Sales of Festivus Poles has grown by almost 20-fold since 2004.

Another missed opportunity. Dang.

Pathetic!

To hell with that. I'm celebrating Boxing day with the Canuks.

Pathetic!

#2 | Posted by _2112_ at 2008-12-23 11:43 AM | Reply | Flag:

Interest in Festivus has be waning in recent years.....
www.google.com

#3 | Posted by AndreaMackris

Hopefully you've both asked Santa to put a sense of humor in your stockings this year.

The War on Festivus is getting nasty out there.

I wonder if O'Lielly will adopt the War on Festivus as his faux outrage dujour.

''He told me it wasn't a stripper pole,'' she says sheepishly -- her first guess because she had never seen the classic sitcom

...where he should have said after she gyrated all over it, oops, my bad it IS a festivus pole!

.....and of course gave her a passing grade.

Hey! My wife is the only one who gyrates on MY stripper pole!
And YES, Virginia-she gets passing Grade-an A to be exact.....

Hopefully you've both asked Santa to put a sense of humor in your stockings this year.

#5 | Posted by SanAntonioRogue

He tried last year, San...it didn't take-his elves said the only way could put together one that would work in their brains was total reconstruction, of their brains.
I think it has something to do with that free Lobotomy they get for being repub voters...

You do realize the ridiculousness of you commenting on somebody's sense of humor, right Frank?
I mean honestly, you even tried to be funny in your post and everything. How fucking pathetic are you Frank?

TV has way too much influence on the minds of those who watch it.

A fictional sitcom that isn't even real, and people pick up on it.

Humanity has reached a new (lower) level of stupidity.

Dear Santa:

Please add Sluggo to the Needs a Sense of Humor list, along with 2112 and Andrea.

Dear SAR:

They've been naughty, not nice. They get nada.

Sorry. Those are the rules, y'know?

-Santa

Merry Christmas to ALL

including smart bastards and ignorant sluts

If it's Jewish and Christian--

It's called Christmakah.

Everyone have a Blessed Christmas...;o)

TV has way too much influence on the minds of those who watch it.
A fictional sitcom that isn't even real, and people pick up on it.
Humanity has reached a new (lower) level of stupidity.
-Sluggo

Books have too much influence on the minds of those who read them.
A fictional religious text is pieced together by committee to describe a myth set centuries earlier, and people lap it up.
Humanity is continuously pursuing new levels of self-delusion.
-ZombieHunter

Happy festivus.

TV has way too much influence on the minds of those who watch it.

A fictional sitcom that isn't even real, and people pick up on it.

Humanity has reached a new (lower) level of stupidity.

#12 | Posted by Sluggo

That level was reached back in 1988 when Potatoe Quayle (Russet)was whining about TV character Murphy Brown having a baby without having a hubbie.

Now the GOP is thrilled about the Republican VP candidate's daughter doing the same thing in the real world.....

MERRY CHRISTMAS, FUCK YEAH

Festivus. Funny. Love Seinfeld.

TV has way too much influence on the minds of those who watch it.

A fictional sitcom that isn't even real, and people pick up on it.

Humanity has reached a new (lower) level of stupidity.

#12 | Posted by Sluggo at 2008-12-23 04:18 PM

Meh...makes about as much sense as x-mas really...

TV has way too much influence on the minds of those who watch it.

#12 | Posted by Sluggo

It's like that with any media. Santa didn't have reindeer or come down the chimney until the poem "A visit from St. Nicholas was published in 1823.

Sluggo gets a bag of coal.

But, so many put their faith in a work of fiction that was once a teaching myth for students of mysticism, refined, redone into zombie-mind-control by Constantine-the-anal-
retentive.

Or a work of fiction coughed up by a kid who ate one too many Peyote shrooms, creating what would become a church and yes, the storyline of Battlestar Galactica.

Or a failed rug dealer and his yarns.

Or a failed sci-fi writer who laughed all the way to the bank.

Yeah, too many take too much from works of fiction, yeppers.

pathetic: adjective -- (1)people who seek social guidance and approval from '90s sitcom gags; (2) people who drink too much at parties and then repeat lame SNL skits; (3) liberals and Democrats.

It's like that with any media. Santa didn't have reindeer or come down the chimney until the poem "A visit from St. Nicholas was published in 1823.

#22 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2008-12-24 03:34 AM | Reply

And Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer was originally a holiday marketing campaign by Monkey Ward

It is amazing how shallow American culture is. My fav is Halloween. From a handful of crappy movies in the '30s we get our modern versions of witches, vampires, werewolves, etc.

I live in Taiwan and travel throughout Asia and it's also amazing how pervasive American culture has become.

Halloween in Thailand is a lot like Halloween in the U.S., with costumes, candy and parties. Christmas in Taiwan is Santa, Christmas trees, etc. Completely devoid of the spiritual element -- like Episcopalians.

"pathetic: adjective -- (1)people who seek social guidance and approval from '90s sitcom gags; (2) people who drink too much at parties and then repeat lame SNL skits; (3) liberals and Democrats."

Someone is still mad about "I can see Russia from my house."

Festivus... right.

Not a name I grew up with. Comfortable sticking with Christmas for now.

Comfortable sticking with Christmas for now.

I agree. Even though I am an atheist, I recognize Christmas for what it is -- the celebration of Jesus' birth. Just because I don't believe in the fairy tale does not change what the holiday is about. All these silly kwanzas and festivuses are stupid.

Merry Christmas to all!

**** A fictional sitcom that isn't even real, and people pick up on it.
Humanity has reached a new (lower) level of stupidity.
.....#12 | Posted by Sluggo ****

....its no less fake than Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, and all the other bullshit religions.......

GOATMAN

"Festivus" was a fictional holiday conjured up by the writers of the "Seinfeld" TV show. Just a joke.

Festivus" was a fictional holiday conjured up by the writers of the "Seinfeld" TV show

OOPS! I didn't know that. Thanks for the info.

Has everyone forgotten the purpose of Festivus? It is to air your grievences to all those who have disappointed you this year. Seeing as we can't have the feats of strength in person, the least we can do is honor the spirit of telling others here what you think.

TV has way too much influence on the minds of those who watch it.

A fictional sitcom that isn't even real, and people pick up on it.

Humanity has reached a new (lower) level of stupidity.

#12 | Posted by Sluggo

Apparently you're not aware that Christmas as we now know it was invented by the Coca Cola company. And that's not stupid?

""Festivus" was a fictional holiday conjured up by the writers of the "Seinfeld" TV show. Just a joke."

Tammy Bruce was subbing for Laura Ingraham yesterday on her radio show. She brought up this 'news item' and went on for several minutes on how this was obviously a liberal holiday: no presents, just air your grievances...just right for "liberals".

She had used The Googles, and obviously hadn't read far enough to realize it was a joke, or discover the origin. The longer she went on, the more stOOpid she sounded.

Of course, when added to "Bush is a liberal" and "9/11 was Clinton's fault", Bruce's idiocy seemed par for her course.

"Festivus... right.

Not a name I grew up with. Comfortable sticking with Christmas for now"

Gee, imagine that! If you had a more rounded educaion you would have learned that the solstice has been celebrated far longerthan x-mas.Festivus was just a clever move by those who don't celebrate x-mas to not have to be inundated with someone else's belief. People who want to celebrate festivus surely can, those who celebrate x-mas surely can, and those of us who just use the time party and do the devils work so what??

LM

"...those of us who just use the time party and do the devils work so what??"
-LM

Every time you listen to Black Sabbath, God kills a kitten. Same thing with female orgasms. That's what's wrong with you and your pagan orgies. And that's why I will be partaking in them. My roommate has a cat that pisses all over everything it can straddle. Cats carry SARS coronavirus and Toxoplasma. Cats are supposed to be the guardians of the underworld, but it you listen to all the hocus-pocus out there, they apparently do a shitty job.

Piss on the rest of you.

Badeye, you should contribute to the retort more, and I would love to hear your opinion more explicitly stated. That way, I can rape you with reason. Have you ever wondered what it feels like to have your virgin superstitions penetrated by a 12-inch long black copy of Darwin's On the Origin of Species?

Have you ever wondered what it feels like to have your virgin superstitions penetrated by a 12-inch long black copy of Darwin's On the Origin of Species?

#38 | Posted by ZombieHunter at 2008-12-24 11:26 PM | Reply | Flag:

Funny Flag. That's good...Talk dirty to us, zombie.