# 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:** 1962
**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:** [November 9, 2015, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/39224 "2015-11-09T22:09:15Z")
Ninja’d (and I had the same answer as **jtur88**!) ---
**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:** [November 9, 2015, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/39225 "2015-11-09T22:26:23Z")
Things you wish you had done before you were too old to do it. 1. Speak French 2. Ran a marathon jtur88: do you know about Duolingo? It’s free. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2015, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/39226 "2015-11-09T22:30:17Z")
Things you wish you had done before you were too old to do it. 1. Speak French 2. Ran a marathon 3. Auditioned for a Broadway musical ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2015, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/39227 "2015-11-09T22:38:23Z")
Things you wish you had done before you were too old to do it. 1. Speak French 2. Ran a marathon 3. Auditioned for a Broadway musical 4. Finish college ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/39228 "2015-11-10T01:59:21Z")
Things you wish you had done before you were too old to do it. 1. Speak French 2. Ran a marathon 3. Auditioned for a Broadway musical 4. Finish college 5. Gotten on Jeopardy! While my reflexes were still good ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/39229 "2015-11-10T02:47:50Z")
Things you wish you had done before you were too old to do it. 1. Speak French 2. Ran a marathon 3. Auditioned for a Broadway musical 4. Finished college 5. Gotten on Jeopardy! While my reflexes were still good 6. Backpacked through Europe ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/39230 "2015-11-10T04:18:45Z")
Things you wish you had done before you were too old to do it. 1. Speak French 2. Ran a marathon 3. Auditioned for a Broadway musical 4. Finished college 5. Gotten on Jeopardy! While my reflexes were still good 6. Backpacked through Europe 7. [La Marmotte](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Marmotte) ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/39231 "2015-11-10T12:37:37Z")
Things you wish you had done before you were too old to do it. 1. Speak French 2. Ran a marathon 3. Auditioned for a Broadway musical 4. Finished college 5. Gotten on Jeopardy! While my reflexes were still good 6. Backpacked through Europe 7. [La Marmotte](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Marmotte) 8. Learn to play piano ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/39232 "2015-11-10T13:35:05Z")
> [@OneCentStamp](#): > > 1. Backpacked through Europe I backpacked through nine countries in central Eurasia last summer. I’m 76 and blind. Couldn’t learn Russian worth a damn, though. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/39233 "2015-11-10T19:50:15Z")
Things you wish you had done before you were too old to do it. 1. Speak French 2. Ran a marathon 3. Auditioned for a Broadway musical 4. Finished college 5. Gotten on Jeopardy! While my reflexes were still good 6. Backpacked through Europe 7. La Marmotte 8. Learn to play piano 9. Learned more languages Aside from English, I’m fully bilingual in Spanish and conversational in French, but…up until I was about 25, languages were practically effortless for me. It’s the only realm of intelligence where I feel I was ever exceptional, and it’s faded. I think I could have picked up a couple more languages easily in my teens or early 20s, and I wish now that I knew a non-Latinate, non-Germanic language or two. > [@jtur88](#): > > I backpacked through nine countries in central Eurasia last summer. I’m 76 and blind. Couldn’t learn Russian worth a damn, though. Well…I’m both too old and too young right now. Once my kids are all grown, I may very well do so. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/39234 "2015-11-10T19:53:32Z")
Things you wish you had done before you were too old to do it. 1. Speak French 2. Ran a marathon 3. Auditioned for a Broadway musical 4. Finished college 5. Gotten on Jeopardy! While my reflexes were still good 6. Backpacked through Europe 7. La Marmotte 8. Learn to play piano 9. Learned more languages 10. Tried to start a serious writing career (Not too old to do it now, but I’d sure be a lot further along if I’d done it 25 years ago!) ---
**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:** [November 10, 2015, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/39235 "2015-11-10T19:56:48Z")
Things you wish you had done before you were too old to do it. 1. Speak French 2. Ran a marathon 3. Auditioned for a Broadway musical 4. Finished college 5. Gotten on Jeopardy! While my reflexes were still good 6. Backpacked through Europe 7. La Marmotte 8. Learn to play piano 9. Learned more languages 10. Tried to start a serious writing career 11. Gone up to the International Space Station ---
**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:** [November 10, 2015, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/39236 "2015-11-10T19:57:14Z")
Things you wish you had done before you were too old to do it. 1. Speak French 2. Ran a marathon 3. Auditioned for a Broadway musical 4. Finished college 5. Gotten on Jeopardy! While my reflexes were still good 6. Backpacked through Europe 7. La Marmotte 8. Learn to play piano 9. Learned more languages 10. Tried to start a serious writing career 11. Gone up to the International Space Station 12. Served in the military ---
**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:** [November 11, 2015, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/39237 "2015-11-11T07:46:41Z")
Things you wish you had done before you were too old to do it. 1. Speak French 2. Ran a marathon 3. Auditioned for a Broadway musical 4. Finished college 5. Gotten on Jeopardy! While my reflexes were still good 6. Backpacked through Europe 7. La Marmotte 8. Learn to play piano 9. Learned more languages 10. Tried to start a serious writing career 11. Gone up to the International Space Station 12. Served in the military 13. Climbed Mount Everest In Celebration of the US Marine Corps’ 240th Birthday Today, 10 November 2015, Famous Marines (name & occupation) 1. Dusty Baker, baseball player and manager, San Francisco Giants ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/39238 "2015-11-11T12:18:50Z")
In Celebration of the US Marine Corps’ 240th Birthday Today, 10 November 2015, Famous Marines (name & occupation) 1. Dusty Baker, baseball player and manager, San Francisco Giants 2. John Glenn, astronaut and US Senator from Ohio ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/39239 "2015-11-11T12:46:46Z")
In Celebration of the US Marine Corps’ 240th Birthday Today, 10 November 2015, Famous Marines (name & occupation) 1. Dusty Baker, baseball player and manager, San Francisco Giants 2. John Glenn, astronaut and US Senator from Ohio 3. Montel Williams, former talk show host, conservative author and speaker ---
**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:** [November 11, 2015, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/39240 "2015-11-11T12:55:13Z")
In Celebration of the US Marine Corps’ 240th Birthday Today, 10 November 2015, Famous Marines (name & occupation) 1. Dusty Baker, baseball player and manager, San Francisco Giants 2. John Glenn, astronaut and US Senator from Ohio 3. Montel Williams, former talk show host, conservative author and speaker 4. Fred Haise, NASA astronaut, Apollo 13 Lunar Module pilot ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/39241 "2015-11-11T13:28:39Z")
In Celebration of the US Marine Corps’ 240th Birthday Today, 10 November 2015, Famous Marines (name & occupation) 1. Dusty Baker, baseball player and manager, San Francisco Giants 2. John Glenn, astronaut and US Senator from Ohio 3. Montel Williams, former talk show host, conservative author and speaker 4. Fred Haise, NASA astronaut, Apollo 13 Lunar Module pilot 5. Robert Keeshan, TV’s Captain Kangaroo ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/39242 "2015-11-11T14:08:02Z")
In Celebration of the US Marine Corps’ 240th Birthday Today, 10 November 2015, Famous Marines (name & occupation) 1. Dusty Baker, baseball player and manager, San Francisco Giants 2. John Glenn, astronaut and US Senator from Ohio 3. Montel Williams, former talk show host, conservative author and speaker 4. Fred Haise, NASA astronaut, Apollo 13 Lunar Module pilot 5. Robert Keeshan, TV’s Captain Kangaroo 6. Sam Kustuniak, of Menominee Falls,Wisconsin. Lives in his car, self-employed. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2015, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/39243 "2015-11-11T14:17:23Z")
In Celebration of the US Marine Corps’ 240th Birthday Today, 10 November 2015, Famous Marines (name & occupation) 1. Dusty Baker, baseball player and manager, San Francisco Giants 2. John Glenn, astronaut and US Senator from Ohio 3. Montel Williams, former talk show host, conservative author and speaker 4. Fred Haise, NASA astronaut, Apollo 13 Lunar Module pilot 5. Robert Keeshan, TV’s Captain Kangaroo 6. Sam Kustuniak, of Menominee Falls,Wisconsin. Lives in his car, self-employed. 7. Gene Hackman, actor [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=1961) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=1963)