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11-15-2007, 09:52 AM
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Say NO NO NO to HO HO HO
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.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071115...ristmasoffbeat
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11-15-2007, 09:56 AM
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Santa going "ha ha ha"? Just wrong.
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11-15-2007, 10:06 AM
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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid
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.
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I'm pretty sure it would only be offensive to a woman with a dirty conscience.
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11-15-2007, 11:55 AM
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Originally Posted by AlphaFrog
I'm pretty sure it would only be offensive to a woman with a dirty conscience.
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well....you have SOME women who have no problems referring to each other as b!tches and hoes......so.........that may rule the whole conscience thing out.
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11-15-2007, 02:08 PM
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The company said that their policy was misrepresented. They leave it up to the Santa I think they were simply told to be aware that if someone gets offended, just say ha ha ha and don't push the issue.
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11-21-2007, 03:43 PM
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BRANDYWINE HUNDRED, Del. -- Delaware State Police have arrested a Chester, Penn., man who they said was running naked and drunk on Interstate 95 and caused three accidents.
Police said Ardonas Gilbert, 26, was running along the southbound lanes near Marsh Road at about 10 p.m. Monday. He is charged with two counts of assault and a single count of being drunk on the highway.
Two citizens tried to help Gilbert, but police said he began to assault them.
Police said he then ran back into traffic and caused three accidents when cars tried to avoid hitting him.
No one was seriously injured.
Gilbert is being held at the Howard Young Correctional Institute in Wilmington.
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11-28-2007, 01:56 PM
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22007049/
MSNBC News Services
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KHARTOUM, Sudan - A British teacher has been charged with inciting hatred, insulting religion and showing contempt of religious beliefs after her class named a teddy bear Muhammad, state media said on Wednesday.
I find this a complete overreaction on the part of the Sudanese government and I'm Muslim myself. Children don't know any better and it's not as if she was deliberately trying to insult Islam. Furthermore, they could have easily asked her to renam the bear and explained why and that would have been the end of it. No wonder most of the world thinks we are just violent extremist terrorists... 
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11-28-2007, 02:09 PM
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Isn't it often used as a name for Muslims?
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11-28-2007, 02:21 PM
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Isn't it often used as a name for Muslims?
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Yes, but naming a son after Muhammad is an honor, while naming a stuffed bear after Muhammad is an effigy and blasphemy. At least that's how the Sudanese court's treating it.
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11-29-2007, 11:05 AM
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BOSTON - The winner of a $1 million lottery scratch ticket may not be so lucky after all: He's a convicted bank robber who isn't supposed to gamble. Timothy Elliott faces a Dec. 7 court hearing over whether he violated his probation when he bought the $10 ticket for the $800 Million Spectacular game at a supermarket in Hyannis.
Elliott was placed on five years' probation after pleading guilty in October 2006 to unarmed robbery for a January 2006 heist at a bank on Cape Cod. Under terms of his probation, he "may not gamble, purchase lottery tickets or visit an establishment where gaming is conducted, including restaurants where Keno may be played."
Elliott, 55, has collected the first of 20 annual $50,000 checks from the Massachusetts lottery commission. A picture of Elliott, holding his first check, was posted on the lottery's Web site Monday, though it was removed by Wednesday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071128/...lottery_winner
Devil's advocate:
Which would be easier...
Let him keep the earnings which will be taxed and possibly keeping him from turning to crime again
or
Lock him up and possibly ruining his livelihood which may cause him to rob again?
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11-30-2007, 04:28 PM
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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid
BOSTON - The winner of a $1 million lottery scratch ticket may not be so lucky after all: He's a convicted bank robber who isn't supposed to gamble.
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I'd wonder how someone could be such a huge idiot if I didn't know one personally. My friend's (now-ex) husband was involved in a car accident in his very early 20s and the woman involved won a big judgment against him. He had no money or property at the time but the judgment stayed open. Several years later the guy gets a scratch-off ticket at a convenience store, wins $1 million, and instead of thinking ahead, going home and giving it to my friend (then his fiancee) to turn in, he goes straight to the lottery office to claim it.
The woman was immediately awarded his million dollar prize. Idiot.
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