Gimme a break... well said!

OK, I thought Australia was a pretty level headed country and then I go and read this...(see the Yahoo News Story below) Since when has the jolly "HO HO HO" of Santa ever sugested that he is being offensive to women. It is not like he is standing around pointing at women in the mall and screaming "HO!" "HO!" "HO!" "And there's another one! HO!"

Only in this day and age of knee jerk liberals and people who want to regulate us into politically correct hell can something like this happen. Rather instead, blame the idiots who cannot speak correctly enough to say a proper word like "whore" but instead say "ho". Blame it on poor education, lack of culture, or shear stupidity.

The gal in the news article said it best... "Gimme a break!"

Later!

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.