# 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:** 1711
**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:** [April 1, 2015, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/34204 "2015-04-01T17:09:05Z")
Countries that Were on the Map in 1970, But Not Now. 1. Rhodesia 2. West Pakistan 3. South Vietnam 4. Czechoslovakia ---
**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:** [April 1, 2015, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/34205 "2015-04-01T17:16:51Z")
Countries that Were on the Map in 1970, But Not Now. 1. Rhodesia 2. West Pakistan 3. South Vietnam 4. Czechoslovakia 5. Yugoslavia ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/34206 "2015-04-01T17:19:00Z")
Countries that Were on the Map in 1970, But Not Now. 1. Rhodesia 2. West Pakistan 3. South Vietnam 4. Czechoslovakia 5. Yugoslavia 6. East Germany ---
**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:** [April 1, 2015, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/34207 "2015-04-01T17:21:24Z")
Countries that Were on the Map in 1970, But Not Now. 1. Rhodesia 2. West Pakistan 3. South Vietnam 4. Czechoslovakia 5. Yugoslavia 6. East Germany 7. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Really? #7? 😉 ) ---
**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:** [April 1, 2015, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/34208 "2015-04-01T18:03:00Z")
Countries that Were on the Map in 1970, But Not Now. 1. Rhodesia 2. West Pakistan 3. South Vietnam 4. Czechoslovakia 5. Yugoslavia 6. East Germany 7. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 8. West Germany ---
**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:** [April 1, 2015, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/34209 "2015-04-01T21:21:05Z")
Countries that Were on the Map in 1970, But Not Now. 1. Rhodesia 2. West Pakistan 3. South Vietnam 4. Czechoslovakia 5. Yugoslavia 6. East Germany 7. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 8. West Germany 9. Portuguese Guinea ---
**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:** [April 1, 2015, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/34210 "2015-04-01T21:53:55Z")
1. Rhodesia 2. West Pakistan 3. South Vietnam 4. Czechoslovakia 5. Yugoslavia 6. East Germany 7. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 8. West Germany 9. Portuguese Guinea 10. Burma ---
**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:** [April 2, 2015, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/34211 "2015-04-02T01:35:06Z")
Countries that Were on the Map in 1970, But Not Now. 1. Rhodesia 2. West Pakistan 3. South Vietnam 4. Czechoslovakia 5. Yugoslavia 6. East Germany 7. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 8. West Germany 9. Portuguese Guinea 10. Burma 11. Ceylon ---
**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:** [April 2, 2015, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/34212 "2015-04-02T02:43:01Z")
Countries that Were on the Map in 1970, But Not Now. 1. Rhodesia 2. West Pakistan 3. South Vietnam 4. Czechoslovakia 5. Yugoslavia 6. East Germany 7. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 8. West Germany 9. Portuguese Guinea 10. Burma 11. Ceylon 12. South Yemen ---
**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:** [April 2, 2015, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/34213 "2015-04-02T03:26:46Z")
Countries that Were on the Map in 1970, But Not Now. 1. Rhodesia 2. West Pakistan 3. South Vietnam 4. Czechoslovakia 5. Yugoslavia 6. East Germany 7. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 8. West Germany 9. Portuguese Guinea 10. Burma 11. Ceylon 12. South Yemen 13. East Pakistan I’ll pass. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/34214 "2015-04-02T03:57:07Z")
April Fools Pranks Gone Awry 1. **Idle Thoughts** ’ PMs earlier today ---
**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:** [April 2, 2015, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/34215 "2015-04-02T04:59:05Z")
That was going to be my submital! ---
**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:** [April 2, 2015, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/34216 "2015-04-02T13:02:14Z")
April Fool’s Pranks Gone Awry 1. Idle Thoughts’ PMs earlier today 2. Election of Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as first Speaker of the U.S. House It was supposed to be a gag, but he took it seriously, and then they couldn’t get him out of the chair. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2015, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/34217 "2015-04-02T13:22:01Z")
April Fool’s Pranks Gone Awry 1. Idle Thoughts’ PMs earlier today 2. Election of Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as first Speaker of the U.S. House 3. Israeli radio reported Muslim leader dead. As the Los Angeles Times reported, on April 1, 1986, Israel’s state-run radio reported that Lebanese Muslim leader Nabih Berri had been killed. The hoax was planted by an Israeli intelligence officer who then watched it spread to state-run radio and even to then–Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin. As a joke, it wasn’t much. But as a hoax, it had legs … and consequences. The announcement was broadcast on Lebanese radio stations as well as Israeli ones, which forced a quick retraction and apologies from all sides. The intelligence officer, meanwhile, was threatened with a court-martial (he remains anonymous today). Even after the apologies, spokesmen for Berri condemned the prank and Israel. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2015, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/34218 "2015-04-03T03:06:15Z")
April Fool’s Pranks Gone Awry 1. Idle Thoughts’ PMs earlier today 2. Election of Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as first Speaker of the U.S. House 3. Israeli radio reported Muslim leader dead. 4. George Plimpton writes of Hayden Siddartha “Sidd” Finch and his 168mph fastball as the 01 April 1985 Sports Illustrated cover story ---
**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:** [April 6, 2015, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/34219 "2015-04-06T13:48:07Z")
April Fool’s Pranks Gone Awry 1. Idle Thoughts’ PMs earlier today 2. Election of Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as first Speaker of the U.S. House 3. Israeli radio reported Muslim leader dead. 4. George Plimpton writes of Hayden Siddartha “Sidd” Finch and his 168mph fastball as the 01 April 1985 Sports Illustrated cover story 5. Starting a Baker’s Dozen game with the title\* April Fool’s Pranks Gone Awry\* ---
**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:** [April 6, 2015, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/34220 "2015-04-06T13:50:05Z")
April Fool’s Pranks Gone Awry 1. Idle Thoughts’ PMs earlier today 2. Election of Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as first Speaker of the U.S. House 3. Israeli radio reported Muslim leader dead. 4. George Plimpton writes of Hayden Siddartha “Sidd” Finch and his 168mph fastball as the 01 April 1985 Sports Illustrated cover story 5. Starting a Baker’s Dozen game with the title April Fool’s Pranks Gone Awry 6. The BBC and the Swiss spaghetti harvest > **[Spaghetti-tree hoax](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti-tree_hoax)** > > The spaghetti-tree hoax was a three-minute hoax report broadcast on April Fools' Day 1957 by the BBC current-affairs programme Panorama, purportedly showing a family in southern Switzerland harvesting spaghetti from the family "spaghetti tree". At the time spaghetti was relatively unknown in the UK, so many British people were unaware that it is made from wheat flour and water; a number of viewers afterwards contacted the BBC for advice on growing their own spaghetti trees. Decades later, CNN ... ---
**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:** [April 6, 2015, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/34221 "2015-04-06T19:49:07Z")
April Fool’s Pranks Gone Awry 1. Idle Thoughts’ PMs earlier today 2. Election of Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as first Speaker of the U.S. House 3. Israeli radio reported Muslim leader dead. 4. George Plimpton writes of Hayden Siddartha “Sidd” Finch and his 168mph fastball as the 01 April 1985 Sports Illustrated cover story 5. Starting a Baker’s Dozen game with the title April Fool’s Pranks Gone Awry 6. The BBC and the Swiss spaghetti harvest 7. [Bob the cheating husband.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbjp4_-KpB0) Not an April Fool’s prank, but this topic could use some help. ---
**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:** [April 6, 2015, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/34222 "2015-04-06T20:30:48Z")
April Fool’s Pranks Gone Awry 1. Idle Thoughts’ PMs earlier today 2. Election of Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as first Speaker of the U.S. House 3. Israeli radio reported Muslim leader dead. 4. George Plimpton writes of Hayden Siddartha “Sidd” Finch and his 168mph fastball as the 01 April 1985 Sports Illustrated cover story 5. Starting a Baker’s Dozen game with the title April Fool’s Pranks Gone Awry 6. The BBC and the Swiss spaghetti harvest 7. Bob the cheating husband. 8. Submarine Race kills nine spectators. Film at 11. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2015, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/34223 "2015-04-06T21:27:34Z")
April Fool’s Pranks Gone Awry 1. Idle Thoughts’ PMs earlier today 2. Election of Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as first Speaker of the U.S. House 3. Israeli radio reported Muslim leader dead. 4. George Plimpton writes of Hayden Siddartha “Sidd” Finch and his 168mph fastball as the 01 April 1985 Sports Illustrated cover story 5. Starting a Baker’s Dozen game with the title April Fool’s Pranks Gone Awry 6. The BBC and the Swiss spaghetti harvest 7. Bob the cheating husband. 8. Submarine Race kills nine spectators. Film at 11. 9. 1861: Abraham Lincoln tells Jefferson Davis that if he shells Fort Sumter the government will take it back; Davis wires to ask “You and what army?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=1710) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=1712)