Happy Festivus!!!
MWallace
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In lieu of an Aluminum Pole, show an aluminum coin.
BTW, a donation has been made in name of everyone on this board to "The Human Fund - Money For People."
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Mr_Spud
We celebrate every day here with the "Airing of Grievances" tradition.
I've been celebrating Festivus with PCGS lately! They sent me a nice Festivus present this year for which I'm very thankful - free relabeling and reholdering for two coins.
How about aluminum cans? I wish many Miller and Foster's heavy-gauge 32-oz cans (the "Mothers" of all Beer Cans) for everyone! Afterall, they're worth more than the average Wheat Cent. I do my "can dance" every time I find one. Festivus for the rest of us.
What no grievances to air?
Mine is with Investment advisors and trusts but I digress!
How about a coin instead.
I wish more coins were made of aluminum. It has a very high strength-to-weight ratio.
Here are my two aluminum coins. One is a Matte Finish and the other is shiny, proof-like. I'll be listing them on the Bay for $50K each as major mint errors soon.
I got a lotta problems with you people…. AND NOW YOURE GONNA HEAR ABOUT EM!!!!
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Some of us keep the spirit of festivus in our hearts all year long.
Frank: Welcome, newcomers. The tradition of Festivus begins with the airing of grievances. I got a lot of problems with you people and now you're gonna hear about it.
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.
Frank: And at the Festivus dinner you gather your family around and tell them all the ways they have disappointed you over the past year.
Kramer: And is there a tree?
Frank: No. Instead there's a pole. Requires no decoration. I find tinsel distracting.
George: What is that? Is that the pole?
Frank: George, Festivus is your heritage. It's part of who you are.
George: That's why I hate it.
Frank: George you're forgetting how much Festivus has meant to us all. I brought one of the cassette tapes.
(Frank presses play on the tape recorder. Voices are then heard.)
Frank: Read that poem.
George: I can't read it. I need my glasses.
Frank: You don't need glasses. You're just weak. You're weak.
Estelle: (yelling) Leave him alone!
Frank: All right, George. It's time for the Festivus feats of strength.
(George slams the tape recorder and turns it off.)
George: (gets up and runs away) Oh, no. Turn it off. There's no feats of strength. I hate Festivus.
Frank: We had some good times.
Estelle: I think you can take him, Georgie.
George: Hey, come on. Be sensible.
Frank: Stop crying and fight your father.
George: Oh, oh I give. I give!
Frank: This is the best Festivus ever!
Jerry: Happy Festivus.
Kramer: What's Festivus?
Jerry: When George was growing up his father...
George: Stop it. It's nothing. It's a stupid holiday my father invented. It doesn't exist.
Elaine: Happy Festivus, Georgie.
Jerry: When George was growing up his father hated all the commercial religious aspects of Christmas, so he made up his own holiday.
Elaine: Oh, and another piece of the puzzle falls into place.
Jerry: And instead of a tree didn't your father put up an aluminum pole?
George: Stop it.
Jerry: Weren't there feats of strength that ended up with you crying?
And just to keep everything on topic, I asked AI to generate a Festivus pole decorated with coins...
Coins are Neato!
"If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone...somewhere...is making a penny." - Steven Wright
Wasn't Festivus the side kick of Marshal Dillon?
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Merry Christmas to all of you out there,,,,,,,
and for the "Rest of us there is Festivus"
The spirit of whatever the heck it is, lives inside of me. Peace and health to us all. Roy
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Neighbor down the block puts up an aluminum pole in the yard every year.
The pardon is for tyrants. They like to declare pardons on holidays, such as the birthday of the dictator, or Christ, or the Revolution. Dictators should be encouraged to keep it up. And we should be encouraged to remember that the promiscuous dispensation of clemency is not a sign of political liberality. It is instead one of those valuable, identifying marks of tyranny.
Charles Krauthammer
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Left out Uncle Fester.😀