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)