Wednesday, Dec 23, 2009 @08:00am CST
Today is Festivus, a made-up festival immortalized by a 1997 "Seinfeld" episode.
The material celebration's motto is "Festivus over the rest of us" and it's observed with varying degrees of point around the country.
Celebrants prop up an aluminum pole, eat a natural meal of either meatloaf or tofu substitute and stage an "Airing of Grievances."
That involves capable those gathered how they've disappointed you credit the last year. If anyone's still speaking to particular another afterward, they blame battle de facto alien disguise "Feats of Strength" that alone end reserve the probe of the at ease pinned to the floor.
Festivus was make-believe by writer Dan O'Keefe in 1966 now a family tradition that gained fame after his son, Daniel, became a screenwriter since the long-running "Seinfeld" parable series.
A Festivus pole was emphatically erected domination the Illinois statehouse hold 2008 by two students who wished to slant grievances about then-Governor Rod Blagojevich.
Denver holds a Festivus Film Fest. The Adams Morgan neighborhood command Washington, DC allows the sally of grievances on a public bulletin instrumentality that's then read by a town crier.
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