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joe bloggs

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. John Doe, Joe Blow, Joe Bloggs, man in the streetnoun

    a hypothetical average man

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  1. Joe Bloggsnoun

    A personification of the general public, or of an average ordinary person.

Wikipedia

  1. Joe Bloggs

    "Joe Bloggs", "Fred Bloggs" and "Bill Taylor" are placeholder names used primarily in the United Kingdom to represent the average man on the street. It is used by students, on standardized test preparation courses, to represent the average test-taker. Many countries, such as the United States, Germany or South Africa, use their own unique placeholder names, some even used tongue in cheek. Sometimes the name will be useful as a quick alternative, or stalling mechanism especially when used in conjunction with "What's'isname?" and "'Im down the street", when a forgotten name sits on the tip of the tongue.

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  1. joe bloggs

    "Joe Bloggs" is a term primarily used in the UK that refers to an average or typical person. It is often used when referring to hypothetical, unknown or non-specific individuals in a similar way to "John Doe" or "John Q. Public" in the United States.

Wikidata

  1. Joe Bloggs

    The names "Joe Bloggs" and "Fred Bloggs" are commonly used as placeholder names in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, for 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. Other placeholders sometimes used are Mr/Mrs A Smith or A. N. Other. In the United Kingdom and United States, John has historically been one of the most common male first names, and Smith is the most common surname in each, so "John Smith" is a recurrent pseudonym and placeholder name in those countries. In Germany, Max Mustermann, Erika Mustermann, and Otto Normalverbraucher are used. In the United States, John Doe, John Q. Public, Joe Blow, Joe Sixpack and Joe Schmoe are used. Other international variations can be found here. 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.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of joe bloggs in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of joe bloggs in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2


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