Talk:Joe Bloggs

message: 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)
thread_title:  Joe Bloggs Jeans? 

message: Wouldn't this placeholder name tend to become specialized to authors of blogs? --Damian Yerrick 06:17, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title:  Joe [[weblog|what?]] 

message: Why in the "see also" section is there a link to a nonexistent WP article? Jaysbro 19:28, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why a link to nonexitstent "Blogg"? 

message: * 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)
thread_title: Removed

message: 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)
thread_title: Joe Bloe 

message: 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)
thread_title:  list of Bloggs in literature? 

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)

text: 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)
thread_title: Fred Bloggs

message: 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)
thread_title:  Origin of Bloggs