Sushi anyone?

[Dragon Star]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14374518/

MEXICO CITY - Three Mexican fishermen who claim they set out months ago from Mexico’s western coast have been rescued near the Marshall Islands — 5,500 miles to the west — after surviving on rain water and raw fish.

Eugene Muller, manager of Koo’s Fishing Co., said by phone Tuesday that the company’s boat picked up the three on Aug. 9. Muller said the men were recovering and would be brought back to Majuro, the islands’ capital, in 10 to 14 days.

“We fished, and we ate the fish raw ... because there was no fire to cook with,” survivor Jesus Vidana, 27, told Mexico’s Televisa news network in a telephone hook-up to the ship’s communications system.

One of the survivors names was Jesus?

[Lance]

One of the survivors names was Jesus?

Didn't we just do this somewhere?

In Spanish it's pronounced "hey-zeus".

[Dragon Star]

Oh, my bad.

[Enzo]

Jesus is a very common name south of the border. Call him Jessie for short.

[Heid the Ba]

So if Christ was born Jewish why did he have a Mexican name?

[Enzo]

HAy-wish?

We don't know, but it was right after MAry came back from spring break in Baja that a convenient star rose in the east.

The Maji presenting frankinsense, mhyrr, and frijoles might have been a clue.

[umop ap!sdn]

So if Christ was born Jewish why did he have a Mexican name?

Actually it's the other way around. Supposedly, this Jesus fellow's real name was Jeshua Ben Josef, a very Hebrew name. When the Old Testament was written in Greek, they had to transcribe his name as Iesos, because Greek of that time lacked some of the sounds (remember the J was pronounced like our Y) and to give the name a Greek masculine ending so it could be declined.

The Romans in turn needed to adapt the name to their own language, for the same reasons, and that's when they came up with Jesus. Still, the J was pronounced like our Y. Centuries later this got adapted into both English and Spanish because, hey, we use the same alphabet, but each language pronounced it with its own pronunciation rules.

There is actually a joke floating around the internet, something like ten reasons why he was Hispanic. I'll have to dig it up.

[Heid the Ba]

So if Christ was born Jewish why did he have a Mexican name?

There is actually a joke floating around the internet, something like ten reasons why he was Hispanic. I'll have to dig it up.

Must remember smileys, must remember smileys, must remember smileys . . .

[Lance]

Must remember smileys, must remember smileys, must remember smileys . . .

That's okay. I though umop's explanation was interesting.

[umop ap!sdn]

Yah I figured you were probably joking but I happened to know the answer and wanted to contribute. I'm strange like that. :D

I found a variation of the joke too.