doll for Frank's son?

I think even the holiday itself has gradually become more popular each year since that episode of Seinfeld aired. It's a nice tongue-in-cheek sort of thing.  There is even a company in Milwaukee that sells plain extruded aluminum rods (very high strength-to-weight ratio) as Festivus poles.

"Read that poem."
"I can't read it, I need my glasses."
"You don't need glasses! You're just weak! You're weak!"
"Leave him alone!"

TG

[Michael Knight]

My college gave out awful looking shirts for a fall festival. The shirts were screen printed with what appeared to be Jerry Stiller's face on the back. The message was: Fall Festivus 2007, See you at the pole!

[Norm]

Frank Costanza: Many Christmases ago, I went to buy a doll for my son. I reached for the last one they had, but so did another man. As I rained blows upon him, I realized there had to be another way.

Cosmo Kramer: What happened to the doll?

Frank Costanza: It was destroyed. But out of that a new holiday was born: a Festivus for the rest of us!

Cosmo Kramer:  That must have been some doll.

Frank Costanza: She was...