# 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:** 1501
**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:** [October 5, 2014, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/30004 "2014-10-05T23:24:37Z")
Music Acts Who Have Exhibited Essentially Zero Artistic Growth 1. George Thorogood 2. Bon Jovi 3. Backstreet Boys 4. AC/DC 5. Boston 6. Goo Goo Dolls 7. Boy George 8. Every act that I don’t like 9. Rick Springfield 10. Bruce Springsteen 11. John Mellencamp ---
**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:** [October 5, 2014, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/30005 "2014-10-05T23:25:56Z")
Music Acts Who Have Exhibited Essentially Zero Artistic Growth 1. George Thorogood 2. Bon Jovi 3. Backstreet Boys 4. AC/DC 5. Boston 6. Goo Goo Dolls 7. Boy George 8. Every act that I don’t like 9. Rick Springfield 10. Bruce Springsteen 11. John Mellencamp 12. Bob Seger ---
**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:** [October 5, 2014, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/30006 "2014-10-05T23:30:24Z")
Music Acts Who Have Exhibited Essentially Zero Artistic Growth 1. George Thorogood 2. Bon Jovi 3. Backstreet Boys 4. AC/DC 5. Boston 6. Goo Goo Dolls 7. Boy George 8. Every act that I don’t like 9. Rick Springfield 10. Bruce Springsteen 11. John Mellencamp 12. Bob Seger 13. Barry Manilow Next: The Last State / Country You Visited, and If It Was for Work or Pleasure or Other 1. Missouri: work ---
**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:** [October 5, 2014, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/30007 "2014-10-05T23:35:14Z")
The Last State / Country You Visited, and If It Was for Work or Pleasure or Other 1. Missouri: work 2. Michigan (Pleasure, Canuck here.) ---
**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:** [October 5, 2014, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/30008 "2014-10-05T23:38:20Z")
The Last State / Country You Visited, and If It Was for Work or Pleasure or Other 1. Missouri: work 2. Michigan (Pleasure, Canuck here.) 3. Hungary: pleasure ---
**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:** [October 6, 2014, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/30009 "2014-10-06T00:10:54Z")
The Last State / Country You Visited, and If It Was for Work or Pleasure or Other 1. Missouri: work 2. Michigan (Pleasure, Canuck here.) 3. Hungary: pleasure 4. Kentucky: pleasure ConGlomeration SciFi/Fantasy convention. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/30010 "2014-10-06T00:23:23Z")
The Last State / Country You Visited, and If It Was for Work or Pleasure or Other 1. Missouri: work 2. Michigan (Pleasure, Canuck here.) 3. Hungary: pleasure 4. Kentucky: pleasure 5. Texas: both Went to Houston for an Adobe InDesign class, but my mom lives there as well. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2014, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/30011 "2014-10-06T00:39:57Z")
The Last State / Country You Visited, and If It Was for Work or Pleasure or Other 1. Missouri: work 2. Michigan (Pleasure, Canuck here.) 3. Hungary: pleasure 4. Kentucky: pleasure 5. Texas: both 6. Hawaii: pleasure ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/30012 "2014-10-06T00:44:48Z")
The Last State / Country You Visited, and If It Was for Work or Pleasure or Other 1. Missouri: work 2. Michigan (Pleasure, Canuck here.) 3. Hungary: pleasure 4. Kentucky: pleasure 5. Texas: both 6. Hawaii: pleasure 7. New york (pleasure/family visit) ---
**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:** [October 6, 2014, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/30013 "2014-10-06T01:36:57Z")
The Last State / Country You Visited, and If It Was for Work or Pleasure or Other 1. Missouri: work 2. Michigan (Pleasure, Canuck here.) 3. Hungary: pleasure 4. Kentucky: pleasure 5. Texas: both 6. Hawaii: pleasure 7. New York (pleasure/family visit) 8. Tennessee: pleasure (touring Civil War battlefields) ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/30014 "2014-10-06T01:47:41Z")
The Last State / Country You Visited, and If It Was for Work or Pleasure or Other 1. Missouri: work 2. Michigan (Pleasure, Canuck here.) 3. Hungary: pleasure 4. Kentucky: pleasure 5. Texas: both 6. Hawaii: pleasure 7. New York (pleasure/family visit) 8. Tennessee: pleasure (touring Civil War battlefields) 9. Ohio: Pleasure (Mom) ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/30015 "2014-10-06T04:18:07Z")
The Last State / Country You Visited, and If It Was for Work or Pleasure or Other 1. Missouri: work 2. Michigan (Pleasure, Canuck here.) 3. Hungary: pleasure 4. Kentucky: pleasure 5. Texas: both 6. Hawaii: pleasure 7. New York (pleasure/family visit) 8. Tennessee: pleasure (touring Civil War battlefields) 9. Ohio: Pleasure (Mom) 10. Kansas – Accompanied a friend who drove there because she had been to every state except Kansas and Oklahoma. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2014, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/30016 "2014-10-06T04:41:05Z")
Nobody else for foreign travel? ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/30017 "2014-10-06T08:56:18Z")
The Last State / Country You Visited, and If It Was for Work or Pleasure or Other 1. Missouri: work 2. Michigan (Pleasure, Canuck here.) 3. Hungary: pleasure 4. Kentucky: pleasure 5. Texas: both 6. Hawaii: pleasure 7. New York (pleasure/family visit) 8. Tennessee: pleasure (touring Civil War battlefields) 9. Ohio: Pleasure (Mom) 10. Kansas – Accompanied a friend who drove there because she had been to every state except Kansas and Oklahoma. 11. Idaho: quasi-business, quasi-pleasure (check up on property my family owns and to get out of town for a few hours) ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/30018 "2014-10-06T09:15:32Z")
The Last State / Country You Visited, and If It Was for Work or Pleasure or Other 1. Missouri: work 2. Michigan (Pleasure, Canuck here.) 3. Hungary: pleasure 4. Kentucky: pleasure 5. Texas: both 6. Hawaii: pleasure 7. New York (pleasure/family visit) 8. Tennessee: pleasure (touring Civil War battlefields) 9. Ohio: Pleasure (Mom) 10. Kansas – Accompanied a friend who drove there because she had been to every state except Kansas and Oklahoma. 11. Idaho: quasi-business, quasi-pleasure (check up on property my family owns and to get out of town for a few hours) 12. Colombia (with flight connections in Miami and Panama): pleasure ---
**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:** [October 6, 2014, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/30019 "2014-10-06T12:49:25Z")
The Last State / Country You Visited, and If It Was for Work or Pleasure or Other 1. Missouri: work 2. Michigan (Pleasure, Canuck here.) 3. Hungary: pleasure 4. Kentucky: pleasure 5. Texas: both 6. Hawaii: pleasure 7. New York (pleasure/family visit) 8. Tennessee: pleasure (touring Civil War battlefields) 9. Ohio: Pleasure (Mom) 10. Kansas – Accompanied a friend who drove there because she had been to every state except Kansas and Oklahoma. 11. Idaho: quasi-business, quasi-pleasure (check up on property my family owns and to get out of town for a few hours) 12. Colombia (with flight connections in Miami and Panama): pleasure 13. New Jersey: family visit/please New: Fiction set all or mostly in the mountains 1. Heidi, by Johanna Spyri ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/30020 "2014-10-06T13:59:55Z")
New: Fiction set all or mostly in the mountains 1. Heidi, by Johanna Spyri 2. Treasure of the Sierra Madre, by B. Traven ---
**Author:** ![notquitekarpov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@notquitekarpov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notquitekarpov)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/30021 "2014-10-06T14:01:30Z")
Fiction set all or mostly in the mountains 1. Heidi, by Johanna Spyri 2. Treasure of the Sierra Madre, by B. Traven 3. East of the Mountains, by David Guterson, ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/30022 "2014-10-06T14:10:06Z")
Fiction set all or mostly in the mountains 1. Heidi, by Johanna Spyri 2. Treasure of the Sierra Madre, by B. Traven 3. East of the Mountains, by David Guterson, 4. Banner in the Sky, by James Ramsay Ullman ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/30023 "2014-10-06T14:15:03Z")
Fiction set all or mostly in the mountains 1. Heidi, by Johanna Spyri 2. Treasure of the Sierra Madre, by B. Traven 3. East of the Mountains, by David Guterson, 4. Banner in the Sky, by James Ramsay Ullman 5. The Shining, by Stephen King [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=1500) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=1502)