Talk:Joe Bloggs

Joe Bloggs Jeans?

Would be nice if a mention of these were included in the article, i dont really know anything about the history of them tho...

I have heard of a clothing line named Joe Bloggs. Provide some reliable sources first though...--h i s ^{s p a c e} _{r e s e a r c h} 03:33, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Joe what?

Wouldn't this placeholder name tend to become specialized to authors of blogs? --Damian Yerrick 06:17, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

No. An interesting coincidence, but it's neither the source (much much older) nor the likely future of the name. Actually, I've always wondered why "Bloggs", it not being all that common a name; John Smith always makes that much more sense. But then again, I guess if you want a markedly neutral name, it's actually a good thing if it doesn't collide with those of lots of real people. Sorry, rambling now... - IMSoP 23:10, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

Why a link to nonexitstent "Blogg"?

Why in the "see also" section is there a link to a nonexistent WP article? Jaysbro 19:28, 30 May 2006 (UTC) Hello everyone! this is the most creepy thing i have ever found out! did you know, that John and Jane Doe logged off at the EXACT SAME TIME!!!! check it right here: John Doe 3/6/2006 4:59:21 Jane Doe 3/6/2006 4:59:21 This is SO SHOCKING AND CREEPY, and it is all true!!!! there ID`s: 2 and 3 People say Admin was deleted and replaced by ROBLOX! check it out... ROBLOX`s ID is 1. but thats not it. One person said these exact words: Jane Doe and John Doe were probably tests

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• 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 killed himself several months earlier. The show's Anglophile creator Joss Whedon possibly included it as a joke.

I removed the text above, because Joss Whedon is not an Anglophile, he's English. Billy Blythe 03:07, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Okay, I was wrong. He attended school in England and is an American. I'll revert my previous actions. Billy Blythe 03:10, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Joe Bloe

A variant, "Joe Blow" (sometimes spelled "Joe Bloe"; "Joe Bleau" in French), is sometimes used in Canada. Hugo Dufort 18:59, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

And in Australia.--Jack Upland (talk) 09:04, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

list of Bloggs in literature?

I was looking into the film When the Wind Blows, dimly remembered from my childhood, and I was rather shocked to discover that the main characters were the Bloggs. Should this be mentioned in the article, or does the name used as a proper name appear in literature often? Would a list of characters with the proper name Bloggs be useful, or obscenely large? --Superluser 01:58, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Fred Bloggs

In my experience (unfortunately falling foul of WP:NPOV), Fred is the mroe common Christian Name, compared with all others combined. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 150.101.102.188 (talk) 17:10, 4 April 2007 (UTC).

I can confirm that Fred Bloggs is the famous British place-name, "Bloggs" is an occasional alternative, but Jo or Jo Bloggs is pretty much unknown (at least in my experience - if it's used in some line of programming etc, then someone needs to put it back). TomRawlinson 16:35, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

I can't say I've ever heard of the name "fred bloggs" and I've lived in England for 22 years. It's always been Joe Bloggs in my experience. 82.24.155.138 12:08, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Never heard of Fred, only Joe. Lived in UK all my life (36 years)86.128.203.96 (talk) 22:26, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

"Fred Bloggs" could have come from The Goons, who were very fond of the name Fred (as in The Song of Fred). I think they used the name Fred Nurk quite often 208.81.28.208 (talk) 18:01, 26 August 2016 (UTC)

I'm in my 60s born and raised in UK, and have only ever heard the name Fred Bloggs used, never Joe Bloggs. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.26.164.154 (talk) 23:21, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

Origin of Bloggs

What's the origin of "Bloggs"?? Looking at phone directories it doesn't seem to be a genuine name at all.

Perhaps it is a combination of a nonsense word - along the lines of blah, blather etc - and English surnames such as Higgs, Biggs, Hogg etc.--Jack Upland (talk) 09:13, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

There appears to be no such surname as Bloggs, but there IS a (rare) surname Blogg, from which, presumably, the fictitious Bloggs was derived. Zythophile (talk) 12:23, 6 October 2015 (UTC)