City installs Festivus pole

The Daily Redundancy ^

[chordmaster]

NEW HAVEN, CT - In an effort to recognize the diverse traditions of the holiday season, the City has installed a Festivus pole in the Market Street square. A dedication ceremony is scheduled for Saturday afternoon. With the addition of this new holiday centerpiece, the square is now thought to be the most diverse public display of late fall holiday symbols in the country...

[IbJensen]

The square now boasts, along with the pole, a set of kinara Kwanzaa candles, an oversized bronze Menorah, a Ramadan prayer rug, a large World Aids Day ribbon, an Esperanto plaque commemorating Zamenhof Day, A Finnish Independence Day flag and an x-mas tree.

You do hate New Haven, don't you.

Well, if the city did think of such a thing they belong in the tank.

[Knitebane]

Quite tacky. It's supposed to be a bare metal pole and besides, that doesn't look like aluminum to me.

Aluminum is preferred because of it's high strength-to-weight ratio.

At least it doesn't have tinsel.

[Chickensoup]

Actually it is the Asherah pole that was danced around during pagan times.

People were offered up to the pole and killed. Sexual dancing, sex acts and general nakedness and drunkenness were also part of the Asherah poles worship.

Eskimo totems poles are a more modern version

[CharacterCounts]

Just mocking Christianity and Christmas

Christian groups should demand that any reference to Christmas or Christianity be removed from this ridiculous insult.

[MrB]

Why do Indians wear jockstraps?
Totem’ pole.

[devistate one four]

Exactly. thanks

[Jaxter]

Sometimes I think the best humor goes right over some people’s heads.

[tomnbeverly]

This should make the worshippers of BAAL happy....

Soon women may flock to the festivus pole to have their babies aborted.

[Redbob]

"New Haven, unfortunately, has slid into a sewer over the past 25 years and is today a valueless metro area."

I used to go to school there, well over 25 years ago, in the '60s, and it was a run-down pit 'way back then as well.

[AndrewB]

Sorry, I call foul! That pole is not unadorned.

[redpoll]

Thanks for the laugh this morning, where even though it is 10:30 a.m., the sun has not yet peeked over the horizon.

In all seriousness, though, a fair amount of the humor in “Seinfeld” came from mocking liberal icons. The boy in the bubble is an obnoxious snot; gay thugs harass Kramer; recycling goes awry as the guys bring cans to Michigan; volunteerism turns into looting a loud curmudgeon for his records - not to mention a hot woman from Senegal and bald heads; and the main characters are typical New York liberals portrayed as aimless, amoral, listless, and ignorant.

The Festivus holiday mocks the liberal attitude that all holidays around Christmas are supposed to be held with equal reverence. Those of us who are New Yorkers (originally) grew up with Christmas portrayed equally with a minor Jewish festival, Hannukah, and, in later years, the utterly make-believe holiday of Kwanzaa. Festivus has a lot of Kwanzaa in it, especially with the addressing of grievances and the fact that one guy invented it because he was annoyed.

Great link to a great humor newspaper. Hope it isn’t blocked at work.

[Constitution Day]

Sometimes I think the best humor goes right over some people’s heads.

On FR? Perish the thought!

:)

[Sudetenland]

The satire discernment threshold around here is pretty low.

You pretty much need to post the word "SATIRE" in red neon letters for some to get the joke.

[TaraP]

You forgot Archie!
:)

[Dr. Ursus]

I’m not sure that would even work.

[Sudetenland]

Actually since it is a “threshold” I guess I should have said pretty high, no low.

[Ken H]

City installs Festivus pole

"I don't like it. No sir, I don't like it one bit."

[50sDad]

The square now boasts, along with the pole, a set of kinara Kwanzaa candles, an oversized bronze Menorah, a Ramadan prayer rug, a large World Aids Day ribbon, an Esperanto plaque commemorating Zamenhof Day, A Finnish Independence Day flag and an x-mas tree.

Gosh, no cross, and Christ has "disappeared from the equation" becoming no more the Son of God who claimed to be the only path to Him, and changed into an "x", lowercase at that.

[DieHard the Hunter]

> Attach a tether ball to it and it might become useful.

Put some sandbags behind it and a firing squad in front of it, and it might become usefuller...

[NonValueAdded]

Whereas Festivus doesn't really exist, has not the city gubermint established a religion?