# Bakers Dozen **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 4, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173 "2010-08-04T17:56:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1077
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/21524 "2013-12-15T22:41:17Z")
If the 12 Days of Christmas were the 12 fractional (or irrational) days of Christmas what the True Love might give: 1. 3.14159… Pies to Eat. 2. 1.4142… square root of two cookies 3. SqRt(-1) … the diamond ring she’s expecting 4. 1.618… Golden Ratios 5. 2.71828 Eagles 6. 6.666666… Geese a-Laying 7. 49/7ths Swans a-Swimming 8. 1.60669… bottles of Erdos Bor-wine 9. i… imaginary friends 10. splunge… Lords a-Leaping 11. 6.022×10 [sup]23[/sup] Avogadro Avocados ---
**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:** [December 15, 2013, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/21525 "2013-12-15T23:53:21Z")
If the 12 Days of Christmas were the 12 fractional (or irrational) days of Christmas what the True Love might give: 1. 3.14159… Pies to Eat. 2. 1.4142… square root of two cookies 3. SqRt(-1) … the diamond ring she’s expecting 4. 1.618… Golden Ratios 5. 2.71828 Eagles 6. 6.666666… Geese a-Laying 7. 49/7ths Swans a-Swimming 8. 1.60669… bottles of Erdos Bor-wine 9. i… imaginary friends 10. splunge… Lords a-Leaping 11. 6.022×10 23 Avogadro Avocados 12. pi/infinity Partridges in Parallel Universes ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/21526 "2013-12-16T00:17:34Z")
If the 12 Days of Christmas were the 12 fractional (or irrational) days of Christmas what the True Love might give: 1. 3.14159… Pies to Eat. 2. 1.4142… square root of two cookies 3. SqRt(-1) … the diamond ring she’s expecting 4. 1.618… Golden Ratios 5. 2.71828 Eagles 6. 6.666666… Geese a-Laying 7. 49/7ths Swans a-Swimming 8. 1.60669… bottles of Erdos Bor-wine 9. i… imaginary friends 10. splunge… Lords a-Leaping 11. 6.022×10 23 Avogadro Avocados 12. pi/infinity Partridges in Parallel Universes 13. infinity[sup]3[/sup] - number of times a Christmas Carol will be played on the radio between the day after Thanksgiving and December 25th. What you want from Santa this year 1. a bigger apartment ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/21527 "2013-12-16T01:40:40Z")
What you want from Santa this year 1. a bigger apartment 2. A fat advance from a publisher ---
**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:** [December 16, 2013, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/21528 "2013-12-16T02:30:42Z")
What you want from Santa this year 1. a bigger apartment 2. A fat advance from a publisher 3. For all the children of the world to join hands and sing together in the spirit of harmony and peace Technically, it’s my [fifth wish](http://snltranscripts.jt.org/86/86fwish.phtml). ---
**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:** [December 16, 2013, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/21529 "2013-12-16T02:35:37Z")
What you want from Santa this year 1. a bigger apartment 2. A fat advance from a publisher 3. For all the children of the world to join hands and sing together in the spirit of harmony and peace 4. a retromorphic electrophastic neo-embolizer with the bright red candylike button ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/21530 "2013-12-16T03:06:58Z")
What you want from Santa this year 1. a bigger apartment 2. A fat advance from a publisher 3. For all the children of the world to join hands and sing together in the spirit of harmony and peace 4. a retromorphic electrophastic neo-embolizer with the bright red candylike button 5. A TARDIS, but with a GPS that avoids apocalyptic alien scenarios In fact, really just time traveling on Earth would be fine. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/21531 "2013-12-16T03:50:50Z")
What you want from Santa this year 1. a bigger apartment 2. A fat advance from a publisher 3. For all the children of the world to join hands and sing together in the spirit of harmony and peace 4. a retromorphic electrophastic neo-embolizer with the bright red candylike button 5. A TARDIS, but with a GPS that avoids apocalyptic alien scenarios 6. My Two Front Teeth ---
**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:** [December 16, 2013, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/21532 "2013-12-16T04:20:15Z")
What you want from Santa this year 1. a bigger apartment 2. A fat advance from a publisher 3. For all the children of the world to join hands and sing together in the spirit of harmony and peace 4. a retromorphic electrophastic neo-embolizer with the bright red candylike button 5. A TARDIS, but with a GPS that avoids apocalyptic alien scenarios 6. My Two Front Teeth 7. An ironclad commitment that I’ll be elected President in 2016 ---
**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:** [December 16, 2013, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/21533 "2013-12-16T05:24:50Z")
What you want from Santa this year 1. a bigger apartment 2. A fat advance from a publisher 3. For all the children of the world to join hands and sing together in the spirit of harmony and peace 4. a retromorphic electrophastic neo-embolizer with the bright red candylike button 5. A TARDIS, but with a GPS that avoids apocalyptic alien scenarios 6. My Two Front Teeth 7. An ironclad commitment that I’ll be elected President in 2016 8. a Canon EOS 5D Mark III ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/21534 "2013-12-16T12:03:58Z")
**Sampiro** , if I could travel with you in the TARDIS, I wouldn’t need the bigger apartment. **Elendil’s Heir** , I’ll vote for you. What you want from Santa this year 1. a bigger apartment 2. A fat advance from a publisher 3. For all the children of the world to join hands and sing together in the spirit of harmony and peace 4. a retromorphic electrophastic neo-embolizer with the bright red candylike button 5. A TARDIS, but with a GPS that avoids apocalyptic alien scenarios 6. My Two Front Teeth 7. An ironclad commitment that I’ll be elected President in 2016 8. a Canon EOS 5D Mark III 9. A body that works without aches and pains ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/21535 "2013-12-16T12:13:11Z")
What you want from Santa this year 1. a bigger apartment 2. A fat advance from a publisher 3. For all the children of the world to join hands and sing together in the spirit of harmony and peace 4. a retromorphic electrophastic neo-embolizer with the bright red candylike button 5. A TARDIS, but with a GPS that avoids apocalyptic alien scenarios 6. My Two Front Teeth 7. An ironclad commitment that I’ll be elected President in 2016 8. a Canon EOS 5D Mark III 9. A body that works without aches and pains 10. Irrefutable proof that the two people who beat me on \*\*\*Jeopardy! \*\*\*last year were cheating. (Nah, they were both very nice people… which means I don’t even get the consolation of hating them!) ---
**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:** [December 16, 2013, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/21536 "2013-12-16T14:55:22Z")
What you want from Santa this year 1. a bigger apartment 2. A fat advance from a publisher 3. For all the children of the world to join hands and sing together in the spirit of harmony and peace 4. a retromorphic electrophastic neo-embolizer with the bright red candylike button 5. A TARDIS, but with a GPS that avoids apocalyptic alien scenarios 6. My Two Front Teeth 7. An ironclad commitment that I’ll be elected President in 2016 8. a Canon EOS 5D Mark III 9. A body that works without aches and pains 10. Irrefutable proof that the two people who beat me on Jeopardy! last year were cheating. (Nah, they were both very nice people… which means I don’t even get the consolation of hating them!) 11. CASH! Lots and lots of lots of hundred dollar bills. ---
**Author:** ![tripthicket](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripthicket/32/297_2.png) [@tripthicket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tripthicket)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/21537 "2013-12-16T16:15:33Z")
What you want from Santa this year 1. a bigger apartment 2. A fat advance from a publisher 3. For all the children of the world to join hands and sing together in the spirit of harmony and peace 4. a retromorphic electrophastic neo-embolizer with the bright red candylike button 5. A TARDIS, but with a GPS that avoids apocalyptic alien scenarios 6. My Two Front Teeth 7. An ironclad commitment that I’ll be elected President in 2016 8. a Canon EOS 5D Mark III 9. A body that works without aches and pains 10. Irrefutable proof that the two people who beat me on Jeopardy! last year were cheating. (Nah, they were both very nice people… which means I don’t even get the consolation of hating them!) 11. CASH! Lots and lots of lots of hundred dollar bills. 12. Consequence-free hedonism…and the youth to do it up right ---
**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:** [December 16, 2013, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/21538 "2013-12-16T16:28:35Z")
What you want from Santa this year 1. a bigger apartment 2. A fat advance from a publisher 3. For all the children of the world to join hands and sing together in the spirit of harmony and peace 4. a retromorphic electrophastic neo-embolizer with the bright red candylike button 5. A TARDIS, but with a GPS that avoids apocalyptic alien scenarios 6. My Two Front Teeth 7. An ironclad commitment that I’ll be elected President in 2016 8. a Canon EOS 5D Mark III 9. A body that works without aches and pains 10. Irrefutable proof that the two people who beat me on Jeopardy! last year were cheating. (Nah, they were both very nice people… which means I don’t even get the consolation of hating them!) 11. CASH! Lots and lots of lots of hundred dollar bills. 12. Consequence-free hedonism…and the youth to do it up right 13. a Coke and a smile. New! 13 Quotes from Dickens’ _A Christmas Carol_ 14. “Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge’s name was good upon ’Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.” ---
**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:** [December 16, 2013, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/21539 "2013-12-16T16:32:05Z")
New! 13 Quotes from Dickens’ A Christmas Carol 1. “Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge’s name was good upon ’Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.” 2. He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One! ---
**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:** [December 16, 2013, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/21540 "2013-12-16T16:37:36Z")
New! 13 Quotes from Dickens’ A Christmas Carol 1. “Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge’s name was good upon ’Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.” 2. He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One! 3. “You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There’s more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!” ---
**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:** [December 16, 2013, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/21541 "2013-12-16T16:45:15Z")
New! 13 Quotes from Dickens’ A Christmas Carol 1. “Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge’s name was good upon ’Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.” 2. He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One! 3. “You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There’s more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!” 4. “It isn’t that,” said Scrooge, heated by the remark, and speaking unconsciously like his former, not his latter, self. “It isn’t that, Spirit. He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count them up: what then? The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.” ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/21542 "2013-12-16T17:20:03Z")
13 Quotes from Dickens’ A Christmas Carol 1. “Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge’s name was good upon ’Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.” 2. He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One! 3. “You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There’s more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!” 4. “It isn’t that,” said Scrooge, heated by the remark, and speaking unconsciously like his former, not his latter, self. “It isn’t that, Spirit. He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count them up: what then? The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.” 5. “This is the even-handed dealing of the world!” he said. “There is nothing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes to condemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!” ---
**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:** [December 16, 2013, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/21543 "2013-12-16T17:25:17Z")
13 Quotes from Dickens’ A Christmas Carol 1. “Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge’s name was good upon ’Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.” 2. He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One! 3. “You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There’s more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!” 4. “It isn’t that,” said Scrooge, heated by the remark, and speaking unconsciously like his former, not his latter, self. “It isn’t that, Spirit. He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count them up: what then? The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.” 5. “This is the even-handed dealing of the world!” he said. “There is nothing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes to condemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!” 6. "Before I draw nearer to that stone to which you point,’ said Scrooge, “answer me one question. Are these the shadows of the things that Will be, or are they shadows of the things that May be only?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=1076) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=1078)