# 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:** 24
**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:** [February 11, 2020, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/461 "2020-02-11T02:39:03Z")
Today, 2/10/2020, is National Clean Out Your Computer Day! Needed computer cleaning/upgrades. 1. I have old documents, many duplicates that I need to clean out. 2. I have numerous spreadsheets of customers and their account managers that I don’t need any longer. 3. I need a new tablet! 4. I need to figure out why my computer tells me it’s having a catastrophic failure every time I shut it down and restart it (which miraculously clears up 100% of the time on the second reboot). 5. I need to figure out a good backup system for my personal files. 6. I’ve got a lot of duplicate Christmas music files to eliminate. 7. Pictures. So many pictures! And I certainly do not need ALL of them. But it will take such a long time to cull through them all and delete the insignificant ones… 8. I need to go through all the porn. This’ll take much more than a day. 1. I’d axe Facebook in a minute, but nobody I know even has e-mail anymore. 1. I need to consolidate my profiles. ---
**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:** [February 11, 2020, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/462 "2020-02-11T02:50:23Z")
Today, 2/10/2020, is National Clean Out Your Computer Day! Needed computer cleaning/upgrades. 1. I have old documents, many duplicates that I need to clean out. 2. I have numerous spreadsheets of customers and their account managers that I don’t need any longer. 3. I need a new tablet! 4. I need to figure out why my computer tells me it’s having a catastrophic failure every time I shut it down and restart it (which miraculously clears up 100% of the time on the second reboot). 5. I need to figure out a good backup system for my personal files. 6. I’ve got a lot of duplicate Christmas music files to eliminate. 7. Pictures. So many pictures! And I certainly do not need ALL of them. But it will take such a long time to cull through them all and delete the insignificant ones… 8. I need to go through all the porn. This’ll take much more than a day. 1. I’d axe Facebook in a minute, but nobody I know even has e-mail anymore. 1. I need to consolidate my profiles. 2. I need to get rid of all the bookmarks for sites I no longer visit. ---
**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:** [February 11, 2020, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/463 "2020-02-11T03:15:48Z")
Today, 2/10/2020, is National Clean Out Your Computer Day! Needed computer cleaning/upgrades. 1. I have old documents, many duplicates that I need to clean out. 2. I have numerous spreadsheets of customers and their account managers that I don’t need any longer. 3. I need a new tablet! 4. I need to figure out why my computer tells me it’s having a catastrophic failure every time I shut it down and restart it (which miraculously clears up 100% of the time on the second reboot). 5. I need to figure out a good backup system for my personal files. 6. I’ve got a lot of duplicate Christmas music files to eliminate. 7. Pictures. So many pictures! And I certainly do not need ALL of them. But it will take such a long time to cull through them all and delete the insignificant ones… 8. I need to go through all the porn. This’ll take much more than a day. 1. I’d axe Facebook in a minute, but nobody I know even has e-mail anymore. 1. I need to consolidate my profiles. 2. I need to get rid of all the bookmarks for sites I no longer visit. 3. I want a lighter, faster laptop. ---
**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:** [February 11, 2020, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/464 "2020-02-11T08:17:38Z")
Today, 2/10/2020, is National Clean Out Your Computer Day! Needed computer cleaning/upgrades. 1. I have old documents, many duplicates that I need to clean out. 2. I have numerous spreadsheets of customers and their account managers that I don’t need any longer. 3. I need a new tablet! 4. I need to figure out why my computer tells me it’s having a catastrophic failure every time I shut it down and restart it (which miraculously clears up 100% of the time on the second reboot). 5. I need to figure out a good backup system for my personal files. 6. I’ve got a lot of duplicate Christmas music files to eliminate. 7. Pictures. So many pictures! And I certainly do not need ALL of them. But it will take such a long time to cull through them all and delete the insignificant ones… 8. I need to go through all the porn. This’ll take much more than a day. 1. I’d axe Facebook in a minute, but nobody I know even has e-mail anymore. 1. I need to consolidate my profiles. 2. I need to get rid of all the bookmarks for sites I no longer visit. 3. I want a lighter, faster laptop. 1. I need to clean my laptop keyboard; crumbs etc under the keys are making them stick Pass, I picked a category 18 hours ago ---
**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:** [February 11, 2020, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/465 "2020-02-11T09:05:57Z")
Books that no bookshelf is complete without 1. Guinness Book of World Records ---
**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:** [February 11, 2020, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/466 "2020-02-11T09:25:10Z")
Books that no bookshelf is complete without 1. Guinness Book of World Records 2. Into Thin Air ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/467 "2020-02-11T11:49:24Z")
Books that no bookshelf is complete without 1. Guinness Book of World Records 2. Into Thin Air 3. A 40+ year old World Almanac . . . 90% of which has been deleted to make room for sexy new data ---
**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:** [February 11, 2020, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/468 "2020-02-11T11:59:21Z")
Books that no bookshelf is complete without 1. Guinness Book of World Records 2. Into Thin Air 3. A 40+ year old World Almanac 4. The Greatest Generation ---
**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:** [February 11, 2020, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/469 "2020-02-11T12:51:55Z")
Books that no bookshelf is complete without 1. Guinness Book of World Records 2. Into Thin Air 3. A 40+ year old World Almanac 4. The Greatest Generation 5. Collier’s World Atlas and Gazetteer ©1943 With new maps of both the European and Pacific theaters of war! It’s the one I used in the '60s, and I can still pinpoint Bechuanaland or Tannu-Tuva on a map. ---
**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 11, 2020, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/470 "2020-02-11T13:59:22Z")
Books that no bookshelf is complete without 1. Guinness Book of World Records 2. Into Thin Air 3. A 40+ year old World Almanac 4. The Greatest Generation 5. Collier’s World Atlas and Gazetteer ©1943 6. Roget’s Thesaurus ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/471 "2020-02-11T14:04:24Z")
Books that no bookshelf is complete without 1. Guinness Book of World Records 2. Into Thin Air 3. A 40+ year old World Almanac 4. The Greatest Generation 5. Collier’s World Atlas and Gazetteer ©1943 6. Roget’s Thesaurus 7. Something–ANYTHING by Stephen King ---
**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:** [February 11, 2020, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/472 "2020-02-11T14:22:09Z")
Books that no bookshelf is complete without 1. Guinness Book of World Records 2. Into Thin Air 3. A 40+ year old World Almanac 4. The Greatest Generation 5. Collier’s World Atlas and Gazetteer ©1943 6. Roget’s Thesaurus 7. Something–ANYTHING by Stephen King 8. Doctor Zhivago ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/473 "2020-02-11T14:44:56Z")
Books that no bookshelf is complete without 1. Guinness Book of World Records 2. Into Thin Air 3. A 40+ year old World Almanac 4. The Greatest Generation 5. Collier’s World Atlas and Gazetteer ©1943 6. Roget’s Thesaurus 7. Something–ANYTHING by Stephen King 8. Doctor Zhivago 9. Some edition of Chicken Soup For The Soul ---
**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:** [February 11, 2020, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/474 "2020-02-11T14:45:55Z")
NM, it was already on the list. ---
**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:** [February 11, 2020, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/475 "2020-02-11T16:54:00Z")
Books that no bookshelf is complete without 1. Guinness Book of World Records 2. Into Thin Air 3. A 40+ year old World Almanac 4. The Greatest Generation 5. Collier’s World Atlas and Gazetteer ©1943 6. Roget’s Thesaurus 7. Something–ANYTHING by Stephen King 8. Doctor Zhivago 9. Some edition of Chicken Soup For The Soul 10. Some edition of the Oxford English Dictionary; a shorter abridged is OK as long as it has the etymological part ---
**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:** [February 11, 2020, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/476 "2020-02-11T17:09:46Z")
Books that no bookshelf is complete without 1. Guinness Book of World Records 2. Into Thin Air 3. A 40+ year old World Almanac 4. The Greatest Generation 5. Collier’s World Atlas and Gazetteer ©1943 6. Roget’s Thesaurus 7. Something–ANYTHING by Stephen King 8. Doctor Zhivago 9. Some edition of Chicken Soup For The Soul 10. Some edition of the Oxford English Dictionary; a shorter abridged is OK as long as it has the etymological part 11. History of the United States Marine Corps ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/477 "2020-02-11T17:11:18Z")
Books that no bookshelf is complete without 1. Guinness Book of World Records 2. Into Thin Air 3. A 40+ year old World Almanac 4. The Greatest Generation 5. Collier’s World Atlas and Gazetteer ©1943 6. Roget’s Thesaurus 7. Something–ANYTHING by Stephen King 8. Doctor Zhivago 9. Some edition of Chicken Soup For The Soul 10. Some edition of the Oxford English Dictionary; a shorter abridged is OK as long as it has the etymological part 11. History of the United States Marine Corps 12. At least one \*Peanuts \*compilation. ---
**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:** [February 11, 2020, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/478 "2020-02-11T17:16:23Z")
Books that no bookshelf is complete without 1. Guinness Book of World Records 2. Into Thin Air 3. A 40+ year old World Almanac 4. The Greatest Generation 5. Collier’s World Atlas and Gazetteer ©1943 6. Roget’s Thesaurus 7. Something–ANYTHING by Stephen King 8. Doctor Zhivago 9. Some edition of Chicken Soup For The Soul 10. Some edition of the Oxford English Dictionary; a shorter abridged is OK as long as it has the etymological part 11. History of the United States Marine Corps 12. At least one Peanuts compilation. 13. All of Gary Larsen’s _The Far Side_ books. Pass. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/479 "2020-02-11T17:40:09Z")
Debunked “true stories” or “Nonfiction” that should really be on the “fiction” shelf 1. Sybil - Flora Rheta Schreiber ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/480 "2020-02-11T17:44:19Z")
Debunked “true stories” or “Nonfiction” that should really be on the “fiction” shelf 1. Sybil - Flora Rheta Schreiber 2. [The Amityville Horror](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-amityville-horror/) - Jay Anson [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938.md?page=23) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938.md?page=25)