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Originally Posted by hawkeyethearcher
as for santa claus. saint nick is a mythical person around for a while. santa claus, big fat red ho ho ho saying, is made up by coca cola to get us to buy lots o crud and they make a fortune off all of it.
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Sorry,Hawk.
As much as I like a good bashing of corporate soulessnes.
Ya can't blame Coca-Cola for the "Ho,ho,ho."
Thanks,Weikipidia......
Ho, ho, ho
Ho ho ho is the convention in English and other languages to write the way Santa Claus laughs. "Ho, ho, ho! Merry Christmas!"
The laughter of Santa Claus has long been an important attribute by which the character is identified, but it does not appear in many non-English-speaking countries. The traditional Christmas poem A Visit from St. Nicholas relates that Santa has:
. . . a little round belly
That shook when he laugh'd, like a bowl full of jelly
Ho ho ho represents an attempt to write the deep belly-laugh of Santa Claus, as opposed to the conventional, higher-pitched ha ha that represents the laughter of less obese characters, or the snickering, cynical bwa ha ha! associated with the villains of melodrama.
Jacob Grimm asserts that "Ho ho ho" was the hunting cry of Odin during The Furious Host. Odin being attributal to Santa Claus.
"H0H 0H0" is a postal code used by Canada Post for routing letters sent in Canada to Santa Claus at the North Pole. The alphanumeric sequence falls within a grouping associated with the Montreal, Quebec area.