Just FYI, the "Santa is saying Whore" thing was talked about, laughed about, and forgotten about 10 years ago. Maybe it's back, but American women know they're up against Coca Cola, Inc. and the marketing complex and their kids, who'd even try it?"

-jestel


The story's all over the Internet--crazy liberals have been trying to "ban" Santa's jovial ho-ho-ho, for fear of offending some ho.

Conservative bloggers everywhere are moaning that Liberals have Ruined Christmas Again. First no hymns in school, then the War on Christmas...How far is this PC crap gonna go, they cry. Well, nowhere near as far as they imagine it's gone. Mr. Hanky the Christmas Poo can just cool his brown little heels for a minute.

Turns out Jestel is right. Nobody was really trying to silence Santa. PC had nothing whatsoever to do with it!

The real story is almost, but not quite as silly. Westaff, an Australian Santa agency started it, when they decided their Santa trainees should say "hahaha," because "hohoho" could frighten the kiddies.

Glen Jans, Westaff's operational manager explains, ""The reason behind that is we find that in some cases the little kids can get a little
bit scared of the deep 'ho, ho, hos' and we ask them to be mindful of keeping their voices to a lower level," he said.

"And kids are probably more inclined to understand 'ha, ha, ha', than 'ho, ho, ho'." "http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22738300-2,00.html.

Yeah, well, I don't think it's the KIDS who are having trouble understanding "ho, ho, ho." The kids surveyed by the reporter who broke this story, all said they love Santa's laugh.

As for the PC problem, any woman ignorant enough to think that Santa's referring to her when he says, "Hohoho, Meeeerrrry Christmas!" is probably also ignorant enough to be flattered and happy that it's all about her.

Besides, with apologies to Rupaul... "Ho" isn't even a real word! It's not even a real contraction! The whole idea that liberals were upset about Santa saying "Ho," turns out to be a conservative fantasy. Kinda like last year's war on Christmas.

http://humour.cote.azur.fr/image/hohoho529.jpg
This really wasn't funny the first time around, but it's grown duller with repetition.


Thanks to:
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22761386-2,00.html,
and the quick-witted jestel!

--
Edited by titannia at 11/20/2007 5:44 PM