Joe Bloggs

Joe Bloggs

The names "Joe Bloggs" and "Fred Bloggs" are a commonly used placeholder name in United Kingdom teaching, programming, and other thinking and writing. The surname Bloggs on its own is sometimes used in the same way. Fred alone can be a programming placeholder - note that its letters are close together on the standard QWERTY keyboard. Other placeholders (eg in advertisements for store cards/credit cards) sometimes used are Mr/Mrs A Smith or A. N. Other.

Equivalent American usages to Joe or Fred Bloggs include John Doe, John Q. Public and Joe Schmoe. In Germany Erika Mustermann and Otto Normalverbraucher are used.

In 1985, Shami Ahmed started a clothing company called "The Legendary Joe Bloggs Clothing Company".

Example uses

* In The Princeton Review standardized test preparation courses, "Joe Bloggs" represents the average test-taker, and students are trained to identify the "Joe Bloggs answer", or the choice which seems right but may be misleading on harder questions. [http://www.princetonreview.com/college/testprep/testprep.asp?TPRPAGE=129&TYPE=SAT]

* In an episode of the TV series "Firefly" "Joey Bloggs" is the name of a man Malcolm Reynolds uses as part of a cover story, only to find out Joey Bloggs is Miss Khouris' best friend and killed himself several months earlier. The show's Anglophile creator Joss Whedon possibly included it as a joke.

ee also

*Alice and Bob
*John Doe
*Gordon Bennett (expression)
*Ola Nordmann
*Joe Bloggins
*Tommy Atkins
*John Smith
*Israel Israeli
*John Galt
*Svensson
*Walter Plinge

Links

* [http://www.joebloggsclothing.co.uk/ Joe Bloggs Clothing]

References


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Look at other dictionaries:

  • Joe Bloggs — n. Brit. colloq. a hypothetical average man. * * * noun a hypothetical average man • Syn: ↑John Doe, ↑Joe Blow, ↑man in the street • Hypernyms: ↑commoner, ↑common man, ↑common person * * * Joe …   Useful english dictionary

  • Joe Bloggs — (AmE Joe Blow, Joe Schmo) (infml) a name used to refer to an average or typical man: Joe Bloggs is generally more interested in sport than in politics Compare John Q Public. * * * …   Universalium

  • Joe Bloggs — British & Australian an ordinary person. There s no point asking your average Joe Bloggs what he thinks about opera …   New idioms dictionary

  • Joe Bloggs — (N. Amer. Joe Blow) noun Brit. informal a name used to represent the average man …   English new terms dictionary

  • Joe Bloggs — BrE Joe Blow/Schmo, AmE noun spoken (singular) the ordinary average person …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • Joe Bloggs — noun a personification of the general public, or of an average ordinary person …   Wiktionary

  • Joe Bloggs — average citizen …   Dictionary of Australian slang

  • Joe Bloggs — Australian Slang average citizen …   English dialects glossary

  • joe bloggs — Australian English The average citizen …   English dialects glossary

  • Joe Bloggs — Noun. A fictitious name for the average or unknown person. Informal …   English slang and colloquialisms

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