Hahahahaha. Political Correctness gone awry. In Sydney, Australia, Santa Clauses have been told that they can not say "Ho Ho Ho" because the term "Ho" might be considered offensive somewhere, by someone. From Yahoo News: Santas warned 'ho ho ho' offensive to women
I also read today that the Lakers coach received a reprimand from the NBA for making a "Brokeback Mountain" joke that was in poor taste. Aren't most jokes in poor taste at one level or another?
My brother says that liberals are all about telling you what to think. He's a conservative. My liberal friends say the conservatives are all about telling you what to think. It doesn't matter which side of that fence you sit on, the prevailing thoughts by everyone seem to be these: my way is better, do it my way, order what I want, say what I think you should say, dress the way I think you should dress, go where I think you should go, etc etc.
This phrase from Keeping Up Appearances comes to mind: "Yes, dear."
A few years ago, I was laughing that The Dallas Morning News ran an article about Grand Saline, Texas. In the article they were talking about how Grand Saline's city council had banned all Christmas decorations that included Santa Claus because "Santa" is an anagram of "Satan".
Poor Santa, gets a bad rap every year somewhere.
So please forgive my recent post, which started out with "Ho Ho Ho" as an Xmas greeting. I guess it should have said "Ha Ha Ha" so that it wouldn't have really meant anything at all.
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Ho ho ho isn't offensive to women. It's offensive to hos!
That's right, Prostitutes get paid, hos gives it away.
That's actually a quote from a bad action movie in the '80's.
Henry VIII got mad after he married Anne Bolyn, and all the decorations in the palace were changed to HA instead of HC (Catherine, his first wife) and all the pesants (and death-wishing courtiers) ran around going Ha, Ha! at him.
The point being, good gramar aside (thanks Di!) that humans have just as deep a capacity for stupidity as for greatness. I remember once, about age 10, when I was grumbling about 'stupid boys, boys are all dumb'; my mom patted me on the back and said "There may be an infinite number of stupid men, but we never run out of stupid women to keep them company."
Speaking as a liberal, I think whoever wrote the memo at the Austrailan Santa company most likely produces diamonds from his/her rectum. I know that any manical Santa cackling Ha!Ha! at my children will puzzle them greatly, and increase the likelihood of beards being pulled and stomachs punched for authenticity. Finally, I pray to the Great Tweedy God above that nobody teaches Bill O'rilley to use Yahoo news…I'm still not sure he knows how to read.
BTW, the only Brokeback Mountain joke I've ever heard was when Samual Jackson was promoting his movie "Snakes on a Plane". He told the interviewer not to expect a deep, meaningful expirence..after all, the title wasn't "Snakes on Brokeback Mountain"
Just sayin'