# Things that come in sets of seven **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 18, 2003, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-come-in-sets-of-seven/196028 "2003-08-18T19:53:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![hebesphenomegacorona](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@hebesphenomegacorona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hebesphenomegacorona)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-come-in-sets-of-seven/196028/21 "2003-08-19T02:18:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Trygve \* > \*\*Seven Stans: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Pakistan, Afghanistan \*\* No, there’s 8. Stan Lee. heeheehee ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-come-in-sets-of-seven/196028/22 "2003-08-19T03:17:28Z")
Swans a swimming. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-come-in-sets-of-seven/196028/23 "2003-08-19T03:18:41Z")
Swans a swimming. 31 day months: January, March, May, July, August, October, December. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-come-in-sets-of-seven/196028/24 "2003-08-19T03:24:04Z")
Swans a swimming. 31 day months: January, March, May, July, August, October, December. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-come-in-sets-of-seven/196028/25 "2003-08-19T03:28:37Z")
Challenger and Columbia astronauts. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-come-in-sets-of-seven/196028/26 "2003-08-19T03:29:35Z")
Swans a swimming. 31 day months: January, March, May, July, August, October, December. ---
**Author:** ![peri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/67e7ee/32.png) [@peri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peri)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-come-in-sets-of-seven/196028/27 "2003-08-19T04:46:53Z")
Day-of-the-Week underwear ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-come-in-sets-of-seven/196028/28 "2003-08-19T05:07:50Z")
The Seven Samurai: Kambei Katsushiro Shichiroji Gorobei Heihachi Kyuzo Kikuchiyo ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-come-in-sets-of-seven/196028/29 "2003-08-19T05:17:00Z")
2 all beef **patties** , special **sauce** , **lettuce** , **cheese** , **pickles** , **onions** on a sesame seed **bun** ---
**Author:** ![KeithT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@KeithT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KeithT)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-come-in-sets-of-seven/196028/30 "2003-08-19T12:22:44Z")
Planetary bodies known to the ancients: Mercury Venus Earth Luna Mars Jupiter Saturn ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-come-in-sets-of-seven/196028/31 "2003-08-19T12:29:35Z")
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) ---
**Author:** ![lachesis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@lachesis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lachesis)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-come-in-sets-of-seven/196028/32 "2003-08-19T12:31:16Z")
> [@](#): > > ## \*Originally posted by 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 \*\* :: 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? ---
**Author:** ![everton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-come-in-sets-of-seven/196028/33 "2003-08-19T12:58:14Z")
Ten plagues, not seven. ---
**Author:** ![Dragon\_Phoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Dragon\_Phoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Phoenix)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-come-in-sets-of-seven/196028/34 "2003-08-19T13:18:34Z")
The seven symphonies of Sibelius. Conveniently numbered 1-7. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Algernon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-come-in-sets-of-seven/196028/35 "2003-08-19T13:28:24Z")
**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. ---
**Author:** ![everton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-come-in-sets-of-seven/196028/36 "2003-08-19T13:41:14Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-come-in-sets-of-seven/196028/37 "2003-08-19T13:43:32Z")
You couldn’t get much shorter names than do, re, mi, etc., unless you go with the A, B, C, etc., counterparts. ---
**Author:** ![ffolkelore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e495f1/32.png) [@ffolkelore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ffolkelore)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-come-in-sets-of-seven/196028/38 "2003-08-19T16:08:40Z")
**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 ---
**Author:** ![Algernon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-come-in-sets-of-seven/196028/39 "2003-08-19T16:14:57Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Belrix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@Belrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belrix)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-come-in-sets-of-seven/196028/40 "2003-08-19T19:01:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*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. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-come-in-sets-of-seven/196028.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-come-in-sets-of-seven/196028.md?page=3)