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> > > 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.
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> > > -useless"just two cents from the man on the street"ness
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> > We might, however, deduce that "Joe Average" is abnormally fond of cereal.
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> > Mi *would need a couple months to go through twelve boxes of cereal* ke
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> Regular joe was a simple man who worked hard to support his family and probably went to church on Sunday. He became a GI Joe when he went into the service during the Secod World War.

Worked REALLY hard to support his 11 kids, his wife, and the family dog; thus the need for the dozen boxes of cereal.