# Bakers Dozen

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**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [August 4, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173 "2010-08-04T17:56:40Z")\
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**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:** [February 25, 2016, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/41665 "2016-02-25T21:24:39Z")

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Celebrities who haven’t killed anybody to your knowledge but for whom you have an irrational personal hatred anyway (no justification needed)

1. Jeff Foxworthy
2. Pauly Shore
3. Carrot Top
4. Nicholas Cage
5. Katy Deschanel (or is it Zooey Perry?)
6. Tea Leoni
7. Jack Nicholson
8. Everyone on Duck Dynasty
9. Lena Dunham
10. Adam Sandler
11. Ted Cruz

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**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:** [February 25, 2016, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/41666 "2016-02-25T21:25:32Z")

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Celebrities who haven’t killed anybody to your knowledge but for whom you have an irrational personal hatred anyway (no justification needed)

1. Jeff Foxworthy
2. Pauly Shore
3. Carrot Top
4. Nicholas Cage
5. Katy Deschanel (or is it Zooey Perry?)
6. Tea Leoni
7. Jack Nicholson
8. Everyone on Duck Dynasty
9. Lena Dunham
10. Adam Sandler
11. Ted Cruz
12. Donald Sutherland

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**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:** [February 26, 2016, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/41667 "2016-02-26T17:14:45Z")

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Celebrities who haven’t killed anybody to your knowledge but for whom you have an irrational personal hatred anyway (no justification needed)

1. Jeff Foxworthy
2. Pauly Shore
3. Carrot Top
4. Nicholas Cage
5. Katy Deschanel (or is it Zooey Perry?)
6. Tea Leoni
7. Jack Nicholson
8. Everyone on Duck Dynasty
9. Lena Dunham
10. Adam Sandler
11. Ted Cruz
12. Donald Sutherland
13. Donald Trump.

Though I wouldn’t necessarily say “irrational.”

Next: Memorable Oscar Moments.

1. [Sasheem Littlefeather](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QUacU0I4yU) accepting Marlon Brando’s award.

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**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:** [February 26, 2016, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/41668 "2016-02-26T18:03:37Z")

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Next: Memorable Oscar Moments.

1. Sasheem Littlefeather accepting Marlon Brando’s award.
2. The Academy Awards had a [streaker](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWBc-ir6IFM), and presenter David Niven recovered with a quip.

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**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:** [February 26, 2016, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/41669 "2016-02-26T18:10:42Z")

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Next: Memorable Oscar Moments.

1. Sasheem Littlefeather accepting Marlon Brando’s award.
2. The Academy Awards had a streaker, and presenter David Niven recovered with a quip.
3. [Walt Disney accepts one big Oscar and seven little ones](http://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/tv/tv-guy/os-pictures-walt-disney-through-the-years-2014-011-photo.html) from Shirley Temple for “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”

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**Post date:** [February 26, 2016, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/41670 "2016-02-26T18:40:25Z")

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Memorable Oscar Moments.

1. Sasheem Littlefeather accepting Marlon Brando’s award.
2. The Academy Awards had a streaker, and presenter David Niven recovered with a quip.
3. Walt Disney accepts one big Oscar and seven little ones from Shirley Temple for “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”
4. Charlie Chaplin receives an honorary Academy Award, and is given the longest standing ovation in Oscar history

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**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:** [February 26, 2016, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/41671 "2016-02-26T21:10:59Z")

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Memorable Oscar Moments.

1. Sasheem Littlefeather accepting Marlon Brando’s award.
2. The Academy Awards had a streaker, and presenter David Niven recovered with a quip.
3. Walt Disney accepts one big Oscar and seven little ones from Shirley Temple for “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”
4. Charlie Chaplin receives an honorary Academy Award, and is given the longest standing ovation in Oscar history
5. At the first Oscar ceremony after 9-11, Steve Martin came out as host right after a huge, over-the-top opening number and said, “Well, I’m glad they cut back on all the glitz.”

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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2016, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/41672 "2016-02-26T21:36:03Z")

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Memorable Oscar Moments.

1. Sasheem Littlefeather accepting Marlon Brando’s award.
2. The Academy Awards had a streaker, and presenter David Niven recovered with a quip.
3. Walt Disney accepts one big Oscar and seven little ones from Shirley Temple for “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”
4. Charlie Chaplin receives an honorary Academy Award, and is given the longest standing ovation in Oscar history
5. At the first Oscar ceremony after 9-11, Steve Martin came out as host right after a huge, over-the-top opening number and said, “Well, I’m glad they cut back on all the glitz.”
6. The always bizarre Jack Palance’s one armed pushups when he won for _City Slickers_.

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**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2016, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/41673 "2016-02-26T21:37:21Z")

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Memorable Oscar Moments.

1. Sasheem Littlefeather accepting Marlon Brando’s award.
2. The Academy Awards had a streaker, and presenter David Niven recovered with a quip.
3. Walt Disney accepts one big Oscar and seven little ones from Shirley Temple for “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”
4. Charlie Chaplin receives an honorary Academy Award, and is given the longest standing ovation in Oscar history
5. At the first Oscar ceremony after 9-11, Steve Martin came out as host right after a huge, over-the-top opening number and said, “Well, I’m glad they cut back on all the glitz.”
6. The always bizarre Jack Palance’s one armed pushups when he won for City Slickers.
7. Sally Fields’ acceptance speech in 1985 "You like me! You \*really _like me!"_

- yes I know that was not her direct quote, but it’s like “Play it again, Sam”. It’s what folks remember.

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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2016, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/41674 "2016-02-26T21:59:41Z")

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Memorable Oscar Moments.

1. Sasheem Littlefeather accepting Marlon Brando’s award.
2. The Academy Awards had a streaker, and presenter David Niven recovered with a quip.
3. Walt Disney accepts one big Oscar and seven little ones from Shirley Temple for “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”
4. Charlie Chaplin receives an honorary Academy Award, and is given the longest standing ovation in Oscar history
5. At the first Oscar ceremony after 9-11, Steve Martin came out as host right after a huge, over-the-top opening number and said, “Well, I’m glad they cut back on all the glitz.”
6. The always bizarre Jack Palance’s one armed pushups when he won for City Slickers.
7. Sally Fields’ acceptance speech in 1985 “You like me! You \*really \*like me!”
8. Hattie McDaniels becoming the first black actress to win an Oscar in a major category for a movie whose world premiere she was not legally allowed to attend

As politically incorrect as the movie may have been, her performance was brilliant and she breathed a dignity and intelligence into Mammy lesser actresses could not have. (Octavia Spencer is also a great actress [who I happened to work with at one point and who was a FB friend until she became super big] and I’m glad she won the 2012 Oscar, but I wish somebody of her talent could get better roles than Mammy 2.0.)

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**Post date:** [February 26, 2016, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/41675 "2016-02-26T22:26:43Z")

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Memorable Oscar Moments.

1. Sasheem Littlefeather accepting Marlon Brando’s award.
2. The Academy Awards had a streaker, and presenter David Niven recovered with a quip.
3. Walt Disney accepts one big Oscar and seven little ones from Shirley Temple for “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”
4. Charlie Chaplin receives an honorary Academy Award, and is given the longest standing ovation in Oscar history
5. At the first Oscar ceremony after 9-11, Steve Martin came out as host right after a huge, over-the-top opening number and said, “Well, I’m glad they cut back on all the glitz.”
6. The always bizarre Jack Palance’s one armed pushups when he won for City Slickers.
7. Sally Fields’ acceptance speech in 1985 “You like me! You really like me!”
8. Hattie McDaniels becoming the first black actress to win an Oscar in a major category for a movie whose world premiere she was not legally allowed to attend
9. Elia Kazan’s honorary Oscar in 1999  
Controversial because of his testimony to the House Committee on Un-American Activities back in 1952, which helped put some on the Hollywood blacklist due to suspected Communist ties. There were demonstrations outside the theater and some of the actors at the ceremony ‘sat on their hands’ in protest while others stood and applauded as Kazan received his award.

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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2016, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/41676 "2016-02-26T23:09:06Z")

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> [@Tangent](#):
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> Controversial because of his testimony to the House Committee on Un-American Activities back in 1952, which helped put some on the Hollywood blacklist due to suspected Communist ties. There were demonstrations outside the theater and some of the actors at the ceremony ‘sat on their hands’ in protest while others stood and applauded as Kazan received his award.

I liked Spielberg’s compromise: he applauded for the artist and sat for the man.

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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2016, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/41677 "2016-02-26T23:10:15Z")

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Memorable Oscar Moments.

1. Sasheem Littlefeather accepting Marlon Brando’s award.
2. The Academy Awards had a streaker, and presenter David Niven recovered with a quip.
3. Walt Disney accepts one big Oscar and seven little ones from Shirley Temple for “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”
4. Charlie Chaplin receives an honorary Academy Award, and is given the longest standing ovation in Oscar history
5. At the first Oscar ceremony after 9-11, Steve Martin came out as host right after a huge, over-the-top opening number and said, “Well, I’m glad they cut back on all the glitz.”
6. The always bizarre Jack Palance’s one armed pushups when he won for City Slickers.
7. Sally Fields’ acceptance speech in 1985 “You like me! You really like me!”
8. Hattie McDaniels becoming the first black actress to win an Oscar in a major category for a movie whose world premiere she was not legally allowed to attend
9. Elia Kazan’s honorary Oscar in 1999
10. Adrian Brody full liplocking Halle Berry when he won for The Pianist  
She took it in stride but my understanding is she was not amused. He’s also allegedly banned from SNL for his antics while hosting.

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**Post date:** [February 27, 2016, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/41678 "2016-02-27T00:37:41Z")

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Memorable Oscar Moments.

1. Sasheem Littlefeather accepting Marlon Brando’s award.
2. The Academy Awards had a streaker, and presenter David Niven recovered with a quip.
3. Walt Disney accepts one big Oscar and seven little ones from Shirley Temple for “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”
4. Charlie Chaplin receives an honorary Academy Award, and is given the longest standing ovation in Oscar history
5. At the first Oscar ceremony after 9-11, Steve Martin came out as host right after a huge, over-the-top opening number and said, “Well, I’m glad they cut back on all the glitz.”
6. The always bizarre Jack Palance’s one armed pushups when he won for City Slickers.
7. Sally Fields’ acceptance speech in 1985 “You like me! You really like me!”
8. Hattie McDaniels becoming the first black actress to win an Oscar in a major category for a movie whose world premiere she was not legally allowed to attend
9. Elia Kazan’s honorary Oscar in 1999
10. Adrian Brody full liplocking Halle Berry when he won for The Pianist
11. Michael Moore’s anti-Bush tirade after _Bowling for Columbine_ won the Best Documentary Oscar.

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**Post date:** [February 27, 2016, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/41679 "2016-02-27T01:28:01Z")

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Memorable Oscar Moments.

1. Sasheem Littlefeather accepting Marlon Brando’s award.
2. The Academy Awards had a streaker, and presenter David Niven recovered with a quip.
3. Walt Disney accepts one big Oscar and seven little ones from Shirley Temple for “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”
4. Charlie Chaplin receives an honorary Academy Award, and is given the longest standing ovation in Oscar history
5. At the first Oscar ceremony after 9-11, Steve Martin came out as host right after a huge, over-the-top opening number and said, “Well, I’m glad they cut back on all the glitz.”
6. The always bizarre Jack Palance’s one armed pushups when he won for City Slickers.
7. Sally Fields’ acceptance speech in 1985 “You like me! You really like me!”
8. Hattie McDaniels becoming the first black actress to win an Oscar in a major category for a movie whose world premiere she was not legally allowed to attend
9. Elia Kazan’s honorary Oscar in 1999
10. Adrian Brody full liplocking Halle Berry when he won for The Pianist
11. Michael Moore’s anti-Bush tirade after _Bowling for Columbine_ won the Best Documentary Oscar.
12. David Letterman’s “Uma…Oprah” introduction

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**Post date:** [February 27, 2016, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/41680 "2016-02-27T03:36:46Z")

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Memorable Oscar Moments.

1. Sasheem Littlefeather accepting Marlon Brando’s award.
2. The Academy Awards had a streaker, and presenter David Niven recovered with a quip.
3. Walt Disney accepts one big Oscar and seven little ones from Shirley Temple for “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”
4. Charlie Chaplin receives an honorary Academy Award, and is given the longest standing ovation in Oscar history
5. At the first Oscar ceremony after 9-11, Steve Martin came out as host right after a huge, over-the-top opening number and said, “Well, I’m glad they cut back on all the glitz.”
6. The always bizarre Jack Palance’s one armed pushups when he won for City Slickers.
7. Sally Fields’ acceptance speech in 1985 “You like me! You really like me!”
8. Hattie McDaniels becoming the first black actress to win an Oscar in a major category for a movie whose world premiere she was not legally allowed to attend
9. Elia Kazan’s honorary Oscar in 1999
10. Adrian Brody full liplocking Halle Berry when he won for The Pianist
11. Michael Moore’s anti-Bush tirade after Bowling for Columbine won the Best Documentary Oscar.
12. David Letterman’s “Uma…Oprah” introduction
13. Billy Crystal making an entrance wearing a Hannibal Lecter mask  
or, for a more recent one, John Travolta introducing Idina Mezel as “Adele Dazeem”

New Category:  
Academy Award Winning Songs: love, hate, meh?

1. “Let it Go” from _Frozen,_ meh at first, hate after hearing it for the tenth-twentieth-hundredth time

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**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:** [February 27, 2016, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/41681 "2016-02-27T04:51:29Z")

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Academy Award Winning Songs: love, hate, meh?

1. “Let it Go” from _Frozen_, meh at first, hate after hearing it for the tenth-twentieth-hundredth time
2. “Things Have Changed” from _Wonder Boys_ - loved it then, love it still!

Fun fact - Dylan sings “The next sixty seconds could be like an eternity” with exactly one minute remaining in the song: [Bob Dylan - Things Have Changed (Official HD Video) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9EKqQWPjyo)

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**Post date:** [February 27, 2016, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/41682 "2016-02-27T05:20:00Z")

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Academy Award Winning Songs: love, hate, meh?

1. “Let it Go” from Frozen, meh at first, hate after hearing it for the tenth-twentieth-hundredth time
2. “Things Have Changed” from Wonder Boys - loved it then, love it still!
3. “My Heart Will Go On” from **Titanic** - If it went any slower, it’d be backing up. The song is meh, C. Dion is the worst.

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**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2016, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/41683 "2016-02-27T12:53:50Z")

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Academy Award Winning Songs: love, hate, meh?

1. “Let it Go” from Frozen, meh at first, hate after hearing it for the tenth-twentieth-hundredth time
2. “Things Have Changed” from Wonder Boys - loved it then, love it still!
3. “My Heart Will Go On” from Titanic - If it went any slower, it’d be backing up. The song is meh, C. Dion is the worst.
4. “The Way We Were” from The Way We Were - loved it, parodied it, made up harmonies to it.

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**Post date:** [February 27, 2016, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/41684 "2016-02-27T13:06:06Z")

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Academy Award Winning Songs: love, hate, meh?

1. “Let it Go” from Frozen, meh at first, hate after hearing it for the tenth-twentieth-hundredth time
2. “Things Have Changed” from Wonder Boys - loved it then, love it still!
3. “My Heart Will Go On” from Titanic - If it went any slower, it’d be backing up. The song is meh, C. Dion is the worst.
4. “The Way We Were” from The Way We Were - loved it, parodied it, made up harmonies to it.
5. “Man Or Muppet” from The Muppets, really? this was the best song from a movie that year?

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