Festivus Pole Proposed After Wisconsin City Displays Nativity

fox news ^ | 12-17-2007 | ap

[WOBBLY BOB]

GREEN BAY, Wis. — The putting up of a nativity scene at Green Bay's City Hall has prompted a tongue-in-cheek request from a suburban man for permission to display a Festivus pole on the overhang of the building's northwest entrance.

[WOBBLY BOB]

I wonder if they'll have the airing of grievances there. City Hall is a good place for that.

[SoldierMedic]

And the feats of strength. After the airing of grievances, that would be thing I’d most want to see.

[Responsibility2nd]

Festivus.

Why not?

While they’re at it, add in Kwanzaa.

[Bainbridge]

Good idea, that is another holiday made-up by secular Jews!

[lapster]

If Green Bay’s city hall really had the courage to put up a Nativity Scene, I just became a major Packer’s fan. IN the small town where I live (Westminster, MD), there is no longer a Christmas, only a “Holiday.” I’ll be moving this spring.

[theDentist]

And where shall teh “Feats of Strength” be held? And who must be pinned?

[MinuteGal]

I've heard there are more festivus poles in Chicago than there are in Warsaw.

Leni

[A_Tradition_Continues]

“Festivus...for the rest of us.”

[Clemenza]

Whenever we had Christmas at my maternal grandmother’s house, we typically had the “airing of grievances.” Its more entertaining as an observer than as a participant.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

[PBRSTREETGANG]

[Mr. Brightside]

“I’ve got a lot of problems with you people!”

[Cagey]

Good idea, that is another holiday made-up by secular Jews!

They only converted for the jokes.

[MEGoody]

What is a festivus pole? Never heard of it.

[Daffynition]

[BenLurkin]

What a J E R Q U E the guy is.

(Just my opionion of course)

[Rb ver. 2.0]

I keep a jar of Gefilte Fish on the fireplace mantle for the jokes. There’s just something humorous about gelatinous fish cakes.

[Cagey]

Maj. Kevin Romano in Bagram, Afghanistan getting ready for Festivus.

[lapster]

Thank you so much for that graphic. Here is the greeting I am sending out to all of my friends who have the misfortune of living in communities where, like mine, Christmas is no longer tolerated:

HERE’S WISHING YOU AND YOURS A TRULY HAPPY FESTIVUS
AND MAY YOU HAVE UNPARALLELED SUCCESS
IN THE TRADITIONAL FEATS OF STRENGTH

[YOUR GRAPHIC GOES HERE. I DON’T KNOW HOW TO
INSERT IT IN A POST]

Festivus ... for the Rest of Us!

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

A Festivus pole is just an aluminum pole with nothing on it.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Since they’re adding made up religions, they have to include The Feast Of Alvis. Guns, liquor, and revenge.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fub95zdTIE&feature=related

[BunnySlippers]

Wow, that is a nice pole. It has a stand!

[quikdrw]

I can still pin my boys, but they are getting bigger.

[JSDude1]

If this guy actually were to come there to celebrate festivus in public I’d be all for it (but Kramer, I think he is not..)!

[beekay]

A Festivus pole is just an aluminum pole with nothing on it.

What should be protested is that Festivus poles are being disguised as flag poles and being displayed year-round in front of many municipal buildings.

[NordP]

“I’ve got a lot of problems with you people!”

[Larry Lucido]

And don't forget to donate to the Human Fund (c/o my address)! A large donation will be earmarked for Krakatoan relief.

Festivus ping list. If you want to get off, you have to first pin me down, er, something like that.

[Kenton]

Since they’re adding made up religions, they have to include The Feast Of Alvis. Guns, liquor, and revenge.

I guess I'll have to go down to "Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms" and stock up for the holiday. I've never been there before, I'm figuring it's some sort of convenience store.

[NonValueAdded]

I can tell them where to stick that festivus pole too.

[lesser_satan]

[theDentist]

Grrrrrr......

[Ouderkirk]

Kwanzaa is out....Ron Karenga is a rapist and thug and the creator of this abomination known as Kwanzaa. No-one would object to the celebration of authentic african solsice celebrations, but Kwanzaa is about the advancement of communism.

[Larry Lucido]

Anti-Festivite!

[Cagey]

You’re a rabid anti-dentite! Oh, it starts with a few jokes and some slurs. “Hey, denty!” Next thing you know you’re saying they should have their own schools.

[MEGoody]

A Festivus pole is just an aluminum pole with nothing on it.

I looked it up. Seems it a remembrance to the 'god' Seinfeld.

[ontap]

Actually Kwanzaa was made up by Dr. Maulana Karenga, A black racist professor.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

A Festivus pole is just an aluminum pole with nothing on it.

Not alway, I guess.

You'll have to take my word for it, but this is a photo I took of part of the ACTUAL festivus pole that one of our company's high-ranking finance directors has put up outside of his office for the last three years. (Company and name withheld to protect the guilty.)

[F15Eagle]

I find your belief system fascinating!

[Graybeard58]

I can still pin my boys, but they are getting bigger.

Click my screen name and scroll down a ways. I gave up on trying to pin them a long time ago.

[Doctor Raoul]

I’ll celebrate any holiday that includes a meal...

[theDentist]

We DO have our own schools!

[Daffynition]

[incredulous joe]

LOL! Damn straight, “crap” screamer.

[theDentist]

great photo! You’ve a very incisive intellect.

[gracesdad]

Where I live we have a Christmas parade, we light a Christmas tree, and the city-sponsored Dickens of a Christmas festival has a live nativity.

[gura]

Even my 8 year old daughter thought it was stupid to have a harvest celebration in the dead of winter. It was obvious to her that it was a recently made up “black” holiday.

[mylife]

Good thinking Kruger

[lapster]

Congratulations. Exactly where are you from?

[Kirkwood]

OK, call me old-fashioned, but I prefer the traditional wooden Festivus poles.

[gracesdad]

Roanoke, Va. The city is run completely by Democrats. Not a single elected Republican.