festivus
7Doesn’t exactly make sense to say Happy Festivus, that’s not really the point. Here’s hoping you get some grievances aired in a satisfying manner. (Not that there’s any shortage of threads of outrage here in the forums).
Does anyone have a Festivus miracle to share?
Festivus miracles = easily explainable events.
- 15 comments, 25 replies
- Comment
My meh orders of Eneloops AND the power bank fans arrived in time for gifting. It’s a Festivus miracle!!!
(Sorry, @dave, can’t get my finger off of the exclamation point fast enough. Maybe I need another miracle?)
@cranky1950 - iswydt.
@cranky1950 Thanks for the memory and a good laugh.
i really had to go to the bathroom. then i peed. then i didn’t have to go to the bathroom anymore.
it’s a festivus miracle!
@carl669 - Amazing!
this song is a festivus miracle!
Celebrating that Amazon has rights to stream the Beatles catalog. Did not know that.
Alexa, play the Beatles.
@f00l - The Beatles are always miraculous!
@KDemo @f00l
/youtube eating a Beatle
/youtube Beatles eating
@PlacidPenguin
I use Alexa to mediate what sort of Beatles get played in this instance.
Don’t know if it qualifies as a miracle, but 30 years ago my brothers gave me a microwave for Christmas (1986). Still use it pretty much every day and will use it to cook this year’s Christmas dinner.
It’s a Festivus something though.
@lordbowen - Sounds like a miracle to me. Carry on.
So, dead tired, I was driving west on 836 back to Kendall at 2am after an unusually long photo shoot. Headlights were coming right at me and they didn’t waver. I mean right straight at the middle of my van. Then at the last second they began to rise and then they flew right over me. Fuckin miracle. Met my mortality and won. Not to mention that the south runway at Miami International ends at the bend in 836.
@cranky1950 - Festivus miracle for sure,
My father told a story of a lonely desert road and headlights coming toward him in the dark as well. Straight ahead, in his lane, closer and closer until he slammed on the brakes and the two motorcycles split and passed him on either side, I’d say festivus influence, but it hadn’t been invented yet.
I was at the train station, on my way to the airport for x-muss, and they said there was a fire and we had to evacuate, but there wasn’t and we didn’t. And now I’m at the airport! It’s a festivus miracle!
@UncleVinny - Stroke of festivus luck!
Was festivus created for Seinfeld, or was it already a thing?
@RiotDemon “Originally a family tradition of scriptwriter Dan O’Keefe, who worked on the American sitcom Seinfeld, Festivus entered popular culture after it was made the focus of the 1997 episode “The Strike”.”
“Festivus was conceived by author and editor Daniel O’Keefe, the father of TV writer Dan O’Keefe, and was celebrated by his family as early as 1966.”
@cranky1950 went back to a lower case ‘c’.
it’s a festivus miracle!
@carl669 - c? It is a festivus miracle!
I was thinking lately that it was dry and we could use a little rain, and LO! - I wake up on Festivus Morning to rain! It can’t possibly be coincidence.
@rockblossom - Hallelujah!
@rockblossom EEYAYUH!
I managed to find both shoes and they were actually together for once.
@f00l - Thank festivus!
Do your socks match?
@KDemo
Thanks to festivus!
Yes, this once, my socks match.
Seinfeld sucks. Larry David sucks. Feeling fortunate to be well past the pop culture prime of the social tornado that was the Seinfeld show.
@denboy your festivus grievance has been noted. now join us around the festivus pole. we have vodka, tequila and whiskey.
@carl669 with a selection like that, I’m in
@denboy another festivus miracle!
@denboy I was never into those shows either. I didn’t understand the appeal.
@RiotDemon Lame Theory: the appeal of the despicable characters is akin to the appeal of a Maury Povich train wreck.
So many people were so passionate about the show that it was quite entertaining to get all the dumbfounded reactions to my open disdain for it…especially while people were watching or reliving it.
@RiotDemon @denboy - Then I guess festivus isn’t for you. Festivus is for the restofus.
@KDemo the @carl669 version with all the booze could work
@denboy - I’ll bring some gin for basil gimlets. Hurry, the feats of strength are about to start!
@KDemo hope there are some wiry weaklings to compete with
@denboy - No worries. You can probably win by losing.