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Whats the definition of this label? What is a joe six pack?
joepistole
10-07-08, 07:36 AM
Joe six pack is supposed to be the average American male. We average American Joe's have a fondness for our beer (six pack, since beer is normally sold in packets of six bottles) and football (American Style-full contact) and baseball. Most Joes are not college educated, most are laborers.
Most are in love with SAM, that fiesty wench from the east! :)
So basically it stands for the middle class working male?
Most are in love with SAM, that fiesty wench from the east! :)
/looks nervously over shoulder :D
spidergoat
10-07-08, 12:42 PM
It's a drunk fat American pig sitting in front of the TV.
I doubt it. Thats a redneck republican retard :D
spidergoat
10-07-08, 12:47 PM
Same thing.
So whats the democrat equivalent?
MacGyver1968
10-07-08, 01:02 PM
Yes...go ahead and bash those who actually work for a living and help keep this country running.
nietzschefan
10-07-08, 01:11 PM
Yes...go ahead and bash those who actually work for a living and help keep this country running.
LOL I was going to say Joe Six Pack = MacGyver ( A good thing)
So whats the democrat equivalent?
Tax-hiking, government-expanding, latte-drinking, sushi-eating, Volvo-driving, New York Times-reading, Hollywood-loving, left-wing freak show.
spidergoat
10-07-08, 01:51 PM
Bob Bolshevik?
ElectricFetus
10-07-08, 03:09 PM
So whats the democrat equivalent?
Hippie.
joepistole
10-07-08, 03:12 PM
It's a drunk fat American pig sitting in front of the TV.
Hey I think I take offense to that, belch :)
OilIsMastery
10-07-08, 03:24 PM
So whats the democrat equivalent?
Joe Six Boyfriends.
ElectricFetus
10-07-08, 03:41 PM
Joe Six Boyfriends.
And I thought Hippies was low.
So whats the democrat equivalent?
The wine-and-cheese crowd. There are Democrats at the Rainier Club (http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/davidhorsey/archives/150535.asp), for heaven's sake. That's something of a local joke, but it makes a certain kind of sense. I promise.
Think of it this way: The Republicans are betting that "Joe Six-Pack" would prefer a folksy sort of eye candy as a palliative against the mounting woes of war, economy, and impending environmental disaster than some snobby effete who went to Harvard and might—just might—have some ideas of what to do about it all.
You'd think it was a dangerous gamble, but more often than not it seems to work. Witness 2004; we got the president people would rather drink a beer with. If the JSP strategy fails this time, it might have something to do with the incredibly rancid taste the 2004 outcome has brought to their mouths.
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See Also:
Horsey, David. "Sarah Palin's Wink Factor". Drawing Power. October 4, 2008. http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/davidhorsey/archives/150535.asp
Jozen-Bo
10-07-08, 06:38 PM
Whats the definition of this label? What is a joe six pack?
S.A.M....
your too kind!
Joe...is my Earth given name...six pack...it could of been an eight pack but I haven't been keeping up with my training like I did when I was younger, so now it is a six pack (still, my stomach is SEXY!!!!:))
I just realized no one got it...
A six pack is when 6 muscles appear at the stomach by being well trimmed and lean, the 8 pack comes when you train like Bruce Lee or such, or have sex non-stop for several years in a row (I recall having an 8 pack from this....:))
clusteringflux
10-07-08, 08:45 PM
The Republicans are betting that "Joe Six-Pack" would prefer a folksy sort of eye candy as a palliative against the mounting woes of war, economy, and impending environmental disaster than some snobby effete who went to Harvard and might—just might—have some ideas of what to do about it all.
Witness 2004; we got the president people would rather drink a beer with.
Bush did coke and got drunk at Yale.
Obama did coke and got drunk at Harvard.
ElectricFetus
10-07-08, 09:23 PM
Bush did coke and got drunk at Yale.
Obama did coke and got drunk at Harvard.
And yet obama still came out as one of the top in his class of legal graduate students and even managed the Harvard law review at the same time! If he was drunk and high for any of that time he can really hold his booze and smack! McCain on the other hand simply got drunk and partied and he at least managed to show for it by coming out nearly last in his class at United States Naval Academy.
MacGyver1968
10-07-08, 09:36 PM
I thought this thread was about the definition of the term "Joe Six-Pack"?
Hmmm...must have made a wrong turn and ended up in the politics forums again. :)
(ooh...and NF...you are soooo right...I am the definition of a joe six-pack :) )
So is it a new term used for the first time by Palin or has it a history?
CheskiChips
10-07-08, 10:25 PM
People say it all the time.
MacGyver1968
10-07-08, 10:29 PM
Sam...it's no new term...it's been around for a while.
clusteringflux
10-07-08, 10:31 PM
I thought this thread was about the definition of the term "Joe Six-Pack"?
Hmmm...must have made a wrong turn and ended up in the politics forums again. :)
(ooh...and NF...you are soooo right...I am the definition of a joe six-pack :) )
Sorry, Joe six pack....Not Joe Blow.
MacGyver1968
10-07-08, 10:48 PM
What does that mean?
So is it a new term used for the first time by Palin or has it a history?
No, it is not common at all. As a matter of fact about 98% of the population would never use it.
CheskiChips
10-08-08, 02:39 AM
No, it is not common at all. As a matter of fact about 98% of the population would never use it.
Yeah okay John, when you can back up "98%" come back and you'll have a valid point. Maybe you live in the posh hills of Oregon or some other scenic Liberated city. But the majority of America would have no problem saying it.
CutsieMarie89
10-08-08, 02:44 AM
No, it is not common at all. As a matter of fact about 98% of the population would never use it.
Yeah I was going to say because I've never heard it before. I've heard average Joe, but I've never heard the six pack part.
joepistole
10-08-08, 08:55 AM
Yeah I was going to say because I've never heard it before. I've heard average Joe, but I've never heard the six pack part.
It depends on your location as well. The usage of the term varies by geographic location. In Alaska it is common. My impression is that it is used more commonly in the west than in the east. And as we know in the south, they have their own dictionary. Whenever I travel south of the Mason-Dixon, I have to bring my southern dictionary with me.
francois
10-08-08, 10:10 AM
It's really a stupid phrase. I don't know why either. Maybe it's because of the kinds of people who use the word.
Letticia
10-08-08, 12:14 PM
Bush did coke and got drunk at Yale.
Obama did coke and got drunk at Harvard.
Ah, but what did they get drunk on? Budweiser or Glenfiddich?
And S.A.M. -- yes, "Joe Six-Pack" is a slang for "working class male", and it has been around for decades.
CutsieMarie89
10-08-08, 03:03 PM
It depends on your location as well. The usage of the term varies by geographic location. In Alaska it is common. My impression is that it is used more commonly in the west than in the east. And as we know in the south, they have their own dictionary. Whenever I travel south of the Mason-Dixon, I have to bring my southern dictionary with me.
I live in the west, but it's most certainly not a Californian term. Although there are a whole lot of phrases that only Californians use and I didn't know that no one else used them.
spidergoat
10-08-08, 03:36 PM
...as opposed to those elitist types, who don't buy six-packs, they buy bottles of wine.
Fraggle Rocker
10-08-08, 05:45 PM
So basically it stands for the middle-class working male?No. Working-class drinking male. Lower on the economic scale.
Sarah talked about "the average person, you know, the Joe Sixpack, the Hockey Mom." Jon Stewart said, "She seems to be celebrating that as a combination of traits in the perfect American. Let's see... Joe Sixpack gets drunk, Hockey Mom ferries a minivan full of kids to sports practice. So she's celebrating people who get drunk and then drive... with their kids and somebody else's kids in the car!"I doubt it. Thats a redneck Republican retard.If you're going to borrow my slogans, get them right. That's RELIGIOUS Redneck Retard.So whats the Democrat equivalent?Spiro Agnew called them "effete intellectual snobs." BTW, Democrat/Democratic and Republican are names so they're always capitalized if you mean the party and not the principle.So is it a new term used for the first time by Palin or has it a history?I remember "Joe Sixpack" being bandied about in the 1980s. It never became popular because ultimately it's insulting. Drinking an entire sixpack in less than six hours will make all but the largest person legally drunk by American standards. So regardless of the homeyness of the image to the blue-collar demographic, it implies that these people are at least escapists and probably drunk drivers. To the rest of us it conjures the image of bar fights, unsafe sex in the course of marital infidelity, and cars smashed into each other.
I find it astounding that Palin is such a buffoon that she doesn't realize (or worse yet doesn't care) that she's insulting the voters she hopes to be courting. It's anguish to recall that eight years ago we had a President who was a Rhodes Scholar.Sorry, Joe six pack....Not Joe Blow.What does that mean?"Joe Blow" is just a term for "anyone." Like "John Doe," "so-and-so," Spanish zutano or fulano. Most languages have something like it.
I'm starting to get complaints from members who expect the Linguistics board to be a politics-free haven. I think that's asking too much, but let's at least try to mix a little linguistics with our politics.
Spiro Agnew called them "effete intellectual snobs." BTW, Democrat/Democratic and Republican are names so they're always capitalized if you mean the party and not the principle.
Ah, we call them "poufs"
If you're going to borrow my slogans, get them right. That's RELIGIOUS Redneck Retard.
I thought it sounded a bit off. :o :D
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