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(Message started by: deltadarlin on Dec 11^th, 2007, 9:16am)

Title: Ho Ho Ho NOT How about HA HA HA
Post by deltadarlin on Dec 11^th, 2007, 9:16am

We live in a crazy enough world without idiots trying their damnedest to make it crazier. If you want to talk to a politically correct Santa Clause, just take a trip to Sydney Australia.

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

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.

Now, Shelly Tomlinson's (she's a local in this area who does radio shows, tv and other media) response.

Santa's Rough Language or Ho, Ho, What?!"

Hello folks… I've got Christmas cookies on the sideboard and apple cider on the stove. Make yourselves at home, and let’s chat. ~smile~

Paulette just emailed me the most amusing article of this new Christmas season, or the saddest. I can’t decide. Here’s the latest from Down Under, mates, and I’m not even using my southern storyteller’s license. The world’s gone so straight running crazy it’s not necessary.

A number of Australian stores have put Santa Claus on notice about his rough language. This year, old St. Nick won’t be allowed to say, “Ho, ho, ho!” because “ho” can be construed as a slang term that could offend women shoppers. Paulette said, “Well, if the shoe fits, wear it honey,” but as always, she misses the point.

I challenge you to find a single female, regardless of her chosen profession, who has ever heard Santa’s famous greeting and thought he was calling her out. You have to look extra hard for this kind of stupid.

The PC cops think Santa should say “Ha, ha, ha” instead. I say, if it’s confrontation we’re trying to avoid, we’re jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire. Bubba and the boys tend to feel a bit of pressure at Christmas time. If they happen to run into Santa after a long day traipsing around those overcrowded malls looking for just the right present for their Sugar Plums only to hear the fat man say, “Ha, ha, ha!” – Well, it won’t be pretty.

I’m not advocating rough language. I was raised to understand there was no excuse for ugly words, not even ignorance. Once, when I was five or six, I told Papa I was ready to join the older kids and take my turn hoeing cotton for him. “I’m a good hoe-er,” I said proudly. Papa couldn’t shush me fast enough and I thought Mama was going to faint dead away. They didn’t explain. They simply told me not to repeat that proud announcement again, to anyone, ever. It was years before I figured that out.

Let's give Santa a break, friends. There should still be some things that when kids don’t know, you don’t have to tell ‘em.

Y'all have a big, big time on the porch today and drop me a note if you have a mind. I love to hear from y'all!

Early Christmas Hugs,
Shellie

Title: Re: Ho Ho Ho NOT How about HA HA HA
Post by zwibbs/Scott on Dec 11^th, 2007, 9:20am

Unbelievable. Now I've heard everything.

Title: Re: Ho Ho Ho NOT How about HA HA HA
Post by brewcrew on Dec 11^th, 2007, 9:59am

on 12/11/07 at 09:20:01, zwibbs/Scott wrote:

Unbelievable. Now I've heard everything.

No you haven't. Just keep sticking around. It's bound to get even more insane.

Title: Re: Ho Ho Ho NOT How about HA HA HA
Post by Kevin_M on Dec 11^th, 2007, 10:07am

and in the states...

http://www.hostesscakes.com/images/box_hohos.jpg

The maker of Hostess Ho Ho's has refused to change their product name and instead will search for a Madison Avenue advertising firm to come up with a new logo for the product.
Ideas now cooking are combining a General Mill's Betty Crocker-type image with a gum-chewing, lamp-post leaning trademark figure based on this photo:

http://www.easybunnygirls.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/brooke-burke.thumbnail.jpg

A Dolly of Madison Ave.

Title: Re: Ho Ho Ho NOT How about HA HA HA
Post by cash5542 on Dec 11^th, 2007, 10:13am

Last nights news included a piece on Santa's weight. The average Santa is 250 lbs and considered a poor role model for society. Next year we may be seeing a lighter version. Notice Sanat doesn't smoke a pipe any more? That went away when smoking was taken out of various places. Looks like we are going to see a light Santa saying hi next year, maybe??

Charlotte

Title: Re: Ho Ho Ho NOT How about HA HA HA
Post by Redd on Dec 11^th, 2007, 11:18am

Yeah yeah...the only thing that stays the same is change...

not always for the better either...

::)

Title: Re: Ho Ho Ho NOT How about HA HA HA
Post by Rosybabe on Dec 11^th, 2007, 11:25am

now you can't leave santa some cookies and milk, it has to be a granola bar and an diet energy drink [smiley=laugh.gif]

Title: Re: Ho Ho Ho NOT How about HA HA HA
Post by jimmers on Dec 11^th, 2007, 11:50am

I guess all of the (Garbage music) Rap Stars will be out of business to!

Ho is an ebonics term derived from the word "sleeper". I'ts been around for a 100 years, and people are just now starting to get offended? (Everyday over use of the word probably)

Why should the whole world have to change what they say because some people cannot speak proper english in the first place?

Title: Re: Ho Ho Ho NOT How about HA HA HA
Post by BarbaraD on Dec 11^th, 2007, 12:03pm

Guess that leaves out pirates too (Ho Ho HO and a bottle of rum...)

Damn it all -- when in the hell are we gonna put a stop to all this NONSENSE!!!! Our kids are going to grow up total idiots....

I think I'll start a movement -- Politically INCORRECT - the WAVE of the FUTURE!!!!

And a ho ho ho Merry Christmas to the Jolly Old Fat Elf with the Pipe and the Red nosed Reindeer and Bah Humbug to all those who disbelieve....

Hugs BD

Title: Re: Ho Ho Ho NOT How about HA HA HA
Post by thomas on Dec 11^th, 2007, 12:21pm

on 12/11/07 at 10:07:42, Kevin_M wrote:

Second picture needs to be bigger.

Title: Re: Ho Ho Ho NOT How about HA HA HA
Post by thomas on Dec 11^th, 2007, 12:21pm

on 12/11/07 at 12:03:41, BarbaraD wrote:

Ho Ho HO and a bottle of rum.

The beginnings of a great party. ;;D

Title: Re: Ho Ho Ho NOT How about HA HA HA
Post by Monty on Dec 11^th, 2007, 1:08pm

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/5708/saintnicholascu9.th.jpg

Here's the original St. Nick. The fairy tale version of Santa is more like Odin than the Christian saint. The fairy tale version has always changed with the times.

When Disney tells a fairy tale, they are going to change it to the way they think best. When malls or groups of merchants do the Santa myth, they are going to do it the way they think is best. Many of the current ideas about Santa were fixed in the American mind by advertising campaigns by Coca-Cola.

Things aren't the way they used to be, and they never were.

Title: Re: Ho Ho Ho NOT How about HA HA HA
Post by Rosybabe on Dec 11^th, 2007, 2:52pm

well in our home we also wait for the three wise men to arrive by jan 6th. Another chance to get more gifts ;). Another reason to enjoy being bicultural ;;D.

Title: Re: Ho Ho Ho NOT How about HA HA HA
Post by Groov on Dec 11^th, 2007, 5:39pm

on 12/11/07 at 10:07:42, Kevin_M wrote:

Ho? Why not use paris hilton. She already has the Staples easy button on her panties....ho, ho, ho..that was easy

Title: Re: Ho Ho Ho NOT How about HA HA HA
Post by Charlie on Dec 11^th, 2007, 8:01pm

I know of this idiocy. ::) Geeze.

I don't get it. It's Christmas so lighten up and have some fun. In Olean, NY some lunatics are fighting about this because they think they should have equal space for other displays. All this does is make it harder for themselves. It's Christmas. Let us have some fun. You have the other 11 months to make a splash.

Lunacy.

Charlie