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Santa's call #1 (permalink) Mon Jan 10, 2011 9:01 am   Santa's call
 

I'd like to address native speakers:

Do you feel offended by Santa's call that goes "ho ho ho"?

I mean, when you stop to think about it, in essence it means "skank skank skank" (I think you see what I'm getting at).
So, share your thoughts, shoot straight.
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Santa's call #2 (permalink) Mon Jan 10, 2011 9:06 am   Santa's call
 

Mrs Claus takes umbrage.
That's why Santa only comes once a year.
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Santa's call #3 (permalink) Mon Jan 10, 2011 10:16 am   Santa's call
 

Hehe, that sounds reasonable enough to me!
It must be hard for him to take all the umbrage that comes his way every Christmas though, especially while he fills up the stockings hung at fireplaces with presents.
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Re: Santa's call #4 (permalink) Mon Jan 10, 2011 10:53 am   Re: Santa's call
 

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Do you feel offended by Santa's call that goes "ho ho ho"?


Torty you sound like you are underpinning the Santa Hoax - I would just like to say it is probably the biggest psy-ops woven into Western culture today - the Elephant in the room - yet like the Apollo hoax you also proclaim was real - it doesn’t stand up to even the most basic scrutiny.

It is simply a massive blood sucking corporate machine which continues to usurp the western populous for 20% of the year masquerading as Charity while the whole disinfo media machine churns out Santa story after story with the usual shills "protecting" it on the web.

“If Santa was a hoax that would mean literally tens of millions of people would have to be in on it”.

“Why do the Russians also say Santa Exists? Are they in on it too”… blah blah!!

Well the simple answer is yes! This thing is massive and it goes all the way to the top. – Holy wood(C what I did)) movies are churned out with Santa as the main Plot.. MSM mentions Santa repeatedly at all times of the year perpetuating the myth into the western psyche – Yet what is kept heavily suppressed is that Santa’s would have to be travelling at approx 7 miles per second to deliver his presents yet an average reindeer moves at only 15 Miles an hour over distance.
Plus his sleigh would have to be the size of a massive oil tanker.

The obvious reason none of the millions of children admit Santa doesn't exist is because they get Christmas presents every year for playing along with it...

They are all laughing at the grown ups behind their backs :-(
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Santa's call #5 (permalink) Mon Jan 10, 2011 20:16 pm   Santa's call
 

I had no idea that 'ho' is also a short form of w***e -- an offensive word used about a woman. Now that I know I think I like Santa even less. :-(

Seriously Tort, it seems to me that you are over-analysing, but I can see why you asked the native speakers.

Beeesneees wrote:
Mrs Claus takes umbrage.
That's why Santa only comes once a year.

So Santa has to answer to the wife too? :-)
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