in Jesus H. Christ?

My friend is telling me it stands for Herschel.

I'm thinking Howard is more logical.....


is it 5pm yet? god, im bored. haha, i said god.

Hiram

Harold. Trust me.

Hoss

Yeh. Gotta be Harold - as in "Hark the Harold angels sing..."

I always heard Harold.

Hoju. as in Homer Junior. "the kids can call you Hoju!"

Wikipedia is pretty unhelpful.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_H_Christ

Uh, no, it's "'Hark,' Harold the angel sings." Duh.

"Our father, who art in heaven, Harold be thy name..."

Im pretty sure its just H

no, it's Jesus Aytch Christ.

like Homer Jay Simpson.

we just assumed it was the simplified H.

I, too, always thought it stood for Harry, aka Harold.

Don't ask me why...I'm such a hairy guy...

Hieronymous.

Hellacious.

Harvey?

Hollaback

Help me

Cletus.

A sacred pilgramage to the holy land of google tells me:

"Greek monogram for Jesus, IHS or IHC. This is formed from the first two letters plus the last letter of His name in Greek (the letters iota, eta, and sigma; in the second instance, the C is a Byzantine Greek form of sigma). The H is actually the capital letter form of eta, but churchgoers who were unfamiliar with Greek took it to be a Latin H.

The oath does indeed seem to be American, first recorded in print at the end of the nineteenth century, although around 1910 Mark Twain wrote in his Autobiography that the expression had been in use about 1850 and was considered old even then. Its long survival must have a lot to do with its cadence, and the way that an especially strong emphasis can be placed on the H.

Nineteenth-century Americans weren’t the first to take the Greek letters to be Latin ones—since medieval times the monogram has often been expanded into Latin phrases, such as Iesus Hominum Salvator, Jesus Saviour of Men, In Hoc Signo (vinces), in this sign (thou shalt conquer), and In Hac Salus, in this (cross) is salvation."

Damn, how am I supposed to follow that up with something funny?

Fart or something.

The Original Hollaback Girl.