# Bakers Dozen

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173>\
**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:** 2127

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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:** [April 8, 2016, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42525 "2016-04-08T20:21:44Z")

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Amenities in your own personal supervillain lair

1. Mooks with excellent marksmanship skills
2. An instantaneous deathtrap so the hero won’t have a chance to escape it.

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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:** [April 8, 2016, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42526 "2016-04-08T20:28:11Z")

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Amenities in your own personal supervillain lair

1. Mooks with excellent marksmanship skills
2. An instantaneous deathtrap so the hero won’t have a chance to escape it.
3. Portable chronosynclastic infundibulator

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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:** [April 8, 2016, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42527 "2016-04-08T20:46:39Z")

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Amenities in your own personal supervillain lair

1. Mooks with excellent marksmanship skills
2. An instantaneous deathtrap so the hero won’t have a chance to escape it.
3. Portable chronosynclastic infundibulator
4. Secure teleportation to my secondary lair should this one ever be breached. My minions can sort out the intruders.

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**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:** [April 8, 2016, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42528 "2016-04-08T21:50:09Z")

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Amenities in your own personal supervillain lair

1. Mooks with excellent marksmanship skills
2. An instantaneous deathtrap so the hero won’t have a chance to escape it.
3. Portable chronosynclastic infundibulator
4. Secure teleportation to my secondary lair should this one ever be breached. My minions can sort out the intruders.
5. Discreet, attractive, faithful and super-competent minions

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**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42529 "2016-04-08T23:28:32Z")

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Join Date: May 2012  
Amenities in your own personal supervillain lair

1. Mooks with excellent marksmanship skills
2. An instantaneous deathtrap so the hero won’t have a chance to escape it.
3. Portable chronosynclastic infundibulator
4. Secure teleportation to my secondary lair should this one ever be breached. My minions can sort out the intruders.
5. Discreet, attractive, faithful and super-competent minions
6. A faithful watchdog that barks and barks and barks at intruders, the moon, and falling leaves.

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2016, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42530 "2016-04-09T00:29:47Z")

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Amenities in your own personal supervillain lair

1. Mooks with excellent marksmanship skills
2. An instantaneous deathtrap so the hero won’t have a chance to escape it.
3. Portable chronosynclastic infundibulator
4. Secure teleportation to my secondary lair should this one ever be breached. My minions can sort out the intruders.
5. Discreet, attractive, faithful and super-competent minions
6. A faithful watchdog that barks and barks and barks at intruders, the moon, and falling leaves.
7. Super efficient, extremely narrow air ducts that only hamsters can crawl through them.

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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:** [April 9, 2016, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42531 "2016-04-09T00:37:33Z")

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Amenities in your own personal supervillain lair

1. Mooks with excellent marksmanship skills
2. An instantaneous deathtrap so the hero won’t have a chance to escape it.
3. Portable chronosynclastic infundibulator
4. Secure teleportation to my secondary lair should this one ever be breached. My minions can sort out the intruders.
5. Discreet, attractive, faithful and super-competent minions
6. A faithful watchdog that barks and barks and barks at intruders, the moon, and falling leaves.
7. Super efficient, extremely narrow air ducts that only hamsters can crawl through them.
8. Paralysis field generators

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**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2016, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42532 "2016-04-09T00:54:52Z")

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Amenities in your own personal supervillain lair

1. Mooks with excellent marksmanship skills
2. An instantaneous deathtrap so the hero won’t have a chance to escape it.
3. Portable chronosynclastic infundibulator
4. Secure teleportation to my secondary lair should this one ever be breached. My minions can sort out the intruders.
5. Discreet, attractive, faithful and super-competent minions
6. A faithful watchdog that barks and barks and barks at intruders, the moon, and falling leaves.
7. Super efficient, extremely narrow air ducts that only hamsters can crawl through them.
8. Paralysis field generators
9. A tank full of ill-tempered mutated sea bass in which to throw apprehended British secret agents.

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**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:** [April 9, 2016, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42533 "2016-04-09T01:04:52Z")

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Amenities in your own personal supervillain lair

1. Mooks with excellent marksmanship skills
2. An instantaneous deathtrap so the hero won’t have a chance to escape it.
3. Portable chronosynclastic infundibulator
4. Secure teleportation to my secondary lair should this one ever be breached. My minions can sort out the intruders.
5. Discreet, attractive, faithful and super-competent minions
6. A faithful watchdog that barks and barks and barks at intruders, the moon, and falling leaves.
7. Super efficient, extremely narrow air ducts that only hamsters can crawl through them.
8. Paralysis field generators
9. Secure large treasury room to display and gloat over the prize ill-gotten gains I acquire

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**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2016, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42534 "2016-04-09T01:12:21Z")

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Amenities in your own personal supervillain lair

1. Mooks with excellent marksmanship skills
2. An instantaneous deathtrap so the hero won’t have a chance to escape it.
3. Portable chronosynclastic infundibulator
4. Secure teleportation to my secondary lair should this one ever be breached. My minions can sort out the intruders.
5. Discreet, attractive, faithful and super-competent minions
6. A faithful watchdog that barks and barks and barks at intruders, the moon, and falling leaves.
7. Super efficient, extremely narrow air ducts that only hamsters can crawl through them.
8. Paralysis field generators
9. A tank full of ill-tempered mutated sea bass in which to throw apprehended British secret agents.
10. Secure large treasury room to display and gloat over the prize ill-gotten gains I acquire

_[reinserting the mutated sea bass at 9.]_

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**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:** [April 9, 2016, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42535 "2016-04-09T02:42:06Z")

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Sorry Walken, not sure how I left out your sea bass, I must have been too busy gloating.

Carry on, suoervillains!

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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:** [April 9, 2016, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42536 "2016-04-09T04:36:56Z")

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Amenities in your own personal supervillain lair

1. Mooks with excellent marksmanship skills
2. An instantaneous deathtrap so the hero won’t have a chance to escape it.
3. Portable chronosynclastic infundibulator
4. Secure teleportation to my secondary lair should this one ever be breached. My minions can sort out the intruders.
5. Discreet, attractive, faithful and super-competent minions
6. A faithful watchdog that barks and barks and barks at intruders, the moon, and falling leaves.
7. Super efficient, extremely narrow air ducts that only hamsters can crawl through them.
8. Paralysis field generators
9. A tank full of ill-tempered mutated sea bass in which to throw apprehended British secret agents.
10. Secure large treasury room to display and gloat over the prize ill-gotten gains I acquire
11. Plush guest rooms for all the British actresses and leggy supermodels who will want to drop by

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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:** [April 9, 2016, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42537 "2016-04-09T14:27:45Z")

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Amenities in your own personal supervillain lair

1. Mooks with excellent marksmanship skills
2. An instantaneous deathtrap so the hero won’t have a chance to escape it.
3. Portable chronosynclastic infundibulator
4. Secure teleportation to my secondary lair should this one ever be breached. My minions can sort out the intruders.
5. Discreet, attractive, faithful and super-competent minions
6. A faithful watchdog that barks and barks and barks at intruders, the moon, and falling leaves.
7. Super efficient, extremely narrow air ducts that only hamsters can crawl through them.
8. Paralysis field generators
9. A tank full of ill-tempered mutated sea bass in which to throw apprehended British secret agents.
10. Secure large treasury room to display and gloat over the prize ill-gotten gains I acquire
11. Plush guest rooms for all the British actresses and leggy supermodels who will want to drop by
12. Stripper pole for interviews to be one of my “elite henchmen”

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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:** [April 9, 2016, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42538 "2016-04-09T16:29:02Z")

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Amenities in your own personal supervillain lair

1. Mooks with excellent marksmanship skills
2. An instantaneous deathtrap so the hero won’t have a chance to escape it.
3. Portable chronosynclastic infundibulator
4. Secure teleportation to my secondary lair should this one ever be breached. My minions can sort out the intruders.
5. Discreet, attractive, faithful and super-competent minions
6. A faithful watchdog that barks and barks and barks at intruders, the moon, and falling leaves.
7. Super efficient, extremely narrow air ducts that only hamsters can crawl through them.
8. Paralysis field generators
9. A tank full of ill-tempered mutated sea bass in which to throw apprehended British secret agents.
10. Secure large treasury room to display and gloat over the prize ill-gotten gains I acquire
11. Plush guest rooms for all the British actresses and leggy supermodels who will want to drop by
12. Stripper pole for interviews to be one of my “elite henchmen”
13. A self destruct sequence that is not initiated by a large red obvious button.

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Must have secret gadgets for a super spy.

1. A phone that’s a gun and a gun that’s a phone.

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2016, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42539 "2016-04-09T16:31:38Z")

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Must have secret gadgets for a super spy.

1. A phone that’s a gun and a gun that’s a phone.
2. The Cone of Silence

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**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2016, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42540 "2016-04-09T16:42:44Z")

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Must have secret gadgets for a super spy.

1. A phone that’s a gun and a gun that’s a phone.
2. The Cone of Silence
3. X-ray vision goggles

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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:** [April 9, 2016, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42541 "2016-04-09T16:45:21Z")

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Must have secret gadgets for a super spy.

1. A phone that’s a gun and a gun that’s a phone.
2. The Cone of Silence
3. X-ray vision goggles
4. Hearing aid that’s a comm-link to HQ

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2016, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42542 "2016-04-09T17:05:20Z")

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Must have secret gadgets for a super spy.

1. A phone that’s a gun and a gun that’s a phone.
2. The Cone of Silence
3. X-ray vision goggles
4. Hearing aid that’s a comm-link to HQ
5. A decoder ring (“Drink Your Ovaltine”)

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**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:** [April 9, 2016, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42543 "2016-04-09T18:55:22Z")

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Must have secret gadgets for a super spy.

1. A phone that’s a gun and a gun that’s a phone.
2. The Cone of Silence
3. X-ray vision goggles
4. Hearing aid that’s a comm-link to HQ
5. A decoder ring (“Drink Your Ovaltine”)
6. Secret camera, hidden in a pen or lapel (tuxedo lapel for the super well dressed spy)

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2016, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42544 "2016-04-09T19:30:59Z")

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Must have secret gadgets for a super spy.

1. A phone that’s a gun and a gun that’s a phone.
2. The Cone of Silence
3. X-ray vision goggles
4. Hearing aid that’s a comm-link to HQ
5. A decoder ring (“Drink Your Ovaltine”)
6. Secret camera, hidden in a pen or lapel (tuxedo lapel for the super well dressed spy)
7. Car that goes from 0 to 120 in about 2 seconds, yet lets you jump out of it with no damage done to you or your suit (tuxedo for the super well dressed spy)

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