Things that come in sets of seven

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.

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.

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

Seven…seven things…

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Damn I’m good.

Apparently there were.

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.

Long file names?

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… :wink:

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

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

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

Alice? Tiger? Oliver?

Choices, you’ve got choices…

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.

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.

Felt so good I had to do it twice…

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

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

Also the seven men selected for Project Mercury flights.

Seven Sisters, a grouping of colleges considered the “women’s Ivy League” before such universities as Yale and Princeton went co-ed

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

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.