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Today is Festivus!

by The Perfessor

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festivus-cardNo, really, today is actually Festivus. Yes, I realize that most of you think that Festivus was just a made-up holiday that we saw on Seinfeld, but apparently (and I just learned this a few moments ago), that is an actual holiday that was made up in 1966 by Dan O'Keefe and introduced into popular culture by his son Daniel, who was a screenwriter for Seinfeld as part of a comical storyline on the show.

(Hey, Kwanzaa is a made up festival, why can’t Festivus be a real “fake” holiday!)

So, as we all know, the holiday’s celebration, as shown on Seinfeld, includes an aluminum Festivus pole, practices such as the Airing of Grievances and the Feats of Strength. All of this information can be found on the Wikipedia web page for Festivus.

Celebrants of the holiday sometimes refer to it as "Festivus for the rest of us", a saying taken from the O'Keefe family traditions and popularized in the "Seinfeld" episode to describe Festivus as "another way" to celebrate the season without participating in its pressures and commercialism.

Today, we here at Cuppacafe, celebrate Festivus for the rest of us.

The Perfessor

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2 Responses to “Today is Festivus!”

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    December 24th, 2009 at 12:14 pm

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    December 24th, 2009 at 9:17 pm

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