Joe

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Joe is a common diminutive form of the name "Joseph".

In politics:

  • Joe Clark, the 16th Prime Minister of Canada
  • Uncle Joe, the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s to his death in 1953

In sports:

In television:

  • Average Joe, reality TV dating shows that aired on the NBC network
  • Joe Menosky, the Star Trek writer credited with starting the trend of working the number 47 into every script
  • Joe Piscopo, American comedian known for his work on Saturday Night Live

In music:

In Soviet weapon testing:

  • Joe 1, the first Soviet nuclear weapon test
  • Joe 4, the first Soviet test of a thermonuclear weapon

In fiction:

In generic naming:

  • Joe Cool, nickname given primarily to those who display a calm or placid attitude
  • Joe Bloggs, commonly used placeholder name in United Kingdom teaching, programming, and other thinking and writing
  • Joe Sixpack, generic name in the United States to denote a hypothetical member of society deemed a "common man"
  • Joe Sacco, comics journalist born in Malta.

In other fields:

  • Joe, nickname for coffee; see Cup of joe.
  • Joe FM, a brand for several radio stations in North America
  • Joe job, spam designed to look like it is coming from someone else
  • Joe Van Holsbeeck, a youth who was murdered by a mugger in a Brussels subway station
  • Joe's Own Editor, a Unix text editor

[edit] See also

  • Joe Searson
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