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.


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This political correctness crap is going way to far. They are taking a innocent figure of Santa Claus something that has been going on for hundreds on years and distorting it. What can we have no fun in our lives? First our schools start to have 'Holiday Concerts' instead of 'Christmas Concerts', people never say Merry Christmas anymore... WTF!

Maybe i'm old fashioned but I remember when people were actually friendly and polite to each other now its very rare to see this. Society seems to be pushing us to be all self centered hermits


As Santa would say "HO HO HO ..... [rainbow]Merry Christmas[/rainbow]!


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