No more "ho ho ho" for Oz Santas.....

OK. Imus = despicable.

Santa? Come on!


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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.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071115/wl_asia_afp/lifestyleaustraliachristmasoffbeat

This is just flat out insane. Things like this make me truly believe there is no hope for humanity, none at all.

Honestly, just when you think you have seen it all.

that the whole point of the story was as fodder for the culture warriors.

or must they use a less suggestive entrance?

saying it was social conditioning that introduced girls to the sexual economy of prostitution and it was an easy leap from trick or treating in a sexy costume to blowing guys behind dumpsters for drugs or some such nonsense.

Ahh... college, but the professor offered a 5% bonus on our final grades for every male student who showed up for the gender studies symposium so I got some laughs and a B+.

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For starters "ho" is not slang for prostitute in Australia.
Secondly if you say "not" to do something, it is more likely to be done.

And as you know, if it's slang in America, it must be everywhere else. ;)

"whore".
I suspect that some santas will be saying "whore" "whore" "whore".
Or maybe they'll sing a version of the Who song: "who're you".
I'll stop now.

Are they going to bleep out all the ho, ho, hos in the movies now? This is so over the top, it's embarassing.

"Hurry up kid!"



"<bleep> <bleep> <bleep>!!!"

This is beyond absurd.

I should be more clear, apologies.

This is just too ridiculous to be real.

But, then again, the fact that the story originated in Rupert Murdoch's outrage factory, I'd say it's half-debunked to start with :)

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2007/11/15/ho-ho.html

It's got all the stink of a BS story intended to rile up the O'Reilly crowd.

Come to think of it, I bet he opens tonight's show with this turd.

"Ho" is American urban slang. Is its use really so predominant in Australia? Do they even have widespread mall Santas in AU? I thought that too was primarily an American thing. Honestly, I thought others had better sense.


This sounds weird.

saw it..talk about taking things to EXTREMISM. Didn't think it would be the Aussies who did this.

It's like ya can't say anything anymore.

The story started as a basically-unattributed assertion in a tabloid run by Rupert Murdoch. :)

The whole point, it seems to me, is to try to make people roll their eyes at "political correctness run amok" with the added benefit of defending santa from the war on Christmas.

I asked them to lock this, matter of fact.

their freakshow devious ways.

PC will go too far" were waiting for.

"ho-less" :D