# 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:** 172
**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 26, 2011, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/3421 "2011-01-26T23:57:21Z")
Sh\*t my Dad Says (or used to …) 1. Stop crying…or I’ll give you something to cry about! 2. Money doesn’t grow on trees, y’know. 3. Sarcasm is the wit of fools. 4. Yer cruisin’ for a bruisin’… itchin’ for a stitchin’! 5. The kids listening to rock music today will outgrow it once they become adults. 6. If you’ve got nothing better to do, I can find something useful for you do to. 7. I don’t know, can you? 8. Quit bothering your sister. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/3422 "2011-01-27T00:21:44Z")
Sh\*t my Dad Says (or used to …) 1. Stop crying…or I’ll give you something to cry about! 2. Money doesn’t grow on trees, y’know. 3. Sarcasm is the wit of fools. 4. Yer cruisin’ for a bruisin’… itchin’ for a stitchin’! 5. The kids listening to rock music today will outgrow it once they become adults. 6. If you’ve got nothing better to do, I can find something useful for you do to. 7. I don’t know, can you? 8. Quit bothering your sister. 9. Shut the door - you’re heating the entire valley on my nickel. ---
**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, 2011, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/3423 "2011-01-27T03:39:44Z")
Sh\*t my Dad Says (or used to …) 1. Stop crying…or I’ll give you something to cry about! 2. Money doesn’t grow on trees, y’know. 3. Sarcasm is the wit of fools. 4. Yer cruisin’ for a bruisin’… itchin’ for a stitchin’! 5. The kids listening to rock music today will outgrow it once they become adults. 6. If you’ve got nothing better to do, I can find something useful for you do to. 7. I don’t know, can you? 8. Quit bothering your sister. 9. Shut the door - you’re heating the entire valley on my nickel. 10. Back when I was your age… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_jeffrey_lebowski/32/215_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Jeffrey_Lebowski)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/3424 "2011-01-27T08:42:28Z")
Sh\*t my Dad Says (or used to …) 1. Stop crying…or I’ll give you something to cry about! 2. Money doesn’t grow on trees, y’know. 3. Sarcasm is the wit of fools. 4. Yer cruisin’ for a bruisin’… itchin’ for a stitchin’! 5. The kids listening to rock music today will outgrow it once they become adults. 6. If you’ve got nothing better to do, I can find something useful for you do to. 7. I don’t know, can you? 8. Quit bothering your sister. 9. Shut the door - you’re heating the entire valley on my nickel. 10. Back when I was your age… 11. Look, we’re basically on earth to shit and fuck. So unless your job’s to help people shit or fuck, it’s not that important, so relax. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/3425 "2011-01-27T13:03:17Z")
Sh\*t my Dad Says (or used to …) 1. Stop crying…or I’ll give you something to cry about! 2. Money doesn’t grow on trees, y’know. 3. Sarcasm is the wit of fools. 4. Yer cruisin’ for a bruisin’… itchin’ for a stitchin’! 5. The kids listening to rock music today will outgrow it once they become adults. 6. If you’ve got nothing better to do, I can find something useful for you do to. 7. I don’t know, can you? 8. Quit bothering your sister. 9. Shut the door - you’re heating the entire valley on my nickel. 10. Back when I was your age… 11. Look, we’re basically on earth to shit and fuck. So unless your job’s to help people shit or fuck, it’s not that important, so relax. 12. I brought you into this world, and I can take you out! ---
**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, 2011, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/3426 "2011-01-27T13:49:25Z")
Sh\*t my Dad Says (or used to …) 1. Stop crying…or I’ll give you something to cry about! 2. Money doesn’t grow on trees, y’know. 3. Sarcasm is the wit of fools. 4. Yer cruisin’ for a bruisin’… itchin’ for a stitchin’! 5. The kids listening to rock music today will outgrow it once they become adults. 6. If you’ve got nothing better to do, I can find something useful for you do to. 7. I don’t know, can you? 8. Quit bothering your sister. 9. Shut the door - you’re heating the entire valley on my nickel. 10. Back when I was your age… 11. Look, we’re basically on earth to shit and fuck. So unless your job’s to help people shit or fuck, it’s not that important, so relax. 12. I brought you into this world, and I can take you out! 13. Go ask your mother. New category: Fictional spies 1. James Bond ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/3427 "2011-01-27T14:17:34Z")
New category: Fictional spies 1. James Bond 2. George Smiley ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/3428 "2011-01-27T14:26:07Z")
New category: Fictional spies 1. James Bond 2. George Smiley 3. Carmen Sandiego ---
**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 27, 2011, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/3429 "2011-01-27T14:49:09Z")
Fictional spies 1. James Bond 2. George Smiley 3. Carmen Sandiego 4. Luther Sloan > **[Luther Sloan](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Luther_Sloan)** ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/3430 "2011-01-27T14:50:20Z")
New category: Fictional spies 1. James Bond 2. George Smiley 3. Carmen Sandiego 4. Luther Sloan 5. Boris Badenov ---
**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 27, 2011, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/3431 "2011-01-27T15:01:50Z")
Fictional spies 1. James Bond 2. George Smiley 3. Carmen Sandiego 4. Luther Sloan 5. Boris Badenov 6. Hugo Oberstein > **[The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bruce-Partington_Plans)** > > "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans" is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is one of eight stories in the cycle collected as His Last Bow (1917), and is the second and final main appearance of Mycroft Holmes. It was originally published in The Strand Magazine in the United Kingdom and in Collier's in the United States in 1908. > Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans" fourteenth in a list of his nineteen favourite Sherlo... ---
**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, 2011, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/3432 "2011-01-27T16:22:31Z")
Fictional spies 1. James Bond 2. George Smiley 3. Carmen Sandiego 4. Luther Sloan 5. Boris Badenov 6. Hugo Oberstein 7. Blackford Oakes ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/3433 "2011-01-27T16:51:13Z")
Fictional spies 1. James Bond 2. George Smiley 3. Carmen Sandiego 4. Luther Sloan 5. Boris Badenov 6. Hugo Oberstein 7. Blackford Oakes 8. Maxwell Smart ---
**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, 2011, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/3434 "2011-01-27T16:59:18Z")
Fictional spies 1. James Bond 2. George Smiley 3. Carmen Sandiego 4. Luther Sloan 5. Boris Badenov 6. Hugo Oberstein 7. Blackford Oakes 8. Maxwell Smart 9. Charles Beauregard ---
**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 27, 2011, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/3435 "2011-01-27T18:12:14Z")
Fictional spies 1. James Bond 2. George Smiley 3. Carmen Sandiego 4. Luther Sloan 5. Boris Badenov 6. Hugo Oberstein 7. Blackford Oakes 8. Maxwell Smart 9. Charles Beauregard 10. Nicholas Foley From a _great_ book: [Tool of the Trade - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tool_of_the_Trade) ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/3436 "2011-01-27T18:21:27Z")
ictional spies 1. James Bond 2. George Smiley 3. Carmen Sandiego 4. Luther Sloan 5. Boris Badenov 6. Hugo Oberstein 7. Blackford Oakes 8. Maxwell Smart 9. Charles Beauregard 10. Nicholas Foley 11. Black Spy (from _Mad Magazine_’s series Spy vs Spy) ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/3437 "2011-01-27T18:57:11Z")
Fictional spies 1. James Bond 2. George Smiley 3. Carmen Sandiego 4. Luther Sloan 5. Boris Badenov 6. Hugo Oberstein 7. Blackford Oakes 8. Maxwell Smart 9. Charles Beauregard 10. Nicholas Foley 11. Black Spy (from Mad Magazine’s series Spy vs Spy) 12. Ilya Kuryakin ---
**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, 2011, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/3438 "2011-01-27T18:58:52Z")
Fictional spies 1. James Bond 2. George Smiley 3. Carmen Sandiego 4. Luther Sloan 5. Boris Badenov 6. Hugo Oberstein 7. Blackford Oakes 8. Maxwell Smart 9. Charles Beauregard 10. Nicholas Foley 11. Black Spy (from Mad Magazine’s series Spy vs Spy) 12. Ilya Kuryakin 13. Austin Powers Having created this category, I’ll pass. ---
**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, 2011, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/3439 "2011-01-27T19:22:03Z")
Cartoon sidekicks 1. Barney Rubble ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/3440 "2011-01-27T19:27:46Z")
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