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Fritz, <div><br></div><div>Sorry, I was confused. This whole election is a true Kreuzwortraetsel.</div><div><br></div><div>-Chaz</div><div><br><div><div>On Oct 23, 2008, at 5:09 PM, Fritz Goerling wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div id="ygrp-mlmsg" style="width: 655px; position: relative; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; "><div id="ygrp-msg" style="width: 470px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 25px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; float: left; z-index: 1; line-height: 1.22em; "><div id="ygrp-text" style="line-height: 1.22em; font-family: Georgia; "><div style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div class="Section1" style="line-height: 1.22em; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman" style="line-height: 1.22em; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.22em; ">Chaz,<o style="font-size: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; "></o></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial" style="line-height: 1.22em; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; line-height: 1.22em; "><o style="font-size: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; "> </o></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial" style="line-height: 1.22em; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; line-height: 1.22em; ">Can you only think of Wienerschnitzel? But Wurzelbacher sounds definitely Austrian, so you are forgiven.<o style="font-size: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; "></o></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial" style="line-height: 1.22em; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; line-height: 1.22em; "><o style="font-size: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; "> </o></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial" style="line-height: 1.22em; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; line-height: 1.22em; ">Hayim,<o style="font-size: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; "></o></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial" style="line-height: 1.22em; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; line-height: 1.22em; "><o style="font-size: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; "> </o></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial" style="line-height: 1.22em; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; line-height: 1.22em; ">“Joe the Plumber” might make it to be a star and be promoted to “Joe Fix-it” (the one who fixes the economy) or be demoted from “Joe the Plumber” (average citizen) to “Joe Schmoe,” depending upon the election results. American politics is fascinating to watch. I think of former pro-wrestler Jesse “the Body” who became governor of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1 style="line-height: 1.22em; "><st1 style="line-height: 1.22em; ">Minnesota</st1></st1><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and then called himself Jesse “The Brain.” Where is he now throwing his weight around?<o style="font-size: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; "></o></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial" style="line-height: 1.22em; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; line-height: 1.22em; "><o style="font-size: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; "> </o></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial" style="line-height: 1.22em; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; line-height: 1.22em; ">FG<o style="font-size: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; "></o></span></font></p><div id="ygrp-mlmsg" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; line-height: 1.22em; "><div id="ygrp-msg" style="line-height: 1.22em; "><div id="ygrp-text" style="line-height: 1.22em; font-family: Georgia; "><p style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman" style="line-height: 1.22em; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.22em; ">Chaz,<br style="line-height: 1.22em; "><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">When listening to Joe Schmoe, I envisioned the ethimology from Hebrew. Shmo in<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">Hebrew means 'his name'. So this sounds as Joe, what is his name.<br style="line-height: 1.22em; "><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">Hayim<br style="line-height: 1.22em; "><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 9:12 AM,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1 style="line-height: 1.22em; ">Chaz Mortensen</st1><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><<a href="mailto:chaz_mortensen%40sil.org" style="line-height: 1.22em; ">chaz_mortensen@<wbr style="line-height: 1.22em; ">sil.org</a>> wrote:<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">> Scott,<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">> While it was a reference to Joe Wienerschnitzel or whatever his surname is,<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">> it quickly developed into another term for "the Average Joe." So in that you<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">> are correct. I can also think of "Joe" used in "Joe Blow", "a good Joe",<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">> "Joe Schmow (sp.?)", "I am Joe's [internal organ]" from Reader's Digest,<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">> etc.<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">> -Chaz<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">> On Oct 23, 2008, at 3:49 AM, bolstar1 wrote:<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">> Claire: Thanks for that. I didn't watch the debate, and I had assumed<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">> it was a creative reference to the average voting citizen. I spoke too<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">> soon before knowing.<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">> Scott Nelson<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">><o style="font-size: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; "></o></span></font></p></div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><font size="3" color="white" face="Times New Roman" style="line-height: 1.22em; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: white; line-height: 1.22em; "></span></font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div></div></div></div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div></div><span width="1" style="color: white; line-height: 1.22em; "></span></span></blockquote></div><br></div>
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