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I just read at Simply Absurd that Santa Clauses in Australia have been instructed not to use the traditional " Ho Ho Ho" , because it may be offensive to women. This is ridiculous ! Santa Claus was saying this long before rappers began to use it for their own twisted reasons. I will not bow to the language police. Ho! Ho! Ho!
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That is weird, indeed.
We always laugh when we drive by a hawaiian restaurant here in town that is called "no hos"
Posted by: cindra | November 20, 2007 at 11:01 AM
I love when you bust out the gangster talk, same to today's haiku!
You've got to be kidding, though...my kids have known ho! ho! ho! practically since they were born. I must go bug my Aussie friends about this now!
Posted by: huckdoll | November 20, 2007 at 11:08 AM
Shades of the Velvet Jones School of Technology and its number one course, "I Wanna Be A Ho" and the year end placement service jingle "HO, HO, HO, all dese hos mus go"
(All due credits to Eddie Murphy and the "Not Ready For Prime Time Players".)
Posted by: west_rhino | November 20, 2007 at 11:20 AM
This language thingy is really getting out of hand! I agree...it is Christmas...so, HO HO HO!
Posted by: Ginger | November 20, 2007 at 12:53 PM
I agree!
What are u up to on December the 1st? I´ll be throwing a party over at my blog. It would be great if u could pop over some time during the day. U´d be our PartyPhilosofer! :-D
Posted by: Evalinn | November 20, 2007 at 02:07 PM
Thank you Evalinn! I just may show up ! :-)
Posted by: Paul | November 20, 2007 at 06:18 PM
HO! HO! HO! All this bull shit must go!!! :~D
Posted by: Alena | November 20, 2007 at 09:32 PM
Politically correct speaking has really gone to the extreme end of things. Pretty soon every word we speak will be the wrong thing to say...well maybe that's not a bad idea either LOL.
Posted by: Janice Thomson | November 21, 2007 at 12:17 AM
I read about that and it sounds like nutty thinking. So some children might be scared by the ho ho; so they should say ha ha. Well some kids are scared of Santa because he looks different; so maybe a shave, forget the red suit... It's crazy. And those who felt it would be offensive to women show how ignorant they are about word meanings. Hopefully our country won't fall into line because Santa has to say ho ho ho. I honestly thought at first it must be a joke but it wasn't...
Posted by: Rain | November 21, 2007 at 10:22 AM
Ho Ho Ho to you too. It is insane out there. I heard in England they want Santa to lose weight. It's unhealthy for Santa to be fat.
Really nuts. Happy Holidays.
Posted by: CaptainAmerica | November 24, 2007 at 11:23 PM