Is saying "Happy Festivus" appropriate?

[HEyHEY]

I don't think it is.

[JVS]

1. My policy is the following.

If you don't know a person well enough to know which holidays he/she observes, then you don't know them well enough to sincerely wish them a happy (Fill in the blank)

[HEyHEY]

2. Not even festivus for the rest of us?

[trof]

3. Goddam right it is!

Festivus For The Rest Of Us!

[JVS]

4. I agree festivus is a solemn event, focusing on grievances and feats of...

strength.

[BlueJazz]

5. LOL! (I'd forgotton about that part) n/t

[trof]

7. Is it "feets" of strenght, or "feats"?

On Seinfeld it was oral/aural, so you couldn't tell.
Could they have really meant kick-boxing, a la that Belgian guy whose name esacpes me right now?

[JVS]

9. feats

feets isn't a word. The plural of foot is feet

[trof]

10. You obviously never heard

"Feets don't fail me now."
- Birmingham Brown or possibly Stepin Fetchit

[HEyHEY]

8. My favourite is getting the family around the table

and telling them all how they dissapointed you that year

[mark414]

11. the airing of grievances

[HEyHEY]

13. Ah yes....give me a nice warm feeling

[JVS]

14. My pastor's family had a similar Slovak-Lutheran tradition

His father was a pastor and one of the customs carried over by his grandfather was that before going to church on Christmas Eve members of the family had to confess to each-other how they had wronged each other over the previous year and they would forgive one another. It was kind of like a reverse "airing of grievances"

[HEyHEY]

15. Yikes sounds like a good way to start a dust-up

[JVS]

18. Well apologizing in a self serving manner was forbidden

none of that "I'm sorry that you were such an idiot that I had to kick your ass" stuff, just the "I have failed to be as good a brother/son/father as I should have been, in particular I regret having done (insert regretted action here)"

[HEyHEY]

20. Dang, Passive Aggressive apologies are my specialties!

[MissBrooks]

17. Solemn Event?

<i>"I agree festivus is a solemn event, focusing on grievances and feats of..."</i>

PLEASE tell me you are kidding me!?
WTF are you talking about?
Festivus is a joke!

[JVS]

19. A joke to us outsiders, but the manner in which it was conducted...

indicates a holiday of a serious nature, not a celebration

[Tyrone Slothrop]

24. Festivus is an actual (sort of) holiday and has been around for

many years according to this weekend's New York Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/19/fashion/19FEST.html

It has taken on a life of its own since it was on Seinfeld.

[wtmusic]

6. Not unless you ever gave a shit about "Seinfeld" n/t

[rooboy]

12. I'm actually going down to buy my aluminium pole today. n/t

[arwalden]

16. I'm Gonna Start Saying "Homo-Christmas" and "Queer-Tidings"

I can be just as in-your-face as these over-the-top activist zealots are. Christian chauvinism just irks the hell out of me.

[Baja Margie]

21. Yes, of course it is.

[Kokonoe]

22. I like the sound of it.

[progressoid]

23. Maybe you should wait until Dec23 and then...