# Bakers Dozen

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173>\
**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:** 1456

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**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:** [September 11, 2014, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/29104 "2014-09-11T16:39:43Z")

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Round Robin build-a-short-story-in-13-posts.

1. Janet Drew walked into the post office.
2. She picked up the package, it’s arrival she had been dreading for years.
3. She felt as if every eye in the place was on her as she carried it outside.
4. Having grown accustomed to the USA and finding it agreeable, she knew her activation in the terrorist cell meant her quiet life was over.
5. From the corner of her eye, she spotted a nerdy, nervous-looking man in a trenchcoat, and wondered if he was tailing her.
6. He approached her and flung open his coat. What she saw made her tremble.

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**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/29105 "2014-09-11T16:59:00Z")

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Round Robin build-a-short-story-in-13-posts.

1. Janet Drew walked into the post office.
2. She picked up the package, it’s arrival she had been dreading for years.
3. She felt as if every eye in the place was on her as she carried it outside.
4. Having grown accustomed to the USA and finding it agreeable, she knew her activation in the terrorist cell meant her quiet life was over.
5. From the corner of her eye, she spotted a nerdy, nervous-looking man in a trenchcoat, and wondered if he was tailing her.
6. He approached her and flung open his coat. What she saw made her tremble.
7. She said “Now I remember you!”

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**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:** [September 11, 2014, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/29106 "2014-09-11T17:22:49Z")

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Round Robin build-a-short-story-in-13-posts.

1. Janet Drew walked into the post office.
2. She picked up the package, it’s arrival she had been dreading for years.
3. She felt as if every eye in the place was on her as she carried it outside.
4. Having grown accustomed to the USA and finding it agreeable, she knew her activation in the terrorist cell meant her quiet life was over.
5. From the corner of her eye, she spotted a nerdy, nervous-looking man in a trenchcoat, and wondered if he was tailing her.
6. He approached her and flung open his coat. What she saw made her tremble.
7. She said “Now I remember you!”
8. In a tremulous voice, he said: “I was hoping you’d remember. I’ve done nothing but think of you, all these past twenty years. Now…will you _please_ sign my yearbook?”

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**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/29107 "2014-09-11T17:29:46Z")

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Round Robin build-a-short-story-in-13-posts.

1. Janet Drew walked into the post office.
2. She picked up the package, it’s arrival she had been dreading for years.
3. She felt as if every eye in the place was on her as she carried it outside.
4. Having grown accustomed to the USA and finding it agreeable, she knew her activation in the terrorist cell meant her quiet life was over.
5. From the corner of her eye, she spotted a nerdy, nervous-looking man in a trenchcoat, and wondered if he was tailing her.
6. He approached her and flung open his coat. What she saw made her tremble.
7. She said “Now I remember you!”
8. In a tremulous voice, he said: “I was hoping you’d remember. I’ve done nothing but think of you, all these past twenty years. Now…will you please sign my yearbook?”
9. She replied, “Um, sure. Got a pen I can borrow? Ewww, not _that_ one.”

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**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/29108 "2014-09-11T18:25:59Z")

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Round Robin build-a-short-story-in-13-posts.

1. Janet Drew walked into the post office.
2. She picked up the package, it’s arrival she had been dreading for years.
3. She felt as if every eye in the place was on her as she carried it outside.
4. Having grown accustomed to the USA and finding it agreeable, she knew her activation in the terrorist cell meant her quiet life was over.
5. From the corner of her eye, she spotted a nerdy, nervous-looking man in a trenchcoat, and wondered if he was tailing her.
6. He approached her and flung open his coat. What she saw made her tremble.
7. She said “Now I remember you!”
8. In a tremulous voice, he said: “I was hoping you’d remember. I’ve done nothing but think of you, all these past twenty years. Now…will you please sign my yearbook?”
9. She replied, “Um, sure. Got a pen I can borrow? Ewww, not that one.”
10. She took the second pen offered her, and suddenly felt an unpleasant tingling go from her fingers to her whole body, and down she went.

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**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/29109 "2014-09-11T18:27:22Z")

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can we play this category a few times? I like it.

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/29110 "2014-09-11T18:27:29Z")

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Round Robin build-a-short-story-in-13-posts.

1. Janet Drew walked into the post office.
2. She picked up the package, it’s arrival she had been dreading for years.
3. She felt as if every eye in the place was on her as she carried it outside.
4. Having grown accustomed to the USA and finding it agreeable, she knew her activation in the terrorist cell meant her quiet life was over.
5. From the corner of her eye, she spotted a nerdy, nervous-looking man in a trenchcoat, and wondered if he was tailing her.
6. He approached her and flung open his coat. What she saw made her tremble.
7. She said “Now I remember you!”
8. In a tremulous voice, he said: “I was hoping you’d remember. I’ve done nothing but think of you, all these past twenty years. Now…will you please sign my yearbook?”
9. She replied, “Um, sure. Got a pen I can borrow? Ewww, not that one.”
10. As she signed, she shook her head, unable to believe that this man had been voted Most Likely to Succeed.

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**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/29111 "2014-09-11T18:28:56Z")

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[_ahem!_](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=17722339&postcount=29103)

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**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:** [September 11, 2014, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/29112 "2014-09-11T18:34:35Z")

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Round Robin build-a-short-story-in-13-posts.

1. Janet Drew walked into the post office.
2. She picked up the package, it’s arrival she had been dreading for years.
3. She felt as if every eye in the place was on her as she carried it outside.
4. Having grown accustomed to the USA and finding it agreeable, she knew her activation in the terrorist cell meant her quiet life was over.
5. From the corner of her eye, she spotted a nerdy, nervous-looking man in a trenchcoat, and wondered if he was tailing her.
6. He approached her and flung open his coat. What she saw made her tremble.
7. She said “Now I remember you!”
8. In a tremulous voice, he said: “I was hoping you’d remember. I’ve done nothing but think of you, all these past twenty years. Now…will you please sign my yearbook?”
9. She replied, “Um, sure. Got a pen I can borrow? Ewww, not that one.”
10. As she signed, she shook her head, unable to believe that this man had been voted Most Likely to Succeed.
11. Suddenly, she felt an unpleasant tingling go from her fingers to her whole body, and down she went.  
Had to fix the space/time continuum breech. 😉

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/29113 "2014-09-11T18:34:58Z")

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> [@anyrose](#):
>
> [_ahem!_](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=17722339&postcount=29103)

Sorry (sheepishly)

Round Robin build-a-short-story-in-13-posts.

1. Janet Drew walked into the post office.
2. She picked up the package, it’s arrival she had been dreading for years.
3. She felt as if every eye in the place was on her as she carried it outside.
4. Having grown accustomed to the USA and finding it agreeable, she knew her activation in the terrorist cell meant her quiet life was over.
5. From the corner of her eye, she spotted a nerdy, nervous-looking man in a trenchcoat, and wondered if he was tailing her.
6. He approached her and flung open his coat. What she saw made her tremble.
7. She said “Now I remember you!”
8. In a tremulous voice, he said: “I was hoping you’d remember. I’ve done nothing but think of you, all these past twenty years. Now…will you please sign my yearbook?”
9. She replied, “Um, sure. Got a pen I can borrow? Ewww, not that one.”
10. She took the second pen offered her, and suddenly felt an unpleasant tingling go from her fingers to her whole body, and down she went.
11. “The pen was coated with an untraceable poison for which there’s no cure, my dear,” the man laughed maniacally.

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**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:** [September 11, 2014, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/29114 "2014-09-11T18:43:24Z")

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Round Robin build-a-short-story-in-13-posts.

1. Janet Drew walked into the post office.
2. She picked up the package, it’s arrival she had been dreading for years.
3. She felt as if every eye in the place was on her as she carried it outside.
4. Having grown accustomed to the USA and finding it agreeable, she knew her activation in the terrorist cell meant her quiet life was over.
5. From the corner of her eye, she spotted a nerdy, nervous-looking man in a trenchcoat, and wondered if he was tailing her.
6. He approached her and flung open his coat. What she saw made her tremble.
7. She said “Now I remember you!”
8. In a tremulous voice, he said: “I was hoping you’d remember. I’ve done nothing but think of you, all these past twenty years. Now…will you please sign my yearbook?”
9. She replied, “Um, sure. Got a pen I can borrow? Ewww, not that one.”
10. She took the second pen offered her, and suddenly felt an unpleasant tingling go from her fingers to her whole body, and down she went.
11. “The pen was coated with an untraceable poison for which there’s no cure, my dear,” the man laughed maniacally.
12. As things began to go dark, Janet reflected that telling her secret to the President of her school’s Junior CIA Club might have been a bad idea.

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**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:** [September 11, 2014, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/29115 "2014-09-11T18:54:29Z")

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Round Robin build-a-short-story-in-13-posts.

1. Janet Drew walked into the post office.
2. She picked up the package, it’s arrival she had been dreading for years.
3. She felt as if every eye in the place was on her as she carried it outside.
4. Having grown accustomed to the USA and finding it agreeable, she knew her activation in the terrorist cell meant her quiet life was over.
5. From the corner of her eye, she spotted a nerdy, nervous-looking man in a trenchcoat, and wondered if he was tailing her.
6. He approached her and flung open his coat. What she saw made her tremble.
7. She said “Now I remember you!”
8. In a tremulous voice, he said: “I was hoping you’d remember. I’ve done nothing but think of you, all these past twenty years. Now…will you please sign my yearbook?”
9. She replied, “Um, sure. Got a pen I can borrow? Ewww, not that one.”
10. She took the second pen offered her, and suddenly felt an unpleasant tingling go from her fingers to her whole body, and down she went.
11. “The pen was coated with an untraceable poison for which there’s no cure, my dear,” the man laughed maniacally.
12. As things began to go dark, Janet reflected that telling her secret to the President of her school’s Junior CIA Club might have been a bad idea.
13. The End

New topic: Trivia domino: Build off the previous entries trivia…

1. The nacho (1947) is younger than the atomic bomb (1945).

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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:** [September 11, 2014, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/29116 "2014-09-11T18:56:42Z")

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New topic: Build off the previous entries trivia…

1. The nacho (1947) is younger than the atomic bomb (1945).
2. The names for all three atomic bomb design projects during World War II, Fat Man, Thin Man, and Little Boy, were created by Robert Serber, a former student of Los Alamos Laboratory director Robert Oppenheimer who worked on the Manhattan Project.

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**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/29117 "2014-09-11T19:07:20Z")

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New topic: Build off the previous entries trivia…

1. The nacho (1947) is younger than the atomic bomb (1945).
2. The names for all three atomic bomb design projects during World War II, Fat Man, Thin Man, and Little Boy, were created by Robert Serber, a former student of Los Alamos Laboratory director Robert Oppenheimer who worked on the Manhattan Project.
3. Los Alamos County was created to give the federal government exclusive administration over the research area, and still remains as a tiny county, but now with a civilian government.

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/29118 "2014-09-11T19:08:48Z")

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Build off the previous entries trivia…

1. The nacho (1947) is younger than the atomic bomb (1945).
2. The names for all three atomic bomb design projects during World War II, Fat Man, Thin Man, and Little Boy, were created by Robert Serber, a former student of Los Alamos Laboratory director Robert Oppenheimer who worked on the Manhattan Project.
3. Los Alamos County was created to give the federal government exclusive administration over the research area, and still remains as a tiny county, but now with a civilian government.
4. Mark Felt of the Federal Bureau of Investigation came forward and admitted being “Deep Throat,” Robert Woodward’s source in the Watergate investigation.

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**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:** [September 11, 2014, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/29119 "2014-09-11T19:47:13Z")

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So _everybody_ missed that I started a new category 'way back in post 29093? Sheesh.

Build off the previous entries trivia…

1. The nacho (1947) is younger than the atomic bomb (1945).
2. The names for all three atomic bomb design projects during World War II, Fat Man, Thin Man, and Little Boy, were created by Robert Serber, a former student of Los Alamos Laboratory director Robert Oppenheimer who worked on the Manhattan Project.
3. Los Alamos County was created to give the federal government exclusive administration over the research area, and still remains as a tiny county, but now with a civilian government.
4. Mark Felt of the Federal Bureau of Investigation came forward and admitted being “Deep Throat,” Robert Woodward’s source in the Watergate investigation.
5. Bob Woodward also cowrote “The Brethren,” about the U.S. Supreme Court in the early 1970s.

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**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/29120 "2014-09-11T19:54:00Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
>
> So _everybody_ missed that I started a new category 'way back in post 29093? Sheesh.  
> .

You enumerated item 13 as number 12, so somebody added a 13 and went on…

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**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/29121 "2014-09-11T19:57:19Z")

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Build off the previous entries trivia…

1. The nacho (1947) is younger than the atomic bomb (1945).
2. The names for all three atomic bomb design projects during World War II, Fat Man, Thin Man, and Little Boy, were created by Robert Serber, a former student of Los Alamos Laboratory director Robert Oppenheimer who worked on the Manhattan Project.
3. Los Alamos County was created to give the federal government exclusive administration over the research area, and still remains as a tiny county, but now with a civilian government.
4. Mark Felt of the Federal Bureau of Investigation came forward and admitted being “Deep Throat,” Robert Woodward’s source in the Watergate investigation.
5. Bob Woodward also cowrote “The Brethren,” about the U.S. Supreme Court in the early 1970s.
6. Woodward was portrayed by Will Ferrell in “Dick”.

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/29122 "2014-09-11T19:59:43Z")

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Build off the previous entries trivia…

1. The nacho (1947) is younger than the atomic bomb (1945).
2. The names for all three atomic bomb design projects during World War II, Fat Man, Thin Man, and Little Boy, were created by Robert Serber, a former student of Los Alamos Laboratory director Robert Oppenheimer who worked on the Manhattan Project.
3. Los Alamos County was created to give the federal government exclusive administration over the research area, and still remains as a tiny county, but now with a civilian government.
4. Mark Felt of the Federal Bureau of Investigation came forward and admitted being “Deep Throat,” Robert Woodward’s source in the Watergate investigation.
5. Bob Woodward also cowrote “The Brethren,” about the U.S. Supreme Court in the early 1970s.
6. Woodward was portrayed by Will Ferrell in “Dick”.
7. Spotted Dick, a popular dessert in the UK, is a pudding or custard whose “spots” consist of currants or raisins.

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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:** [September 11, 2014, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/29123 "2014-09-11T20:05:03Z")

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Build off the previous entries trivia…

1. The nacho (1947) is younger than the atomic bomb (1945).
2. The names for all three atomic bomb design projects during World War II, Fat Man, Thin Man, and Little Boy, were created by Robert Serber, a former student of Los Alamos Laboratory director Robert Oppenheimer who worked on the Manhattan Project.
3. Los Alamos County was created to give the federal government exclusive administration over the research area, and still remains as a tiny county, but now with a civilian government.
4. Mark Felt of the Federal Bureau of Investigation came forward and admitted being “Deep Throat,” Robert Woodward’s source in the Watergate investigation.
5. Bob Woodward also cowrote “The Brethren,” about the U.S. Supreme Court in the early 1970s.
6. Woodward was portrayed by Will Ferrell in “Dick”.
7. Spotted Dick, a popular dessert in the UK, is a pudding or custard whose “spots” consist of currants or raisins.
8. _Custard the Dragon_ is a poem for children by Ogden Nash.

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