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  1. 11-15-2007 05:48 AM #1
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    From yahoo news

    Santas warned 'ho ho ho' offensive to women Wed Nov 14, 11:04 PM ET


    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.

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    Is this for real???? WTF?
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    WTF....This has got to be a joke!!
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    It's from yahoo news. Here's another link to an Australian news site detaling the story. It's basically the same article with an interview or two.

    http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599...rom=public_rss

    It also includes this picture of a classroom full of Santas that I love.

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    Good grief! First all that crap last year about it being "Happy Holidays" and not "Christmas" and now this shit...seriously, what a bag of shite!
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    No not a bag of shite, it's a receptical of fecal matter. We don't want to offend anyone, now do we?
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    It is ridiculous. You have to wonder if these people put ANY thought into this. I am just stunned by the stupidity.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy View Post
    No not a bag of shite, it's a receptical of fecal matter. We don't want to offend anyone, now do we?


    It didn't used to be so bad over here, but in the last 5 years all this overly pc crap has filtering through
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    It is our country's fault I think. Sorry!
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    Yeah, I saw this on the news this morning, what a crock of shit
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brice View Post
    It is our country's fault I think. Sorry!
    And even if it wasn't we'd get the blame anyway.

    Though it really is our fault.
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    M'Lord...

    Roland would have understood.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Brice View Post
    It is our country's fault I think. Sorry!
    And even if it wasn't we'd get the blame anyway.

    Though it really is our fault.
    We are the most litigious easily offended people. Everyone's so sensitive. Fuck 'em all!!!
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    Just like the nap time for the newer working class, and trophies for last place
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    Quote Originally Posted by Storyslinger View Post
    Just like the nap time for the newer working class, and trophies for last place
    On the subject of trophies for losers I was on a bowling league a few years back that had trophies for NINTH place. WTF???


    I really DO want nap time at work though. It is only right.
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    I know, total BS
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    They're not Santa's Elves, they're South Pole Inhabiting Dimensionally Challenged Pointy-Eared Persons.

    Sleigh could be confused with the word "slay" as well. We should change that too. We wouldn't want the kiddies to think Santa slays people.

    Also Santa isn't fat because fat people are bad, he's merely wearing a padded suit to keep warm.

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    These days Rudolph wouldn't be sad that he couldn't pull the slay he'd file a major discrimination lawsuit.
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    Nah Rudolph would have made the team straight out due to affirmative action plus Donner was his dad.

    Fathers always get their kids cushy jobs nowadays. *looks towards the D.C area*

    I found this, it's not mine but I wish it was.

    Rudolph, the color-of-choice-nosed reindeer
    Had a very neutrally lit nose
    And if you ever saw it
    You could even say it does or does not glow

    All of the other reindeer, used to treat him neutrally
    They may or may not have let financially-challenged Rudolph, play in any reindeer-induced secular festivities

    Then one weather-affected neutral event's eve, an obesity-challenged non-gender specific person came to non-coercively suggest
    "Rudolph, with your nose so neutrally lit, won't you guide my environmentally-friendly transportation vehicle in a non-discriminatory or derogatory fashion this evening"

    Then all the reindeer displayed naturally and evolutionarily explainable emotion toward him As they shouted out with neutrality,
    Rudolph the color-of-choice-nosed reindeer, you'll go down in non-gender-specific–story!!!
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    That is friggin great
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brice View Post
    It is ridiculous. You have to wonder if these people put ANY thought into this. I am just stunned by the stupidity.
    I'm not stunned by it. Speaking of Big Brother...
    "It's his eyes, Roland thought. They were wide and terrible, the eyes of a dragon in human form" - Roland seeing the Crimson King for the first time.

    "When the King comes and the Tower falls, sai, all such pretty things as yours will be broken. Then there will be darkness and nothing but the howl of Discordia and the cries of the can toi" - From Song of Susannah
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    If you arrange the letters in SANTA... you get...




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    Too true. Santa also sounds like Saint, which some cultures don't have. Claus sounds like "claws" which also may frighten children as much as sleigh would.

    I'm leaning towards "Well Mannicured Person of Northern Descent."
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