Amusing/Interesting Christmas News Item

[Faded Rose]

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There are usually lots of these in the press/on the web around this time of year. Perhaps we could have a separate thread for them....

"Santas in Sydney, Australia have been warned not to use the words "ho ho ho" because they might be offensive to women. An angry Santa told the City's Daily Telegraph that he'd been advised to say "ha ha ha" instead because the word "ho" might be mistaken for the US slang for prostitute."

[FrigidRoses]

Have any Australians or UKers heard the term War On Christmas or is that just an American thing.

[Quincy]

Yes, all those toddlers who know about prostitutes.

[Quincy]

Have any Australians or UKers heard the term War On Christmas or is that just an American thing.

Well from watching the Daily Show and Colbert for the last couple of years, I have.

[FrigidRoses]

:upyours I didn't know if that movement had caught on over yonder.

[Quincy]

It hasn't really. Well maybe it has, I think some people just don't really care anymore

[ewok.online]

http://moldychum.typepad.com/moldy_chum/images/sexy_santa.jpg
Ho Ho Ho.

[Faded Rose]

http://moldychum.typepad.com/moldy_chum/images/sexy_santa.jpg
Ho Ho Ho.

Am I supposed to see something or am I just being dumb? - Forget it - it worked...ho ho ho indeed.

[ewok.online]

There's a picture in the spoiler.
But I found the picture on Google, and the site might not allow hotlinking.

[hildegoat]

Just to keep track whether it's Christmas or not, someone has made up a very helpful website:

http://isitchristmas.com/

[FrigidRoses]

Just to keep track whether it's Christmas or not, someone has made up a very helpful website:

http://isitchristmas.com/

:lol :beer

[ewok.online]

:lol

[Faded Rose]

I swear I only googled Christmas fairies - apologies in advance to all/any gays.

Christmas fairies
BY Charlotte Dingle
Creative queers are set to give the Women’s Institute a run for its money with their own alternative Christmas fair.
Christmas fairies <br />
The House of Homosexual Culture will be offering an original take on traditional Christmas celebrations at St John’s Church in Waterloo, south London on 24 November.

The House of Homosexual Culture Christmas Fayre 2007 will see stalls selling cakes, gifts, cards and ornaments complemented by a number of decidedly less traditional institutions. These include a singing Christmas tree, a tarot reader, a performance by the London Gay Symphonic Wind, and the Bitch and Stitch needlework demonstration.

Further eccentric entertainment will come in the form of Amy Lamé’s Pom Pom World demonstration, a performance of A Christmas Carol in two minutes by Everett Quinton, and a dance from the Gay Gordons. A seasonal trip through forgotten films, presented by the BFI Mediatheque, is also promised.

If all the excitement gets a bit too much there will even be a homeopath, reflexologist and masseur on-site to help you calm down.

[hildegoat]

IsItChristmas.com has it's own RSS feed as well:

http://www.isitchristmas.com/rss.xml

[FrigidRoses]

:lol I saw that. Gotta check that site out on Christmas day.

[Faded Rose]

:lol I saw that. Gotta check that site out on Christmas day.

You'll be on line on Christmas day? I should be so lucky!:(

[burgerqueen]

ho ho ho indeed.

:lol

[Sydneyfan]

Oh my.

The post office and police in Canada are searching for a "rogue elf" who has been sending filthy letters to children on behalf of Santa Claus.

A handful of reply letters to children who wrote to jolly Saint Nick contained comments such as: "This letter is too long, you dumb shit."

Canada Post spokeswoman Cindy Daoust said: "We firmly believe there is just one rogue elf out there responsible for the letters. In our history, we've never had a problem of this nature."

She explained that the letters were part of a Santa letter-writing program in which postal workers across Canada reply to letters from children around the world posted to Santa Claus, the North Pole, Canada, postal code H0H0H0.

Every reply letter is identical, except for a hand-written personalised postscript added by one of 11,000 volunteers.


http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/rogue-elf-sends-filthy-letters-to-children/2007/12/15/1197568301692.html

[foggy]

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[Sydneyfan]

:lol

[hildegoat]

Alt.Santas Put the X Back in Xmas

Santa Claus is coming to town. That's great and all, but if you're an American you probably enlist the services of the same Santa everyone else does: fat, jolly, dressed in fur, gives rich kids great presents and poor kids crap, always gives kids dolls and trains and other generic presents in the cartoons, but when it comes to real life he's inexplicably down with major name brands.

Seriously, in a country where no two people can order the same coffee drink, why is there only one Santa Claus?

Surely this sort of monopoly can't be good for competition. I want you to think long and hard about letting some other jolly old elf invade your home in the middle of the night this year. I happen to represent an entire line of Alt.Santas, each one wanting to be your holiday provider. Let's take a look, shall we?
Objectivist Santa

As this Santa will tell you, the entire concept of "gift giving" is an immoral construction designed to perpetuate a contemptible society based on entitlement and the parasitic draining of those who have earned the fruits of their labors. That an innocent child would be indoctrinated to expect presents with no effort or capital invested into the exchange is an evil unseen since the days of Franklin Roosevelt. Objectivist Santa offers children a choice: They may have a copy of Atlas Shrugged, for which they must give up a beloved toy, or they may choose to writhe and mewl in ignorance, and receive nothing. Objectivist Santa only has to carry around one copy of Atlas Shrugged.
Atheist Santa

Who's that coming down the chimney? Nobody -- that's ridiculous. Atheist Santa shows up in a gray Toyota Corolla and knocks on your door. Once you let him in and he has cookies and milk -- come on, even atheists love cookies and milk -- he will explain to your child that Santa may love all the children of the world, but he has never submitted his claims of flying reindeer and magical present delivery to James Randi, who would gladly pay a million dollars if presented with irrefutable proof of his wild claims. However, as a gesture of goodwill, Atheist Santa will leave your child with a set of wooden periodic-table blocks and a scale model of archaeopteryx.
Pagan Santa

That Christmas tree? Pagan. Those red and green lights? Pagan. That yule log, if anyone still had yule logs? Extremely pagan. Pagan Santa shows up in a breechcloth and antlers and enacts a battle between the Oak King and the Holly King, with the Oak King emerging triumphant as the Holly King returns to the womb to be born again. Once you retrieve your terrified children from under the couch, Pagan Santa will present to them a garland of mistletoe and a cone cow. Your child will emerge with a greater respect for old traditions, other cultures and the healing power of intensive therapy.
Parent Appreciation Santa

Let's face it: Santa is kind of a jerk. He swoops in once a year and lays a bunch of presents at your children's feet, and they love him even more than you and Ronald McDonald. Where was Santa when your kid had an ear infection? Sitting around smoking a pipe and drinking Coca-Cola, that's where. Parent Appreciation Santa understands your position, and that's why he shows up not with presents, but with pictures of you slaving away at work, cleaning the house and standing in line at 3 in the freaking morning to get a Wii. "I didn't bring anything," he explains, "but let's open the presents your parents got you, because they love you more than any hairy, polar-dwelling creep could."

http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/commentary/alttext/2007/12/alttext_1219

[ewok.online]

:lol

Objectivist Santa is the best.