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Old 04-23-2006, 12:31 AM   #20
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Re: "H" is about Jesus Christ?! not about heroin?

As far as I know it came from the book Fallen Angels (about the Vietnam War), but I could be wrong.

EDIT: Yeah, I was really wrong: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_H._Christ

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From Wikipedia
Using the name of "Jesus Christ" as an oath has been common for centuries, but the precise origins of the letter H in the expression Jesus H. Christ are obscure. Whilst many explanations have been proposed, some serious and many humourous, the most widely accepted derivation is from the divine monogram of Christian symbolism, IHC or IHS. One factor in the transmutation of the monogram into the expression Jesus H. Christ may be that when the first syllable of the phrase "Jesus Christ" is strongly emphasised (as some speakers of some English accents may do when cursing), the rhythm suggests a missing middle syllable between "Jesus" and "Christ". The H may have been adopted from the monogram to fill this gap.
And it was Full Metal Jacket, too. Not Fallen Angels.

Last edited by patthew; 04-23-2006 at 12:34 AM..
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