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Re: what's "regular joes"
Posted By: Mike, the penny-stamp man, on host 64.89.165.60
Date: Monday, February 9, 2004, at 13:59:35
In Reply To: Re: what's "regular joes" posted by uselessness on Monday, February 9, 2004, at 09:59:49:

> For example, in my microeconomics class, my professor said something like "Suppose Joe Average goes to Wal-Mart and buys a dozen boxes of cereal." We know that Joe Average is not a real person, but he is used to put a name on a fictional everyman character for the sake of constructing an example. Very colloquial, I should add.
>
> -useless"just two cents from the man on the street"ness

We might, however, deduce that "Joe Average" is abnormally fond of cereal.

Mi *would need a couple months to go through twelve boxes of cereal* ke

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