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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic
I`ve never read anything about inferiority/superiority into the expression "the average Joe". I think it`s just an expression to say "a perfectly ordinary person, who could equally be you, me or somebody else".
In Britain we talk about "the man on the Clapham omnibus" and here`s what Wikipedia says about him :
I`ve often been on a Clapham omnibus, and, yeah, you can feel pretty ordinary while doing so.
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that case was one of the first cases I read
and no I don't know what's a "Clapham" omnibus - I've only been on a lot of red buses in Cardiff and London, and they make me feel like a tourist, not a "regular Joe".