# 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:** 343
**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:** [February 13, 2025, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/6841 "2025-02-13T01:35:44Z")
**Shakespeare** 1. Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. (Macbeth) 2. Oh, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, that I am meek and gentle with these butchers! (Julius Caesar) 3. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of a fish that hath fed of that worm. Claudius - The King: What dost thou mean by this? Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: Nothing. But to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar. (Hamlet) 4. Shylock: If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? (Merchant of Venice) 5. Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, (Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven’s gate; For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings. (Sonnet 29) 6. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition: And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day. (Henry V) 7. If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber’d here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: If you pardon we will mend. Else the Puck a liar call. Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends. (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) 8. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. (The Tempest) 9. What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. (Romeo & Juliet) 10. Time, force and death, Do to this body what extremity you can; But the strong base and building of my love Is as the very centre of the earth, Drawing all things to it. (Troilus and Cressida) 11. Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand, Blood and revenge are hammering in my head. (Titus Andronicus) 12. The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes: 'T is mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown: His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway; It is enthronèd in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; (The Merchant of Venice) ---
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**Shakespeare** 1. Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. (Macbeth) 2. Oh, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, that I am meek and gentle with these butchers! (Julius Caesar) 3. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of a fish that hath fed of that worm. Claudius - The King: What dost thou mean by this? Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: Nothing. But to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar. (Hamlet) 4. Shylock: If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? (Merchant of Venice) 5. Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, (Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven’s gate; For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings. (Sonnet 29) 6. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition: And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day. (Henry V) 7. If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber’d here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: If you pardon we will mend. Else the Puck a liar call. Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends. (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) 8. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. (The Tempest) 9. What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. (Romeo & Juliet) 10. Time, force and death, Do to this body what extremity you can; But the strong base and building of my love Is as the very centre of the earth, Drawing all things to it. (Troilus and Cressida) 11. Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand, Blood and revenge are hammering in my head. (Titus Andronicus) 12. The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes: 'T is mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown: His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway; It is enthronèd in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; (The Merchant of Venice) 13. The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes (Comedy of Errors) pass ---
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**Star Trek episodes (all series)** 1. Quality of Life ---
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**Star Trek episodes (all series)** 1. Quality of Life 2. The Trouble with Tribbles ---
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**Star Trek episodes (all series)** 1. Quality of Life 2. The Trouble with Tribbles 3. Let That Be Your Last Battlefield ---
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**Star Trek episodes (all series)** 1. Quality of Life 2. The Trouble with Tribbles 3. Let That Be Your Last Battlefield 4. Spock’s Brain ---
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**Star Trek episodes (all series)** 1. Quality of Life 2. The Trouble with Tribbles 3. Let That Be Your Last Battlefield 4. Spock’s Brain 5. Learning Curve ---
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**Star Trek episodes (all series)** 1. Quality of Life 2. The Trouble with Tribbles 3. Let That Be Your Last Battlefield 4. Spock’s Brain 5. Learning Curve 6. The Measure of a Man ---
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**Star Trek episodes (all series)** 1. Quality of Life 2. The Trouble with Tribbles 3. Let That Be Your Last Battlefield 4. Spock’s Brain 5. Learning Curve 6. The Measure of a Man 7. Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges ---
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**Star Trek episodes (all series)** 1. Quality of Life 2. The Trouble with Tribbles 3. Let That Be Your Last Battlefield 4. Spock’s Brain 5. Learning Curve 6. The Measure of a Man 7. Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges 8. Loud as a Whisper ---
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**Star Trek episodes (all series)** 1. Quality of Life 2. The Trouble with Tribbles 3. Let That Be Your Last Battlefield 4. Spock’s Brain 5. Learning Curve 6. The Measure of a Man 7. Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges 8. Loud as a Whisper 9. The Tholian Web ---
**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:** [February 13, 2025, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/6852 "2025-02-13T20:16:53Z")
**Star Trek episodes (all series)** 1. Quality of Life 2. The Trouble with Tribbles 3. Let That Be Your Last Battlefield 4. Spock’s Brain 5. Learning Curve 6. The Measure of a Man 7. Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges 8. Loud as a Whisper 9. The Tholian Web 10. Dos Cerritos ---
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**ar Trek episodes (all series)** 1. Quality of Life 2. The Trouble with Tribbles 3. Let That Be Your Last Battlefield 4. Spock’s Brain 5. Learning Curve 6. The Measure of a Man 7. Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges 8. Loud as a Whisper 9. The Tholian Web 10. Dos Cerritos 11. Second Contact ---
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**Star Trek episodes (all series)** 1. Quality of Life 2. The Trouble with Tribbles 3. Let That Be Your Last Battlefield 4. Spock’s Brain 5. Learning Curve 6. The Measure of a Man 7. Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges 8. Loud as a Whisper 9. The Tholian Web 10. Dos Cerritos 11. Second Contact 12. Shades of Green ---
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**Star Trek episodes (all series)** 1. Quality of Life 2. The Trouble with Tribbles 3. Let That Be Your Last Battlefield 4. Spock’s Brain 5. Learning Curve 6. The Measure of a Man 7. Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges 8. Loud as a Whisper 9. The Tholian Web 10. Dos Cerritos 11. Second Contact 12. Shades of Green 13. Journey to Babel One of my favorites from TOS. Pass. ---
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Let’s continue this theme. **Star Trek episodes (all series)** (Part 2) 1. The Royale A TNG episode where Riker, Data, and Worf are trapped in a hotel they cannot exit. ---
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**Star Trek episodes (all series)** (Part 2) 1. The Royale 2. Elaan of Troyius featuring the lovely France Nuyen ---
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**Star Trek episodes (all series)** (Part 2) 1. The Royale 2. Elaan of Troyius 3. Those Old Scientists _Brave New Worlds_ and _Lower Decks_ crossover with Jack Quaid and Tawny Newsome playing their live-action counterparts ---
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**Star Trek episodes (all series)** (Part 2) 1. The Royale 2. Elaan of Troyius 3. Those Old Scientists 4. Trials and Tribble-ations ---
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