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Does anyone know the origin of the term "Joe Maxi"?

  • 16-08-2011 05:49AM
    #1
    The Scientician
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    For a taxi.


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  • #2
    mikemac
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    Jo Maxi was a well known RTÉ show in the eighties

    Do you remember it?

    It had different sections, the one I remember most was Babel, kind of a debate/information session and they'd get youth groups like a local Fóroige on it to discuss issues
    Everyone knew and since it involved the youth, so it became a common term

    There was a petrol pump in the credits I think so got associated with motors and taxis


  • #3
    The Scientician
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    mikemac wrote: »
    Jo Maxi was a well known RTÉ show in the eighties

    Do you remember it?

    It had different sections, the one I remember most was Babel, kind of a debate/information session and they'd get youth groups like a local Fóroige on it to discuss issues
    Everyone knew and since it involved the youth, so it became a common term

    There was a petrol pump in the credits I think so got associated with motors and taxis

    I remember it (was on it much to my eternal shame) but I was under the impression that it was named for the slang term and wasn't the origin of it. Maybe I'm wrong.


  • #4
    The Scientician
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    More to the point, what the hell does "Jo Maxi" mean if it's just a tv show names? :)


  • #5
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,968 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    A quick look at urbandictionary and slang.ie shows RTÉ came up with the name, the Dubs copied it later on

    I would suspect it came from Vanessa Paradis and the famous Joe le Taxi which came out two years before RTÉ so timing sounds about right and a producer changed it around
    Very famous song, got right up in the charts and stayed there


  • #6
    cosmic
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    Isn't it Joe Baxi?!


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  • #7
    PulpitNeil
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    cosmic wrote: »
    Isn't it Joe Baxi?!
    No, you just have a cold.


  • #8
    Jesus Wept
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    Rhyming slang.... brilllliant.


  • #9
    The Scientician
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    mikemac wrote: »
    A quick look at urbandictionary and slang.ie shows RTÉ came up with the name, the Dubs copied it later on

    I dunno about slang.ie but I wouldn't really rely on urbandictionary to tell me the origin of a term. Anyone can and does post whatever the hell they want meaning and origin for any term under the sun on UD. :)


  • #10
    Sunnyisland
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    Joe baxi is the cockney slang for taxi, as most of us in the emerald isle like to be a bit different than our friends across the water I am assuming the we dubs changed it to jo maxi, I am certain that this word was going around and used in the early 70,s. :-)


  • #11
    The Scientician
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    The plot thickens! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Baksi


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  • #12
    mrsdewinter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭mrsdewinter


    mikemac wrote: »
    A quick look at urbandictionary and slang.ie shows RTÉ came up with the name, the Dubs copied it later on

    I would suspect it came from Vanessa Paradis and the famous Joe le Taxi which came out two years before RTÉ so timing sounds about right and a producer changed it around
    Very famous song, got right up in the charts and stayed there

    Urbandictionary is incorrect. That show kicked off when I was in my teens (I was young enough to get ridiculously excited that RTE schedulers had produced such a hip, swinging kinda programme for hip, swinging kids like myself :p ) and I clearly remember one of the presenters explaining, a la Blue Peter, that a 'Jo Maxi' was Dublin slang for taxi.

    I was growing up down the country, and I certainly wasn't familiar with Dublin rhyming slang, so I didn't question it.

    Maybe we should take this to Ray D'Arcy's Fix It Friday...


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