Jesus H. Christ's middle name

[CreekDog]

what was that "H" supposed to stand for?

[BeachBaby]

1. Hussein - DUH.

:P

[CreekDog]

2. not Hasselhoff?

ps- i snapped a picture of you driving on the beach in Cape May:

[BeachBaby]

7. Leave my baby alone!!!!!

[CreekDog]

8. LOL

:rofl:

i better quit while i'm ahead. :hug:

[TZ]

10. Pssst. Creekdog....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x8375280#8375994

I'm on a mission to make you the most infamous Lounge Lizard...BWAHAHAHA!

[Lost-in-FL]

3. Hotty,

I have never seen an ugly Jesus impersonator.

[Gormy Cuss]

4. Hellacious.

Hussein is so New Think.

[Whoa_Nelly]

5. Harold...as in

The Lord's Prayer

Our father who art in heaven,
Harold be Thy name...

[ashling]

45. No, you got it wrong

Our father, Art, in Heaven ....

[Whoa_Nelly]

46. ............

:rofl:

[kath]

6. Some say it stands for "haploid"

(old biology joke)

see http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/30/why-do-folks-say-jesus-h-christ

[XemaSab]

53. .

:toast:

[MineralMan]

9. Hallefrigginlujah!

[Deja Q]

11. Tiberius

:hide:

[SoCalDem]

12. It was really Ouch not "H"...well for obvious reasons. but it lost something on the

Aramaic to English Berlitz tapes

[kentauros]

13. Hadron

:P

[Pierre.Suave]

14. Hubert

:P

[Shell Beau]

23. Well that was my guess

:P

[CreekDog]

26. Exactly. Hubert was the first that came to mind.

they say you should always go with the first thing that comes to mind. :think:

[Pierre.Suave]

32. Great minds think alike...

But Creekdog obviously cheated and looked at our answers...

:P

:rofl:

[CreekDog]

43. Hush

how would you have known you were right unless i came along to tell you? :D

[Pierre.Suave]

44. because I am always right

I just KNOW it.

:P

[mcctatas]

15. According to Christopher Moore in "Lamb"

it's Hallowed

[kayakjohnny]

16. Hector.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

17. I think it is supposed to be Holy. n/t

[FloridaJudy]

18. Howard.

They named Him after his Dad - you know "Our Father, who art in heaven, Howard be thy name..."

Or maybe it's Harold. "Hark - the Harold! - angels sing.."

[Arugula Latte]

19. Hank

Jesus Hank Christ

[KitchenWitch]

20. Horatio

Because it sounds good.

Jesus Horatio Christ.

[MissMillie]

21. It's Howard

As in "Our father who art in heaven, Howard be thy name"

[leftyclimber]

22. Holy.

Jeeesus Holy CHRIST!






















No?

:hide:

[Lorien]

24. That's what I always thought.

:shrug:

[CreekDog]

27. without hearing the intonation, i can't tell whether you are being reverent or sinful

:shrug:

[oshyposhy]

25. well, I grew up thinking my middle name was goddammit

Looks like Jesus got the better deal.

[mcctatas]

33. Ya, but your mom is certainly no Mary...

:evilgrin:

[oshyposhy]

34. True that

but it was my grandparents...

[Blue_Tires]

28. the old folks in my family alway said it was for

"help" or "help us"

[Sebastian Doyle]

29. I don't think the middle initial is anywhere in the Scriptures

Though I used to think so when I was a kid, because my dad always called Him by that name (or said that He was on a crutch, for some reason) when he was pissed off.

If Jesus had a middle name, it was probably Emmanuel, since that name is also used to describe Him a few times in the Bible. Guess "Jesus E. Christ" just doesn't have the same ring to it? :shrug:

[Arugula Latte]

30. Personally, I think "Jesus H. Fucking Roosevelt Christ" has a nice ring to it

especially when one is truly pissed off.

[Sebastian Doyle]

35. So FDR was a descendant of JC?

Guess that explains how he got elected 4 times.

[Eyerish]

31. "Jesus E. Christ..."

For some reason that makes me think of "Chuck E. Cheese". Wonder who they'd have in the "whack-a mole" game?? The idea of an animatronic jebus scares me...:scared:

[Kool Kitty]

36. Henry.

[krispos42]

37. Without a birth certificate, we'll never know

[Lucian]

38. Jesus's last name is Hong. Jesus Hong.

Says he has no idea where people are getting Christ.

[jobycom]

39. Silly. It's not an initial.

You just misheard his name. Jesus Aiych Christ. Aiych is Aramaic for Tom Cruise.

[SeattleGirl]

50. Does that mean that Mary is Aramaic for Katie Holmes?

:P

[jobycom]

56. I hope you mean Mary Magdalene, and not Mother Mary!

:wow:

[texanwitch]

40. I found this on google.

(1) It stands for "Haploid." This is an old bio major joke, referring to the unique (not to say immaculate) circumstances of Christ's conception. Having no biological father, J.C. was shortchanged in the chromosome department to the tune of one half. Ingenious, I'll admit, but whimsy has no place in a serious investigation such as this.

(2) It recalls the H in the IHS logo emblazoned on much Christian paraphernalia. IHS dates from the earliest years of Christianity, being an abbreviation of "Jesus" in classical Greek characters. The Greek pronunciation is "Iesous," with the E sound being represented by the character eta, which looks like an H. When the symbol passed to Christian Romans, for whom an H was an H, the unaccountable character eventually became accepted as Jesus's middle initial.

(3) Finally, a reader makes the claim that the H derives from the taunting Latin inscription INRH that was supposedly tacked on the cross by Roman soldiers: Iesus Nazarenus, Rex Hebrei (Jesus the Nazarene, King of the Hebrews). Trouble is, the inscription is usually given as INRI: Iesus Nazarenus, Rex Iudaeorum (J.C., King of the Jews).

Nonetheless, this is the kind of creative thinking I like to see from my Teeming Millions. With every passing day, my mission on this earth comes closer to completion.

— Cecil Adams

[MrSlayer]

41. Horndog.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

42. Haven't a clue.

[blitzen]

47. Dammit, as I've explained on this forum many times before...

"Christ" is not the dude's last name. It means "the anointed one". So his name is Jesus H., the anointed one. Hence, the "H." is his goddamn last name, not his middle name. He seems to have had no middle name.

[elocs]

48. The real answer is probably: Yeshua Ben Yosef meaning Jesus son of Joseph.

At least that's the word out on the street of Nazareth.

[Oeditpus Rex]

49. Hitch

[TZ]

51. Oh..I thought you meant as in Christopher Hitchens....

The atheist..:crazy:

[XemaSab]

52. Hay Seuss

:P

[LeftyMom]

54. Horace. nt

[Ava]

55. Harold

duh :eyes: :P

[bikebloke]

57. Hula-hoop

You can tell by that ring over his head. He was a member of the Nazareth Amateur Hula-hoop Competion Team - Yisrael Valley Chapter.

[bif]

58. Harrison--everyone knows that!

[rrneck]

59. Hallmark

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