Ho Ho Ho is a No No No

‘Tis the season to be jolly... Fa la la la la la laa laaa laaaa....

Winter seems to be setting in and the Christmasy spirit seems to be catching on (how I know you ask- I’ve caught a cold for starters)

Anyway I was reading the newspaper some days back and I happened to glance in the International section... and there I saw “Santa banned from saying Ho Ho Ho” – in Australia. I was like WTF?? What is going on in Down Under!!?

I mean it’s so bizarre for Santa to go “HA HA HA!” instead of “Ho Ho Ho!”

I read further and the article said that Australian Santa’s have been banned from going “Ho, ho, ho” this Christmas. The reason? Their “ho ho ho” might scare children and be derogatory to women. (huh??!)

It further went on to say that “Trainees from Westaff, which supplies hundreds of men in red suits to Australian shopping centers, were told the traditional phrase could scare children and be taken as derogatory to women.”

I thought children usually run towards Santa... from when did the opposite start taking place. I know that Australia is in the Southern Hemisphere and that when they have Christmas it’s bright and sunny instead off being snowy... but I didn’t know that their brains started functioning in the opposite direction as well.

In this case children should be allowed to watch TV, read books, and not venture outside... coz even the smallest thing can frighten and scare them... let alone Santa Claus. As far as I can remember or my forefathers for that matter Santa’s ‘Ho Ho Ho’ was never scary. And since when did Santa’s ‘Ho Ho Ho’ be derogatory to women??? I mean this is Santa that we were talking about here... why suck out the fun from fairy tales and fantasies from children. Let kids be kids and live in their imaginary world... they’ll soon outgrow it. And with women... am sure any woman in her right set of mind would not find it derogatory. C’mon it’s Santa Claus... our childhood hero who brought us loads and loads of presents. There should be some limit to political correctness!

Well the Australians justification for the ban is that the use of "ho, ho, ho" is too close to the American slang for prostitute. Gimme a break! I don’t children would even understand that. We are talking about little kids who do not understand that "ho, ho, ho" has any other connotation and nor should they.

Some people sure know how to spoil the fun. But this Christmas we shall see an unlikely revolutionary rising-
Santa is a rebel with a claus. Ho Ho Ho (oh sorry!!) Ha Ha Ha!!