# 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:** 1798
**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:** [July 10, 2015, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35944 "2015-07-10T06:35:10Z")
Athletes Famous For Ineptitude, Failure, or Futility 1. Mario Mendoza. Namesake of baseball’s informal term for a player hitting below .200 2. Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner. Made one fielding era that cost the Sox the 1986 World Series. 3. Vinko Bogataj: the ski jumper featured in “ABCs Wide World of Sports” as “the agony of defeat.” 4. Scott Norwood, Buffalo Bills - Super Bowl XXV: Wide Right! 5. Eddie “the Eagle” Edwards, British ski-jump Olympian 6. Mariano Rivera, NY Yankees, Game 7 of the 2001 World Series 7. Jean Van de Velde, Golfer. Badly blew the lead at the '99 British Open on the final hole in tournament (had to shoot a double-bogey to win), lost in the playoff. 8. Jim Marshall, Minnesota Vikings - recovered a fumble and ran it into his own end zone 9. Garo Yepremian, Miami Dolphins, Super Bowl VII. The Perfect Season at risk - mildly. But he lost the chance for the score to match the Dolphins’ record, 17-0. 10. Dick Stuart (a.k.a., “Dr. Strangeglove”), baseball. The polar opposite of Mario Mendoza, Stuart was a first baseman whose power-hitting abilities were more than offset by his legendary defensive ineptitude. 11. Steve Sax, 2nd Baseman for Dodgers. In 1983, he had a case of the throwing yips, making 30 errors, many of them on routine throws to first base. 12. Bob Uecker, he was actually a good baseball player but he developed the persona of being inept ---
**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:** [July 10, 2015, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35945 "2015-07-10T13:44:15Z")
Athletes Famous For Ineptitude, Failure, or Futility 1. Mario Mendoza. Namesake of baseball’s informal term for a player hitting below .200 2. Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner. Made one fielding era that cost the Sox the 1986 World Series. 3. Vinko Bogataj: the ski jumper featured in “ABCs Wide World of Sports” as “the agony of defeat.” 4. Scott Norwood, Buffalo Bills - Super Bowl XXV: Wide Right! 5. Eddie “the Eagle” Edwards, British ski-jump Olympian 6. Mariano Rivera, NY Yankees, Game 7 of the 2001 World Series 7. Jean Van de Velde, Golfer. Badly blew the lead at the '99 British Open on the final hole in tournament (had to shoot a double-bogey to win), lost in the playoff. 8. Jim Marshall, Minnesota Vikings - recovered a fumble and ran it into his own end zone 9. Garo Yepremian, Miami Dolphins, Super Bowl VII. The Perfect Season at risk - mildly. But he lost the chance for the score to match the Dolphins’ record, 17-0. 10. Dick Stuart (a.k.a., “Dr. Strangeglove”), baseball. The polar opposite of Mario Mendoza, Stuart was a first baseman whose power-hitting abilities were more than offset by his legendary defensive ineptitude. 11. Steve Sax, 2nd Baseman for Dodgers. In 1983, he had a case of the throwing yips, making 30 errors, many of them on routine throws to first base. 12. Bob Uecker, he was actually a good baseball player but he developed the persona of being inept 13. Charlie Brown from Peanuts. New: Fiction in which someone is made much younger 1. “Danger Wears a Diaper” episode of Monsters vs. Aliens TV show ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2015, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35946 "2015-07-10T14:10:25Z")
Fiction in which someone is made much younger 1. “Danger Wears a Diaper” episode of Monsters vs. Aliens TV show 2. Tom Hanks’ movie\*\*\* Big\*\*\* (at the end, he’s made much younger again!) ---
**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:** [July 10, 2015, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35947 "2015-07-10T14:20:15Z")
Fiction in which someone is made much younger 1. “Danger Wears a Diaper” episode of Monsters vs. Aliens TV show 2. Tom Hanks’ movie Big (at the end, he’s made much younger again!) 3. Stark Trek: The Next Generation episode “Rascals” (Picard, Ro, Keiko and Guinan) ---
**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:** [July 10, 2015, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35948 "2015-07-10T14:44:36Z")
Fiction in which someone is made much younger 1. “Danger Wears a Diaper” episode of Monsters vs. Aliens TV show 2. Tom Hanks’ movie Big (at the end, he’s made much younger again!) 3. Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Rascals” (Picard, Ro, Keiko and Guinan) 4. Lois Lane #57: Lois Lane, Super Baby-Sitter, May 1965, (Superman) ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2015, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35949 "2015-07-10T15:28:18Z")
Fiction in which someone is made much younger 1. “Danger Wears a Diaper” episode of Monsters vs. Aliens TV show 2. Tom Hanks’ movie Big (at the end, he’s made much younger again!) 3. Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Rascals” (Picard, Ro, Keiko and Guinan) 4. Lois Lane #57: Lois Lane, Super Baby-Sitter, May 1965, (Superman) 5. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Man ages in reverse) ---
**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:** [July 10, 2015, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35950 "2015-07-10T15:45:49Z")
Fiction in which someone is made much younger 1. “Danger Wears a Diaper” episode of Monsters vs. Aliens TV show 2. Tom Hanks’ movie Big (at the end, he’s made much younger again!) 3. Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Rascals” (Picard, Ro, Keiko and Guinan) 4. Lois Lane #57: Lois Lane, Super Baby-Sitter, May 1965, (Superman) 5. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Man ages in reverse) 6. “Freaky Friday” (Barbara Harris becomes Jodie Foster, and vice versa) ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2015, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35951 "2015-07-10T16:09:02Z")
Fiction in which someone is made much younger 1. “Danger Wears a Diaper” episode of Monsters vs. Aliens TV show 2. Tom Hanks’ movie Big (at the end, he’s made much younger again!) 3. Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Rascals” (Picard, Ro, Keiko and Guinan) 4. Lois Lane #57: Lois Lane, Super Baby-Sitter, May 1965, (Superman) 5. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Man ages in reverse) 6. “Freaky Friday” (Barbara Harris becomes Jodie Foster, and vice versa) 7. “Kick the Can” (episode of _ **Twilight Zone** _ TV series and part of \*\*\*Twilight Zone \*\*\*movie) ---
**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:** [July 10, 2015, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35952 "2015-07-10T17:03:18Z")
Fiction in which someone is made much younger 1. “Danger Wears a Diaper” episode of Monsters vs. Aliens TV show 2. Tom Hanks’ movie Big (at the end, he’s made much younger again!) 3. Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Rascals” (Picard, Ro, Keiko and Guinan) 4. Lois Lane #57: Lois Lane, Super Baby-Sitter, May 1965, (Superman) 5. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Man ages in reverse) 6. “Freaky Friday” (Barbara Harris becomes Jodie Foster, and vice versa) 7. “Kick the Can” (episode of Twilight Zone TV series and part of Twilight Zone movie) 8. Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury (old schoolteacher becomes young and beautiful again, but blind) ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2015, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35953 "2015-07-10T17:25:53Z")
Fiction in which someone is made much younger 1. “Danger Wears a Diaper” episode of Monsters vs. Aliens TV show 2. Tom Hanks’ movie Big (at the end, he’s made much younger again!) 3. Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Rascals” (Picard, Ro, Keiko and Guinan) 4. Lois Lane #57: Lois Lane, Super Baby-Sitter, May 1965, (Superman) 5. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Man ages in reverse) 6. “Freaky Friday” (Barbara Harris becomes Jodie Foster, and vice versa) 7. “Kick the Can” (episode of Twilight Zone TV series and part of Twilight Zone movie) 8. Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury (old schoolteacher becomes young and beautiful again, but blind) 9. Prelude to a Kiss (in which a dying old man trades bodies with a young woman) ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2015, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35954 "2015-07-10T18:36:29Z")
Fiction in which someone is made much younger 1. “Danger Wears a Diaper” episode of Monsters vs. Aliens TV show 2. Tom Hanks’ movie Big (at the end, he’s made much younger again!) 3. Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Rascals” (Picard, Ro, Keiko and Guinan) 4. Lois Lane #57: Lois Lane, Super Baby-Sitter, May 1965, (Superman) 5. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Man ages in reverse) 6. “Freaky Friday” (Barbara Harris becomes Jodie Foster, and vice versa) 7. “Kick the Can” (episode of Twilight Zone TV series and part of Twilight Zone movie) 8. Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury (old schoolteacher becomes young and beautiful again, but blind) 9. Prelude to a Kiss (in which a dying old man trades bodies with a young woman) 10. “Peggy Sue Got Married” (Kathleen Turner returns to her high school days) ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2015, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35955 "2015-07-10T18:38:02Z")
Fiction in which someone is made much younger 1. “Danger Wears a Diaper” episode of Monsters vs. Aliens TV show 2. Tom Hanks’ movie Big (at the end, he’s made much younger again!) 3. Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Rascals” (Picard, Ro, Keiko and Guinan) 4. Lois Lane #57: Lois Lane, Super Baby-Sitter, May 1965, (Superman) 5. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Man ages in reverse) 6. “Freaky Friday” (Barbara Harris becomes Jodie Foster, and vice versa) 7. “Kick the Can” (episode of Twilight Zone TV series and part of Twilight Zone movie) 8. Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury (old schoolteacher becomes young and beautiful again, but blind) 9. Prelude to a Kiss (in which a dying old man trades bodies with a young woman) 10. “Peggy Sue Got Married” (Kathleen Turner returns to her high school days) 11. Yellow Submarine (The Beatles become babies as they travel through the Sea of Time.) ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2015, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35956 "2015-07-10T18:39:27Z")
Fiction in which someone is made much younger 1. “Danger Wears a Diaper” episode of Monsters vs. Aliens TV show 2. Tom Hanks’ movie Big (at the end, he’s made much younger again!) 3. Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Rascals” (Picard, Ro, Keiko and Guinan) 4. Lois Lane #57: Lois Lane, Super Baby-Sitter, May 1965, (Superman) 5. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Man ages in reverse) 6. “Freaky Friday” (Barbara Harris becomes Jodie Foster, and vice versa) 7. “Kick the Can” (episode of Twilight Zone TV series and part of Twilight Zone movie) 8. Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury (old schoolteacher becomes young and beautiful again, but blind) 9. Prelude to a Kiss (in which a dying old man trades bodies with a young woman) 10. Yellow Submarine (The Beatles become babies as they travel through the Sea of Time.) 11. 18 Again. George Burns and Charlie Schlatter switch bods on the former’s 81st birthday. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2015, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35957 "2015-07-10T19:10:35Z")
Fiction in which someone is made much younger 1. “Danger Wears a Diaper” episode of Monsters vs. Aliens TV show 2. Tom Hanks’ movie Big (at the end, he’s made much younger again!) 3. Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Rascals” (Picard, Ro, Keiko and Guinan) 4. Lois Lane #57: Lois Lane, Super Baby-Sitter, May 1965, (Superman) 5. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Man ages in reverse) 6. “Freaky Friday” (Barbara Harris becomes Jodie Foster, and vice versa) 7. “Kick the Can” (episode of Twilight Zone TV series and part of Twilight Zone movie) 8. Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury (old schoolteacher becomes young and beautiful again, but blind) 9. Prelude to a Kiss (in which a dying old man trades bodies with a young woman) 10. Yellow Submarine (The Beatles become babies as they travel through the Sea of Time.) 11. 18 Again. George Burns and Charlie Schlatter switch bods on the former’s 81st birthday. 12. “2001: A Space Odyssey” (aliens turn Dave Bowman into a baby) ---
**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:** [July 10, 2015, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35958 "2015-07-10T19:43:51Z")
Fiction in which someone is made much younger 1. “Danger Wears a Diaper” episode of Monsters vs. Aliens TV show 2. Tom Hanks’ movie Big (at the end, he’s made much younger again!) 3. Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Rascals” (Picard, Ro, Keiko and Guinan) 4. Lois Lane #57: Lois Lane, Super Baby-Sitter, May 1965, (Superman) 5. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Man ages in reverse) 6. “Freaky Friday” (Barbara Harris becomes Jodie Foster, and vice versa) 7. “Kick the Can” (episode of Twilight Zone TV series and part of Twilight Zone movie) 8. Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury (old schoolteacher becomes young and beautiful again, but blind) 9. Prelude to a Kiss (in which a dying old man trades bodies with a young woman) 10. Yellow Submarine (The Beatles become babies as they travel through the Sea of Time.) 11. 18 Again. George Burns and Charlie Schlatter switch bods on the former’s 81st birthday. 12. “2001: A Space Odyssey” (aliens turn Dave Bowman into a baby) 13. Cocoon I’ll pass ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2015, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35959 "2015-07-10T20:00:50Z")
New Topic: Real or Fictional People Who Wore Eye Patches 1. Snake Plissken (“Escape From New York”) ---
**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:** [July 10, 2015, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35960 "2015-07-10T20:08:15Z")
Real or Fictional People Who Wore Eye Patches 1. Snake Plissken (“Escape From New York”) 2. Moshe Dayan ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2015, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35961 "2015-07-10T20:28:31Z")
Real or Fictional People Who Wore Eye Patches 1. Snake Plissken (“Escape From New York”) 2. Moshe Dayan 3. Madame Kovarian (Doctor Who) ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2015, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35962 "2015-07-10T20:47:49Z")
Real or Fictional People Who Wore Eye Patches 1. Snake Plissken (“Escape From New York”) 2. Moshe Dayan 3. Madame Kovarian (Doctor Who) 4. Bazooka Joe (“Hey Mort, why’d you throw that clock out the window?” “I wanted to make time fly!”) ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2015, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/35963 "2015-07-10T21:01:48Z")
Real or Fictional People Who Wore Eye Patches 1. Snake Plissken (“Escape From New York”) 2. Moshe Dayan 3. Madame Kovarian (Doctor Who) 4. Bazooka Joe (“Hey Mort, why’d you throw that clock out the window?” “I wanted to make time fly!”) 5. Big Dan Teague [Pic](http://images.complex.com/complex/image/upload/t_article_image/saofmkpmofkqua8hvnf9.jpg) if the name’s not familiar [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=1797) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=1799)