Evil little boys and girls better watch out.
We are one week away from the all the adventures of Festivus! I look forward to watching The Strike as I do every year to restore the beginning of this average holiday.
" Frank: Many Christmases ago, I went to buy a doll for my son. I reached for the last one they had, but so did another man. As I rained blows upon him, I realized there had to be another way.
Kramer: What happened to the doll?
Frank: It was destroyed. But out of that a new holiday was born. A Festivus for the rest of us.
Kramer: That must have been some kind of doll.
Frank: She was."
I canât wait to make fatty melts and have home made beer. And due to Coronavirus, our yearly flaming pizza box run will have to be postponed until the following Festivus!
Does anyone else have any Festivus traditions? Does anyone else even have a clue what Iâm talking about? Are there at least any other Seinfeld fans out there?
Our flaming pizza box started 15 years ago at my buddyâs house. Itâs as dangerous as it sounds. In a crowd of probably 25+ of us fairly intoxicated youngsters, in the middle of my buddyâs living room, we set the top of a pizza box on fire and he needs to run it out the front door through the crowd and throw it into the snow bank before we have a big problem.
Itâs a wonderful tradition.
And fatty-melts â we use grilled cheese sandwiches as a bun for the bacon/cheddar burger. And a bunch of us (not me) brew beer that we all embrace.
Upon entry into the house/apartment wherever we have Festivus, you are given a number at random for the gift retrieval. After (hopefully) surviving the pizza box, plenty of beer (sometimes good) and copious airing of grievances about each other and the world as a whole, my buddy hands out presents by number. One year I got a womenâs left boot. Another year, was a rubix cube! All items are purchased at a local consignment shop with a maximum dollar figure of $5. You get what you get.
Itâs such a glorious holiday. My wife actually likes Christmas so we do that now too. But I wanted to share a bit of my real favorite holiday. Thereâs a Festivus for the rest of us!
This is the first time putting up a Christmas Tree in our house. We moved into our house last year at this time. Because of how late it was in the season and we could not find the box it was in, we did not put it up last year.
Now I am wishing for the impossible in Thailand. Please let it snow. Just for a couple of hours, and then you can go away.
Create a small diorama on your kitchen counter. Insert reasonable of icing sugar in a sifter. Set up your phone as video cam, and sift contents over the diorama - sing LET IT SNOW while sifting.
Tasty cleanup too!
Ah, Christmas. I must say I have some fond memories of Christmas from when I was just a wee lad.
For example, my father used to dress as Santa Claus and come to see me. But even as a child, I could always tell it was him:
my dad as Santa
And also, I remember my favorite Christmas toy, a battery operated Rudolph:
rare footage of my childhood
So many fond memoriesâŚ
And you came of that ok?? That Rudolph action was scary!
Sure, Iâm perfectly normal.
(Why are you all rolling your eyes?)
Weâre not sure normal is a good thing to be!
I always knew that by looking at your art work!
I hope you all let everyone know how you truly feel today. And for those of you canât take the regular holidays. Youâre always welcome to join in. A festivus for the rest of us. Thank you Frank Costanza for destroying that doll.
Any of you wearing cringy christmas sweaters?
Iâm wearing a star wars themed one