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The [three] sex workers who [hang out] with St. [Nicholas] at Yuletide.

The association of St. Nick as the patron saint of sex workers is a long [one]. Supposedly, the original legend was that St. Nicholas was a bishop who lived a few hundred years after Christ. A poor man with three daughters had few other options than to sell them into prostitution (so three hos: ho ho ho!) because that other (and nastier) sex-for-[money] scam, heterosexual [marriage], would require that he pay [money] he doesn't have for a wedding for each of them. Presumably St. Nick paid for the wedding by anonymously throwing a [bag] of coins through the window. By the time of the third engagement, the [father] began to become curious and started watching the window to determine who was paying for all of this - so St. Nick outsmarted him by dropping the last [bag] of gold through the chimney. Hence the association of St. Nicholas as patron saint of working girls, as well as of a few less desirable groups such as the pawnbrokers who profit from the poverty of others and the ill-behaved hellions who think they're entitled to [free] toys just because it's giftmas.

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