# 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:** 420
**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:** [January 24, 2022, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/8384 "2022-01-24T19:46:02Z")
**Political scandals** 1. Watergate 2. Iran-Contra Affair 3. Teapot Dome 4. Clinton/Lewinsky 5. Trump requesting the Ukraine to say they’re looking into incriminating evidence on Biden’s son 6. Credit Mobilier 7. CIA leak scandal, aka “Plamegate” 8. Inciting a mob to insurrection and attacking the Capitol in 2021 9. Profumo Affair 10. Grover Cleveland’s having a child out of wedlock Didn’t keep him out of the White House, though: [Grover Cleveland - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Cleveland#Nomination_for_president) ---
**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:** [January 24, 2022, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/8385 "2022-01-24T20:18:53Z")
**Political scandals** 1. Watergate 2. Iran-Contra Affair 3. Teapot Dome 4. Clinton/Lewinsky 5. Trump requesting the Ukraine to say they’re looking into incriminating evidence on Biden’s son 6. Credit Mobilier 7. CIA leak scandal, aka “Plamegate” 8. Inciting a mob to insurrection and attacking the Capitol in 2021 9. Profumo Affair 10. Grover Cleveland’s having a child out of wedlock 11. The Diamond Necklace Affair It made Marie Antoinette even more unpopular, although it wasn’t her fault at all And thanks to the Grover Cleveland reference I have this rhyme for an earworm now: “Ma, Ma, where’s my Pa? Gone to the White House. Ha! Ha! Ha!” ---
**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:** [January 24, 2022, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/8386 "2022-01-24T21:39:59Z")
Just one more service I offer. **Political scandals** 1. Watergate 2. Iran-Contra Affair 3. Teapot Dome 4. Clinton/Lewinsky 5. Trump requesting the Ukraine to say they’re looking into incriminating evidence on Biden’s son 6. Credit Mobilier 7. CIA leak scandal, aka “Plamegate” 8. Inciting a mob to insurrection and attacking the Capitol in 2021 9. Profumo Affair 10. Grover Cleveland’s having a child out of wedlock 11. The Diamond Necklace Affair 12. XYZ Affair An oldie but a goodie: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XYZ\_Affair](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XYZ_Affair) ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2022, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/8387 "2022-01-24T22:41:58Z")
**Political scandals** 1. Watergate 2. Iran-Contra Affair 3. Teapot Dome 4. Clinton/Lewinsky 5. Trump requesting the Ukraine to say they’re looking into incriminating evidence on Biden’s son 6. Credit Mobilier 7. CIA leak scandal, aka “Plamegate” 8. Inciting a mob to insurrection and attacking the Capitol in 2021 9. Profumo Affair 10. Grover Cleveland’s having a child out of wedlock 11. The Diamond Necklace Affair 12. XYZ Affair 13. Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings Next Topic: **Professional Sports Teams: Former Home(s)** 1. Atlanta Braves: Milwaukee, Boston ---
**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:** [January 24, 2022, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/8388 "2022-01-24T23:02:28Z")
**Professional Sports Teams: Former Home(s)** 1. Atlanta Braves: Milwaukee, Boston 2. Oakland Athletics: Kansas City, Philadelphia ---
**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:** [January 24, 2022, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/8389 "2022-01-24T23:05:25Z")
**Professional Sports Teams: Former Home(s)** 1. Atlanta Braves: Milwaukee, Boston 2. Oakland Athletics: Kansas City, Philadelphia 3. Calgary Flames: Atlanta ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2022, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/8390 "2022-01-24T23:11:23Z")
**Professional Sports Teams: Former Home(s)** 1. Atlanta Braves: Milwaukee, Boston 2. Oakland Athletics: Kansas City, Philadelphia 3. Calgary Flames: Atlanta 4. Baltimore Orioles: Milwaukee, St. Louis ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2022, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/8391 "2022-01-24T23:12:17Z")
**Professional Sports Teams: Former Home(s)** 1. Atlanta Braves: Milwaukee, Boston 2. Oakland Athletics: Kansas City, Philadelphia 3. Calgary Flames: Atlanta 4. Washington Nationals: Montreal (as the Expos) ---
**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:** [January 24, 2022, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/8392 "2022-01-24T23:47:19Z")
**Professional Sports Teams: Former Home(s)** 1. Atlanta Braves: Milwaukee, Boston 2. Oakland Athletics: Kansas City, Philadelphia 3. Calgary Flames: Atlanta 4. Washington Nationals: Montreal (as the Expos) 5. Tennessee Titans: Houston, TX ---
**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:** [January 25, 2022, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/8393 "2022-01-25T01:49:34Z")
**Professional Sports Teams: Former Home(s)** 1. Atlanta Braves: Milwaukee, Boston 2. Oakland Athletics: Kansas City, Philadelphia 3. Calgary Flames: Atlanta 4. Washington Nationals: Montreal (as the Expos) 5. Tennessee Titans: Houston, TX 6. Los Angeles Dodgers: Brooklyn, NY they were originally the Brooklyn Atlantics when established in 1883, and Bridegrooms, when they joined the NL in 1890 ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2022, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/8394 "2022-01-25T02:10:15Z")
**Professional Sports Teams: Former Home(s)** 1. Atlanta Braves: Milwaukee, Boston 2. Oakland Athletics: Kansas City, Philadelphia 3. Calgary Flames: Atlanta 4. Washington Nationals: Montreal (as the Expos) 5. Tennessee Titans: Houston, TX 6. Los Angeles Dodgers: Brooklyn, NY 7. Las Vegas Raiders: Oakland, Los Angeles, Oakland again ---
**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:** [January 25, 2022, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/8395 "2022-01-25T02:18:23Z")
**Professional Sports Teams: Former Home(s)** 1. Atlanta Braves: Milwaukee, Boston 2. Oakland Athletics: Kansas City, Philadelphia 3. Calgary Flames: Atlanta 4. Washington Nationals: Montreal (as the Expos) 5. Tennessee Titans: Houston, TX 6. Los Angeles Dodgers: Brooklyn, NY 7. Las Vegas Raiders: Oakland, Los Angeles, Oakland again 8. Chicago Bears: Decatur, IL (as the Decatur Staleys) Founded as a company team by the A.E. Staley cornstarch processing company. After moving to Chicago, they played the 1920 season in the newly-formed American Professional Football Association (which became the National Football League in 1922) as the Chicago Staleys before being renamed the Bears. Their anthropomorphic mascot, introduced in 2003, is named ‘Staley Da Bear’ in tribute to the team’s origin in mid-state Illinois. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2022, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/8396 "2022-01-25T02:40:29Z")
**Professional Sports Teams: Former Home(s)** 1. Atlanta Braves: Milwaukee, Boston 2. Oakland Athletics: Kansas City, Philadelphia 3. Calgary Flames: Atlanta 4. Washington Nationals: Montreal (as the Expos) 5. Tennessee Titans: Houston, TX 6. Los Angeles Dodgers: Brooklyn, NY 7. Las Vegas Raiders: Oakland, Los Angeles, Oakland again 8. Chicago Bears: Decatur, IL (as the Decatur Staleys) 9. Utah Jazz: New Orleans ‘Utah Jazz’ is almost an oxymoron… ---
**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:** [January 25, 2022, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/8397 "2022-01-25T12:08:53Z")
**Professional Sports Teams: Former Home(s)** 1. Atlanta Braves: Milwaukee, Boston 2. Oakland Athletics: Kansas City, Philadelphia 3. Calgary Flames: Atlanta 4. Washington Nationals: Montreal (as the Expos) 5. Tennessee Titans: Houston, TX 6. Los Angeles Dodgers: Brooklyn, NY 7. Las Vegas Raiders: Oakland, Los Angeles, Oakland again 8. Chicago Bears: Decatur, IL (as the Decatur Staleys) 9. Utah Jazz: New Orleans 10. Indianapolis Colts: Baltimore ---
**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:** [January 25, 2022, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/8398 "2022-01-25T13:26:56Z")
**Professional Sports Teams: Former Home(s)** 1. Atlanta Braves: Milwaukee, Boston 2. Oakland Athletics: Kansas City, Philadelphia 3. Calgary Flames: Atlanta 4. Washington Nationals: Montreal (as the Expos) 5. Tennessee Titans: Houston, TX 6. Los Angeles Dodgers: Brooklyn, NY 7. Las Vegas Raiders: Oakland, Los Angeles, Oakland again 8. Chicago Bears: Decatur, IL (as the Decatur Staleys) 9. Utah Jazz: New Orleans 10. Indianapolis Colts: Baltimore 11. LA Rams: Cleveland, then LA, then St. Louis, then back to LA ---
**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:** [January 25, 2022, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/8399 "2022-01-25T14:25:27Z")
**Professional Sports Teams: Former Home(s)** 1. Atlanta Braves: Milwaukee, Boston 2. Oakland Athletics: Kansas City, Philadelphia 3. Calgary Flames: Atlanta 4. Washington Nationals: Montreal (as the Expos) 5. Tennessee Titans: Houston, TX 6. Los Angeles Dodgers: Brooklyn, NY 7. Las Vegas Raiders: Oakland, Los Angeles, Oakland again 8. Chicago Bears: Decatur, IL (as the Decatur Staleys) 9. Utah Jazz: New Orleans 10. Indianapolis Colts: Baltimore 11. LA Rams: Cleveland, then LA, then St. Louis, then back to LA 12. Baltimore Orioles: Milwaukee, St. Louis Ninja’d before. ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2022, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/8400 "2022-01-25T18:40:18Z")
**Professional Sports Teams: Former Home(s)** 1. Atlanta Braves: Milwaukee, Boston 2. Oakland Athletics: Kansas City, Philadelphia 3. Calgary Flames: Atlanta 4. Washington Nationals: Montreal (as the Expos) 5. Tennessee Titans: Houston, TX 6. Los Angeles Dodgers: Brooklyn, NY 7. Las Vegas Raiders: Oakland, Los Angeles, Oakland again 8. Chicago Bears: Decatur, IL (as the Decatur Staleys) 9. Utah Jazz: New Orleans 10. Indianapolis Colts: Baltimore 11. LA Rams: Cleveland, then LA, then St. Louis, then back to LA 12. Baltimore Orioles: Milwaukee, St. Louis 13. Arizona Cardinals: St. Louis **Shakespearean insults** 1. Your brain is as dry as the remainder biscuit after voyage - _As You Like It_ ---
**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:** [January 25, 2022, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/8401 "2022-01-25T19:41:08Z")
**Shakespearean insults** 1. Your brain is as dry as the remainder biscuit after voyage - _As You Like It_ 2. Never hung poison on a fouler toad. Out of my sight! thou dost infect my eyes. _Richard III_ ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2022, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/8402 "2022-01-25T19:51:35Z")
**Shakespearean insults** 1. Your brain is as dry as the remainder biscuit after voyage - _As You Like It_ 2. Never hung poison on a fouler toad. Out of my sight! thou dost infect my eyes. _Richard III_ 3. There’s no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune. - _Henry IV_, Part 1 ---
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**Shakespearean insults** 1. Your brain is as dry as the remainder biscuit after voyage - _As You Like It_ 2. Never hung poison on a fouler toad. Out of my sight! thou dost infect my eyes. _Richard III_ 3. There’s no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune. - _Henry IV_ , Part 1 4. He has not so much brain as ear-wax. - _Troilus and Cressida_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938.md?page=419) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938.md?page=421)