# Baker's Dozen II (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 25, 2020, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938 "2020-01-25T03:38:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 123
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/2441 "2020-06-04T12:54:10Z")
Favorite quotes 1. “Why can’t everybody leave everybody else the hell alone?” - Jimmy Durante 2. “Good men with poor ships are better than poor men with good ships.” — Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan ---
**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:** [June 4, 2020, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/2442 "2020-06-04T16:37:47Z")
Favorite quotes 1. “Why can’t everybody leave everybody else the hell alone?” - Jimmy Durante 2. “Good men with poor ships are better than poor men with good ships.” — Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan 3. “As you wish.” - William Goldman, from _The Princess Bride_ ---
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Favorite quotes 1. “Why can’t everybody leave everybody else the hell alone?” - Jimmy Durante 2. “Good men with poor ships are better than poor men with good ships.” — Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan 3. “As you wish.” - William Goldman, from The Princess Bride 4. “So shines a good deed in a weary world.” Willy Wonka ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/2444 "2020-06-04T17:39:35Z")
Favorite quotes 1. “Why can’t everybody leave everybody else the hell alone?” - Jimmy Durante 2. “Good men with poor ships are better than poor men with good ships.” — Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan 3. “As you wish.” - William Goldman, from The Princess Bride 4. “So shines a good deed in a weary world.” Willy Wonka 5. "I liked flying. It was the second-best thing that ever happened to me. If I hadn’t had baseball to come back to, I might have gone on as a Marine pilot.” — Ted Williams, USMC and the Boston Red Sox ---
**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:** [June 4, 2020, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/2445 "2020-06-04T17:41:40Z")
Favorite quotes 1. “Why can’t everybody leave everybody else the hell alone?” - Jimmy Durante 2. “Good men with poor ships are better than poor men with good ships.” — Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan 3. “As you wish.” - William Goldman, from The Princess Bride 4. “So shines a good deed in a weary world.” Willy Wonka 5. "I liked flying. It was the second-best thing that ever happened to me. If I hadn’t had baseball to come back to, I might have gone on as a Marine pilot.” — Ted Williams, USMC and the Boston Red Sox 6. “Dismissed. That’s a Starfleet term. Means ‘get out.’” --Captain Kathryn Janeway, “Star Trek: Voyager” ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/2446 "2020-06-04T17:44:18Z")
Favorite quotes 1. “Why can’t everybody leave everybody else the hell alone?” - Jimmy Durante 2. “Good men with poor ships are better than poor men with good ships.” — Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan 3. “As you wish.” - William Goldman, from The Princess Bride 4. “So shines a good deed in a weary world.” Willy Wonka 5. "I liked flying. It was the second-best thing that ever happened to me. If I hadn’t had baseball to come back to, I might have gone on as a Marine pilot.” — Ted Williams, USMC and the Boston Red Sox 6. “The mountains are calling and I must go.” - John Muir ---
**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:** [June 4, 2020, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/2447 "2020-06-04T17:45:53Z")
Favorite quotes 1. “Why can’t everybody leave everybody else the hell alone?” - Jimmy Durante 2. “Good men with poor ships are better than poor men with good ships.” — Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan 3. “As you wish.” - William Goldman, from The Princess Bride 4. “So shines a good deed in a weary world.” Willy Wonka 5. "I liked flying. It was the second-best thing that ever happened to me. If I hadn’t had baseball to come back to, I might have gone on as a Marine pilot.” — Ted Williams, USMC and the Boston Red Sox 6. “Dismissed. That’s a Starfleet term. Means ‘get out.’” --Captain Kathryn Janeway, “Star Trek: Voyager” 7. “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” ― L.P. Hartley, _The Go-Between_. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/2448 "2020-06-04T18:01:30Z")
Favorite quotes 1. “Why can’t everybody leave everybody else the hell alone?” - Jimmy Durante 2. “Good men with poor ships are better than poor men with good ships.” — Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan 3. “As you wish.” - William Goldman, from The Princess Bride 4. “So shines a good deed in a weary world.” Willy Wonka 5. "I liked flying. It was the second-best thing that ever happened to me. If I hadn’t had baseball to come back to, I might have gone on as a Marine pilot.” — Ted Williams, USMC and the Boston Red Sox 6. “Dismissed. That’s a Starfleet term. Means ‘get out.’” --Captain Kathryn Janeway, “Star Trek: Voyager” 7. “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” ― L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between. 8. “God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won’t tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.” - Terry Pratchett ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/2449 "2020-06-04T18:08:25Z")
Favorite quotes 1. “Why can’t everybody leave everybody else the hell alone?” - Jimmy Durante 2. “Good men with poor ships are better than poor men with good ships.” — Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan 3. “As you wish.” - William Goldman, from The Princess Bride 4. “So shines a good deed in a weary world.” Willy Wonka 5. "I liked flying. It was the second-best thing that ever happened to me. If I hadn’t had baseball to come back to, I might have gone on as a Marine pilot.” — Ted Williams, USMC and the Boston Red Sox 6. “Dismissed. That’s a Starfleet term. Means ‘get out.’” --Captain Kathryn Janeway, “Star Trek: Voyager” 7. “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” ― L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between. 8. “God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won’t tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.” - Terry Pratchett 9. “The mountains are calling and I must go.” - John Muir ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/2450 "2020-06-04T18:11:15Z")
Favorite quotes 1. “Why can’t everybody leave everybody else the hell alone?” - Jimmy Durante 2. “Good men with poor ships are better than poor men with good ships.” — Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan 3. “As you wish.” - William Goldman, from The Princess Bride 4. “So shines a good deed in a weary world.” Willy Wonka 5. "I liked flying. It was the second-best thing that ever happened to me. If I hadn’t had baseball to come back to, I might have gone on as a Marine pilot.” — Ted Williams, USMC and the Boston Red Sox 6. “Dismissed. That’s a Starfleet term. Means ‘get out.’” --Captain Kathryn Janeway, “Star Trek: Voyager” 7. “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” ― L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between. 8. “God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won’t tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.” - Terry Pratchett 9. “The mountains are calling and I must go.” - John Muir 10. “Shut up, Wesley.” - Jean-Luc Picard ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/2451 "2020-06-04T18:13:21Z")
Favorite quotes 1. “Why can’t everybody leave everybody else the hell alone?” - Jimmy Durante 2. “Good men with poor ships are better than poor men with good ships.” — Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan 3. “As you wish.” - William Goldman, from The Princess Bride 4. “So shines a good deed in a weary world.” Willy Wonka 5. "I liked flying. It was the second-best thing that ever happened to me. If I hadn’t had baseball to come back to, I might have gone on as a Marine pilot.” — Ted Williams, USMC and the Boston Red Sox 6. “Dismissed. That’s a Starfleet term. Means ‘get out.’” --Captain Kathryn Janeway, “Star Trek: Voyager” 7. “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” ― L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between. 8. “God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won’t tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.” - Terry Pratchett 9. “The mountains are calling and I must go.” - John Muir 10. “Shut up, Wesley.” - Jean-Luc Picard 11. “Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” — John Wooden ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/2452 "2020-06-05T03:28:22Z")
Favorite quotes 1. “Why can’t everybody leave everybody else the hell alone?” - Jimmy Durante 2. “Good men with poor ships are better than poor men with good ships.” — Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan 3. “As you wish.” - William Goldman, from The Princess Bride 4. “So shines a good deed in a weary world.” Willy Wonka 5. "I liked flying. It was the second-best thing that ever happened to me. If I hadn’t had baseball to come back to, I might have gone on as a Marine pilot.” — Ted Williams, USMC and the Boston Red Sox 6. “Dismissed. That’s a Starfleet term. Means ‘get out.’” --Captain Kathryn Janeway, “Star Trek: Voyager” 7. “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” ― L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between. 8. “God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won’t tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.” - Terry Pratchett 9. “The mountains are calling and I must go.” - John Muir 10. “Shut up, Wesley.” - Jean-Luc Picard 11. “Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” — John Wooden 12. “Truth” is singular. It’s “versions” are mistruths." – David Mitchell ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/2453 "2020-06-05T03:33:51Z")
#4 above is from Shakespeare “Midsummers Nights Dream” ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_blistering_barnacle/32/3386_2.png) [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Blistering_Barnacle)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/2454 "2020-06-05T17:27:43Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > #4 above is from Shakespeare “Midsummers Nights Dream” “A quote by any other name would sound as sweet.“. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_blistering_barnacle/32/3386_2.png) [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Blistering_Barnacle)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/2455 "2020-06-05T17:31:47Z")
Also, “A quote is a quote is a quote.” ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_blistering_barnacle/32/3386_2.png) [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Blistering_Barnacle)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/2456 "2020-06-05T17:33:21Z")
Favorite quotes 1. “Why can’t everybody leave everybody else the hell alone?” - Jimmy Durante 2. “Good men with poor ships are better than poor men with good ships.” — Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan 3. “As you wish.” - William Goldman, from The Princess Bride 4. “So shines a good deed in a weary world.” Willy Wonka 5. "I liked flying. It was the second-best thing that ever happened to me. If I hadn’t had baseball to come back to, I might have gone on as a Marine pilot.” — Ted Williams, USMC and the Boston Red Sox 6. “Dismissed. That’s a Starfleet term. Means ‘get out.’” --Captain Kathryn Janeway, “Star Trek: Voyager” 7. “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between. 8. “God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won’t tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.” - Terry Pratchett 9. “The mountains are calling and I must go.” - John Muir 10. “Shut up, Wesley.” - Jean-Luc Picard 11. “Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” — John Wooden 12. “Truth” is singular. It’s “versions” are mistruths." – David Mitchell 13. “A rose is a rose is a rose.” Gertrude Stein ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_blistering_barnacle/32/3386_2.png) [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Blistering_Barnacle)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/2457 "2020-06-05T17:49:06Z")
Fun movie quotes, not on most recent list: 1. “If you refuse, you die, she dies, everybody dies. “ Ard, in Heavy Metal. ---
**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:** [June 5, 2020, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/2458 "2020-06-05T19:36:11Z")
Fun movie quotes, not on most recent list: 1. “If you refuse, you die, she dies, everybody dies. “ Ard, in Heavy Metal. 2. “Have fun storming the castle!” Miracle Max in _The Princess Bride_ ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/2459 "2020-06-05T19:55:10Z")
Fun movie quotes, not on most recent list: 1. “If you refuse, you die, she dies, everybody dies. “ Ard, in Heavy Metal. 2. “Have fun storming the castle!” Miracle Max in The Princess Bride 3. “Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line!” Vizzini in The Princess Bride ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_blistering_barnacle/32/3386_2.png) [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Blistering_Barnacle)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/2460 "2020-06-05T20:59:33Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > Fun movie quotes, not on most recent list: > > 1. “If you refuse, you die, she dies, everybody dies. “ Ard, in Heavy Metal. > 2. “Have fun storming the castle!” Miracle Max in The Princess Bride > 3. “Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line!” Vizzini in The Princess Bride Ha! We could just as well stipulate that EVERY line in “The Princess Bride” could be on a list like this, if it could be long enough! > [@](#): > > “There’s a shortage of perfect movies in this world, It would be a pity to damage this one.” C. Elwes [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938.md?page=122) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938.md?page=124)