Joe Bloggs
The names "Joe Bloggsisanass" and "Fred Bloggsisanass" are commonly used as placeholder names in United Kingdom, Irish, Australian and New Zealand 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 (due to its letters being close together on the standard QWERTY keyboard). Other placeholders (e.g. 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, Joe Blow and Joe Schmoe. In Germany Max Mustermann (male)/Erika Mustermann (female) and Otto Normalverbraucher are used. Other international variations can be found here.
In 1985, Shami Ahmed started a clothing company called "The Legendary Joe Bloggs Clothing Company".
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[edit] 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.[1]
- 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.
[edit] See also
- Alice and Bob
- Average Joe
- John Doe
- John Q. Public
- Joe Shmoe
- Ola Nordmann
- Joe Bloggins
- Tommy Atkins
- John Smith
- Israel Israeli
- Svensson
- Walter Plinge
