Santas warned 'ho ho ho' offensive to women

[Brutus]

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.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071115...s6LRdL5fas0NUE

[Sonny]

Originally Posted by Brutus

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.

Another holiday ruined by ebonics. Before you know it they'll be getting rid of Thanksgizzle, yo Birfday and My Baby’s Mama’s Day. Trufs. If we don’t start speaking properly we’re not going to get any more days off from work!

Although I do see their point. When you see a guy standing on the corner wearing a big fur coat yelling "Ho! Ho! Ho!" you might wonder...

-Sonny-

[21forme]

Originally Posted by Sonny

Another holiday ruined by ebonics. Before you know it they'll be getting rid of Thanksgizzle, yo Birfday and My Baby’s Mama’s Day. Trufs. If we don’t start speaking properly we’re not going to get any more days off from work!

Although I do see their point. When you see a guy standing on the corner wearing a big fur coat yelling "Ho! Ho! Ho!" you might wonder...

-Sonny-

I hope nobody axes any more questions about this...

[zengrifter]

Nappy-headed HO HO HO! zg

[SilentBob420BMFJ]

this has absolutely nothing to do with ebonics, it has everything to do with political correctness.. here, ill make up some randomly stupid examples.. you cant wear the same color clothes to school everyday because that is gang activity; women cant put a towel in their hair to dry it like they sometimes do because that is racist.. i could go on and on with all the bullshit examples of how political correctness is absolutely ludacris.. the only one i agree with is no religious things in school, including decorations, but to call an xmas tree or something simple like that a religious decoration is stupid, or to tell the teachers to not use the word xmas but instead holidays is going too far..

[toastblows]

dood, "ho" is ebonics.

Its politcal correctness...you are correct...but you are incorrect by telling us that ebonics has nothing to do with this example. The politcal correctness is to not call women ho's, but the word ho is an ebonic's derived slang term. fo shizzle.

(hows that for over analyzing..holla)