Thursday, December 23, 2010

Festivus

It is time to rally around a pole aluminum, talk to your loved ones all the ways you disappoint, fighting the boss of the family.

   So - is "Festivus" secular party was first introduced in the popular culture in the hit television series Seinfeld 1990th

   Festivus is actually practiced by the family of former "Seinfeld" writer Daniel O'Keefe in the 1960s and celebrated as a special family tradition every 23rd December.

   In the year 1997 "Seinfeld" episode "The Strike" character Frank Costanza, Kramer said he invented the holiday when his children were small and found in a tug of war with another buyer branches doll for Christmas.

   "As we noted slow strokes with him, I realized that I needed a better way, " said Frank. Frank coined the slogan "A Festivus for the rest of us. "

   The party traditions such as the "dissemination of grievances, " which is produced during the Festivus dinner, each person everyone says that all forms or they have disappointed last year. The symbol of the party? An aluminum unadorned "Festivus pole."

   After lunch, the "heroic deeds" by including the struggle of the household head on the floor. The game ends when the household is fixed.

   Festivus celebrants were called "other means"to leave without celebrating adopted at its pressure, the stress and commercialism.

   "People want something that is not nothing," Allen Salkin, author of "Festivus: The Holiday for the Rest of Us. ", a book that the birth of the party, CNN.com Chronicles "All parties to exclude traditional anybody but with him, "while the joke."

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