# 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\
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**Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/29124 "2014-09-11T20:25:00Z")

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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.
9. Ogden Nash’s collection is stored at the University of Texas in Austin.

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**Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/29125 "2014-09-11T20:33:41Z")

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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.
9. Ogden Nash’s collection is stored at the University of Texas in Austin.
10. Austin is the only major Democratic city in overwhelmingly Republican Texas, and is jokingly referred to as the “People’s Republic of Austin.”

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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, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/29126 "2014-09-11T20:38:26Z")

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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.
9. Ogden Nash’s collection is stored at the University of Texas in Austin.
10. Austin is the only major Democratic city in overwhelmingly Republican Texas, and is jokingly referred to as the “People’s Republic of Austin.”
11. Willie Nelson was the first guest on _Austin City Limits_.

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**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/29127 "2014-09-11T21:07:48Z")

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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.
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.
9. Ogden Nash’s collection is stored at the University of Texas in Austin.
10. Austin is the only major Democratic city in overwhelmingly Republican Texas, and is jokingly referred to as the “People’s Republic of Austin.”
11. Willie Nelson was the first guest on _Austin City Limits_.
12. _City Limits_ was a 1984 science-fiction movie starring John Rockwell and Rae Dawn Chong.

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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, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/29128 "2014-09-11T21:34:08Z")

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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.
9. Ogden Nash’s collection is stored at the University of Texas in Austin.
10. Austin is the only major Democratic city in overwhelmingly Republican Texas, and is jokingly referred to as the “People’s Republic of Austin.”
11. Willie Nelson was the first guest on Austin City Limits.
12. City Limits was a 1984 science-fiction movie starring John Rockwell and Rae Dawn Chong.
13. “Somebody’s Watching Me,” featuring guest vocals by Michael Jakson, was the only big hit for soul singer Rockwell… who was actually the son of Motown Records founder Berry Gordy Jr.  
New Topic: Fictional Characters Who Were Brought Back To Life After Being Killed Off

In advance: please don’t anybody say “Jesus.” You KNOW that’s not the kind of resurrection I mean.

1. Sherlock Holmes (killed in "The FInal Problem"in fight with Professor Moriarty)

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**Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/29129 "2014-09-11T21:35:51Z")

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1. Sherlock Holmes (killed in "The FInal Problem"in fight with Professor Moriarty)
2. Gage Creed (killed in Stephen King’s Pet Sematary)

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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, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/29130 "2014-09-11T21:36:06Z")

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Fictional Characters Who Were Brought Back To Life After Being Killed Off

In advance: please don’t anybody say “Jesus.” You KNOW that’s not the kind of resurrection I mean.

1. Sherlock Holmes (killed in "The FInal Problem"in fight with Professor Moriarty)
2. Gage Creed (killed in Stephen King’s Pet Sematary)
3. Rory Williams (of Doctor Who)

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**Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/29131 "2014-09-11T21:51:38Z")

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Fictional Characters Who Were Brought Back To Life After Being Killed Off

1. Sherlock Holmes (killed in "The FInal Problem"in fight with Professor Moriarty)
2. Gage Creed (killed in Stephen King’s Pet Sematary)
3. Rory Williams (of Doctor Who)
4. Kenny (of South Park)

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**Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/29132 "2014-09-11T21:53:02Z")

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Fictional Characters Who Were Brought Back To Life After Being Killed Off

1. Sherlock Holmes (killed in "The FInal Problem"in fight with Professor Moriarty)
2. Gage Creed (killed in Stephen King’s Pet Sematary)
3. Rory Williams (of Doctor Who)
4. Kenny (of South Park)
5. Pretty much every comic book superhero ever.

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**Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/29133 "2014-09-11T22:09:02Z")

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Fictional Characters Who Were Brought Back To Life After Being Killed Off

1. Sherlock Holmes (killed in "The FInal Problem"in fight with Professor Moriarty)
2. Gage Creed (killed in Stephen King’s Pet Sematary)
3. Rory Williams (of Doctor Who)
4. Kenny (of South Park)
5. Pretty much every comic book superhero ever.
6. Misery Chastain (fiction-within-fiction character killed off, then retconned to merely be in an anaphylactic coma, in Stephen King’s _Misery.)_

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**Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/29134 "2014-09-11T23:35:35Z")

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Fictional Characters Who Were Brought Back To Life After Being Killed Off

1. Sherlock Holmes (killed in "The FInal Problem"in fight with Professor Moriarty)
2. Gage Creed (killed in Stephen King’s Pet Sematary)
3. Rory Williams (of Doctor Who)
4. Kenny (of South Park)
5. Pretty much every comic book superhero ever.
6. Misery Chastain (fiction-within-fiction character killed off, then retconned to merely be in an anaphylactic coma, in Stephen King’s Misery.)
7. Cap’n Jack Harkness (also of Doctor Who) (I sense a pattern)

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**Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/29135 "2014-09-11T23:54:12Z")

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Fictional Characters Who Were Brought Back To Life After Being Killed Off

1. Sherlock Holmes (killed in "The FInal Problem"in fight with Professor Moriarty)
2. Gage Creed (killed in Stephen King’s Pet Sematary)
3. Rory Williams (of Doctor Who)
4. Kenny (of South Park)
5. Pretty much every comic book superhero ever.
6. Misery Chastain (fiction-within-fiction character killed off, then retconned to merely be in an anaphylactic coma, in Stephen King’s Misery.)
7. Cap’n Jack Harkness (also of Doctor Who) (I sense a pattern)
8. Alex Forrest (The Glenn Close character in the bathtub in “Fatal Attraction”.

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**Post date:** [September 12, 2014, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/29136 "2014-09-12T00:29:23Z")

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Fictional Characters Who Were Brought Back To Life After Being Killed Off

1. Sherlock Holmes (killed in "The FInal Problem"in fight with Professor Moriarty)
2. Gage Creed (killed in Stephen King’s Pet Sematary)
3. Rory Williams (of Doctor Who)
4. Kenny (of South Park)
5. Pretty much every comic book superhero ever.
6. Misery Chastain (fiction-within-fiction character killed off, then retconned to merely be in an anaphylactic coma, in Stephen King’s Misery.)
7. Cap’n Jack Harkness (also of Doctor Who) (I sense a pattern)
8. Alex Forrest (The Glenn Close character in the bathtub in “Fatal Attraction”.
9. Roy Greenhilt (The Order of the Stick)

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**Post date:** [September 12, 2014, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/29137 "2014-09-12T01:12:14Z")

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Fictional Characters Who Were Brought Back To Life After Being Killed Off

1. Sherlock Holmes (killed in "The FInal Problem"in fight with Professor Moriarty)
2. Gage Creed (killed in Stephen King’s Pet Sematary)
3. Rory Williams (of Doctor Who)
4. Kenny (of South Park)
5. Pretty much every comic book superhero ever.
6. Misery Chastain (fiction-within-fiction character killed off, then retconned to merely be in an anaphylactic coma, in Stephen King’s Misery.)
7. Cap’n Jack Harkness (also of Doctor Who) (I sense a pattern)
8. Alex Forrest (The Glenn Close character in the bathtub in “Fatal Attraction”.
9. Roy Greenhilt (The Order of the Stick)
10. John Rambo (died at the end of the First Blood novel)

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**Post date:** [September 12, 2014, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/29138 "2014-09-12T01:15:01Z")

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Fictional Characters Who Were Brought Back To Life After Being Killed Off

1. Sherlock Holmes (killed in "The FInal Problem"in fight with Professor Moriarty)
2. Gage Creed (killed in Stephen King’s Pet Sematary)
3. Rory Williams (of Doctor Who)
4. Kenny (of South Park)
5. Pretty much every comic book superhero ever.
6. Misery Chastain (fiction-within-fiction character killed off, then retconned to merely be in an anaphylactic coma, in Stephen King’s Misery.)
7. Cap’n Jack Harkness (also of Doctor Who) (I sense a pattern)
8. Alex Forrest (The Glenn Close character in the bathtub in “Fatal Attraction”.
9. Roy Greenhilt (The Order of the Stick)
10. John Rambo (died at the end of the First Blood novel)
11. Bobby Ewing (Dallas)

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**Post date:** [September 12, 2014, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/29139 "2014-09-12T01:22:49Z")

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Fictional Characters Who Were Brought Back To Life After Being Killed Off

1. Sherlock Holmes (killed in "The FInal Problem"in fight with Professor Moriarty)
2. Gage Creed (killed in Stephen King’s Pet Sematary)
3. Rory Williams (of Doctor Who)
4. Kenny (of South Park)
5. Pretty much every comic book superhero ever.
6. Misery Chastain (fiction-within-fiction character killed off, then retconned to merely be in an anaphylactic coma, in Stephen King’s Misery.)
7. Cap’n Jack Harkness (also of Doctor Who) (I sense a pattern)
8. Alex Forrest (The Glenn Close character in the bathtub in “Fatal Attraction”.
9. Roy Greenhilt (The Order of the Stick)
10. John Rambo (died at the end of the First Blood novel)
11. Bobby Ewing (Dallas)
12. Dr. Marvin Monroe (The Simpsons) (He never died in any particular episode, but there was a Marvin Monroe Memorial Hospital. Then he came back to life in one or two episodes.)

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**Post date:** [September 12, 2014, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/29140 "2014-09-12T02:29:43Z")

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Fictional Characters Who Were Brought Back To Life After Being Killed Off

1. Sherlock Holmes (killed in "The FInal Problem"in fight with Professor Moriarty)
2. Gage Creed (killed in Stephen King’s Pet Sematary)
3. Rory Williams (of Doctor Who)
4. Kenny (of South Park)
5. Pretty much every comic book superhero ever.
6. Misery Chastain (fiction-within-fiction character killed off, then retconned to merely be in an anaphylactic coma, in Stephen King’s Misery.)
7. Cap’n Jack Harkness (also of Doctor Who) (I sense a pattern)
8. Alex Forrest (The Glenn Close character in the bathtub in “Fatal Attraction”.
9. Roy Greenhilt (The Order of the Stick)
10. John Rambo (died at the end of the First Blood novel)
11. Bobby Ewing (Dallas)
12. Dr. Marvin Monroe (The Simpsons) (He never died in any particular episode, but there was a Marvin Monroe Memorial Hospital. Then he came back to life in one or two episodes.)
13. Capt. Spock, USS _Enterprise_

At last - new category!

Overheard in the streets of Edinburgh this week

1. “Och, ye dinnae think we’ll be daft enough to vote ‘Yes,’ do ye?”

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**Post date:** [September 12, 2014, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/29141 "2014-09-12T02:55:50Z")

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comments…

Oh, Buffy, we hardly remember ye though you were killed and brought back twice. ☹

“Austin is the only major Democratic city in overwhelmingly Republican Texas, and is jokingly referred to as the “People’s Republic of Austin.””

Ahem. San Antonio also votes Democratic, thank you very much. 😛

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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 12, 2014, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/29142 "2014-09-12T02:58:12Z")

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Overheard in the streets of Edinburgh this week

1. “Och, ye dinnae think we’ll be daft enough to vote ‘Yes,’ do ye?”
2. “Get yer haggis! Warm, fresh haggis! Now the _best_ food in the country since we ditched that dodgy shepherd’s pie!”

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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 12, 2014, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/29143 "2014-09-12T03:10:16Z")

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Overheard in the streets of Edinburgh this week

1. “Och, ye dinnae think we’ll be daft enough to vote ‘Yes,’ do ye?”
2. “Get yer haggis! Warm, fresh haggis! Now the _best_ food in the country since we ditched that dodgy shepherd’s pie!”
3. “They can take away our bagpipes, but they’ll ne’er take away our bagpipes!”

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