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Santa-ese gets a makeover
Worried that Santa’s traditional “ho, ho, ho” greeting may offend women, Sydney, Australia’s Santa Clauses have been instructed to say “ha ha ha” instead.
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 U.S. 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.
I’d have to agree. Are we getting too politically correct for our own good?
Topic: Culture, WorldMagBlog
Keywords: Christmas, Santa-Clause
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Somewhere Don Imus is laughing while at the same time Sharpton and Je$$e are boarding an LA flight nonstop to the land down under
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My, my. This changes everything.
Yo ha ha and a bottle of rum.
So now, instead of saying ‘whore’ which is what the word, ‘ho’ is ebonics for, should we use, ‘Har’?
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Very funny, Bianca!
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Bianca has identified the tip of the PC iceberg.
Say hello to Hulk Hargan. Country-western dancers will now need to attend hardowns. And of course those handy garden implements will now need to be referred to as hars.
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LOL RR!
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I didn’t know there was a country on this planet more PC than the US. Don’t let the ACLU hear about this!
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Good grief!
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Stooooo-pid
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What can you expect. Those people live upside down and their toilet flush backwards.
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9 – True, RDean!
They also fine you $60.00 American for not voting. Doesn’t that beat all? And the reason is because it’s a freedom that we shouldn’t waste. Well, if I’m free to vote, shouldn’t that same freedom extend to not vote as well?
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I’m pretty sure that was a Larry the Cable Guy joke.
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Stanta in stores should say Gimme Mo Mo Mo or was that the kids that should say that?
I’m harping for a harchest for for X-mas too.
Just saying these things in a pirate accent is pretty funny. Weren’t the Clinton’s from Harpe, AK?
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I suppose if you weren’t careful your five year old might realize you’re not being PC and turn you in…. [/sarcasm off]
I wonder if the PC police are dressed as pirates?
“Har har! Got us anothern!”
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Wait a minute…
I thought Santa in Australia said “G’day mate!”
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To accomodate the people who say “ho” for “whore,” the new Santa should say “Yo, yo, yo.”
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Kyle,
That’s great! Then all Santas would sound like they’re from Philly!
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I see that a school principal in Mass. somewhere, (where else?) cancelled a school trip for the kiddies to see the play Miracle on 34th street claiming in a ruling that Santa was offensive.
Some parents complained to him it seems and rather than telling them their kids can stay in school that day instead like a normal principal would so they could get flu shots, take tests on the Bible, and clean the bathroom or something, he cancelled the trip for everyone.
And you wonder why your kids are ignorant?
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No. I haven’t wondered why my kids are ignorant. I haven’t wondered because they aren’t ignorant.
My kids’ school doesn’t take field trips to see plays. They stay in school to learn. We can take them to see plays when they are not in school.
I don’t see “Miracle on 34th Street” an educational priority.
The Aussies must be watching some BET – black actors and comics have been using the Santa/Ho jokes for some time.
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Post 14. That reminds me of my Filipino, friend. She was married to an Austrians, but has spent the last few years in the Deep South with a Canadian roommate. She is the only person I ever met who can correctly use the words, “y’all”, “mate” and “eh” all in the same sentence.
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18, hey, you’re right. At least as far back as Eddie Murphy on SNL. In one sketch he played a lo-rent pimp dressed as Santa Claus and announced a sale, of sorts. Those of you who remember the sketch will forgive me for not writing it all out. Those who don’t … really didn’t miss much.
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The kids may have not known what it meant before, but they probably will now.
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I’m all for the ruling. After all, we wouldn’t want to offend respectable prostitutes.
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RR: Was that the “Merry Christmas, D—-t” sketch?
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Outkast, I don’t remember that line from it, but maybe, yeah.
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Too PC? Yes. Just about any word can eventually be used in a derogatory way, so perhaps we should just stop communicating.
I remember thinking back in the ERA days when all our generic uses of “man” were changed. I always knew when the head of a committee was a woman, just because she was called the chairperson. So, here is my new vocabulary list which eliminates all uses of “man” (I probaly am missing some):
We are a part of the huperson race or personkind.
The province in Canada will henceforth be called “Personatoba”.
The city in England (and its namesakes in the US and Canada) are Personchester.
Large houses are now personsions.
An order from a high official is a persondate.
The 10 Compersondments will still not be allowed in public places in the US.
And so on. So how ridiculous will the “ho, ho, ho” ban sound? Some of you have already shown us.
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Political correctness POLICE, have now ‘LAW-ED’ itself, into the lives of those who are willing to change the definition of any word they like.
And who nominated the ‘definition police’? –
Ho
Etymology:
Middle English
Date:
15th century
Defintion:
—used especially to attract attention to something specified
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I say we keep the original definition of the word “Ho.” Why let our opponents hijack a perfectly good word?
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Outkast,
HIJACK – thats what is taking place.
Christmas – Winter break
Resurrection Sunday/Easter – Spring break
Homosexual – gay/gays
It obvious that these changes are all directed at the Christians and their beliefs -
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Amen, Victoria.
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