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Santas warned 'ho ho ho' offensive to women
AFP via Yahoo News ^
| 11/14/07
| AFP Staff
Posted on 11/15/2007 3:31:59 AM PST by Enchante
SYDNEY (AFP) - Santas in Australia's largest city have been told not to use Father Christmas's traditional "ho ho ho" greeting because it may be offensive to women, it was reported Thursday.
Sydney's Santa Clauses have instead been instructed to say "ha ha ha" instead, the Daily Telegraph reported.
One disgruntled Santa told the newspaper a recruitment firm warned him not to use "ho ho ho" because it could frighten children and was too close to "ho", a US slang term for prostitute.
"Gimme a break," said Julie Gale, who runs the campaign against sexualising children called Kids Free 2B Kids.
"We are talking about little kids who do not understand that "ho, ho, ho" has any other connotation and nor should they," she told the Telegraph.
"Leave Santa alone."
A local spokesman for the US-based Westaff recruitment firm said it was "misleading" to say the company had banned Santa's traditional greeting and it was being left up to the discretion of the individual Santa himself.
TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: christmas; hohoho; liberalism; politicalcorrectness; santa; santaclause; stuckonstupid; waronchristmas; waronchristmas2007
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To: Enchante
Can people get any dumber?
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posted on
11/15/2007 4:15:59 AM PST
by
freekitty
((May the eagles long fly our beautiful and free American sky.))
To: Enchante
Ho, Ho, Ho
Whore, Whore, Whore
I don’t get it.
What’s the correlation?
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posted on
11/15/2007 4:17:04 AM PST
by
poobear
(Pure democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what's for dinner. God save the Republic!)
To: Enchante
Total madness. but then, see my user name ...
I plan to say HO HO HO a lot.
To: snippy_about_it
Hidee Hoe, neighbor! LOL
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posted on
11/15/2007 4:23:45 AM PST
by
Samwise
(Anyone who really wants to be President isn't fit for the job.)
To: Enchante
One disgruntled Santa told the newspaper a recruitment firm warned him not to use "ho ho ho" because it could frighten children and was too close to "ho", a US slang term for prostitute. It's actually slang term for women in general.
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posted on
11/15/2007 4:24:39 AM PST
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged
It is time for us normal people to refuse to let the mentally deranged liberals continue to spread their misery.
Liberals; keep you misery to yourself!
To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged
There was a designer on TV talking about women and hosiery. At one point, he said: "Hose is the in thing in NYC."
IT makes you hear the problem. We're slowly being programmed and our dictionary is being altered.
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posted on
11/15/2007 4:25:45 AM PST
by
Sacajaweau
("The Cracker" will be renamed "The Crapper")
To: Enchante
There are just to many political correctionists and they are ruining everything.
You can’t say this you can’t say that.
Even bums are now homeless people.
After communism was defeated, the creeps who followed the communist philosophy clung to many of their former favorite ideals, first among them was political correctionism followed closely by environmentalism.
Stop saying PC, it gives approval of the process, give it a formal name, “political correctionism”, and then it can be demonized and gotten rid of.
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posted on
11/15/2007 4:31:55 AM PST
by
BuffaloJack
(Before the government can give you a dollar it must first take it from another American)
To: Enchante
Montgomery County Maryland with their edicts on coed locker rooms and Australians on HO HO HO would match up well. Idiots all and world laughing stocks.
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posted on
11/15/2007 4:31:56 AM PST
by
Bulldawg Fan
(Victory is the last thing Murtha and his fellow Defeatists want.)
To: Enchante
Did anyone copy this memo to the Green Giant people and that large green guy?
"Ho Ho Ho!"
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posted on
11/15/2007 4:35:07 AM PST
by
kAcknor
("A pistol! Are you expecting trouble sir?" "No miss, were I expecting trouble I'd have a rifle.")
To: Enchante
I guess I should just leave my “Nappy the Elf” costume in the closet this year.
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posted on
11/15/2007 4:36:28 AM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Enchante
Homonym hysteria. Oops sorry, can’t say that either.
To: Enchante
"ho", a US slang term for prostitute. Does this mean we can all begin using this "slang" now?
ML/NJ
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posted on
11/15/2007 4:46:33 AM PST
by
ml/nj
To: kAcknor
And don’t forget pirates. Yo ho ho and all that needs to be curtailed. Yo woman of suspect morals is the preferred nomeclature.
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posted on
11/15/2007 4:50:33 AM PST
by
doodad
To: doodad
And don’t forget the old westerns. I guess we’ll have to start “bleeping” John Wayne and the boys for saying, “Waaaaagons Hoooooo!”
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posted on
11/15/2007 5:14:47 AM PST
by
BigAlPro
(It's time to flush the toilet of political corruption in Washington)
To: Enchante
The funny part is that the movie is an exact mirror
image of that school and it’s principal.
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posted on
11/15/2007 5:17:25 AM PST
by
mware
(Americans in armchairs....doing the job of the media.)
To: mware
Sorry about that I posted the comment on the wrong thread. It was meant for the one where the principal who apparently has no principals revoked a 7th grade trip to see Miracle on 42nd St.
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posted on
11/15/2007 5:19:32 AM PST
by
mware
(Americans in armchairs....doing the job of the media.)
To: Enchante
Not all women are offended. Us women who are not HO’s are not offended one bit.
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posted on
11/15/2007 5:20:40 AM PST
by
Fawn
(http://www.brightlion.com/InHope/InHope_en.aspx)
To: kAcknor
They can adopt Marty Moose's laugh: "That's me. Hyuk hyuk!"
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