Talk:List of terms referring to an average person

I Am Canadian

I realize my edit slants toward OR, but on the other hand, I'm old enough to remember watching the 1972 Canada–Russia hockey series, I have a keen ear, and while I recognize all of these as Canadian-sounding (edit: not so much G. Raymond), I've never heard a single one used conversationally:

• G. Raymond
• Pierre Jean Jacques
• Monsieur (or "Madame") Tout-le-Monde
• Bernard the Roughneck
• Private Bloggins (Canadian Armed Forces)

And even if I've come across some of these in print, I wouldn't have recognized any of these as established usage.

By comparison, my exposure to Bob and Doug McKenzie's hoser lexicon in the 1980s and the I Am Canadian beer commercials thereafter would number into the thousands.

Perhaps this has changed a bit for Canadian millennials, though I rather suspect it paces the retro resurgence of vinyl—a hugely notable blast from the past.

Within the last year, the CBC interviewed the actor who originally voiced the swelling "I Am Canadian" rant back in 1994. He's still a thing.

• Jeff Douglas vs. Joe Canadian — 29 December 2017

"When I die and I am laid to rest, that is going to be on my tombstone. 'Here lies Joe Canadian' ... I didn't say I wanted that written on my tombstone. I just said that is what is going to be written on my tombstone."

— MaxEnt 21:37, 20 July 2018 (UTC)

Excessive tagging

We should probably remove most, if not all, of the "Refimprove section" tags in this list. The one at the top does the job well enough, and most readers will simply be annoyed by the excessive number of identical maintenance templates they find while reading. The sheer number may even discourage people from actually doing cleanup work. Geolodus (talk) 10:49, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

Fred Nerk, Nurk, Nurke

In Australia the term Fred Nerk, or Nerks, is related to an average person or an archetypal fool. Alternative spellings are Nurk and Nurke. It appears in some Australian dictionaries. "Fred Nurke" is a character in single 1954 episode of radio comedy The Goon Show, "The Affair of the Lone Banana"; script by Spike Milligan, published in The Goon Show Scripts, 1972, p.57-59, ISBN-13 : 978-0713000764. Design (talk) 00:42, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

"related to"?

This is a list of terms referring to an average person. "Related to" is too vague and could be taken to include e.g. the old line about 2.4 kids, or the one about one breast and one testicle. Any reason I shouldn't move this? 4pq1injbok (talk) 19:44, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

Done. 4pq1injbok (talk) 17:13, 6 February 2022 (UTC)

Computer culture

There are a number of terms referring to an average computer user or just an average person in computer culture:

• Alice and Bob in cryptography, and the extended cast involving Carol, Eve, etc.
• Alyssa P. Hacker, Ben Bitdiddle, etc. from Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, used more broadly in other text too, I think
• J. Random Hacker and variants, described for instance in the Jargon File

Should these be included? Perhaps between "Belgium" and "Czechia" under "Computers"? :D Shardul.chiplunkar (talk) 13:15, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

fitrst of all, please provide references that these are called "average people". - Altenmann >talk 14:45, 2 April 2024 (UTC)