# 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:** 470
**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:** [March 12, 2026, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/9381 "2026-03-12T04:39:33Z")
**_Least_ favorite film adaptation of a book** : 1. _Starship Troopers_ 2. _What’s the Worst That Could Happen?_ 3. _Breakfast of Champions_ 4. _The Haunting_ (1999) 5. _The Hobbit_ 6. _The Phantom Tollbooth_ 7. _The Spy Who Loved Me_ 8. _The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe_ 9. _Rebecca_ (1940) Maxim and his second wife are melancholy, whiny boors; the 1979 BBC adaptation with Jeremy Brett and Joanna David was much better IMHO. ---
**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:** [March 12, 2026, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/9382 "2026-03-12T15:07:04Z")
**_Least_ favorite film adaptation of a book** : 1. _Starship Troopers_ 2. _What’s the Worst That Could Happen?_ 3. _Breakfast of Champions_ 4. _The Haunting_ (1999) 5. _The Hobbit_ 6. _The Phantom Tollbooth_ 7. _The Spy Who Loved Me_ 8. _The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe_ 9. _Rebecca_ (1940) 10. _Rebecca_ (2020) The scenery is the best thing about it. Lily James is far too pretty and self-assured to play the shy young Mrs de Winter, and Kristin Scott Thomas as Mrs Danvers looks like an aristocratic guest, not a housekeeper. Judith Anderson in the 1940 version was much better. ---
**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:** [March 12, 2026, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/9383 "2026-03-12T16:46:46Z")
**_Least_ favorite film adaptation of a book** : 1. _Starship Troopers_ 2. _What’s the Worst That Could Happen?_ 3. _Breakfast of Champions_ 4. _The Haunting_ (1999) 5. _The Hobbit_ 6. _The Phantom Tollbooth_ 7. _The Spy Who Loved Me_ 8. _The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe_ 9. _Rebecca_ (1940) 10. _Rebecca_ (2020) 11. _The Scarlet Letter_ (1995) ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2026, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/9384 "2026-03-13T14:20:11Z")
**_Least_ favorite film adaptation of a book** : 1. _Starship Troopers_ 2. _What’s the Worst That Could Happen?_ 3. _Breakfast of Champions_ 4. _The Haunting_ (1999) 5. _The Hobbit_ 6. _The Phantom Tollbooth_ 7. _The Spy Who Loved Me_ 8. _The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe_ 9. _Rebecca_ (1940) 10. _Rebecca_ (2020) 11. _The Scarlet Letter_ (1995) 12. _The Dark Tower_ (2017) When I got wind of the changes, I lost all interest in seeing it. Any modern filmmaker would struggle with what to do with Detta Walker, so in that sense excising her (and Eddie) from the movie entirely made a certain amount of sense, but also ripped the heart out of the plot (no Oy either). I dunno how she would have worked in any sequels given that Roland’s latest incarnation was also African-American. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2026, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/9385 "2026-03-17T08:32:08Z")
**_Least_ favorite film adaptation of a book** : 1. _Starship Troopers_ 2. _What’s the Worst That Could Happen?_ 3. _Breakfast of Champions_ 4. _The Haunting_ (1999) 5. _The Hobbit_ 6. _The Phantom Tollbooth_ 7. _The Spy Who Loved Me_ 8. _The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe_ 9. _Rebecca_ (1940) 10. _Rebecca_ (2020) 11. _The Scarlet Letter_ (1995) 12. _The Dark Tower_ (2017) 13. _Pride and Prejudice_ (1940) Disappointingly different from the book **For St Patrick’s Day, anyone or anything related to Ireland** 1. Seamus Heaney, poet and Nobel laureate ---
**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:** [March 17, 2026, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/9386 "2026-03-17T12:45:52Z")
**For St Patrick’s Day, anyone or anything related to Ireland** 1. Seamus Heaney, poet and Nobel laureate 2. Spike Milligan, comic genius ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2026, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/9387 "2026-03-17T13:29:49Z")
**For St Patrick’s Day, anyone or anything related to Ireland** 1. Seamus Heaney, poet and Nobel laureate 2. Spike Milligan, comic genius 3. The Shamrock, used by St. Patrick to explain the Holy Trinity ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2026, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/9388 "2026-03-17T13:47:00Z")
**For St Patrick’s Day, anyone or anything related to Ireland** 1. Seamus Heaney, poet and Nobel laureate 2. Spike Milligan, comic genius 3. The Shamrock, used by St. Patrick to explain the Holy Trinity 4. [Gaelic football](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_eGYjdn6aA&pp=ygUPR2FlbGljIGZvb3RiYWxs) ---
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**For St Patrick’s Day, anyone or anything related to Ireland** 1. Seamus Heaney, poet and Nobel laureate 2. Spike Milligan, comic genius 3. The Shamrock, used by St. Patrick to explain the Holy Trinity 4. [Gaelic football](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_eGYjdn6aA&pp=ygUPR2FlbGljIGZvb3RiYWxs) 5. Brian Boru - High King of Ireland Credited with unifying Ireland and ruling over the roughly 150 other kings. The Annals of Ulster even called him " High King of the Gaels of Ireland and the Norse foreigners and the Britons, Augustus of all north-western Europe". ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2026, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/9390 "2026-03-17T14:11:44Z")
**For St Patrick’s Day, anyone or anything related to Ireland** 1. Seamus Heaney, poet and Nobel laureate 2. Spike Milligan, comic genius 3. The Shamrock, used by St. Patrick to explain the Holy Trinity 4. [Gaelic football](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_eGYjdn6aA&pp=ygUPR2FlbGljIGZvb3RiYWxs) 5. Brian Boru - High King of Ireland 6. [The Wearing of the Grin](https://www.supercartoons.net/cartoon/the-wearing-of-the-grin/) - Looney Tunes --always watch on this day (my father was Irish note) ---
**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:** [March 17, 2026, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/9391 "2026-03-17T14:16:30Z")
**For St Patrick’s Day, anyone or anything related to Ireland** 1. Seamus Heaney, poet and Nobel laureate 2. Spike Milligan, comic genius 3. The Shamrock, used by St. Patrick to explain the Holy Trinity 4. [Gaelic football](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_eGYjdn6aA&pp=ygUPR2FlbGljIGZvb3RiYWxs) 5. Brian Boru - High King of Ireland 6. [The Wearing of the Grin](https://www.supercartoons.net/cartoon/the-wearing-of-the-grin/) - Looney Tunes --always watch on this day (my father was Irish note) 7. Bagpipers playing Amazing Grace ---
**Author:** ![Jegpeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jegpeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jegpeg)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2026, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/9392 "2026-03-17T14:44:19Z")
**For St Patrick’s Day, anyone or anything related to Ireland** 1. Seamus Heaney, poet and Nobel laureate 2. Spike Milligan, comic genius 3. The Shamrock, used by St. Patrick to explain the Holy Trinity 4. [Gaelic football](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_eGYjdn6aA&pp=ygUPR2FlbGljIGZvb3RiYWxs) 5. Brian Boru - High King of Ireland 6. [The Wearing of the Grin](https://www.supercartoons.net/cartoon/the-wearing-of-the-grin/) - Looney Tunes --always watch on this day (my father was Irish note) 7. Bagpipers playing Amazing Grace 8. U2 Surprised at 7. While Irish Bagpipes exist I always associate them with Scotland, I and while Amazing Grace is a traditional Bagpipe song I don’t associate that with Ireland either, while John Newton was converted to Christianity while on board a ship while it was off the coast of Donegal he was an Englishman. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2026, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/9393 "2026-03-17T15:23:31Z")
**For St Patrick’s Day, anyone or anything related to Ireland** 1. Seamus Heaney, poet and Nobel laureate 2. Spike Milligan, comic genius 3. The Shamrock, used by St. Patrick to explain the Holy Trinity 4. [Gaelic football](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_eGYjdn6aA&pp=ygUPR2FlbGljIGZvb3RiYWxs) 5. Brian Boru - High King of Ireland 6. [The Wearing of the Grin](https://www.supercartoons.net/cartoon/the-wearing-of-the-grin/) - Looney Tunes --always watch on this day (my father was Irish note) 7. Bagpipers playing Amazing Grace 8. U2 9. The Troubles ---
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**For St Patrick’s Day, anyone or anything related to Ireland** 1. Seamus Heaney, poet and Nobel laureate 2. Spike Milligan, comic genius 3. The Shamrock, used by St. Patrick to explain the Holy Trinity 4. [Gaelic football](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_eGYjdn6aA&pp=ygUPR2FlbGljIGZvb3RiYWxs) 5. Brian Boru - High King of Ireland 6. [The Wearing of the Grin](https://www.supercartoons.net/cartoon/the-wearing-of-the-grin/) - Looney Tunes --always watch on this day (my father was Irish note) 7. Bagpipers playing Amazing Grace 8. U2 9. The Troubles 10. Leprechauns ---
**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:** [March 17, 2026, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/9395 "2026-03-17T17:28:34Z")
1. Seamus Heaney, poet and Nobel laureate 2. Spike Milligan, comic genius 3. The Shamrock, used by St. Patrick to explain the Holy Trinity 4. [Gaelic football](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_eGYjdn6aA&pp=ygUPR2FlbGljIGZvb3RiYWxs) 5. Brian Boru - High King of Ireland 6. [The Wearing of the Grin](https://www.supercartoons.net/cartoon/the-wearing-of-the-grin/) - Looney Tunes --always watch on this day (my father was Irish note) 7. Bagpipers playing Amazing Grace 8. U2 9. The Troubles 10. Leprechauns 11. The Clancy Brothers (with Tommy Makem) _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**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:** [March 18, 2026, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/9396 "2026-03-18T00:13:51Z")
**For St Patrick’s Day, anyone or anything related to Ireland** 1. Seamus Heaney, poet and Nobel laureate 2. Spike Milligan, comic genius 3. The Shamrock, used by St. Patrick to explain the Holy Trinity 4. [Gaelic football](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_eGYjdn6aA&pp=ygUPR2FlbGljIGZvb3RiYWxs) 5. Brian Boru - High King of Ireland 6. [The Wearing of the Grin](https://www.supercartoons.net/cartoon/the-wearing-of-the-grin/) - Looney Tunes --always watch on this day (my father was Irish note) 7. Bagpipers playing Amazing Grace 8. U2 9. The Troubles 10. Leprechauns 11. The Clancy Brothers (with Tommy Makem 12. Maggie O’Farrell, memoirist and novelist (she co-adapted her _Hamnet_ with Chloe Zhao for the current film) Re. Amazing Grace, it’s a staple for the pipes at the St Patrick’s Day parades in spite of its non-Irish origins, and last year I heard the NYPD pipe band (in green kilts) play it at a retired officer’s funeral ---
**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:** [March 18, 2026, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/9397 "2026-03-18T16:22:26Z")
**For St Patrick’s Day, anyone or anything related to Ireland** 1. Seamus Heaney, poet and Nobel laureate 2. Spike Milligan, comic genius 3. The Shamrock, used by St. Patrick to explain the Holy Trinity 4. [Gaelic football](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_eGYjdn6aA&pp=ygUPR2FlbGljIGZvb3RiYWxs) 5. Brian Boru - High King of Ireland 6. [The Wearing of the Grin](https://www.supercartoons.net/cartoon/the-wearing-of-the-grin/) - Looney Tunes --always watch on this day (my father was Irish note) 7. Bagpipers playing Amazing Grace 8. U2 9. The Troubles 10. Leprechauns 11. The Clancy Brothers (with Tommy Makem 12. Maggie O’Farrell, memoirist and novelist (she co-adapted her _Hamnet_ with Chloe Zhao for the current film) 13. _Finian’s Rainbow_ **Famous Iranians** 1. Omar Khayyam ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2026, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/9398 "2026-03-18T16:33:11Z")
**Famous Iranians** 1. Omar Khayyam 2. Shohreh Aghdashloo ---
**Author:** ![Jegpeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jegpeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jegpeg)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2026, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/9399 "2026-03-18T16:57:15Z")
**Famous Iranians** 1. Omar Khayyam 2. Shohreh Aghdashloo 3. [Cyrus the Great](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_the_Great) ---
**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:** [March 18, 2026, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/9400 "2026-03-18T17:23:04Z")
**Famous Iranians** 1. Omar Khayyam 2. Shohreh Aghdashloo 3. [Cyrus the Great](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_the_Great) 4. Farah Diba Pahlavi Last Queen and Empress of Iran, she’s 87 and lives in Washington DC and Paris Just wondering @Prof.Pepperwinkle whether the title of this category should be Famous Persians and Iranians? Confusingly, the Wikipedia article on Omar Khayyam says that he’s Persian, but lists his birthplace as Iran. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093.md?page=469) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093.md?page=471)