# Baker’s Dozen III **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 22, 2022, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093 "2022-08-22T15:39:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 284
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2024, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/5661 "2024-08-06T05:15:40Z")
**Cleaning agents** 1. Spic and Span 2. Windex 3. Bar Keeper’s Friend 4. Lysol 5. Ajax 6. Dawn ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2024, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/5662 "2024-08-06T08:23:42Z")
**Cleaning agents** 1. Spic and Span 2. Windex 3. Bar Keeper’s Friend 4. Lysol 5. Ajax 6. Dawn 7. Fels Naptha _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
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**Cleaning agents** 1. Spic and Span 2. Windex 3. Bar Keeper’s Friend 4. Lysol 5. Ajax 6. Dawn 7. Fels Naptha 8. Simple Green ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2024, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/5664 "2024-08-06T10:41:46Z")
**Cleaning agents** 1. Spic and Span 2. Windex 3. Bar Keeper’s Friend 4. Lysol 5. Ajax 6. Dawn 7. Fels Naptha 8. Simple Green 9. Borax ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2024, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/5665 "2024-08-06T12:07:22Z")
**Cleaning agents** 1. Spic and Span 2. Windex 3. Bar Keeper’s Friend 4. Lysol 5. Ajax 6. Dawn 7. Fels Naptha 8. Simple Green 9. Borax 10 Elbow grease ---
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**Cleaning agents** 1. Spic and Span 2. Windex 3. Bar Keeper’s Friend 4. Lysol 5. Ajax 6. Dawn 7. Fels Naptha 8. Simple Green 9. Borax 10. Elbow grease 11. vinegar ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2024, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/5667 "2024-08-06T13:21:03Z")
**Cleaning agents** 1. Spic and Span 2. Windex 3. Bar Keeper’s Friend 4. Lysol 5. Ajax 6. Dawn 7. Fels Naptha 8. Simple Green 9. Borax 10. Elbow grease 11. vinegar 12. Clorox ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2024, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/5668 "2024-08-06T19:11:16Z")
**Cleaning agents** 1. Spic and Span 2. Windex 3. Bar Keeper’s Friend 4. Lysol 5. Ajax 6. Dawn 7. Fels Naptha 8. Simple Green 9. Borax 10. Elbow grease 11. vinegar 12. Clorox 13. Whink **Children’s Poems** 1. Custard the Dragon - Ogden Nash ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2024, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/5669 "2024-08-06T20:22:01Z")
**Children’s Poems** 1. Custard the Dragon - Ogden Nash 2. Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stour Would Not Take the Garbage Out - Shel Silverstein ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2024, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/5670 "2024-08-06T20:30:48Z")
**Children’s Poems** 1. Custard the Dragon - Ogden Nash 2. Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stour Would Not Take the Garbage Out - Shel Silverstein 3. The Owl and the Pussy-Cat - Edward Lear A favorite of my grandfather’s, and of mine: [The Owl and the Pussy-Cat | The Poetry Foundation](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43188/the-owl-and-the-pussy-cat) ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2024, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/5671 "2024-08-07T00:34:01Z")
[quote=“Elendil\_s\_Heir, post:5670, topic:970093”] **Children’s Poems** 1. Custard the Dragon - Ogden Nash 2. Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out - Shel Silverstein 3. The Owl and the Pussy-Cat - Edward Lear 4. The Land of Counterpane – Robert Louis Stevenson from the 1885 volume “A Child’s Garden of Verses” _(and a correction of the spelling of the last name of Uncle Shelby’s little girl)_ _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2024, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/5672 "2024-08-07T00:49:34Z")
**Children’s Poems** 1. Custard the Dragon - Ogden Nash 2. Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out - Shel Silverstein 3. The Owl and the Pussy-Cat - Edward Lear 4. The Land of Counterpane – Robert Louis Stevenson 5. The Naming of Cats - T.S. Eliot Actually, pretty much any poem in his _Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats_ would qualify. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2024, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/5673 "2024-08-07T03:27:29Z")
**Children’s Poems** 1. Custard the Dragon - Ogden Nash 2. Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out - Shel Silverstein 3. The Owl and the Pussy-Cat - Edward Lear 4. The Land of Counterpane – Robert Louis Stevenson 5. The Naming of Cats - T.S. Eliot 6. Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross - trad. ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2024, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/5674 "2024-08-07T03:31:55Z")
**Children’s Poems** 1. Custard the Dragon - Ogden Nash 2. Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out - Shel Silverstein 3. The Owl and the Pussy-Cat - Edward Lear 4. The Land of Counterpane – Robert Louis Stevenson 5. The Naming of Cats - T.S. Eliot 6. Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross - trad. 7. [Who Has Seen the Wind? - Christina Rossetti](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43197/who-has-seen-the-wind) ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2024, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/5675 "2024-08-07T08:55:49Z")
**Children’s Poems** 1. Custard the Dragon - Ogden Nash 2. Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out - Shel Silverstein 3. The Owl and the Pussy-Cat - Edward Lear 4. The Land of Counterpane – Robert Louis Stevenson 5. The Naming of Cats - T.S. Eliot 6. Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross - trad. 7. [Who Has Seen the Wind? - Christina Rossetti](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43197/who-has-seen-the-wind) 8. Jabberwocky - Lewis Carroll ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2024, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/5676 "2024-08-07T14:58:10Z")
**Children’s Poems** 1. Custard the Dragon - Ogden Nash 2. Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out - Shel Silverstein 3. The Owl and the Pussy-Cat - Edward Lear 4. The Land of Counterpane – Robert Louis Stevenson 5. The Naming of Cats - T.S. Eliot 6. Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross - trad. 7. [Who Has Seen the Wind? - Christina Rossetti](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43197/who-has-seen-the-wind) 8. Jabberwocky - Lewis Carroll 9. Old Mother Hubbard - Sarah Catherine Martin ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2024, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/5677 "2024-08-07T19:33:36Z")
**Children’s Poems** 1. Custard the Dragon - Ogden Nash 2. Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out - Shel Silverstein 3. The Owl and the Pussy-Cat - Edward Lear 4. The Land of Counterpane – Robert Louis Stevenson 5. The Naming of Cats - T.S. Eliot 6. Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross - trad. 7. [Who Has Seen the Wind? - Christina Rossetti](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43197/who-has-seen-the-wind) 8. Jabberwocky - Lewis Carroll 9. Old Mother Hubbard - Sarah Catherine Martin 10. Little Boy Blue - Eugene Field ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2024, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/5678 "2024-08-07T20:14:56Z")
**Children’s Poems** 1. Custard the Dragon - Ogden Nash 2. Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out - Shel Silverstein 3. The Owl and the Pussy-Cat - Edward Lear 4. The Land of Counterpane – Robert Louis Stevenson 5. The Naming of Cats - T.S. Eliot 6. Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross - trad. 7. [Who Has Seen the Wind? - Christina Rossetti](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43197/who-has-seen-the-wind) 8. Jabberwocky - Lewis Carroll 9. Old Mother Hubbard - Sarah Catherine Martin 10. Little Boy Blue - Eugene Field 11. [Itsy Bitsy Spider - anon.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itsy_Bitsy_Spider) ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2024, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/5679 "2024-08-08T02:24:50Z")
**Children’s Poems** 1. Custard the Dragon - Ogden Nash 2. Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out - Shel Silverstein 3. The Owl and the Pussy-Cat - Edward Lear 4. The Land of Counterpane – Robert Louis Stevenson 5. The Naming of Cats - T.S. Eliot 6. Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross - trad. 7. [Who Has Seen the Wind? - Christina Rossetti](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43197/who-has-seen-the-wind) 8. Jabberwocky - Lewis Carroll 9. Old Mother Hubbard - Sarah Catherine Martin 10. Little Boy Blue - Eugene Field 11. [Itsy Bitsy Spider - anon.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itsy_Bitsy_Spider) 12. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star - Jane Taylor ---
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**Children’s Poems** 1. Custard the Dragon - Ogden Nash 2. Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out - Shel Silverstein 3. The Owl and the Pussy-Cat - Edward Lear 4. The Land of Counterpane – Robert Louis Stevenson 5. The Naming of Cats - T.S. Eliot 6. Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross - trad. 7. [Who Has Seen the Wind? - Christina Rossetti](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43197/who-has-seen-the-wind) 8. Jabberwocky - Lewis Carroll 9. Old Mother Hubbard - Sarah Catherine Martin 10. Little Boy Blue - Eugene Field 11. [Itsy Bitsy Spider - anon.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itsy_Bitsy_Spider) 12. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star - Jane Taylor 13. Green Eggs and Ham - Dr. Seuss Did you, should you, with the Pope? Would you, could you, on the Dope? Pass. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093.md?page=283) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093.md?page=285)