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getalife Dec 23 2005 08:42 AM

Today is Festivus! Bring your gripes here at 10:00 am sharp. There will be booze and plenty to eat.

ScarletKnight41 Dec 23 2005 09:02 AM

When are the Feats of Strength? [url=http://www.seinfeld-fan.net/festivus.php]Festivus[/url]

Frayed Knot Dec 23 2005 09:14 AM

My first gripe is that I don't feel like waiting until 10:00 AM to air my gripes.

Willets Point Dec 23 2005 09:32 AM

My gripe is that Seinfeld was never that funny, and it's even less funny to have people still making "ha-ha" references to it years after the show ended.

cooby Dec 23 2005 09:32 AM

Close enough to 10 am. While I was checking out Edgy's link in the Rudolph vs Santa thread, my pop up blocker logged 6 popups

Yancy Street Gang Dec 23 2005 09:49 AM

Willets Point wrote: My gripe is that Seinfeld was never that funny, and it's even less funny to have people still making "ha-ha" references to it years after the show ended. I loved the early episodes, but I stopped watching years before the series ended. I don't recall at what point it jumped the shark, but I seem to remember the last episode I watched before the camel's back broke had something to do with Elaine and muffins.

getalife Dec 23 2005 10:02 AM

>>>it's even less funny to have people still making "ha-ha" references to it years after the show ended.<<< How'd you like a Festivus pole sho - uh, never mind. Willets is out, make sure he gets no food or drinks.

Willets Point Dec 23 2005 10:02 AM

Sorry to be the grinch who killed Festivus, I should just butt out of this thread.

Johnny Dickshot Dec 23 2005 10:44 AM

Grievances: * Come Festivus, rental car rates are f'ing ridiculous. * The transit strike finally ends, but I forget my Metrocard at home. * I think all the excitement over pitchers & catchers reporting is overblown and makes the months of February and March (which even in a world without baseball are easily the 2 worst months of the year) even longer.

ScarletKnight41 Dec 23 2005 10:48 AM

Seinfeld - I LOVED the first five seasons. I lived on the West Side at the time, and I felt that these crazy people could have been living down the hall from me. It jumped the shark when Larry David left the show, and the last two seasons were not at all funny (and the final season was downright painful). Grievances - I spend so much energy coordinating gifts, schedules, etc., that by the time the holidays come I'm just looking forward to being done with them. Tom Lehrer's Christmas song - Christmas time is here, by golly, Disapproval would be folly. Deck the halls with hunks of holly, Fill the cup and don't say when. Kill the turkeys, ducks and chickens, Mix the punch, drag out the Dickens. Even though the prospect sickens, Brother, here we go again. On Christmas Day you can't get sore, Your fellow man you must adore. There's time to rob him all the more The other three hundred and sixty-four. Relations, sparing no expense, 'll Send some useless old utensil, Or a matching pen and pencil. ("Just the thing I need, how nice!") It doesn't matter how sincere it is, Nor how heart felt the spirit, Sentiment will not endear it, What's important is the price. Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things. God rest ye merry merchants, May ye make the Yuletide pay. Angels we have heard on high, Tell us to go out and buy! So, let the raucous sleighbells jingle, Hail our dear old friend Kris Kringle, Driving his reindeer across the sky. Don't stand underneath when they fly by.

Yancy Street Gang Dec 23 2005 11:29 AM

Johnny Dickshot wrote: I think all the excitement over pitchers & catchers reporting is overblown and makes the months of February and March (which even in a world without baseball are easily the 2 worst months of the year) even longer. I agree. I'd be excited about pitchers and catchers if I was a baseball reporter and I was able to escape to Florida when the camps opened. But as a fan stuck up north, it's Opening Day that I anticipate.

KC Dec 23 2005 12:21 PM

The word god is spelled with three letters and contains no -. I swear I want to drive to central NJ and smack someone in back of the head every time she types G-d. That felt good. Now where's the bourbon?

Yancy Street Gang Dec 23 2005 12:25 PM

I've often wondered about the G-d thing.

ScarletKnight41 Dec 23 2005 12:32 PM

It's just that one isn't supposed to spell it out. I know that there's a technicality that it doesn't count on the computer because of the pixels, but it just doesn't feel right to me to spell it out after a lifetime of not doing it. It's probably the only religious thing that I hold onto, but it just doesn't seem right to let go of it.

KC Dec 23 2005 12:39 PM

It still irks the bejes-s out of me. From the Jewish Virtual Library: Judaism does not prohibit writing the Name of God per se; it prohibits only erasing or defacing a Name of God. However, observant Jews avoid writing any Name of God casually because of the risk that the written Name might later be defaced, obliterated or destroyed accidentally or by one who does not know better. Observant Jews avoid writing a Name of God on web sites like this one because there is a risk that someone else will print it out and deface it. To avoid writing the Name, Orthodox Jews (and sometimes other denominations) substitute letters or syllables, for example, writing "G-d" instead of "God." This entry was written by an observant Jew.

Edgy DC Dec 23 2005 12:44 PM

Don't bother me. I've weathered portrayals of Catholics as idolators enough that I need the "G-d" thing to come back with.

Willets Point Dec 23 2005 12:46 PM

Edgy DC wrote: Don't bother me. I've weathered portrayals of Catholics as idolators enough that I need the "G-d" thing to come back with. But we are idolators Edgy! And polytheists since we worship Mary. At least that's what the evangelicals who wanted to convert me from Catholicism to Christianity told me.

ScarletKnight41 Dec 23 2005 12:50 PM

="KC"]It still irks the bejes-s out of me. Then I'm doing my job as a cyber sister ;)

Edgy DC Dec 23 2005 12:53 PM

Yeah, well, I don't worship Her. I mean H-r. I just start speaking jibberish, crossing myself, and splashing them with holy water until they leave me alone. In a pinch, any water will do.

seawolf17 Dec 23 2005 01:20 PM

I thought "God" wasn't the actual name of God, kinda like "H" isn't Jesus Christ's middle initial. I thought it was more of a general-purpose nickname. Kinda like calling him "Duke" or "Sparky."

Willets Point Dec 23 2005 01:27 PM

Don't call me Jeezy Creezy!

TheOldMole Dec 23 2005 01:29 PM

I'm irked that no one calls me "Duke" or "Sparky." Or better yet, "Slick."

seawolf17 Dec 23 2005 01:32 PM

Well, Mole, if you were God, then you could tell everyone to call you "Slick." And we'd have to listen or you could smite us.

ScarletKnight41 Dec 23 2005 01:45 PM

MFS62 Dec 23 2005 01:58 PM

I think it goes back to: "Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord in vain" Many people of all religions have become accustomed to this meaning don't cuss. But Orthodox Jews take this in the way Scarlett mentioned. As a side note, even non-Orthodox Jews never throw out a Bible or prayer book. They are given a burial (usually in the basement of a Synogogue). Later

KC Dec 23 2005 02:50 PM

Not to beat a dead horse, like I'd ever do that, Mrs. Field's is the furthest thing I know from an orthodox jew. Secondly, why does the explanation that's on page one not refer to the ten commandments if this is so? Airing of grievances will end around 4. Then, on to feats of strength as also noted earlier in the thread.

cooby Dec 23 2005 03:13 PM

Are we grieving about each other, or the world in general? Because if it's the latter, my front porch is all icy.

Willets Point Dec 23 2005 03:27 PM

Speaking of which, every time it snows, as per city ordinance, homeowners are required to shovel the sidewalk in front of their house. Now I live on a hill and have to walk up to the top of the hill to get to the bus stop. At the steepest part of the hill there is an empty lot. Now who do you think shovels the sidewalk in front of the empty lot? If you guessed abso-fucking-nobody and that the sidewalk is an icy death trap there, you are correct!

ScarletKnight41 Dec 23 2005 05:02 PM

Well, I was out at 4. Yeah, I'm as far from Orthodox as you can get. Like I said, it's the one thing I hold onto - I just doesn't feel right not to do it.

Elster88 Dec 23 2005 07:32 PM

Edgy DC wrote: I just start speaking jibberish, crossing myself, and splashing them with holy water until they leave me alone. In a pinch, any water will do. Post That Made Me Laugh Out Loud of the Day

Edgy DC Dec 23 2005 08:37 PM

Every time Scarlet uses a "-" now in any context, I'm going to substitute in an "o."

Rockin' Doc Dec 23 2005 08:41 PM

I'm just mad that I was out during the time set aside for airing grievances.

Johnny Dickshot Dec 23 2005 11:19 PM

Perform a feat of strength.

Yancy Street Gang Dec 24 2005 07:03 AM

mlbaseballtalk Dec 26 2005 01:10 PM

Willets Point wrote: My gripe is that Seinfeld was never that funny, and it's even less funny to have people still making "ha-ha" references to it years after the show ended. Festivus actually exists! [url]http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0399532293/ref=pd_bxgy_text_b/002-3062119-4508802?%5Fencoding=UTF8[/url] Dan O'Keefe was the author of the episode "The Strike" where the holiday gets mentioned For sure this will be detailed when the DVD set the episode appears in comes out [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festivus[/url]