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Happy Festivus!!!

MWallaceMWallace Posts: 4,148 ✭✭✭✭✭

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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  • BarberianBarberian Posts: 3,625 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 23, 2024 8:06AM

    @sellitstore said:
    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.

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  • fastfreddiefastfreddie Posts: 2,833 ✭✭✭✭✭

    What no grievances to air?

    Mine is with Investment advisors and trusts but I digress!

    How about a coin instead.

    It is not that life is short, but that you are dead for so very long.
  • Baylor8670Baylor8670 Posts: 94 ✭✭✭

    I wish more coins were made of aluminum. It has a very high strength-to-weight ratio.

  • Pnies20Pnies20 Posts: 2,330 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I got a lotta problems with you people…. AND NOW YOURE GONNA HEAR ABOUT EM!!!!

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  • lermishlermish Posts: 3,036 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @sellitstore said:
    We celebrate every day here with the "Airing of Grievances" tradition.

    Some of us keep the spirit of festivus in our hearts all year long. :D

  • KurisuKurisu Posts: 2,009 ✭✭✭✭✭

    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?

  • TonedeafTonedeaf Posts: 243 ✭✭✭✭✭


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  • OAKSTAROAKSTAR Posts: 7,437 ✭✭✭✭✭

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  • GRANDAMGRANDAM Posts: 8,527 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Merry Christmas to all of you out there,,,,,,,

    and for the "Rest of us there is Festivus"

    GrandAm :)
  • Namvet69Namvet69 Posts: 9,014 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The spirit of whatever the heck it is, lives inside of me. Peace and health to us all. Roy

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  • ADGADG Posts: 439 ✭✭✭

    Neighbor down the block puts up an aluminum pole in the yard every year.

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