John Doe
A wonderful list here of the international equivalents of the fictitious character John Doe. Apparently, a bunch of other countries have their local equivalents.
Notably, the Australian equivalents are Fred Nurk or Joe Farnarkle. Austria has Hans Meier, Belgium has Jan Janssen, Piet Pietersen and Jos Joskens, Poland has Jan Kowalski and Italy Mario Rossi.
The BBC shed light on something I’d never thought about before: the origin of the word undermine. In this article, they talk of an apartment in Sydney that collapsed due to being undermined by a new tunnel.
November 4, 2005 | Filed Under Random thoughts
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