# 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:** 1145
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/22884 "2014-02-16T19:01:17Z")
News events with their own media-supplied “catchy names” 1. Snowpocalypse 2. America held Hostage: Day xx (ABC’s name for the 1979-80 Iran crisis, which became Nightline) 3. Frankenstorm 4. Thundersnow 5. The millions of -gate scandals inspired by Watergate 6. The Iran-Contra Affair ---
**Author:** ![Bellhorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@Bellhorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bellhorn)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/22885 "2014-02-16T20:48:04Z")
News events with their own media-supplied “catchy names” 1. Snowpocalypse 2. America held Hostage: Day xx (ABC’s name for the 1979-80 Iran crisis, which became Nightline) 3. Frankenstorm 4. Thundersnow 5. The millions of -gate scandals inspired by Watergate 6. The Iran-Contra Affair 7. The Iron Curtain - used by Churchill in a 1946 speech, the media quickly picked up on it note: As a little kid in the 50s, when I heard about the Iron Curtain, I pictured a literal curtain, made of iron, hanging through Europe. (Of course Sarah Palin probably still thinks that what it was.) ---
**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 17, 2014, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/22886 "2014-02-17T18:54:58Z")
News events with their own media-supplied “catchy names” 1. Snowpocalypse 2. America held Hostage: Day xx (ABC’s name for the 1979-80 Iran crisis, which became Nightline) 3. Frankenstorm 4. Thundersnow 5. The millions of -gate scandals inspired by Watergate 6. The Iran-Contra Affair 7. The Iron Curtain - used by Churchill in a 1946 speech, the media quickly picked up on it 8. Zippergate (the Lewinsky/Clinton scandal) I realize this is actually covered by #5, but we need to move this puppy along. ---
**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 17, 2014, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/22887 "2014-02-17T19:16:19Z")
News events with their own media-supplied “catchy names” 1. Snowpocalypse 2. America held Hostage: Day xx (ABC’s name for the 1979-80 Iran crisis, which became Nightline) 3. Frankenstorm 4. Thundersnow 5. The millions of -gate scandals inspired by Watergate 6. The Iran-Contra Affair 7. The Iron Curtain - used by Churchill in a 1946 speech, the media quickly picked up on it 8. Zippergate (the Lewinsky/Clinton scandal) 9. The Boston Strangler Sorry, sorry! I thought this one would move a lot faster! (Feel free to add media-named criminals for more possibilities) ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2014, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/22888 "2014-02-17T19:55:44Z")
News events with their own media-supplied “catchy names” 1. Snowpocalypse 2. America held Hostage: Day xx (ABC’s name for the 1979-80 Iran crisis, which became Nightline) 3. Frankenstorm 4. Thundersnow 5. The millions of -gate scandals inspired by Watergate 6. The Iran-Contra Affair 7. The Iron Curtain - used by Churchill in a 1946 speech, the media quickly picked up on it 8. Zippergate (the Lewinsky/Clinton scandal) 9. The Boston Strangler 10. 10 Days That Shook The World (John Reed’s “catchy” name for the Russian Revolution.) > **[Ten Days That Shook the World](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Days_That_Shook_the_World)** > > Ten Days That Shook the World (1919) is a book by the American journalist and socialist John Reed. Here, Reed presented a firsthand account of the 1917 Russian October Revolution. Reed followed many of the most prominent Bolsheviks closely during his time in Russia. > John Reed was on an assignment for The Masses, a magazine of socialist politics, when he was reporting on the Russian Revolution. Although Reed stated that he had "tried to see events with the eye of a conscientious reporter, interes... ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2014, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/22889 "2014-02-17T20:02:13Z")
News events with their own media-supplied “catchy names” 1. Snowpocalypse 2. America held Hostage: Day xx (ABC’s name for the 1979-80 Iran crisis, which became Nightline) 3. Frankenstorm 4. Thundersnow 5. The millions of -gate scandals inspired by Watergate 6. The Iran-Contra Affair 7. The Iron Curtain - used by Churchill in a 1946 speech, the media quickly picked up on it 8. Zippergate (the Lewinsky/Clinton scandal) 9. The Boston Strangler 10. 10 Days That Shook The World 11. Arab Spring ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2014, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/22890 "2014-02-17T20:02:59Z")
News events with their own media-supplied “catchy names” 1. Snowpocalypse 2. America held Hostage: Day xx (ABC’s name for the 1979-80 Iran crisis, which became Nightline) 3. Frankenstorm 4. Thundersnow 5. The millions of -gate scandals inspired by Watergate 6. The Iran-Contra Affair 7. The Iron Curtain - used by Churchill in a 1946 speech, the media quickly picked up on it 8. Zippergate (the Lewinsky/Clinton scandal) 9. The Boston Strangler 10. 10 Days That Shook The World 11. Arab Spring 12. The Great War WW1 obviously, AKA ,“The War to End All Wars.” ---
**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 17, 2014, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/22891 "2014-02-17T20:14:32Z")
News events with their own media-supplied “catchy names” 1. Snowpocalypse 2. America held Hostage: Day xx (ABC’s name for the 1979-80 Iran crisis, which became Nightline) 3. Frankenstorm 4. Thundersnow 5. The millions of -gate scandals inspired by Watergate 6. The Iran-Contra Affair 7. The Iron Curtain - used by Churchill in a 1946 speech, the media quickly picked up on it 8. Zippergate (the Lewinsky/Clinton scandal) 9. The Boston Strangler 10. 10 Days That Shook The World 11. Arab Spring 12. The Great War 13. Whitewater Affair New: It’s Presidents Day, so 13 Presidents, but not the obvious ones. 14. Chester Alan Arthur ---
**Author:** ![Srsly\_Dad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@Srsly\_Dad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Srsly_Dad)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2014, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/22892 "2014-02-17T20:20:58Z")
New: It’s Presidents Day, so 13 Presidents, but not the obvious ones. 1. Chester Alan Arthur 2. Zachary Taylor ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2014, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/22893 "2014-02-17T20:22:44Z")
New: It’s Presidents Day, so 13 Presidents, but not the obvious ones. 1. Chester Alan Arthur 2. Zachary Taylor 3. James Garfield ---
**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 17, 2014, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/22894 "2014-02-17T20:24:35Z")
New: It’s Presidents Day, so 13 Presidents, but not the obvious ones. 1. Chester Alan Arthur 2. Zachary Taylor 3. James Garfield 4. Martin van Buren ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2014, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/22895 "2014-02-17T20:25:35Z")
New: It’s Presidents Day, so 13 Presidents, but not the obvious ones. 1. Chester Alan Arthur 2. Zachary Taylor 3. James Garfield 4. Martin van Buren 5. Ulysses S. Grant My family once owned a mirror that he used to own. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2014, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/22896 "2014-02-17T20:55:04Z")
It’s Presidents Day, so 13 Presidents, but not the obvious ones. 1. Chester Alan Arthur 2. Zachary Taylor 3. James Garfield 4. Martin van Buren 5. Ulysses S. Grant 6. James K. Polk ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2014, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/22897 "2014-02-17T20:57:04Z")
It’s Presidents Day, so 13 Presidents, but not the obvious ones. 1. Chester Alan Arthur 2. Zachary Taylor 3. James Garfield 4. Martin van Buren 5. Ulysses S. Grant 6. James K. Polk 7. John Quincy Adams ---
**Author:** ![Bellhorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@Bellhorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bellhorn)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2014, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/22898 "2014-02-17T21:04:36Z")
It’s Presidents Day, so 13 Presidents, but not the obvious ones. 1. Chester Alan Arthur 2. Zachary Taylor 3. James Garfield 4. Martin van Buren 5. Ulysses S. Grant 6. James K. Polk 7. John Quincy Adams 8. Benjamin Harrison ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2014, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/22899 "2014-02-17T21:15:41Z")
It’s Presidents Day, so 13 Presidents, but not the obvious ones. 1. Chester Alan Arthur 2. Zachary Taylor 3. James Garfield 4. Martin van Buren 5. Ulysses S. Grant 6. James K. Polk 7. John Quincy Adams 8. Benjamin Harrison 9. Chris Ballew 😃 ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2014, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/22900 "2014-02-17T21:25:38Z")
It’s Presidents Day, so 13 Presidents, but not the obvious ones. 1. Chester Alan Arthur 2. Zachary Taylor 3. James Garfield 4. Martin van Buren 5. Ulysses S. Grant 6. James K. Polk 7. John Quincy Adams 8. Benjamin Harrison 9. Chris Ballew 10. François Hollande you did not specify American Presidents ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2014, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/22901 "2014-02-17T22:05:36Z")
It’s Presidents Day, so 13 Presidents, but not the obvious ones. 1. Chester Alan Arthur 2. Zachary Taylor 3. James Garfield 4. Martin van Buren 5. Ulysses S. Grant 6. James K. Polk 7. John Quincy Adams 8. Benjamin Harrison 9. Chris Ballew 10. François Hollande 11. David Palmer or non-fictional ones. 🙂 ---
**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 17, 2014, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/22902 "2014-02-17T22:31:58Z")
It’s Presidents Day, so 13 Presidents, but not the obvious ones. 1. Chester Alan Arthur 2. Zachary Taylor 3. James Garfield 4. Martin van Buren 5. Ulysses S. Grant 6. James K. Polk 7. John Quincy Adams 8. Benjamin Harrison 9. Chris Ballew 10. François Hollande 11. David Palmer 12. Jefferson Davis ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2014, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/22903 "2014-02-17T22:48:20Z")
t’s Presidents Day, so 13 Presidents, but not the obvious ones. 1. Chester Alan Arthur 2. Zachary Taylor 3. James Garfield 4. Martin van Buren 5. Ulysses S. Grant 6. James K. Polk 7. John Quincy Adams 8. Benjamin Harrison 9. Chris Ballew 10. François Hollande 11. David Palmer 12. Jefferson Davis 13. Franklin Pierce New topic: First Ladies and Their Pet Causes 1. “Lemonade Lucy” Hayes, and temperance [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=1144) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=1146)