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William Petri is a wonderfully appropriate name for a professor of infectious diseases.



love nominative determinism


There’s a term for this!

The orthodontist that adjusted my siblings braces was named Dr. Hurt (or some homonym) and I’ve observed similar many times since.


If you accept few will, it's an aptonym.


I don't have a choice but to accept free will :)


Yeah, I assume they're all really aptonyms, but I think the other term is more fun


My orthodontist's name was Dr. Link. Nice, but Dr. Hurt would have been more appropriate.


I met peoplw working un financial jobs with last names like Cash and Price.


Don't dish it out...


Admire the attempt but this just didn't really make much sense


It's so agarvating when puns miss their mark.


heh, normally how these friendly call-response threads work is someone either yes-and's the attempt [1] or ignores/downvotes it. Just because we're on HN, that doesn't mean puns need to be critiqued -- even if they are agaravatingly bad :)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes,_and...


It kinda does, though.

I like that HN has a very high bar for humor, and cracks down on soft-pitch puns which are an attempt at a long chain of groaners.

Reddit exists, and if you like that, you can get it on Reddit. Here it's just noise. We have other bad habits ;)


Here you have to make a plausible argument that the expert who spent their life studying something has no idea what they're talking about and you somehow know better, or manage to one-up the parent who just did something like that with some exceptionally high-grade sophistry.




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