# 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:** 124
**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 1, 2010, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/2461 "2010-12-01T16:34:06Z")
Ethnic neighborhoods in the US 1. Koreatown, Los Angeles 2. Little Italy, New York City 3. Hmongtown, St. Paul, Minn. 4. Japantown, San Jose 5. Little Puerto Rico, Chicago 6. Somalitown, Columbus, Ohio 7. Ethnictown, Springfield 8. Little Havana, Miami 9. Germantown, Connecticut 10. Grosse Pointe, Detroit (aka Wasptown) ---
**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 1, 2010, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/2462 "2010-12-01T17:25:34Z")
Ethnic neighborhoods in the US 1. Koreatown, Los Angeles 2. Little Italy, New York City 3. Hmongtown, St. Paul, Minn. 4. Japantown, San Jose 5. Little Puerto Rico, Chicago 6. Somalitown, Columbus, Ohio 7. Ethnictown, Springfield 8. Little Havana, Miami 9. Germantown, Connecticut 10. Grosse Pointe, Detroit (aka Wasptown) 11. Greektown, Detroit, Mich. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_jeffrey_lebowski/32/215_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Jeffrey_Lebowski)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/2463 "2010-12-01T19:53:13Z")
Ethnic neighborhoods in the US 1. Koreatown, Los Angeles 2. Little Italy, New York City 3. Hmongtown, St. Paul, Minn. 4. Japantown, San Jose 5. Little Puerto Rico, Chicago 6. Somalitown, Columbus, Ohio 7. Ethnictown, Springfield 8. Little Havana, Miami 9. Germantown, Connecticut 10. Grosse Pointe, Detroit (aka Wasptown) 11. Greektown, Detroit, Mich. 12. Little Lima, Paterson, NJ ---
**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 1, 2010, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/2464 "2010-12-01T20:31:25Z")
Ethnic neighborhoods in the US 1. Koreatown, Los Angeles 2. Little Italy, New York City 3. Hmongtown, St. Paul, Minn. 4. Japantown, San Jose 5. Little Puerto Rico, Chicago 6. Somalitown, Columbus, Ohio 7. Ethnictown, Springfield 8. Little Havana, Miami 9. Germantown, Connecticut 10. Grosse Pointe, Detroit (aka Wasptown) 11. Greektown, Detroit, Mich. 12. Little Lima, Paterson, NJ 13. Chinatown, San Francisco Next: famous non-cartoon cats 1. Socks (Bill Clinton’s cat) ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/2465 "2010-12-01T20:41:01Z")
ETA: too late ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_jeffrey_lebowski/32/215_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Jeffrey_Lebowski)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/2466 "2010-12-01T20:48:04Z")
famous non-cartoon cats 1. Socks (Bill Clinton’s cat) 2. Leo the Lion (MGM logo) ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/2467 "2010-12-01T20:52:23Z")
famous non-cartoon cats 1. Socks (Bill Clinton’s cat) 2. Leo the Lion (MGM logo) 3. Morris (9Lives mascot) ---
**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 1, 2010, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/2468 "2010-12-01T22:49:28Z")
Famous non-cartoon cats 1. Socks (Bill Clinton’s cat) 2. Leo the Lion (MGM logo) 3. Morris (9Lives mascot) 4. Jack Do NOT mess around with Jack!: > **[National Geographic](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/)** > > Explore National Geographic. A world leader in geography, cartography and exploration. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_jeffrey_lebowski/32/215_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Jeffrey_Lebowski)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/2469 "2010-12-01T23:15:54Z")
Famous non-cartoon cats 1. Socks (Bill Clinton’s cat) 2. Leo the Lion (MGM logo) 3. Morris (9Lives mascot) 4. Jack 5. Yusuf Islam ---
**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 1, 2010, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/2470 "2010-12-01T23:19:37Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](#): > > 1. Yusuf Islam I see what you did there. 😃 ---
**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 2, 2010, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/2471 "2010-12-02T02:08:24Z")
Famous non-cartoon cats 1. Socks (Bill Clinton’s cat) 2. Leo the Lion (MGM logo) 3. Morris (9Lives mascot) 4. Jack (treed a bear) 5. Yusuf Islam (FKA Stevens) 6. Sybil > **[Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Mouser_to_the_Cabinet_Office)** > > Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office\[a\] is the title of the official resident cat at 10 Downing Street, the residence and executive office of the prime minister of the United Kingdom in London. There has been a resident cat in the British government employed as a mouser and pet since the 16th century, although modern records date only to the 1920s. Despite other cats having served Downing Street, the first one to be given the official title of Chief Mouser by the British government was Larry in ... ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/2472 "2010-12-02T02:30:25Z")
Famous non-cartoon cats 1. Socks (Bill Clinton’s cat) 2. Leo the Lion (MGM logo) 3. Morris (9Lives mascot) 4. Jack (treed a bear) 5. Yusuf Islam (FKA Stevens) 6. Sybil 7. Eldrick Woods ---
**Author:** ![Fried\_Dough\_Ho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a88e57/32.png) [@Fried\_Dough\_Ho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fried_Dough_Ho)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/2473 "2010-12-02T02:30:43Z")
Famous non-cartoon cats 1. Socks (Bill Clinton’s cat) 2. Leo the Lion (MGM logo) 3. Morris (9Lives mascot) 4. Jack (treed a bear) 5. Yusuf Islam (FKA Stevens) 6. Sybil 7. Eldrick Woods 8. Thomasina (my favorite kid movie) ---
**Author:** ![EristicKallistic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/85e7bf/32.png) [@EristicKallistic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EristicKallistic)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/2474 "2010-12-02T02:52:53Z")
Famous non-cartoon cats 1. Socks (Bill Clinton’s cat) 2. Leo the Lion (MGM logo) 3. Morris (9Lives mascot) 4. Jack (treed a bear) 5. Yusuf Islam (FKA Stevens) 6. Sybil 7. Eldrick Woods 8. Thomasina (my favorite kid movie) 9. Bustopher Jones ---
**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 2, 2010, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/2475 "2010-12-02T03:11:33Z")
Famous non-cartoon cats 1. Socks (Bill Clinton’s cat) 2. Leo the Lion (MGM logo) 3. Morris (9Lives mascot) 4. Jack (treed a bear) 5. Yusuf Islam (FKA Stevens) 6. Sybil (Chief Mouser to the British Cabinet Office) 7. Eldrick Woods (golfer) 8. Thomasina (my favorite kid movie) 9. Bustopher Jones (one of T.S. Eliot’s cats) 10. Mrs. Chippy (Antarctic explorer) > **[Mrs Chippy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs._Chippy)** > > Mrs Chippy was a male ship's cat who accompanied Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1917. > Mrs Chippy, a tiger-striped tabby, was taken on board the ship used by the expedition's Weddell Sea party, Endurance, as a ship's cat by carpenter and master shipwright Harry "Chippy" McNish ("Chippy" being a colloquial British term for a carpenter). The cat acquired its name because, once aboard, it followed McNish around like an overly attentive wife. > One month after th... ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/2476 "2010-12-02T03:31:35Z")
Famous non-cartoon cats 1. Socks (Bill Clinton’s cat) 2. Leo the Lion (MGM logo) 3. Morris (9Lives mascot) 4. Jack (treed a bear) 5. Yusuf Islam (FKA Stevens) 6. Sybil (Chief Mouser to the British Cabinet Office) 7. Eldrick Woods (golfer) 8. Thomasina (my favorite kid movie) 9. Bustopher Jones (one of T.S. Eliot’s cats) 10. Mrs. Chippy (Antarctic explorer) 11. Frisky (the cat that Superman rescues from a tree in the first Superman movie) ---
**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 2, 2010, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/2477 "2010-12-02T04:07:28Z")
Famous non-cartoon cats 1. Socks (Bill Clinton’s cat) 2. Leo the Lion (MGM logo) 3. Morris (9Lives mascot) 4. Jack (treed a bear) 5. Yusuf Islam (FKA Stevens) 6. Sybil (Chief Mouser to the British Cabinet Office) 7. Eldrick Woods (golfer) 8. Thomasina (my favorite kid movie) 9. Bustopher Jones (one of T.S. Eliot’s cats) 10. Mrs. Chippy (Antarctic explorer) 11. Frisky (the cat that Superman rescues from a tree in the first Superman movie) 12. Mr Bigglesworth (Dr Evil’s cat) ---
**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 2, 2010, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/2478 "2010-12-02T04:16:27Z")
Famous non-cartoon cats 1. Socks (Bill Clinton’s cat) 2. Leo the Lion (MGM logo) 3. Morris (9Lives mascot) 4. Jack (treed a bear) 5. Yusuf Islam (FKA Stevens) 6. Sybil (Chief Mouser to the British Cabinet Office) 7. Eldrick Woods (golfer) 8. Thomasina (my favorite kid movie) 9. Bustopher Jones (one of T.S. Eliot’s cats) 10. Mrs. Chippy (Antarctic explorer) 11. Frisky (the cat that Superman rescues from a tree in the first Superman movie) 12. Mr Bigglesworth (Dr Evil’s cat) 13. Jones (from _Alien_) Next category: Famous non-cartoon dogs 1. Bo (White House pooch) ---
**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 2, 2010, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/2479 "2010-12-02T05:58:53Z")
Famous non-cartoon dogs 1. Bo (White House pooch) 2. Checkers (Nixon’s dog) ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/2480 "2010-12-02T06:17:56Z")
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