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	Dec 23: Festivus

egsnyder

12-22-2008 9:32 AM

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diversity, holidays, calendar, calendarwallah

egsnyder says:

An annual holiday which was popularized on the Seinfeld TV show on Dec 23, 1997.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f534ef51-4688-4b80-a28d-e51c84df4827/15D8ECBA-284A-42EA-B180-A74F50138E18/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festivus" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festivus" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festivus"><B>Festivus</B> is an annual holiday created by writer Dan O'Keefe and 
introduced into popular culture by his son Daniel, a scriptwriter for the TV 
show <I><A title=Seinfeld href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seinfeld">Seinfeld</A></I>.<SUP 
class=reference id=cite_ref-ljworld_0-0><A title="" 
href="#cite_note-ljworld-0"><SPAN>[</SPAN>1<SPAN>]</SPAN></A></SUP><SUP 
class=reference id=cite_ref-nytimes_1-0><A title="" 
href="#cite_note-nytimes-1"><SPAN>[</SPAN>2<SPAN>]</SPAN></A></SUP> Although the 
original Festivus took place in February 1966 as a celebration of O'Keefe's 
first date with his wife, Deborah,<SUP class=reference 
id=cite_ref-nytimes_1-1><A title="" 
href="#cite_note-nytimes-1"><SPAN>[</SPAN>2<SPAN>]</SPAN></A></SUP> many people 
now celebrate the holiday on <A title="December 23" 
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_23">December 23</A>, as depicted on the <A 
title="December 18" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_18">December 18</A>, <A title=1997 
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997">1997</A> <I>Seinfeld</I> episode "<A class=mw-redirect 
title="The Strike (Seinfeld episode)" 
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Strike_(Seinfeld_episode)">The Strike</A>".<SUP class=reference 
id=cite_ref-ljworld_0-1><A title="" 
href="#cite_note-ljworld-0"><SPAN>[</SPAN>1<SPAN>]</SPAN></A></SUP><SUP 
class=reference id=cite_ref-2><A title="" 
href="#cite_note-2"><SPAN>[</SPAN>3<SPAN>]</SPAN></A></SUP> </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festivus">The holiday includes novel practices such as the "Airing of Grievances", in 
which each person tells everyone else all the ways they have disappointed him or 
her over the past year. Also, after the Festivus meal, the "Feats of Strength" 
are performed, involving wrestling the head of the household to the floor, with 
the holiday ending only if the head of the household is actually <A 
title="Pin (amateur wrestling)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pin_(amateur_wrestling)">pinned</A>. 
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