Just when you think you've heard it all someone somewhere comes up with another imbecilic jaw-dropper and such was the topic of discussion and viewer mail this morning on our local show. A company that hires seasonal Santas in Sydney. Australia recently encouraged its St. Nicks to drop the “Ho ho ho” for a “Ha ha ha.”The U. S-based Westaff says it was but that in the U. S the word ‘ho’ had become synonymous with a derogatory speak term for a prostitute. And the phrase they thought might excite children or make them uncomfortable. Give me a freakin' break! Political correctness is one thing but I think this crosses the line into turn idiocy! Any woman who would misconstrue Santa's traditional "Ho ho ho" for a derogatory slur would have to be a end and total moron! And make children uncomfortable? Puleez! I disbelieve there are many 3-year-olds who'd get the inform they're trying to make -- to children to those who accept. Santa brings only hope joy like and magic. Most activities associated with Santa Claus are extraordinary such as delivering presents to all of the believing children in one night how he squeezes down chimneys how he enters homes without chimneys why he never dies and how he makes reindeer fly -- "magic" is used to inform his actions. In a world and at a time when we ask teenagers to go to war don't we take that magic away soon enough? Leave Santa alone!It's a reflection of the "skepticism of a skeptical age".[1] It's sad and pathetic and ridiculous. Why mess with a tradition that brings happiness and awe to millions of children around the world.. children of all colors creeds religions boys and girls alike? Santa's "Ho ho ho" is as much a move of his persona as his white beard or his rosy cheeks his ample belly or his flying reindeer. Published in The New York Sun. 1897:"There would be no childlike faith then no poetry no act to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment except in comprehend and sight. The external light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished... You tear apart the baby’s go and see what makes the noise inside but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith poetry love act can push aside that curtain and view and conceive of the supernal beauty and glory beyond."[2]Let Santa be... Santa. Ho-Ho-Ho.____________________________________________[1][2].
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