# Why does Santa say "Ho Ho Ho"? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 16, 2004, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-santa-say-ho-ho-ho/275103 "2004-11-16T19:31:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-santa-say-ho-ho-ho/275103/21 "2004-11-17T02:01:17Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > Because if you stood on a street corner ringing a bell all day all you’d see would be Ho! Ho! Ho! > > **Lute Skywatcher** _snort_ That’s gonna get told a lot this year. For full effect, you have to point on each “ho”! You know, as if you’re pointing out hos. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-santa-say-ho-ho-ho/275103/22 "2004-11-17T06:26:31Z")
You’d rather him say, “Where my bitchez at?”? ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-santa-say-ho-ho-ho/275103/23 "2004-11-17T12:50:58Z")
Maybe Santa is a fanboy for a certain Hawaiian singer. ---
**Author:** ![Chastain86](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Chastain86](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chastain86)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-santa-say-ho-ho-ho/275103/24 "2004-11-17T14:15:36Z")
Just so you don’t feel alone, **as\_u\_wish** , I’m hoping for an honest answer on this sooner or later too. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-santa-say-ho-ho-ho/275103/25 "2004-11-17T14:47:25Z")
> [@Chastain86](#): > > Just so you don’t feel alone, **as\_u\_wish** , I’m hoping for an honest answer on this sooner or later too. Here you go: > [@CrazyCatLady](#): > > It’s meant to be a laugh. You know, jolly old elf and all that. You run across ho as an exclamation or expression of amusement in 19th century books fairly regularly, as opposed to ha. It’s just an anachronism that has never changed because, well, Santa doesn’t keep pace with the modern world. Everything about him is an anachronism. ---
**Author:** ![Chastain86](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Chastain86](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chastain86)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-santa-say-ho-ho-ho/275103/26 "2004-11-17T14:49:24Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > Here you go: Thanks! Damn store-bought eyes, missed that explanation. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2004, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-santa-say-ho-ho-ho/275103/27 "2004-11-26T16:04:08Z")
Cause three Ho’s are better than one? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2004, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-santa-say-ho-ho-ho/275103/28 "2004-11-26T16:30:43Z")
… because “mwah hah hah hah!!!” would be darn creepy? ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2004, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-santa-say-ho-ho-ho/275103/29 "2004-11-26T18:20:22Z")
“Ho, ho, li’l elf! Wanna li’l piece of candy?” Santa’s a dirty old man! - T. Smothers ---
**Author:** ![klintypooh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3da27b/32.png) [@klintypooh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/klintypooh)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2004, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-santa-say-ho-ho-ho/275103/30 "2004-11-26T18:23:37Z")
Can you blame the man for requesting 3 hos?? After all he only gets to empty his sack once a year 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2004, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-santa-say-ho-ho-ho/275103/31 "2004-11-26T18:31:23Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > Anagram of ‘Satan’, dresses in red like Satan… Jolly Green Giant is an anagram of Satan? 😕 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@Kricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kricket)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2004, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-santa-say-ho-ho-ho/275103/32 "2004-11-26T18:45:09Z")
> [@klintypooh](#): > > Can you blame the man for requesting 3 hos?? > After all he only gets to empty his sack once a year 😃 No, no. The joke is…Why doesn’t santa have any children? Because he only comes once a year and that is down a chimney ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2004, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-santa-say-ho-ho-ho/275103/33 "2004-11-26T18:58:56Z")
> [@Tapioca Dextrin](#): > > Jolly Green Giant is an anagram of Satan? 😕 No, it’s an anagram of “Angry Joliet Glen,” which was his prison nickname. Obviously. ---
**Author:** ![borschevsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@borschevsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/borschevsky)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2004, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-santa-say-ho-ho-ho/275103/34 "2004-11-26T19:50:36Z")
He says “Ho Ho Ho” because that’s his [postal code](http://www.canadapost.ca/textonly/business/corporate/about/newsroom/pr/default-e.asp?prid=1030). He wants you to write him a letter. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2004, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-santa-say-ho-ho-ho/275103/35 "2004-11-26T20:03:20Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > Maybe Santa is a fanboy for a certain Hawaiian singer. And if he said “Don, Don, Don”, hard of hearing people might think he was swearing. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2004, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-santa-say-ho-ho-ho/275103/36 "2004-11-26T20:21:01Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > And if he said “Don, Don, Don”, hard of hearing people might think he was swearing. If he said ‘Don Don Don’ it would sound like he was making some kind of plea to Vito Corleone, capesh? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2004, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-santa-say-ho-ho-ho/275103/37 "2004-11-26T20:22:56Z")
Or maybe he’s a stutterer trying to sing a cross gender Christmas song. The one that goes: Don-Don-Don we now our Gay-Gay-Gay apparel. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2004, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-santa-say-ho-ho-ho/275103/38 "2004-11-26T20:48:35Z")
“Ho! Ho! Ho!” H[sup]3[/sup]O[sup]3[/sup]? Molecular structure of jollyness? ---
**Author:** ![SpectBrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@SpectBrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpectBrain)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2004, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-santa-say-ho-ho-ho/275103/39 "2004-11-26T21:03:20Z")
and he says He he he after he tinkles on your Christmas tree. ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2004, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-santa-say-ho-ho-ho/275103/40 "2004-11-26T21:27:54Z")
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