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12-05-2005, 08:45 PM
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Rivet Master  
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Happy Festivus
I put up the pole today. Just a small tabletop model as we are cutting back this year. It is the finest grade 6063 aluminum.
I added a light for each grievance I suffered this year.
A Festivus, for the rest of us!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festivus
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12-05-2005, 09:34 PM
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1968 17' Caravel
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Dude, it must have been a hard year! So many lights 
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12-05-2005, 09:41 PM
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1983 31' Excella
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Startin' a little early, aren't ya? Granted, not as much run up time as the Christmas celebrate-ers that start around Halloween, two months before... so I guess..... that two to three weeks ain't bad in the whole. And in a totally tastelss aside, tomorrow is St Nicholas Day, my family's official opening day of the holiday season! Nothing, no decorations or wreaths or anything, go up before then! My little rebellion against my mother who had the damn mantlepiece done before Thanksgiving dinner was digested, and refused to give poor Dad any peace until he got the tree up! LOL
Elizabeth in Iowa
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12-06-2005, 01:06 AM
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Rivet Master
2007 23' International CCD
Lapeer
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aah tradition
Pass me that pole Mark. I got something to say. 
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12-13-2005, 11:08 AM
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1993 30' Excella
whitewater
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festivus....i thought that was where uncle fester came from....
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The only true nobility is found through giving good food to your friends- Anton Careme
beauty is in the eye of the beerholder-cosmo fishhawk
if something is too good to be true, its usually gone before i get there-mister boffo
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12-13-2005, 11:14 AM
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Rivet Master
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Originally Posted by wheel interested
Pass me that pole Mark. I got something to say. |
Carol,
You have the pole, please voice your grievance.
(loved your photos btw)
-Don
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12-13-2005, 11:25 AM
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1966 26' Overlander
Woodstock
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Ah, yes a Holiday for the rest-of-us!
More fun than Kwanzaa.
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12-13-2005, 02:23 PM
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When do the feats of strength begin????
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12-13-2005, 05:01 PM
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When do the feats of strength begin????
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The first feat of strength:
Fold a 4" x 4", 0.032" piece of 2024 T3 alclad aluminum in half with your bare hands. You MAY NOT heat the aluminum before doing this feat.
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12-13-2005, 06:06 PM
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Originally Posted by markdoane
The first feat of strength:
Fold a 4" x 4", 0.032" piece of 2024 T3 alclad aluminum in half with your bare hands. You MAY NOT heat the aluminum before doing this feat.
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Okay, done that, what's next?... 
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12-13-2005, 06:24 PM
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Rivet Master
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Can you fold it in half again?
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12-13-2005, 06:57 PM
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Can you fold it in half again?
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How many times can it be folded in half before it cannot be folded in half anymore?
Oof! Yup... Although it cracked that time.
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12-13-2005, 07:45 PM
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Rivet Master
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Originally Posted by overlander63
Oof! Yup... Although it cracked that time.
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Have you got a camera?
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12-14-2005, 05:30 AM
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Have you got a camera?
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No, but I do have forearms like Popeye the Sailor...  The neighbors come over to have me open their pickle jars.
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Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy, and taste good with ketchup.
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12-14-2005, 08:57 AM
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Rivet Master
2007 23' International CCD
Lapeer
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ok here's my grievance
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Originally Posted by markdoane
Carol,
You have the pole, please voice your grievance.
(loved your photos btw)
-Don
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Thank you. And now that I have the pole there is a little matter that I want to discuss. The TV remote. My husband is a CBP, yup, it's true, a continual button pusher. Round and round she goes at dizzying speeds. When he does pause long enough for me to become interested --ZAP-- I never hear the end of the sentence.  Now I have heard tell that this is a gender thing to retain control of the remote. I have also heard that a man is born with two hands, one for the remote and the other--let's say I forgot that "part."  I gotta tell you, I got a problem with you people!
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12-14-2005, 09:03 AM
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Rivet Master
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Carol,
You have the pole and your grievance is noted.
You can do what my spouse does. She goes through the TV schedule in the afternoon and sets the DVR to record HER programs. Then I can't channel surf because the programs are locked in. And that's MY grievance.
BTW, I think your husband is completely normal. He's multi-tasking. Who says you can't watch three programs at once? Just catch the high points.
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12-14-2005, 09:09 AM
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Rivet Master
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Originally Posted by overlander63
No, but I do have forearms like Popeye the Sailor... The neighbors come over to have me open their pickle jars. |
Popeye,
Without picture I guess we will need to take your word on it.
Does anyone else have a feat of strength?
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12-14-2005, 10:38 AM
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Rivet Master
2007 23' International CCD
Lapeer
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feat of strength
Does anyone else have a feat of strength?
Our budget was even less than yours this year so we had to skip the modern semi precious metal pole and go with the old fashioned real route. Picture of hubby and the family the day we excitedly went out to chop down and bring home our festivous pole.
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12-14-2005, 12:09 PM
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Rivet Master
, Minnesota
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Oh.
I thought that was a German Shepard teaching a human to fetch a stick.
Very good feat!
Who's next?
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12-20-2008, 02:31 PM
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Rivet Master
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Once again, it is time to bid you all a most agonizing Festivus, and if someone would like to post a grievance, now is the time.
You may have the pole.
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