Things that come in sets of seven

[Belrix]

I'm installing new arrays at the office and I've now got seven of them. I'm looking for an original, but still easy-to-remember set of names for them.

So far, the front-leader is the slightly trite Seven Dwarf's names.

Other things that come in sevens we've come up with are the seven days of the week, beautitudes & deadly sins.

What else?

[The Man With Two Brains]

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
House of the Seven Gables
Seventh Voyage of Sinbad

[Aholibah]

Wonders of the Ancient World

[The Man With Two Brains]

QUOTATION: The seven deadly sins.... Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man’s neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.
ATTRIBUTION: George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), Anglo-Irish playwright, critic. Undershaft, in Major Barbara, act 3.

[lieu]

The Seven Seas

[The Man With Two Brains]

QUOTATION: The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
ATTRIBUTION: Samuel Butler (1835–1902), British author. First published in 1912. Samuel Butler’s Notebooks, p. 115, E.P. Dutton & Company (1951).

Also Seven continents, seven seas, seven wonders

[bleach]

Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Seven Wonders of the [Ancient] World

[The Man With Two Brains]

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

[Eve]

Sutherland sisters (http://www.lockportcave.com/sisters.html).

[lieu]

There were 7 castaways on Gilligan's Island.

[rockle]

My father's sisters: Dolores (Dolly), Theresa (Terry), Cynthia (Cyndy), Nancy (Nancy), Barbara (Barb), Debra (Debbie), and Ann (Katy).

[The Man With Two Brains]

(you could look these up: )

Seven against Thebes seven Kings of Tara
Seven cities warred for Homer being dead, Who living had no roofe to shrowd his head.
Seven stars (Astron.), the Pleiades.


The ancients reckoned seven sciences, namely, grammar,
rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, music, geometry, and
astronomy; -- the first three being included in the
Trivium, the remaining four in the Quadrivium.

[lieu]

Dang... I wanna nother brain!

[The Man With Two Brains]

Seven simple machines (Lever, Inclined Plane, Wheel and Axle, Screw, Wedge, Pulley, and one I forget)

seven tribes

seven nations

[The Man With Two Brains]

Seven Sacraments
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
BAPTISM ... Birth: the necessary beginning of life
CONFESSION ... Medicine: healing in time of sickness
COMMUNION ... Food: regular nourishment needed to sustain life
CONFIRMATION ... Maturity: the age of knowledge and responsibility
HOLY ORDERS ... Relationship: two joined together for life
MARRIAGE ... Relationship: God and man joined together for life
EXTREME UNCTION ... Crisis/Death: special healing at a critical time

[Casey1505]

Trailer-park teeth.

[Chefguy]

Seven hills of Rome
Seven hills of Lisbon

"Seven", the movie.

[Trygve]

Seven Stans: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Pakistan, Afghanistan

[Max_Castle]

A Seven Nation Army?

[Seven]

HERE I AM!

*arms up in the air*

Huh?

Oh. this thread is about something else.

*hangs head*

*leaves*

[hebesphenomegacorona]

Originally posted by Trygve
Seven Stans: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Pakistan, Afghanistan

No, there's 8.

Stan Lee.



heeheehee

[photopat]

Swans a swimming.

[photopat]

Swans a swimming.

31 day months: January, March, May, July, August, October, December.

[photopat]

Swans a swimming.

31 day months: January, March, May, July, August, October, December.

[scr4]

Challenger and Columbia astronauts. :(

[photopat]

Swans a swimming.

31 day months: January, March, May, July, August, October, December.

[peri]

Day-of-the-Week underwear

[don't ask]

The Seven Samurai:

Kambei
Katsushiro
Shichiroji
Gorobei
Heihachi
Kyuzo
Kikuchiyo

[don't ask]

2 all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun

[KeithT]

Planetary bodies known to the ancients:
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Luna
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn

[Zeldar]

Magnificent Seven (1960):

Yul Brynner (dead)
Steve McQueen (dead)
James Coburn (dead)
Charles Bronson (dying)
Robert Vaughn (still living)
Brad Dexter (dead)
Horst Buchholz (dead)

[lachesis]

Originally posted by The Man With Two Brains
Seven Sacraments
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BAPTISM ... Birth: the necessary beginning of life
CONFESSION ... Medicine: healing in time of sickness
COMMUNION ... Food: regular nourishment needed to sustain life
CONFIRMATION ... Maturity: the age of knowledge and responsibility
HOLY ORDERS ... Relationship: two joined together for life
MARRIAGE ... Relationship: God and man joined together for life
EXTREME UNCTION ... Crisis/Death: special healing at a critical time

:: nitpick, but rather important nitpick, really. ::

you seem to have the definitions for Holy Orders and Marriage switched.

Freud would have a field day.

:: /nitpick ::


ummm..... sevens, huh? aren't there Seven Seals on the Scroll of Judgment that are broken open at the End of the World?

how about the seven plagues visited upon the Egyptians, until the Israelites were released?

sheesh, what's with this Biblical turn?

[everton]

Ten plagues, not seven.

[Dragon Phoenix]

The seven symphonies of Sibelius. Conveniently numbered 1-7. :D

[Algernon]

Seven Pillars of Wisdom from T.E. Lawrence's book, but I can't name them (or find out if they were even named)
Seven Ages of Man (per Shakespeare) infant, school boy, lover, soldier, justice, sixth age, last stage
Seven Colors in a Rainbow red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet
Seven Kinds of Fruit in Hawaiian Punch pineapple, orange, passion fruit, apple, apricot, papaya, guava
Seven Notes in the Musical Scale do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti
Seven vowels of the Greek Alphabet alpha, epsilon, eta, iota, omecron, upsilon, omega

(everton, I've usually heard it as the Seven Plagues of Egypt. But this cite (http://www.bibleexplained.com/revelation/r-seg15-16/r1606-egypt.htm) shows both seven and ten plagues. Ten plagues for the exodus, and seven plagues in the end times.)

In my opinion though, you can't do better than the Seven Dwarfs. That's what I'd pick.

[everton]

Thanks for that Algernon, but please excuse the nitpick that it should be omicron (which means "small o" just as omega means "large o"). I'd go with the dwarfs too – short names and easy for most people to remember.

[Zeldar]

You couldn't get much shorter names than do, re, mi, etc., unless you go with the A, B, C, etc., counterparts.

[ffolkelore]

San Francisco's hills
The principal hills, which earned it the Roman soubriquet of ‘City of the Seven Hills’, are Nob, Russian, Telegraph, Twin Peaks, Mount Davidson, Rincon and Lone Mountain

[Algernon]

Thanks for the correction everton. It was a typo, but the typo probably wouldn't have occurred if I'd have known that omega is "o-mega" and omicron is "o-micron". Thanks for the info.

Belrix, any decision yet? Just curious.

[Belrix]

Originally posted by Algernon
Belrix, any decision yet? Just curious.
So far, an office favorite is the Castaways.

My personal favorites are the musical notes and the Hawaiian Punch flavors.

I'll probably go with the Castaways since everybody can name them and they're sufficiently familar. I'm breaking office protocol by going for non-numerical names as is. Office standards use "array1, array2, array3, etc.".

I do actually have a eighth array already named "Franken-array" since it was constructed of excess spare parts.

[Algernon]

Of course, the array named Gilligan will always be screwed up. Just make sure that the nicest and prettiest one is MaryAnn. (Ginger was a slut. ~grin~)

Thanks for coming back and letting us know your thoughts. I implemented a new naming convention for our servers: the Presidents, in order. Eliminated all the bickering about naming of new servers, and people seem to like referring to the hardware as "people". I think you've made a good decision.

[Otto]

Weren't there seven Foys? I can't believe I beat Eve to a vaudeville reference...

IIRC the hydra originally had seven heads.

And of course, seven ways to get to first base in baseball.

[criminalcatalog]

There's actually only six simple machines, not seven.

Seven.....seven things.........

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Damn I'm good.

[everton]

Originally posted by Otto
Weren't there seven Foys? I can't believe I beat Eve to a vaudeville reference...
Apparently there were. (http://video.barnesandnoble.com/search/Product.asp?ean=90096098432&itm=3&brg=y)
IIRC the hydra originally had seven heads.
But unless you know what their names were the OP's going to have to call his arrays "hydra's head one", "hydra's head two", etc.
And of course, seven ways to get to first base in baseball.
Long file names?

[Katisha]

Originally posted by Algernon
Seven Ages of Man (per Shakespeare) infant, school boy, lover, soldier, justice, sixth age, last stage [/B]

The last one is second childhood (and oblivion, sans eyes, sans teeth, sans taste, sans everything). I think -- as happens so often in Shakespeare -- the concept was fairly commonplace in the Renaissance, but Shakespeare said it most memorably.

While we're collecting sevens, a rather geeky one! Edward III of England had seven sons: Edward the Black Prince, William of Hatfield, Lionel of Clarence, John of Gaunt, Edmund Langley, Thomas of Woodstock, and William of Windsor...yes, I do read too much Shakespeare and English history... ;)

[HeartOfGold]

Originally posted by The Man With Two Brains
Seven simple machines (Lever, Inclined Plane, Wheel and Axle, Screw, Wedge, Pulley, and one I forget)




Fairly certain there are six simple machines:
wedge, screw, pulley, wheel and axle, lever, and inclined plane

[Michael Ellis]

William Hartnell
Patrick Troughton
Jon Pertwee
Tom Baker
Peter Davison
Colin Baker
Sylvester McCoy

[Dijon Warlock]

Greg, Peter, Bobby, Marcia, Jan, Cindy, and...

Alice? Tiger? Oliver?

Choices, you've got choices...

[Belrix]

The Castaways have provided a nicely geeky tie-in.

I have four SCSI busses to scatter these arrays over. The natural arrangement is two per bus on three busses and one array on the fourth.

The busses are to be arranged by sleeping huts.

Skipper & Gilligan shared a hut, they're on bus 1. Ginger & MaryAnn on a bus, the Howells together, and the Professor gets a bus to himself.

Sufficiently geeky to appeal, a good enough mnemonic to keep straight without a diagram.

[Belrix]

The Castaways have provided a nicely geeky tie-in.

I have four SCSI busses to scatter these arrays over. The natural arrangement is two per bus on three busses and one array on the fourth.

The busses are to be arranged by sleeping huts.

Skipper & Gilligan shared a hut, they're on bus 1. Ginger & MaryAnn on a bus, the Howells together, and the Professor gets a bus to himself.

Sufficiently geeky to appeal, a good enough mnemonic to keep straight without a diagram.

[Belrix]

Felt so good I had to do it twice...

[Wartime Consigliori]

"There were Seven Spanish Angels at the alter of the sun;
They were playing for the lovers in the valley of the gun"

[Wartime Consigliori]

Check that. They were praying for the lovers, etc.

[Sternvogel]

Originally posted by scr4
Challenger and Columbia astronauts. :(

Also the seven men selected for Project Mercury (http://www.imahero.com/photos/mercuryseven.html) flights.

Seven Sisters (http://ask.yahoo.com/ask/20020108.html), a grouping of colleges considered the "women's Ivy League" before such universities as Yale and Princeton went co-ed

[Annie-Xmas]

What about "two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun?" :D

[Paul in Qatar]

Link to the GQ threa on this very issue.

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=204834&highlight=sins

Also....
Seven Liberal Arts
Seven Classical Orders of Architecture
Seven Carndinal Virtues

All listed in the link.