# 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:** 1844
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/36864 "2015-08-12T12:45:53Z")
A Jeopardy! Category That Would Skunk You 1. Talking Tolkien 2. Proper Klingon Nouns 3. Greek Philosophers 4. Religion. I’m clueless. 5. Doctor When? (Dr. Who Trivia From Before About 2008) 6. Football Players 7. Understanding women 8. Colleges 9. Best Sellers, Romantic Fiction 10. Gangsta Rap 11. American Vice Presidents 12. Potent Potables 13. Roman Catholic Popes of the Late Middle Ages Next: Great Songs With Crummy Lyrics 1. “What’s Your Name,” Lynyrd Skynyrd A great horn-driven rock and roll song…in the service of unironically gleeful lyrics about anonymous groupie sex. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/36865 "2015-08-12T12:52:51Z")
Great Songs With Crummy Lyrics 1. “What’s Your Name,” Lynyrd Skynyrd 2. “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” - Elton John Actually, quite a lot of songs by Elton John - one of the reasons I consider him a great songwriter is that he created so many great songs from Taupin’s awful lyrics - but “howling old owl in the woods” earned this one a place on the list. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/36866 "2015-08-12T12:54:35Z")
Great Songs With Crummy Lyrics 1. “What’s Your Name,” Lynyrd Skynyrd 2. “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” - Elton John 3. “MacArthur Park” - Richard Harris The music is actually very nice, but … “someone left the cake out in the rain?” I don’t think so … ---
**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:** [August 12, 2015, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/36867 "2015-08-12T13:00:43Z")
Great Songs With Crummy Lyrics 1. “What’s Your Name,” Lynyrd Skynyrd 2. “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” - Elton John 3. “MacArthur Park” - Richard Harris 4. “Moon Shadow” - Cat Stevens Catchy, almost haunting tune, but… “If I ever lose my mouth, lose my teeth both north and south”??? ---
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/36868 "2015-08-12T13:02:06Z")
Great Songs With Crummy Lyrics 1. “What’s Your Name,” Lynyrd Skynyrd 2. “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” - Elton John 3. “MacArthur Park” - Richard Harris 4. “Moon Shadow” - Cat Stevens 5. “The Jean Genie” - David Bowie Keeps all your dead hair for making up und’wear. Oh David, David, David. ---
**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:** [August 12, 2015, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/36869 "2015-08-12T13:05:11Z")
Great Songs With Crummy Lyrics 1. “What’s Your Name,” Lynyrd Skynyrd 2. “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” - Elton John 3. “MacArthur Park” - Richard Harris 4. “Moon Shadow” - Cat Stevens 5. “The Jean Genie” - David Bowie 6. “A Horse With No Name” - America Where do I start? “There were plants and birds and rocks and things.” “The heat was hot and the ground was dry.” And after 9 days, you think he could have given the fucking horse a name. ---
**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:** [August 12, 2015, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/36870 "2015-08-12T13:41:43Z")
Great Songs With Crummy Lyrics 1. “What’s Your Name,” Lynyrd Skynyrd 2. “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” - Elton John 3. “MacArthur Park” - Richard Harris 4. “Moon Shadow” - Cat Stevens 5. “The Jean Genie” - David Bowie 6. “A Horse With No Name” - America 7. “Don’t Fear the Reaper” - BÖC, Blue Öyster Cult ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/36871 "2015-08-12T13:46:33Z")
Great Songs With Crummy Lyrics 1. “What’s Your Name,” Lynyrd Skynyrd 2. “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” - Elton John 3. “MacArthur Park” - Richard Harris 4. “Moon Shadow” - Cat Stevens 5. “The Jean Genie” - David Bowie 6. “A Horse With No Name” - America 7. “Don’t Fear the Reaper” - BÖC, Blue Öyster Cult 8. “Champagne Supernova” - Oasis ---
**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:** [August 12, 2015, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/36872 "2015-08-12T13:51:12Z")
Fix: Great Songs With Crummy Lyrics 1. “What’s Your Name,” Lynyrd Skynyrd 2. “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” - Elton John 3. “MacArthur Park” - Richard Harris 4. “Moon Shadow” - Cat Stevens 5. “The Jean Genie” - David Bowie 6. “A Horse With No Name” - America 7. “Don’t Fear the Reaper” - BÖC, Blue Öyster Cult 8. “Champagne Supernova” - Oasis About BÖC’s Don’t Fear the Reaper, a great song with a memorable opening guitar riff that repeats throughout, but, Valentine is done? Romeo and Juliet are gone? 40,000 people everyday redefine happiness? Say what? ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/36873 "2015-08-12T14:04:02Z")
Great Songs With Crummy Lyrics 1. “What’s Your Name,” Lynyrd Skynyrd 2. “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” - Elton John 3. “MacArthur Park” - Richard Harris 4. “Moon Shadow” - Cat Stevens 5. “The Jean Genie” - David Bowie 6. “A Horse With No Name” - America 7. “Don’t Fear the Reaper” - BÖC, Blue Öyster Cult 8. “Champagne Supernova” - Oasis 9. “Stranglehold,” Ted Nugent A killer bass line under one of the most menacing-sounding extended guitar jams ever…in the service of lyrics about chokin’ a bitch. ☹ ---
**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:** [August 12, 2015, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/36874 "2015-08-12T14:10:03Z")
Great Songs With Crummy Lyrics 1. “What’s Your Name,” Lynyrd Skynyrd 2. “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” - Elton John 3. “MacArthur Park” - Richard Harris 4. “Moon Shadow” - Cat Stevens 5. “The Jean Genie” - David Bowie 6. “A Horse With No Name” - America 7. “Don’t Fear the Reaper” - BÖC, Blue Öyster Cult 8. “Champagne Supernova” - Oasis 9. “Stranglehold,” Ted Nugent 10. “Midnight Rendezvous” - The Babys A cool tune, and the lyrics are pretty good, right up to the very end when it says, All I want to do Oh I really want to f\*\*\* you Yeah I get it, what young and dumb guy hasn’t seen someone hot and thought that? But, crass. ---
**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:** [August 12, 2015, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/36875 "2015-08-12T15:40:33Z")
Great Songs With Crummy Lyrics 1. “What’s Your Name,” Lynyrd Skynyrd 2. “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” - Elton John 3. “MacArthur Park” - Richard Harris 4. “Moon Shadow” - Cat Stevens 5. “The Jean Genie” - David Bowie 6. “A Horse With No Name” - America 7. “Don’t Fear the Reaper” - BÖC, Blue Öyster Cult 8. “Champagne Supernova” - Oasis 9. “Stranglehold,” Ted Nugent 10. “Midnight Rendezvous” - The Babys 11. “Perfect Gentleman” - Wyclef Jean “We gonna e-e-e-elope to Me-e-e-e-xico” This doesn’t and never will rhyme, but a valiant attempt… ---
**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:** [August 12, 2015, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/36876 "2015-08-12T15:50:18Z")
Great Songs With Crummy Lyrics 1. “What’s Your Name,” Lynyrd Skynyrd 2. “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” - Elton John 3. “MacArthur Park” - Richard Harris 4. “Moon Shadow” - Cat Stevens 5. “The Jean Genie” - David Bowie 6. “A Horse With No Name” - America 7. “Don’t Fear the Reaper” - BÖC, Blue Öyster Cult 8. “Champagne Supernova” - Oasis 9. “Stranglehold,” Ted Nugent 10. “Midnight Rendezvous” - The Babys 11. “Perfect Gentleman” - Wyclef Jean 12. “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” - popular, unknown The same words over and over and over again! _ **AAAGH!!!** _ ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/36877 "2015-08-12T16:04:59Z")
Great Songs With Crummy Lyrics 1. “What’s Your Name,” Lynyrd Skynyrd 2. “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” - Elton John 3. “MacArthur Park” - Richard Harris 4. “Moon Shadow” - Cat Stevens 5. “The Jean Genie” - David Bowie 6. “A Horse With No Name” - America 7. “Don’t Fear the Reaper” - BÖC, Blue Öyster Cult 8. “Champagne Supernova” - Oasis 9. “Stranglehold,” Ted Nugent 10. “Midnight Rendezvous” - The Babys 11. “Perfect Gentleman” - Wyclef Jean 12. “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” - popular, unknown 13. “Why Can’t This be Love?” – Van Halen “Only time will tell if we stand the test of time.” I guess that’s technically correct. Next: Words that _kind of_ sound like “baker” 1. Banker ---
**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:** [August 12, 2015, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/36878 "2015-08-12T16:06:01Z")
Words that kind of sound like “baker” 1. Banker 2. Backer ---
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/36879 "2015-08-12T16:06:58Z")
Words that _kind of_ sound like “baker” 1. Banker 2. Burqa ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/36880 "2015-08-12T16:08:29Z")
Words that kind of sound like “baker” 1. Banker 2. Burqa 3. Beaker ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/36881 "2015-08-12T16:10:52Z")
Don’t forget **nonsch** ’s entry: 1. Banker 2. Backer 3. Burqa 4. Beaker ---
**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:** [August 12, 2015, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/36882 "2015-08-12T16:48:54Z")
Words that kind of sound like “baker” 1. Banker 2. Backer 3. Burqa 4. Beaker 5. Biker ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/36883 "2015-08-12T16:59:30Z")
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