Nominative determinism 7 and other funnies

Wednesday, December 21, 2005

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More nominative determinism, mainly from the Feedback column of New Scientist.

Vasectomy expert Dick Chopp has a colleague who specialises in penile prosthetics for sexual dysfunction. His name? Stephen Hardeman.

In an instance of quadruple nominative determinism, a book called "The Imperial Animal" was written by Lionel Tiger & Robin Fox.

The chair of aneaesthesiology and pain management at the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Illinois is one William J Tranquilli, while a climate scientist at Purdue University, Indiana who is predicting floods across the USA is named Noah Diffenbaugh.

Nothing to do with nominative determinism but I like singer Katie Melua's redrafted lyrics to the song "Nine Million Bicycles", rewritten after science writer Simon Singh of "Fermat's Last Theorem" fame complained the original was inaccurate:

"We are 13.7 billion light years from the edge of the observable universe, that's a good estimate, with well-defined error bars, and with the available information I predict that I will always be with you".

(See my other posts on nominative determinism.)

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4 Comment(s):

Stephen Hardeman must be the one sending me spam lately! ;)

(By ChickyBabe, at 21 December, 2005 20:41) Edit Comment

My favorite one, a few years back, was at the Los Angeles Dept. of Water and Power. Two of the men on the board? Mr. Water and Mr. Powers. Not even making that up.

(By Krisco, at 21 December, 2005 22:34) Edit Comment

CB, yeah, sure, you need all that, right...

Krisco - great one, ta!

(By Improbulus, at 23 December, 2005 14:18) Edit Comment

The British Journal of Urology once carried an article about incontinence by authors Splatt & Weedon.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&uid=870138&cmd=showdetailview

(By chris fassnidge, at 01 December, 2008 13:07) Edit Comment