No mo' "ho ho ho"

[Doug Harris]

Well, now that you mention it:
A not-unrelated thought occurred to me yesterday when I passed a business
with a sign advertising it as "Ho Market". Now it is _possible_ that
someone would draw the wrong conclusion and/or make 'funny' comments to
an employee or the owner. There's also the chance that someone would have
described a late Hawaiian singer's child (if he had one) as son/daughter
of a Ho. And some such name-callers imagine, somehow, that the insult
recipient never heard that taunt before. Go figure.
(the other) doug

Wilson wrote:
Could it truly be the case that *anyone* could possible believe that
women or children hearing a man in a Santa Clause costume saying "Ho!
Ho! Ho!" would think that the man was using the BE term for
"Prostitute! Prostitute! Prostitute!"? Y'all must be done lost y'all's
minds.

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