Haploid
Sorry bad genetics joke, I will see myself out.
“Viral Bible”, metal-country band name (Album “You All Look Just Lack Jeezus Man”)
by the BB, damn good thread
I actually just learned that! Someone sent me a link to the wikipage 'What does the H in Jesus H. Christ Stand for? My favorite reason was it is good rhythm for the emphasis for swearing.
Multiple authors emphasize the practice of placing a strong stress on the “H”, relating it in various ways to expletive infixation. Thus Quinion writes:
Its long survival must have a lot to do with its cadence, and the way that an especially strong stress can be placed on the H. You might also think of it as an example of emphatic infixing that loosely fits the models of words like abso-bloody-lutely or tribu-bloody-lation.[7]
Similar remarks were made by the linguist Dwight Bolinger, who mentions “Jesus H. Christ” in a discussion of the strategies used by English speakers to add additional stresses to “highly charged words” for purposes of emphasis.[8] Horberry suggests “The strong emphasis on the H somehow improves the rhythm of its host phrase.”[9] The Green’s Dictionary of Slang says “the H is redundant other than for rhythm”.[10]
Baby Jesus Chainlink Fence - album name?
Lemmy is god. I love you for this
You mean, it’s not for Harold?
“Harold be thy name”…
Yeah yeah, I’ll see myself out…
Fascinating! Works for David S. Pumpkins, too!
It would be worse than that. It would be little Yeshua, along with his mother Miriam and her husband Yusuf.
Just wait until they find out Yeshua is expected to become a king (overthrowing the president!) and preach socialist values.
Please, Oh Please make this into the opening SNL skit.
What is Chris Isaak doing as… oh, nevermind.
Indy native here. One aspect of this story that doesn’t get mentioned is that Christ Church Cathedral isn’t just some podunk church in Indianapolis. It’s a very popular church, in a very high-profile location, being located smack at the center of downtown Indy, on the Circle. As such, thousands of people walk past the place daily. It’s also next door to the Columbia Club, which has traditionally been the out-of-the-public-eye meeting place for the political movers-and-shakers (i.e. Republicans) of Indiana (the statehouse is just two blocks away)
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