Festivus- The Airing of Grievances

[KC9ECI]

Quote[/b] ]At the Festivus dinner, each participant tells friends and family all of the instances where they disappointed him or her that year.

Start airing your grievances.

[N8CPA]

I'm waiting for the feats of strength. My wife is really in a mood today--kids coming over and all--and every time I try to help all I do is get in the way.

I have a feeling we'll be on "speaking and kissing" terms the rest of the day
One of us will speak to the other and the other will say KMA.
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[KC9ECI]

The wife is planning on wrestling me to the door later. #Or did she say floor?

[al2i]

I am enormously disappointed in the redneck thread for its obvious bashing of economically disadvantaged citizens.

[ai4ep]

...who knows how many amateur radio operators get hit with their own d-104 desk microphone by their wives / girl friends every year....but not reported to the local police ?

How many fellow hams have yoou seen with mysterious blue areas on their head where they got whacked by those heavy-duty microphones and other well - made accessories ?

How many times has the wife said " It is either me or that radio " ? and the hubby replies " I think I hear another station calling my call sign " !! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[KC9ECI]

My grievance is toward the possums and their premature release of Robert.

[k6pme]

Not enough room.

Less than 30 more days to go and the XYL will be truely X.

[ai4ep]

ECI... dont let them possums fool ya...they make look weak and dumb....but they are far from it.

If they were THAT weak / dumb they wouldnt have lasted all these thousands of years.

That " roll over and play dead " stunt has helped them fight off many an enemy.

I cant reveal the conditions of my release...they know how to read, too. :blush:

[KC9ECI]

It's hard to fault the possums for their fear once he started to gnaw through the chains.

[N0CTO]

Here's my gripe: Made up BS hollidays like Festivus and Kwanza. What a load of crap.

[w5klb]

Lets' see...

JC Penny's
Sears
Great Wall of China Mart
Fat people wearing spandex
Liberal/socialism (includes 98% of Donkeys')
Ted Kennedy "Head Socialist"
Nancy "Dumber than A Dirt Clot" Polosie.
(Dear God, Please don't let this "thing" become Speaker of the House http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif )
And let's not forget Cindy "I Have No Respect For My Son's Memory" Sheehan. I think she needs to be on the "short list" for the "padded cell".

It's not the entire list, but it will do.

[N5RLR]

If I aired my grievances against my family, I'd be disconnected, disowned, disinherited and dismembered.

Then it would get ugly. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[KW4MW]

Quote[/b] ]Here's my gripe: Made up BS hollidays like Festivus and Kwanza.I suppose that is all a matter of perspective - Christmas is also a made up holiday but it has been around long enough to have become respectful. #


Almost all of the customs of our Christmas pre-date the birth of Jesus Christ, and a study of this would reveal that Christmas in our day is a collection of traditions and practices taken from many cultures and nations.

The date of December 25th comes from Rome and was a celebration of the Italic god, Saturn, and the rebirth of the sun god. #This was done long before the birth of Jesus.

It was noted by the pre-Christian Romans and other pagans, that daylight began to increase after December 22nd, when they assumed that the sun god died. #These ancients believed that the sun god rose from the dead three days later as the new-born and venerable sun.

Thus, they figured that to be the reason for increasing daylight.

This was a cause for much wild excitement and celebration. Gift giving and merriment filled the temples of ancient Rome, as sacred priests of Saturn, called dendrophori, carried wreaths of evergreen boughs in procession.

In Germany, the evergreen tree was used in worship and celebration of the yule god, also in observance of the resurrected sun god.

The evergreen tree was a symbol of the essence of life and was regarded as a phallic symbol in fertility worship.

Witches and other pagans regarded the red holly as a symbol of the menstrual blood of the queen of heaven, also known as Diana.

The holly wood was used by witches to make wands.

The white berries of mistletoe were believed by pagans to represent droplets of the semen of the sun god.

Both holly and mistletoe were hung in doorways of temples and homes to invoke powers of fertility in those who stood beneath and kissed, causing the spirits of the god and goddess to enter them.

These customs transcended the borders of Rome and Germany to the far reaches of the known world.

The word "Christmas" is a combination of the words "Christ" and "Mass. #The word "Mass" means death and was coined originally by the Roman Catholic Church, and belongs exclusively to the church of Rome.

The ritual of the Mass involves the death of Christ, and the distribution of the "Host", a word taken from the Latin word "hostiall" meaning victim!

In short, Christmas is strictly a Roman Catholic word.

A simple study of the tactics of the Romish Church reveals that in every case, the church absorbed the customs, traditions and general paganism of every tribe, culture and nation in their efforts to increase the number of people under their control. #In short, the Romish church told all of these pagan cultures, "Bring your gods, goddesses, rituals and rites, and we will assign Christian sounding titles and names to them.

In England, as the authorized Bible became available to the common people by the decree of King James the II in 1611, people began to discover the pagan roots of Christmas, which are clearly revealed in Scripture.

The Puritans in England, and later in Massachusetts Colony, outlawed this holiday as witchcraft.

Near the end of the nineteenth century, when other Bible versions began to appear, there was a revival of the celebration of Christmas.

Jesus was not born on December 25th, the true date is sometime in September according to the Scriptures.

Trees, wreaths, holly, mistletoe and the like are strictly pagan and heathen!

[nx6d]

Interesting post, Mike.

Quote[/b] ]Christmas is also a made up holiday but it has been around long enough to have become respectful.

Yesteryears "cults" are today's mainstream. See the state of Utah...

Dave WX7B

[nx6d]

Quote[/b] (w5klb @ Dec. 26 2005,12:31)]Lets' see...

JC Penny's
Sears
Great Wall of China Mart
Fat people wearing spandex
Liberal/socialism (includes 98% of Donkeys')
Ted Kennedy "Head Socialist"
Nancy "Dumber than A Dirt Clot" Polosie.
(Dear God, Please don't let this "thing" become Speaker of the House http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif )
And let's not forget Cindy "I Have No Respect For My Son's Memory" Sheehan. I think she needs to be on the "short list" for the "padded cell".

It's not the entire list, but it will do.
Gary,

Spandex/ WalMart we agree on. What have you got against Penney's and Sears?

I understand the rest of your list as your usual right wing noise... http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif

PS: I worked N6WK on 7.281 yesterday. Fun conversation. Big signal into NorCal.

Dave WX7B

[KC9ECI]

Quote[/b] (N0CTO @ Dec. 26 2005,13:57)]Here's my gripe: Made up BS hollidays like Festivus and Kwanza. What a load of crap.
Festivus was a made up thing on Seinfeld...a joke.

kwanza on the other hand...well, who am I to rain on someone elses holiday?

[w5klb]

Quote[/b] (WX7B @ Dec. 27 2005,10:13)]Quote[/b] (w5klb @ Dec. 26 2005,12:31)]Lets' see...

JC Penny's
Sears
Great Wall of China Mart
Fat people wearing spandex
Liberal/socialism (includes 98% of Donkeys')
Ted Kennedy "Head Socialist"
Nancy "Dumber than A Dirt Clot" Polosie.
(Dear God, Please don't let this "thing" become Speaker of the House http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif )
And let's not forget Cindy "I Have No Respect For My Son's Memory" Sheehan. I think she needs to be on the "short list" for the "padded cell".

It's not the entire list, but it will do.
Gary,

Spandex/ WalMart we agree on. What have you got against Penney's and Sears?

I understand the rest of your list as your usual right wing noise... http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif

PS: I worked N6WK on 7.281 yesterday. Fun conversation. Big signal into NorCal.

Dave WX7B
And "Season's Beatings" to you too, Dave.

Sears has some HUGE leadership problems at our local store. I know an employee that has raised some serious legal questions concerning how they are treating local employees here. I have also watched the local store here deteriorate from the "marketing geniuses" they hire. I don't expect them to keep our local store open for much longer. No one likes buying their overpriced junk, especially me. I made the mistake of buying a leaf blower that doesn't run worth a crap and they can't or won't fix it. I won't make that mistake again, I garantee.

JC Penny's "delivery service" sux and they have seen fit to hire morons for their local store here. (they can't add, can't operate a computer, and they darn sure can't read). My wife and I had to "turn down" a delivery from Penny's because their "delivery service" damage a piece of furniture, and WOULD NOT bring it inside our home. I think these "delivery drivers" are UPS rejects. We got our money back but you should seen this chair they tried to "dump off" on us. It would of made very expensive fuel for the fire place. There was NO WAY I would sign for it."Universal Package Smashers" could take lessons from JC Penny's on messing up a delivery.

But enough of my whining. I hope you and your wife have a prosperous and SAFE New Year. I really mean this.

Maybe #I can catch you and Gordon on the air sometime, that is, IF you guys don't mind "slumming" with an Okie. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif