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John Oakes, a 70-year-old man working as Santa in a Cairns department store has apparently been sacked (and no I don’t mean that in the bag-full-of- toys sense) for saying "ho ho ho" to customers. His employer sparked what the mainstream news is calling a ‘national outrage’ when it directed its 500-strong cast of shopping center Santas to say "ha ha ha" instead of "ho ho ho" because it could be derogatory to women. Oakes said he was devastated to be stepping out of the red suit but that he bears no grudge towards his former employers and instead is now looking for a new job. Other comments like ‘I’d love to slide down that chimney’ we’re seen as ok.