What are some theme ideas for naming Quarky's seven fish?

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The discussion revolves around creative theme ideas for naming seven fish owned by a user, exploring various thematic concepts across different domains including literature, science, culture, and nature.

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Main Points Raised

  • Some participants suggest naming the fish after the seven colors of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet.
  • Others propose using yarn fiber types as names: Merino, Shetland, Rayon, Chenille, Tweed, Fleece, Cotton.
  • One idea is to name the fish after the Seven Dwarfs from Snow White: Happy, Sneezy, Sleepy, Bashful, Dopey, Grumpy, Doc, with a humorous note about their association with stages of addiction.
  • Another suggestion includes the seven deadly sins: Lust, Envy, Gluttony, Greed, Wrath, Pride, Sloth, with a reference to Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood.
  • A participant lists the seven Millennium Prize Problems in mathematics as potential names.
  • Some suggest names from Douglas Adams' works, including Slartibartfast and Fenchurch.
  • There are mentions of naming the fish after the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, with repeated listings of these wonders.
  • One participant humorously suggests naming them after kitchen utensils: Spoon, Fork, Spork, Whisk, Knife, Spatula.
  • Another idea includes the seven SI base units: metre, kilogram, second, ampere, kelvin, mole, candela.
  • Some participants mention naming them after natural disasters: Hurricane, Tornado, Earthquake, Volcano, Tsunami, Blizzard, Heat wave.
  • There are also suggestions for naming the fish after various geographical locations and historical figures.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants present a wide range of naming themes, with no clear consensus on a single theme emerging. Multiple competing views remain, and the discussion is characterized by humor and creativity.

Contextual Notes

Some suggestions involve cultural references that may not be universally recognized, and there are humorous undertones in several proposals that may not align with traditional naming conventions.

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So @ProfuselyQuarky has ##7## fish. What are some good names if we want the seven names to follow the same theme?
 
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lol micromass! This is hysterical :oldlaugh:
 
Seven colors of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet
 
Yarn fibers: Merino, Shetland, Reyon, Chenille, Tweed, Fleece, Cotton
 
The Seven Dwarfs: Happy, Sneezy, Sleepy, Bashful, Dopey, Grumpy, doc which are also the various stages of cocain addiction. Snowwhite... cocain...
 
The seven sins: Lust, Envy, Gluttony, Greed, Wrath, Pride, Sloth. Especially fun if you watched fullmetal alchemist: brotherhood...
 
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micromass said:
which are also the various stages of cocain addiction.
o_O
 
There are seven millenium prize problems:
Poincare conjecture
P vs NP
Hodge conjecture
Riemann hypothesis
Yang-Mills
Navier-Stokes
Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer
 
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Slartibartfass, Fenchurch, Arthur Dent, Zaphod Beeblebrox, Marvin, Ford Prefect and of course Douglas Adams.

Edit: Don't forget: On the 25th is Towel Day!
 
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micromass said:
Seven Dwarfs:
Color coded with the colors of the rainbow. Now we just have to assign the colors to the Dwarfs...
 
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7 notes: Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Si
 
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Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
 
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Fancy calling a fish Slartibartfass or Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer!

Kitchen untensils: Spoon, Fork, Spork, Wisk, Knife, Spatula
 
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Seven Buddhist factors to enlightenment: mindfulness, investigation, energy, happiness, tranquility, concentration, equi-animity
 
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fresh_42 said:
Don't forget: On the 25th is Towel Day!
Towels: washcloth, hand towel, bath towel, beach towel, kitchen towel, baby towel, rug
 
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Some sporadic groups:

Fisher-Griess Monster, Baby-Monster, Thompson, Harada-Norton, Suzuki, Conway, Mathieu
 
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fresh_42 said:
I strongly recommend not to take these. All but one are destroyed ...
Hinting that all but one of my fish would become destroyed, too?
 
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fresh_42 said:
I strongly recommend not to take these. All but one are destroyed ...

There's the new world wonders too: Great Wall of China, Petra, Colosseum, Chichen Itza, Machu Picchu, Tay Mahal, Christ the redeemer
 
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7 SI base units: metre, kilogram, second, ampere, kelvin, mole, candela.
 
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Samy_A said:
7 SI base units: metre, kilogram, second, ampere, kelvin, mole, candela.

I've always wondered why kilogram is the SI base unit and not gram...
 
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Paradoxes: Russell, Banach-Tarski, Skolem, Curry, Zeno, Monty Hall, Burali-Forti
 
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Samy_A said:
7 SI base units: metre, kilogram, second, ampere, kelvin, mole, candela.
I love that!
micromass said:
I've always wondered why kilogram is the SI base unit and not gram...
Ditto. It's a crime.
 
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Seven basic types of root systems! Unfortunately they go from A to G but you could paint the Dynkin diagrams on your fish :cool:.
 
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My overly-used interjections: oh, ah, bah, uh, nah, gee, gosh
 
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fresh_42 said:
Seven basic types of root systems! Unfortunately they go from A to G but you could paint the Dynkin diagrams on your fish :cool:.

Or you can name them after the associated polytopes, but there are more than 7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coxeter_group
 
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fresh_42 said:
but you could paint the Dynkin diagrams on your fish :cool:.
Fish tattoos! Does that go under animal abuse?
 
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The 7 "planets" known in antiquity: Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn
 
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