Happy Festivus, Homies!

[MrScorpio]

[MrScorpio]

1. Anybody celebrating Festivus today?

Anybody?

[sbj405]

4. I thought Festivus was tomorrow. The 23rd?

http://www.seinfeld-fan.net/festivus.php

[MrScorpio]

5. Then it's Festivus Eve!

Can't wait for midnight

[sbj405]

6. Well then we should get to air one grievance tonight

Sort of like opening one gift on Christmas Eve.

[MrScorpio]

7. I've got plenty

Don't know which one to pick

[Dangerously Amused]

2. Who needs a reason to celebrate when Mr. Scorpio is around?

[SmileyBoy]

3. I got the pole ready... It's time for the Airing of Greivances...

:D

[Maine Mary]

8. I'm Irish -Catholic but can I join?

A Festivus-for-the-Restivus makes alot of Sense! :bounce: ....Whoooo, Whoooo,
What? I already had my celebration, you say?
"Why cant we celebrate all of them"? :party:

[driver8]

9. A friend of mine used to work with the guy that wrote this episode --

here is the story:

The Festivus idea came to the show through writer Dan O'Keefe. His father, Daniel O'Keefe, had invented a Festivus holiday in 1966, including many of the features later included in the Seinfeld episode. The father was inspired in part by the Samuel Beckett play Krapp's Last Tape, whose protagonist tapes himself speaking at different times in his life. The original Airing of Grievances was spoken into a tape recorder, and the O'Keefe family retains some of the tapes. (The father's career as a Reader's Digest editor meant internal politics of that organization are prominently featured; external grievances were permitted.) The O'Keefe tradition did not have a set date, but would take place in response to family tension, "any time from December to May" (Salkin). The phrase "a Festivus for the rest of us" also derived from an O'Keefe family event, the death of the elder O'Keefe's mother. This is not dissimilar from an Irish wake. The holiday made it onto Seinfeld after the writing team was amused by O'Keefe's retelling.

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