After watching
The O.C's horrible Chrismukkah episode last Thursday (what's happening to that show?), I got to wondering how many fake Holiday Holidays there are out there. Here's a little collection, with descriptions courtesy of Wikipedia.
Chrismukkah
Chrismukkah is the merging of the holidays of Christmas and Hanukkah celebrated in interfaith households with one parent of Christian heritage and another parent of Jewish heritage.
In the United States, Chrismukkah was the subject of a facetious press release that was widely circulated on joke web sites in the late 1990s. Chrismukkah gained pop culture notoriety on December 3, 2003, after being featured on the FOX television program The O.C.
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Festivus
Festivus is a nondenominational holiday featured in an episode of Seinfeld, a popular American television sitcom of the 1990s. The holiday was a plot device in episode number 166 of the show, entitled "The Strike," which first aired on December 18, 1997. Many people, influenced or inspired by Seinfeld, now celebrate the holiday, in varying degrees of seriousness.
According to Seinfeld, Festivus is celebrated each year on December 23, but many people celebrate it other times, often in early December. Its slogan is "A Festivus for the rest of us!" An aluminum pole is generally used in lieu of a Christmas tree or other holiday decoration.
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RamaHanuKwanzMas
RamaHanuKwanzMas is a winter holiday popularized by talk radio host Glenn Beck. The holiday's name combines Ramadan, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and Christmas. It was created to mock extreme political correctness
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Chrismahanukwanzaka
Chrismahanukwanzakah is a fictional holiday that was created by Virgin Mobile USA for a 2004 ad campaign. The holiday, in a similar vein to Festivus and Chrismukkah, was celebrated on December 13 of that year and combines Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa into one celebration. Whether intentional or not, the ad campaign was done as a satire of the "politically correct" method of ignoring all holidays so as to not offend anyone; as the song in the ad proclaims, "what matters most is camera phones for $20 less."
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Jewmas
Jewmas is a slang term for a cliche set of activities Jews do during Christmas, partially as a contrarian, ironic response to the annual yuletide frenzy. Specifically, Jewmas consists of going out for Chinese food and going to the movies.
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You know any others?
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