smeg@feddit.ukM to Nominative Determinism@feddit.ukEnglish · 7 months agoThe past and future of Nominative Determinism in sport (xkcd)imgs.xkcd.comimagemessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up1189arrow-down15file-text
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minus-squareFosheze@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·7 months agoThe best nomative determinism I’ve ever personally seen is a guy I knew named John Data who worked at IBM back in the day. Can you imagine calling someone out to work on your compoter system and the guy who shows up is literally called Mr. Data.
minus-squareBashnagdul@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·7 months agoI’ve known a network engineer named wan-lan as his last name. An undertaker named cerial Mort. And a plastic surgeon named doctor tits
minus-squareBashnagdul@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·7 months agohttps://www.bd.nl/brabant/brabantse-chirurg-overleden-tijdens-beklimming-mont-ventoux~a9630f6a/?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F
minus-squareKogasa@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 months ago“Tits Group” is a well known object in mathematics named after one Dr. Tits, but I admit plastic surgeon is another level
minus-squareteft@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down2·7 months ago the guy who shows up is literally called Mr. Data.
The best nomative determinism I’ve ever personally seen is a guy I knew named John Data who worked at IBM back in the day. Can you imagine calling someone out to work on your compoter system and the guy who shows up is literally called Mr. Data.
I’ve known a network engineer named wan-lan as his last name. An undertaker named cerial Mort. And a plastic surgeon named doctor tits
I believed you until Dr. Tits
https://www.bd.nl/brabant/brabantse-chirurg-overleden-tijdens-beklimming-mont-ventoux~a9630f6a/?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F
Well I’ll be damned
“Tits Group” is a well known object in mathematics named after one Dr. Tits, but I admit plastic surgeon is another level