# 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:** 1632
**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:** [January 27, 2015, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/32624 "2015-01-27T17:50:07Z")
A Great American Who Never Went to College 1. Thomas Edison 2. Harry S Truman ---
**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:** [January 27, 2015, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/32625 "2015-01-27T18:19:13Z")
A Great American Who Never Went to College 1. Thomas Edison 2. Harry S Truman 3. Henry Ford ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/32626 "2015-01-27T18:54:53Z")
A Great American Who Never Went to College 1. Thomas Edison 2. Harry S Truman 3. Henry Ford 4. Abraham Lincoln ---
**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:** [January 27, 2015, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/32627 "2015-01-27T19:25:11Z")
A Great American Who Never Went to College 1. Thomas Edison 2. Harry S Truman 3. Henry Ford 4. Abraham Lincoln 5. Orville Wright ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/32628 "2015-01-27T20:09:12Z")
A Great American Who Never Went to College 1. Thomas Edison 2. Harry S Truman 3. Henry Ford 4. Abraham Lincoln 5. Orville Wright 6. Benjamin Franklin ---
**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:** [January 27, 2015, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/32629 "2015-01-27T20:22:20Z")
A Great American Who Never Went to College 1. Thomas Edison 2. Harry S Truman 3. Henry Ford 4. Abraham Lincoln 5. Orville Wright 6. Benjamin Franklin 7. George Washington ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/32630 "2015-01-27T20:25:23Z")
A Great American Who Never Went to College 1. Thomas Edison 2. Harry S Truman 3. Henry Ford 4. Abraham Lincoln 5. Orville Wright 6. Benjamin Franklin 7. George Washington 8. Robert Jackson SCOTUS justice and America’s chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2015, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/32631 "2015-01-27T20:55:40Z")
A Great American Who Never Went to College 1. Thomas Edison 2. Harry S Truman 3. Henry Ford 4. Abraham Lincoln 5. Orville Wright 6. Benjamin Franklin 7. George Washington 8. Robert Jackson 9. Frederick Douglass ---
**Author:** ![tripthicket](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripthicket/32/297_2.png) [@tripthicket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tripthicket)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/32632 "2015-01-27T20:59:27Z")
A Great American Who Never Went to College 1. Thomas Edison 2. Harry S Truman 3. Henry Ford 4. Abraham Lincoln 5. Orville Wright 6. Benjamin Franklin 7. George Washington 8. Robert Jackson 9. Frederick Douglass 10. Bob Hope ---
**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:** [January 27, 2015, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/32633 "2015-01-27T21:03:44Z")
A Great American Who Never Went to College 1. Thomas Edison 2. Harry S Truman 3. Henry Ford 4. Abraham Lincoln 5. Orville Wright 6. Benjamin Franklin 7. George Washington 8. Robert Jackson 9. Frederick Douglass 10. Bob Hope 11. Samuel Clemens ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/32634 "2015-01-27T23:02:39Z")
A Great American Who Never Went to College 1. Thomas Edison 2. Harry S Truman 3. Henry Ford 4. Abraham Lincoln 5. Orville Wright 6. Benjamin Franklin 7. George Washington 8. Robert Jackson 9. Frederick Douglass 10. Bob Hope 11. Samuel Clemens 12. Babe Didrickson Zaharias edit: Was Bob Hope an American? He was born in England. ---
**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:** [January 28, 2015, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/32635 "2015-01-28T00:38:55Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > Was Bob Hope an American? He was born in England. He was born in Britain but he moved to America when he was four. He became an American citizen when he was seventeen. So culturally and legally he was American. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/32636 "2015-01-28T04:52:19Z")
A Great American Who Never Went to College 1. Thomas Edison 2. Harry S Truman 3. Henry Ford 4. Abraham Lincoln 5. Orville Wright 6. Benjamin Franklin 7. George Washington 8. Robert Jackson 9. Frederick Douglass 10. Bob Hope 11. Samuel Clemens 12. Babe Didrickson Zaharias 13. Ralph Lauren In honor of the responses by various officials to same-sex marriage being (very briefly) legalized in my native Alabama this weekend, People who most embarrass the state you live in: 1. Chief Justice Roy Moore The former kickboxer (yes, really) turned lawyer turned judge turned Chief Justice who was impeached and removed for illegally parking a multiton granite statue of the 10 Commandments in the Supreme Court building, profiting from the video rights to doing so, and refusing to remove it. A few years later he ran for re-election to the same office he’d been removed from and won- he occupies it now. ---
**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:** [January 28, 2015, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/32637 "2015-01-28T05:42:30Z")
People who most embarrass the state you live in: 1. Chief Justice Roy Moore 2. Samuel Dickstein ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/32638 "2015-01-28T06:11:11Z")
People who most embarrass the state you live in: 1. Chief Justice Roy Moore 2. Samuel Dickstein 3. George Wallace Long dead, but bears remembering. ---
**Author:** ![Celan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Celan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celan)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/32639 "2015-01-28T12:53:11Z")
People who most embarrass the state you live in: 1. Chief Justice Roy Moore 2. Samuel Dickstein 3. George Wallace 4. Rick Perry ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/32640 "2015-01-28T15:37:52Z")
People who most embarrass the state you live in: 1. Chief Justice Roy Moore 2. Samuel Dickstein 3. George Wallace 4. Rick Perry 5. Jerry 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:** [January 28, 2015, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/32641 "2015-01-28T16:04:13Z")
Could we include states, please? People who most embarrass the state you live in: 1. Chief Justice Roy Moore, Alabama 2. Samuel Dickstein, New York 3. George Wallace, Alabama 4. Rick Perry, Texas 5. Jerry Jones, Texas 6. Pete Rose, Ohio ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/32642 "2015-01-28T18:10:41Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Could we include states, please? In the interest of moving this along… how about provinces too? People who most embarrass the state/province you live in: 1. Chief Justice Roy Moore, Alabama 2. Samuel Dickstein, New York 3. George Wallace, Alabama 4. Rick Perry, Texas 5. Jerry Jones, Texas 6. Pete Rose, Ohio 7. Justin Beiber, Ontario ---
**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:** [January 28, 2015, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/32643 "2015-01-28T18:28:55Z")
By all means! People who most embarrass the state/province you live in: 1. Chief Justice Roy Moore, Alabama 2. Samuel Dickstein, New York 3. George Wallace, Alabama 4. Rick Perry, Texas 5. Jerry Jones, Texas 6. Pete Rose, Ohio 7. Justin Beiber, Ontario 8. John Kasich, Ohio [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=1631) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=1633)