A new equivalent of "Joe Blow"?

Douglas G. Wilson douglas at NB.NET
Sat Jan 1 06:50:20 UTC 2005


In a recent item regarding the Indian Ocean earthquake disaster, AP writer
Matt Moore provides the following, which can be found at hundreds of Web
sites, and I suppose in the printed papers:

<<On hundreds of Web sites worldwide, the messages are brief but poignant:
"Missing: Christina Blomee in Khao Lak" or "Where are you?">>

I cannot find any "Christina Blomee" other than in this piece. There are of
course Web mentions of Haywood U. Blomee and Hugo N. Blomee. Is Blomee a
real surname?

Is this the new feminine version of "Joe Blow", an arbitrary name referring
to just "somebody or other"?

It seems a little closer to the knuckle than "Joe Blow", maybe.

-- Doug Wilson



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