[johnfowles]

[quote=Jesse Joe;138129] Just about only John Fowles uses it here. /quote]
Yes well
Basically whilst I know that Omer desired an anonymouse screenname
in the UK to call somebody a ""big Jesse" is coinsidered rather derogatory and insulting. I do not know why it is just common usage
googling only produced
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/getwriting/...t=1&s_type=pop

where in respect to "Becks" it is writ
"HAS HE GOT THE BALLS TO CALL, OR IS HE A BIG JESSIE LIKE DAD SAID ALL FOOTBALLERS WERE..? A BIG JESSE, OR A BIG JESSIE…?"
it might therefore refer to some old soccer star because I also found:-
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/...ince_tony.html
where another person in reply to one Dave Hill said in a sporting context
"but I am less of a Big Jesse than I would be had I been pampered."
Also from:-
http://my.telegraph.co.uk/swift_silv...bing_news_.htm
"Plum Tart I am not a big Jesse I am a weak and feeble Dave. Love you Plum."
"Plum Tart" also features in another exchange on
http://my.telegraph.co.uk/mark_cole/..._vista_myt.htm
"Stick with it and improve it you big Jesse..."
from examples such as those I submit that calling somebody a "jesse" might be considered rather rude even effeminate
hence my preference for referring to the irrepresible New Brunswick fellow (OK not a Nova Scotian at all) by his real name.
P.S. As sometimes happens a google image search was slightly more enlightening:-
from
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...cle1032330.ece