In case you can’t keep all those Joe’s straight, the BBC has listed them for you here (Joe the plumber, Joe Six-Pack, Joe Lieberman, etc…).  My favorite is the obscure “Shoeless Joe Jackson” from the 1920’s:

Sarah Palin replied [during the VP debate]: “I’ll say it ain’t so, Joe, there you go again, pointing backwards again. You prefaced your whole comment with ‘the Bush administration’. Now doggone it, let’s look ahead and tell Americans what we have to plan to do for them in the future.”

The words “Say it ain’t so, Joe” date back to 1920. They were allegedly spoken to Chicago White Sox baseball star Shoeless Joe Jackson by a broken-hearted young supporter, as Joe was leaving a grand jury hearing where he had admitted taking part in a match-fixing scandal.

Thank you BBC for helping clear all that up for us.

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