# Today's google doodle

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 31, 2013, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-google-doodle/659783 "2013-05-31T13:48:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2013, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-google-doodle/659783/1 "2013-05-31T13:48:55Z")

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[Google’s Doodle](https://www.google.com/) today celebrates the 161st birthday of Julius Richard Petri, who gave science the Petri Dish. He also showed it’s less what you make your name in, and more what you put your name on, joining such luminaries as Robert Bunson, and John Calvin Dildo.  
I’m very, very sorry.

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**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2013, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-google-doodle/659783/2 "2013-05-31T20:35:54Z")

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> [@yanceylebeef](#):
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> [URL=“[https://www.google.com/](https://www.google.com/)”]…He also showed it’s less what you make your name in, and more what you put your name on, joining such luminaries as Robert Bunson, and John Calvin Dildo.  
> I’m very, very sorry.

Who are responsible for the Bob haircut and toilet, respectively.

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**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-google-doodle/659783/3 "2013-06-01T05:26:21Z")

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Don’t forget Frederic Foley.

I used to get bored using stock cultures to streak out petri plates containing various media for quality control so I would start drawing pictures with the bacteria. Very artistic I thought. My supervisor did not agree.