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Florida Newspaper Will Print Your Grievances For Festivus
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By Ben Hooper
Nov. 30 (UPI) -- A Florida newspaper is inviting readers to submit their grievances for the year and will print the funniest com- plaints in celebra- tion of Festivus, a fictional holiday from sitcom Seinfeld.
The Tampa Bay Times
announced the Eighth Annual Tampa Bay Times Airing of Grievances, which is open to anyone around the world who wishes to voice their com- plaints on any subject.
The airing of
grievances is an integral part of the Dec. 23 holiday, which also fea- tures the display of an unadorned metal pole and feats of strength.
The
holiday became enshrined in pop culture
history after being introduced 26 years ago in the Seinfeld Season 9 episode "The Strike." The episode features Frank Costanza, played by Jerry Stiller, explaining the traditions of his anti-con- sumerism holiday.
The Tampa Bay Times has set
up a Google Form
for anyone with a grievance to air. The newspaper offered up some example gripes from previous years.
"Why do you include the stumps in my bagged romaine lettuce? I know I need roughage, but I am not eating romaine stumps," Mark Nelson of Winnipeg, Manitoba, wrote.
"When my 12- year-old son calls me 'bro.' Last I checked, I was still 'mom,'" com- plained Carybeth Hobbs of St. Petersburg, Fla.
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