# 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:** 2059
**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 24, 2016, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/41165 "2016-01-24T01:13:05Z")
Categories in this thread that have been made for a specific person due to their passing. 1. Because it’s obligatory: favorite song by the Eagles (or associated artist) — Glenn Frey 2. David Bowie movies 3. Nintendo games or characters (Given the recent death of Saturo Iwata, president and CEO of Nintendo) 4. How Heaven has changed since Ian Fraser “Lemmy” Kilmister and Phil “Philthy Animal” Taylor have both arrived. 5. Notable quotes by Alan Rickman or one of his characters. 6. Your favorite Robin Williams performances 7. In honor of the passing of Philthy “Animal” Taylor, your favorite Motörhead song(s). [hint: I searched “death” or “passing” in this topic. “Honor” works too] ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2016, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/41166 "2016-01-24T01:55:14Z")
Categories in this thread that have been made for a specific person due to their passing. 1. Because it’s obligatory: favorite song by the Eagles (or associated artist) — Glenn Frey 2. David Bowie movies 3. Nintendo games or characters (Given the recent death of Saturo Iwata, president and CEO of Nintendo) 4. How Heaven has changed since Ian Fraser “Lemmy” Kilmister and Phil “Philthy Animal” Taylor have both arrived. 5. Notable quotes by Alan Rickman or one of his characters. 6. Your favorite Robin Williams performances 7. In honor of the passing of Philthy “Animal” Taylor, your favorite Motörhead song(s) 8. In honor of Phil Austin’s passing, Firesign Theatre lines [thanks Idle Thoughts] ---
**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:** [January 24, 2016, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/41167 "2016-01-24T04:10:52Z")
Categories in this thread that have been made for a specific person due to their passing. 1. Because it’s obligatory: favorite song by the Eagles (or associated artist) — Glenn Frey 2. David Bowie movies 3. Nintendo games or characters (Given the recent death of Saturo Iwata, president and CEO of Nintendo) 4. How Heaven has changed since Ian Fraser “Lemmy” Kilmister and Phil “Philthy Animal” Taylor have both arrived. 5. Notable quotes by Alan Rickman or one of his characters. 6. Your favorite Robin Williams performances 7. In honor of the passing of Philthy “Animal” Taylor, your favorite Motörhead song(s) 8. In honor of Phil Austin’s passing, Firesign Theatre lines 9. In honor of Chris Squire’s passing: favorite Yes songs ---
**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 24, 2016, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/41168 "2016-01-24T05:19:40Z")
Categories in this thread that have been made for a specific person due to their passing. 1. Because it’s obligatory: favorite song by the Eagles (or associated artist) — Glenn Frey 2. David Bowie movies 3. Nintendo games or characters (Given the recent death of Saturo Iwata, president and CEO of Nintendo) 4. How Heaven has changed since Ian Fraser “Lemmy” Kilmister and Phil “Philthy Animal” Taylor have both arrived. 5. Notable quotes by Alan Rickman or one of his characters. 6. Your favorite Robin Williams performances 7. In honor of the passing of Philthy “Animal” Taylor, your favorite Motörhead song(s) 8. In honor of Phil Austin’s passing, Firesign Theatre lines 9. In honor of Chris Squire’s passing: favorite Yes songs 10. [In “honor” of the death of Osama Bin Laden: Terrorist groups](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=13756125&postcount=5187) ---
**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:** [January 24, 2016, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/41169 "2016-01-24T22:59:37Z")
Categories in this thread that have been made for a specific person due to their passing. 1. Because it’s obligatory: favorite song by the Eagles (or associated artist) — Glenn Frey 2. David Bowie movies 3. Nintendo games or characters (Given the recent death of Saturo Iwata, president and CEO of Nintendo) 4. How Heaven has changed since Ian Fraser “Lemmy” Kilmister and Phil “Philthy Animal” Taylor have both arrived. 5. Notable quotes by Alan Rickman or one of his characters. 6. Your favorite Robin Williams performances 7. In honor of the passing of Philthy “Animal” Taylor, your favorite Motörhead song(s) 8. In honor of Phil Austin’s passing, Firesign Theatre lines 9. In honor of Chris Squire’s passing: favorite Yes songs 10. In “honor” of the death of Osama Bin Laden: Terrorist groups 11. In honor of Donald Featherstone passing: Tacky Lawn Decorations (It might help to do a thread search on “honor” or “passing” to close this one out… ) ---
**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:** [January 24, 2016, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/41170 "2016-01-24T23:13:01Z")
Categories in this thread that have been made for a specific person due to their passing. 1. Because it’s obligatory: favorite song by the Eagles (or associated artist) — Glenn Frey 2. David Bowie movies 3. Nintendo games or characters (Given the recent death of Saturo Iwata, president and CEO of Nintendo) 4. How Heaven has changed since Ian Fraser “Lemmy” Kilmister and Phil “Philthy Animal” Taylor have both arrived. 5. Notable quotes by Alan Rickman or one of his characters. 6. Your favorite Robin Williams performances 7. In honor of the passing of Philthy “Animal” Taylor, your favorite Motörhead song(s) 8. In honor of Phil Austin’s passing, Firesign Theatre lines 9. In honor of Chris Squire’s passing: favorite Yes songs 10. In “honor” of the death of Osama Bin Laden: Terrorist groups 11. In honor of Donald Featherstone passing: Tacky Lawn Decorations 12. In honor of Chad Everett, TV doctors ---
**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 25, 2016, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/41171 "2016-01-25T03:54:45Z")
Categories in this thread that have been made for a specific person due to their passing. 1. Because it’s obligatory: favorite song by the Eagles (or associated artist) — Glenn Frey 2. David Bowie movies 3. Nintendo games or characters (Given the recent death of Saturo Iwata, president and CEO of Nintendo) 4. How Heaven has changed since Ian Fraser “Lemmy” Kilmister and Phil “Philthy Animal” Taylor have both arrived. 5. Notable quotes by Alan Rickman or one of his characters. 6. Your favorite Robin Williams performances 7. In honor of the passing of Philthy “Animal” Taylor, your favorite Motörhead song(s) 8. In honor of Phil Austin’s passing, Firesign Theatre lines 9. In honor of Chris Squire’s passing: favorite Yes songs 10. In “honor” of the death of Osama Bin Laden: Terrorist groups 11. In honor of Donald Featherstone passing: Tacky Lawn Decorations 12. In honor of Chad Everett, TV doctors 13. In More Honor of Neil Armstrong, Astronauts of Mission Apollo (& Mission #) Lame excuses that you make up as to why your favorite football team didn’t make the Superbowl 14. They’re from a warm place and they had to play in the cold! ---
**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 25, 2016, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/41172 "2016-01-25T07:20:31Z")
Lame excuses that you make up as to why your favorite football team didn’t make the Superbowl 1. They’re from a warm place and they had to play in the cold! 2. We had a bunch of players go out on injuries. ---
**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 25, 2016, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/41173 "2016-01-25T08:34:26Z")
Lame excuses that you make up as to why your favorite football team didn’t make the Superbowl 1. They’re from a warm place and they had to play in the cold! 2. We had a bunch of players go out on injuries. 3. The grass/turf was…uh…too hard and stiff! So they’d be tripping and falling constantly. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2016, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/41174 "2016-01-25T11:20:42Z")
Lame excuses that you make up as to why your favorite football team didn’t make the Superbowl 1. They’re from a warm place and they had to play in the cold! 2. We had a bunch of players go out on injuries. 3. The grass/turf was…uh…too hard and stiff! So they’d be tripping and falling constantly. 4. One game in November, I forgot to do my ritual ---
**Author:** ![Thin\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Thin\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thin_Ice)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2016, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/41175 "2016-01-25T13:42:55Z")
Lame excuses that you make up as to why your favorite football team didn’t make the Superbowl 1. They’re from a warm place and they had to play in the cold! 2. We had a bunch of players go out on injuries. 3. The grass/turf was…uh…too hard and stiff! So they’d be tripping and falling constantly. 4. One game in November, I forgot to do my ritual 5. A couple of star players got arrested for beating up their wives after taking steroids at a dog fight. ---
**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:** [January 25, 2016, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/41176 "2016-01-25T15:05:09Z")
Lame excuses that you make up as to why your favorite football team didn’t make the Superbowl 1. They’re from a warm place and they had to play in the cold! 2. We had a bunch of players go out on injuries. 3. The grass/turf was…uh…too hard and stiff! So they’d be tripping and falling constantly. 4. One game in November, I forgot to do my ritual 5. A couple of star players got arrested for beating up their wives after taking steroids at a dog fight. 6. They’ve been rebuilding for the past 12 years. ---
**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 25, 2016, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/41177 "2016-01-25T15:40:14Z")
Lame excuses that you make up as to why your favorite football team didn’t make the Superbowl 1. They’re from a warm place and they had to play in the cold! 2. We had a bunch of players go out on injuries. 3. The grass/turf was…uh…too hard and stiff! So they’d be tripping and falling constantly. 4. One game in November, I forgot to do my ritual 5. A couple of star players got arrested for beating up their wives after taking steroids at a dog fight. 6. They’ve been rebuilding for the past 12 years. 7. The refs are biased against us. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2016, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/41178 "2016-01-25T15:41:31Z")
Lame excuses that you make up as to why your favorite football team didn’t make the Superbowl 1. They’re from a warm place and they had to play in the cold! 2. We had a bunch of players go out on injuries. 3. The grass/turf was…uh…too hard and stiff! So they’d be tripping and falling constantly. 4. One game in November, I forgot to do my ritual 5. A couple of star players got arrested for beating up their wives after taking steroids at a dog fight. 6. They’ve been rebuilding for the past 12 years. 7. The refs are biased against us. 8. The refs are in collusion with the TV networks, to make sure postseason games involve big eastern market teams. ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e47774/32.png) [@quiltguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2016, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/41179 "2016-01-25T17:13:54Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > Lame excuses that you make up as to why your favorite football team didn’t make the Superbowl > > 1. They’re from a warm place and they had to play in the cold! > 2. We had a bunch of players go out on injuries. > 3. The grass/turf was…uh…too hard and stiff! So they’d be tripping and falling constantly. > 4. One game in November, I forgot to do my ritual > 5. A couple of star players got arrested for beating up their wives after taking steroids at a dog fight. > 6. They’ve been rebuilding for the past 12 years. > 7. The refs are biased against us. > 8. The refs are in collusion with the TV networks, to make sure postseason games involve big eastern market teams. 1. Our ground game needed some retooling. ---
**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 25, 2016, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/41180 "2016-01-25T20:09:18Z")
Lame excuses that you make up as to why your favorite football team didn’t make the Superbowl 1. They’re from a warm place and they had to play in the cold! 2. We had a bunch of players go out on injuries. 3. The grass/turf was…uh…too hard and stiff! So they’d be tripping and falling constantly. 4. One game in November, I forgot to do my ritual 5. A couple of star players got arrested for beating up their wives after taking steroids at a dog fight. 6. They’ve been rebuilding for the past 12 years. 7. The refs are biased against us. 8. The refs are in collusion with the TV networks, to make sure postseason games involve big eastern market teams. 9. Our ground game needed some retooling. 10. This just hasn’t been our millennium. We use that mostly around Buffalo. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2016, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/41181 "2016-01-25T20:12:13Z")
Lame excuses that you make up as to why your favorite football team didn’t make the Superbowl 1. They’re from a warm place and they had to play in the cold! 2. We had a bunch of players go out on injuries. 3. The grass/turf was…uh…too hard and stiff! So they’d be tripping and falling constantly. 4. One game in November, I forgot to do my ritual 5. A couple of star players got arrested for beating up their wives after taking steroids at a dog fight. 6. They’ve been rebuilding for the past 12 years. 7. The refs are biased against us. 8. The refs are in collusion with the TV networks, to make sure postseason games involve big eastern market teams. 9. Our ground game needed some retooling. 10. This just isn’t our millennium. 11. Satan only promised Eli Manning TWO Super Bowls for his soul. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2016, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/41182 "2016-01-25T23:22:07Z")
Lame excuses that you make up as to why your favorite football team didn’t make the Superbowl 1. They’re from a warm place and they had to play in the cold! 2. We had a bunch of players go out on injuries. 3. The grass/turf was…uh…too hard and stiff! So they’d be tripping and falling constantly. 4. One game in November, I forgot to do my ritual 5. A couple of star players got arrested for beating up their wives after taking steroids at a dog fight. 6. They’ve been rebuilding for the past 12 years. 7. The refs are biased against us. 8. The refs are in collusion with the TV networks, to make sure postseason games involve big eastern market teams. 9. Our ground game needed some retooling. 10. This just isn’t our millennium. 11. Satan only promised Eli Manning TWO Super Bowls for his soul. 12. They’re protesting racism at the Oscars. ---
**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:** [January 25, 2016, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/41183 "2016-01-25T23:27:33Z")
Lame excuses that you make up as to why your favorite football team didn’t make the Superbowl 1. They’re from a warm place and they had to play in the cold! 2. We had a bunch of players go out on injuries. 3. The grass/turf was…uh…too hard and stiff! So they’d be tripping and falling constantly. 4. One game in November, I forgot to do my ritual 5. A couple of star players got arrested for beating up their wives after taking steroids at a dog fight. 6. They’ve been rebuilding for the past 12 years. 7. The refs are biased against us. 8. The refs are in collusion with the TV networks, to make sure postseason games involve big eastern market teams. 9. Our ground game needed some retooling. 10. This just isn’t our millennium. 11. Satan only promised Eli Manning TWO Super Bowls for his soul. 12. They’re protesting racism at the Oscars. 13. Their balls were underinflated. Relatives of Star Wars characters who you’ll never see in the movies: 1. BB8’s pervy cousin, DV8 ---
**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:** [January 26, 2016, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/41184 "2016-01-26T00:37:32Z")
Relatives of Star Wars characters who you’ll never see in the movies: 1. BB8’s pervy cousin, DV8 2. Chewbacca’s smokin’ ancestor, Tobacca [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=2058) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=2060)