Time to celebrate DU 💥 HAPPY FESTIVUS! 🌝

[underpants]

[róisín_dubh]

1. I got a lotta problems with you people.

Ahh I love festivus. My feats of strength have been accomplished already and now I'm ready to air some grievances.

[librechik]

3. Happy Festivus--ironic considering grievance is the major mood

Everybody's steamed, not just the pudding.

But have it your way. Happy Festivus indeed...

Now about that new mattress, Santa. My back is killing me! Why didn't you fix it last year when you had all that free time?

Don't get me started.

[underpants]

4. Reminds me

Gotta go out to the garage and get some lifting in.

[2naSalit]

2. For therestofus!

[colorado_ufo]

6. I did everything but get the pole!

That was too taxing.

[Cozmo]

7. Let's have an airing of the grievances!

[Probatim]

8. A house down the street from me puts their Festivus pole in the front yard each year.

It brightens my day when I drive past it.

[TlalocW]

9. underpants...

I'm disappointed that you didn't learn to ride a unicycle this year. Dis-a-ppointed.

TlalocW

[underpants]

10. 😆

I actually did get one one year when I was a kid. Never figured it out.

[spike jones]

11. I read a book about the TV show Seinfeld. It was interesting because

it tells how a lot of the story lines got written. Many were from the cast’s and writer’s family, friends, and acquaintances personal experiences.

One writer’s father invented the holiday Festivus in 1966 as a family tradition and to be celebrated as an alternate to other holidays, not just Christmas. There were many rituals in the celebration, some of them were included in the show, some were not. One that was not included was the traditional hand-painted cardboard sign on the mantle that read, “FUCK FASCISM.

[underpants]

12. Yes, the episode's writer's father Daniel O'Keefe

I didn’t know about the sign. That’s awesome.

Daniel was an editor at Readers Digest for 30 years
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_O%27Keefe_(writer)

Festivus was conceived by author and editor Daniel O'Keefe, the father of TV writer Dan O'Keefe, and was celebrated by his family as early as 1966. While the Latin word fēstīvus means "excellent, jovial, lively",[5] and derives from fēstus, meaning "joyous; holiday, feast day",[6][7][8] Festivus in this sense was coined by the elder O'Keefe. According to him, the name "just popped into my head".[1] In the original O'Keefe tradition, the holiday would take place to celebrate the anniversary of Daniel O'Keefe's first date with his future wife, Deborah.[9] The phrase "a Festivus for the rest of us" originally referred to those remaining after the death of the elder O'Keefe's mother, Jeanette, in 1976; i.e., the "rest of us" are the living, as opposed to the dead.[10][11]

In 1982, Daniel O'Keefe wrote a book, Stolen Lightning: The Social Theory of Magic, that deals with idiosyncratic ritual and its social significance, a theme relevant to Festivus tradition.[12]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festivus

[Deep State Witch]

13. Airing My Grievances:

2021. That is all.

[underpants]

14. 😆😳🎄👋

[Initech]

15. It's another Festivus miracle!