Santas warned 'ho ho ho' offensive to women

[doinkies]

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.

 

[Asmodai]

That's idiotic. Ho has been used for hundreds of years to indicate laughter before it acquired its gangsta rap meaning.

Ho as an interjection: 15th century
Ho as a noun: 1965

Stupid Australians.

[shadowstar]

Reminds me of Will & Grace 

"Please welcome, Santa's Ho Ho Ho!" *points at Karen*

[Bleachhh]

ashahahhahahaah! ridiculous. Next thing you know theyre going to ban that one snack HOsHOs (which is tasty btw LOL)

[vscarecrow]

Ho ho ho...

This news is hillarious.

(oops)

[fsw]

Political correctness gone mad! There really is no need for this. Some people have no idea about context.

[Masabi]

lol unless the santa was pointing at me and laughing hysterically and perhaps saying other slanderous things while saying it i wouldn't be offended.

[mckool]

yeah, heard about that earlier..

i was wondering... when i came to the states as a middle-school kid, the first 'slang' words i learn is that one, so i found that xmas slogan to be xtremely funny even back then ~!

it's time somebody banned it  hahhaah....hohoho!!

[kazitakato]

dunno....things under PM Howard never made sense.....