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Re:Italian Wikipedia shut down by drzaiusapelord on Thursday October 06, 2011 @12:42PM (#3080713)
In the US, "Joe the Plumber" isn't a substitute for "Joe Six-Pack" or "Joe Smith," its a specific reference to a famous controversial person. That's like me calling the average Italian a "little Mussolini."
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Re:Italian Wikipedia shut down by brown9-2 on Thursday October 06, 2011 @12:59PM (#3080767)
It was a general reference referring to no one in particular, before the election of 2008.
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Re:Italian Wikipedia shut down by sesqu on Thursday October 06, 2011 @08:10PM (#3082131)
No, that was still Joe Sixpack and Average Joe and Joe from Main Street. Joe the Plumber was always a specific person, but it didn't matter while he was a proxy.
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Re:Italian Wikipedia shut down by fbnt on Thursday October 06, 2011 @12:50PM (#3080736)
My bad, I didn't know that. Thanks.
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