Is Santa’s ‘Ho ho ho’ offensive to women?

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Santa Claus has it bad, and it’s only getting worse. Last year, a study revealed that one-third of all shopping-mall Clauses have been urinated on by children during their careers. (They also get sneezed on and have their beards pulled.) Now, the rotund figurehead of the Christmas shopping season is being told to watch his mouth. In Australia, a recruitment firm that hires mall Santas has reportedly been telling its trainees that the traditional “ho ho ho” phrase “could

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