# Baker's Dozen II (Part 1)

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**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\
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**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:** [April 8, 2021, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5404 "2021-04-08T21:01:36Z")

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EH, what’s the next topic?

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**Post date:** [April 8, 2021, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5405 "2021-04-08T23:57:24Z")

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I’ll give it a shot.

Wretched Hives of Scum and Villainy: immoral, corrupt, and downright scuzzy cites and towns in fiction, legend, and myth.

1. Mos Eisley

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**Post date:** [April 9, 2021, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5406 "2021-04-09T00:25:53Z")

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Wretched Hives of Scum and Villainy: immoral, corrupt, and downright scuzzy cites and towns in fiction, legend, and myth.

1. Mos Eisley
2. Greysky City

From _The Order of the Stick_ webcomic

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**Post date:** [April 9, 2021, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5407 "2021-04-09T01:32:20Z")

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Wretched Hives of Scum and Villainy: immoral, corrupt, and downright scuzzy cites and towns in fiction, legend, and myth.

1. Mos Eisley
2. Greysky City
3. Tortuga

The fictionalized version as seen in _The Pirates of the Caribbean_ franchise

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**Post date:** [April 9, 2021, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5408 "2021-04-09T02:22:10Z")

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Wretched Hives of Scum and Villainy: immoral, corrupt, and downright scuzzy cites and towns in fiction, legend, and myth.

1. Mos Eisley
2. Greysky City
3. Tortuga
4. Bartertown – from _“Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome”_

_ **-“BB”-** _

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**Post date:** [April 9, 2021, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5409 "2021-04-09T02:24:16Z")

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Wretched Hives of Scum and Villainy: immoral, corrupt, and downright scuzzy cites and towns in fiction, legend, and myth.

1. Mos Eisley
2. Greysky City
3. Tortuga
4. Bartertown – from _“Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome”_
5. Knowhere (from “Guardians of the Galaxy”)

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**Post date:** [April 9, 2021, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5410 "2021-04-09T03:15:25Z")

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Wretched Hives of Scum and Villainy: immoral, corrupt, and downright scuzzy cites and towns in fiction, legend, and myth.

1. Mos Eisley
2. Greysky City
3. Tortuga
4. Bartertown – from _“Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome”_
5. Knowhere (from “Guardians of the Galaxy”)
6. New York - from _Escape From New York_

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**Post date:** [April 9, 2021, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5411 "2021-04-09T06:50:49Z")

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Wretched Hives of Scum and Villainy: immoral, corrupt, and downright scuzzy cites and towns in fiction, legend, and myth.

1. Mos Eisley
2. Greysky City
3. Tortuga
4. Bartertown – from _“Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome”_
5. Knowhere (from “Guardians of the Galaxy”)
6. New York - from _Escape From New York_
7. Telepylos - from Homer’s Odyssey

The city of the man-eating giant Laestrygonians

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**Post date:** [April 9, 2021, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5412 "2021-04-09T07:05:59Z")

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Wretched Hives of Scum and Villainy: immoral, corrupt, and downright scuzzy cites and towns in fiction, legend, and myth.

1. Mos Eisley
2. Greysky City
3. Tortuga
4. Bartertown – from _“Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome”_
5. Knowhere (from “Guardians of the Galaxy”)
6. New York - from _Escape From New York_
7. Telepylos - from Homer’s Odyssey
8. London Below - from Neil Gaiman’s _Neverwhere_

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**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:** [April 9, 2021, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5413 "2021-04-09T14:13:06Z")

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Wretched Hives of Scum and Villainy: immoral, corrupt, and downright scuzzy cites and towns in fiction, legend, and myth.

1. Mos Eisley
2. Greysky City
3. Tortuga
4. Bartertown – from _“Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome”_
5. Knowhere (from “Guardians of the Galaxy”)
6. New York - from _Escape From New York_
7. Telepylos - from Homer’s Odyssey
8. London Below - from Neil Gaiman’s _Neverwhere_
9. Devil’s Acre - from Ransom Riggs’s _Library of Souls_, third book in the _Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children_ series

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**Post date:** [April 9, 2021, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5414 "2021-04-09T15:16:31Z")

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Wretched Hives of Scum and Villainy: immoral, corrupt, and downright scuzzy cites and towns in fiction, legend, and myth.

1. Mos Eisley
2. Greysky City
3. Tortuga
4. Bartertown – from _“Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome”_
5. Knowhere (from “Guardians of the Galaxy”)
6. New York - from _Escape From New York_
7. Telepylos - from Homer’s Odyssey
8. London Below - from Neil Gaiman’s _Neverwhere_
9. Devil’s Acre - from Ransom Riggs’s _Library of Souls_ , third book in the _Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children_ series
10. Madripoor - An Asian island nation in Marvel comics.

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**Post date:** [April 9, 2021, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5415 "2021-04-09T19:54:21Z")

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Wretched Hives of Scum and Villainy: immoral, corrupt, and downright scuzzy cites and towns in fiction, legend, and myth.

1. Mos Eisley
2. Greysky City
3. Tortuga
4. Bartertown – from _“Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome”_
5. Knowhere (from “Guardians of the Galaxy”)
6. New York - from _Escape From New York_
7. Telepylos - from Homer’s Odyssey
8. London Below - from Neil Gaiman’s _Neverwhere_
9. Devil’s Acre - from Ransom Riggs’s _Library of Souls_ , third book in the _Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children_ series
10. Madripoor - An Asian island nation in Marvel comics.
11. Black Rock - Bad Day at Black Rock

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**Post date:** [April 10, 2021, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5416 "2021-04-10T04:40:45Z")

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Wretched Hives of Scum and Villainy: immoral, corrupt, and downright scuzzy cites and towns in fiction, legend, and myth.

1. Mos Eisley
2. Greysky City
3. Tortuga
4. Bartertown – from _“Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome”_
5. Knowhere (from _Guardians of the Galaxy_)
6. New York - from _Escape From New York_
7. Telepylos - from Homer’s _Odyssey_
8. London Below - from Neil Gaiman’s _Neverwhere_
9. Devil’s Acre - from Ransom Riggs’s _Library of Souls_ , third book in the _Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children_ series
10. Madripoor - An Asian island nation in Marvel comics.
11. Black Rock - _Bad Day at Black Rock_
12. Minas Morgul - from _The Lord of the Rings_

_Not_ a fun place to visit: [Minas Morgul | The One Wiki to Rule Them All | Fandom](https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Minas_Morgul)

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**Post date:** [April 10, 2021, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5417 "2021-04-10T15:52:20Z")

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Wretched Hives of Scum and Villainy: immoral, corrupt, and downright scuzzy cites and towns in fiction, legend, and myth.

1. Mos Eisley
2. Greysky City
3. Tortuga
4. Bartertown – from _“Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome”_
5. Knowhere (from _Guardians of the Galaxy_ )
6. New York - from _Escape From New York_
7. Telepylos - from Homer’s _Odyssey_
8. London Below - from Neil Gaiman’s _Neverwhere_
9. Devil’s Acre - from Ransom Riggs’s _Library of Souls_ , third book in the _Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children_ series
10. Madripoor - An Asian island nation in Marvel comics.
11. Black Rock - _Bad Day at Black Rock_
12. Minas Morgul - from _The Lord of the Rings_
13. Gotham - in most renditions of the Batman mythos

New topic:

Famous male royals, past, present or fictional

1. King Henry the Eighth of England

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**Post date:** [April 10, 2021, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5418 "2021-04-10T15:59:56Z")

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Famous male royals, past, present or fictional

1. King Henry the Eighth of England
2. Prince Humperdinck - _The Princess Bride_

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**Author:** ![llikewise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llikewise/32/8522_2.png) [@llikewise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/llikewise)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2021, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5419 "2021-04-10T16:23:58Z")

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Famous male royals, past, present or fictional

1. King Henry the Eighth of England
2. Prince Humperdinck - _The Princess Bride_
3. Prince Harry

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**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)\
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Famous male royals, past, present or fictional

1. King Henry the Eighth of England
2. Prince Humperdinck - _The Princess Bride_
3. Prince Harry
4. Tsar Peter the Great

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Famous male royals, past, present or fictional

1. King Henry the Eighth of England
2. Prince Humperdinck - _The Princess Bride_
3. Prince Harry
4. Tsar Peter the Great
5. King Ralph

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Famous male royals, past, present or fictional

1. King Henry the Eighth of England
2. Prince Humperdinck - _The Princess Bride_
3. Prince Harry
4. Tsar Peter the Great
5. King Ralph
6. King Richard III of England

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Famous male royals, past, present or fictional

1. King Henry the Eighth of England
2. Prince Humperdinck - _The Princess Bride_
3. Prince Harry
4. Tsar Peter the Great
5. King Ralph
6. King Richard III of England
7. Emperor Showa (Hirohito) of Japan

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