Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/01/11/who-put-the-h-in-jesus-h-christ.html
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And when did He learn to tap dance?
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You beat me to it. Who cares about the H.? I wanna know about the Bomp.
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“Christogram!” -Land Shark (Baptized)
In the Latin-speaking Christianity of medieval Western Europe (and so among Catholics and many Protestants today), the most common Christogram became “IHS” or “IHC”, denoting the first three letters of the Greek name of Jesus, ΙΗΣΟΥΣ, iota-eta-sigma, or ΙΗΣ.
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Exactly. I thought that was common knowledge
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Everyone knows the “H” stands for “haploid.”
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I’d like to thank the guy
Who wrote the bible
That made my baby
Kneel and pray with me
Who put the ex in the book of Exodus
Who put the ram in Ramesses the Great
Who put the H in Jesus H. Christ
Who put the us in the Pontius Pilate…
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Howard. Our father who art in heaven, Howard be thy name. Josh (Yeshua) Howie Christ. 
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I always assumed it was one of those sneaky ways to skirt the technical definition of blasphemy-- “No, I said Jesus H. Christ, he’s a different guy, not the Messiah, also he was a plumber not a carpenter.”
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Jesus B. Christ was a poser.
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Is that the Jesus from the universe where the Messiah sometimes wears sweatpants?
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I’d never heard this before…I assumed it was some slang that got changed over time. So many lovely phrases and words we use are like that.
I cannot stop laughing at “Harold” as the middle name though. And I have a serious meeting to go to in 17 minutes. Cmon, game face man.
snicker harold giggle
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Well, he was Jewish, so I’m going with HaShem because why not?
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fascinating. today i learned!
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I thought it stood for Horatio, but then I’m not that old school. 
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My much preferred version:
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me, too!
had a friend some time ago who would often exclaim, “jesus h. christ!” and then - invariably - say “the h. stands for horatio.”
every time.
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“Hallmark”
because god cared enough to send the very best.
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That’s his dad’s name, and you don’t use the name of a living relative.
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