# 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:** 2137

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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 16, 2016, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42725 "2016-04-16T11:20:38Z")

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Things people enjoy that, if they disappeared tomorrow, you wouldn’t shed a tear

1. Cookies
2. Cigarettes
3. Light beer
4. Heroin
5. Fox News
6. Cigars

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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 16, 2016, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42726 "2016-04-16T12:06:59Z")

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Things people enjoy that, if they disappeared tomorrow, you wouldn’t shed a tear

1. Cookies
2. Cigarettes
3. Light beer
4. Heroin
5. Fox News
6. Cigars
7. Dancing

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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 16, 2016, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42727 "2016-04-16T12:13:26Z")

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Things people enjoy that, if they disappeared tomorrow, you wouldn’t shed a tear

1. Cookies
2. Cigarettes
3. Light beer
4. Heroin
5. Fox News
6. Cigars
7. Dancing
8. Every movie and pop song released in the past ten years.

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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 16, 2016, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42728 "2016-04-16T12:15:31Z")

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Things people enjoy that, if they disappeared tomorrow, you wouldn’t shed a tear

1. Cookies
2. Cigarettes
3. Light beer
4. Heroin
5. Fox News
6. Cigars
7. Dancing
8. Every movie and pop song released in the past ten years.
9. Jazz

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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 16, 2016, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42729 "2016-04-16T14:04:18Z")

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Politicians who’ve been the subject of a sex scandal, proven or otherwise.

1. Dennis Hastert (R, Illinois) - molested teenaged boys.
2. Eliot Spitzer (D, New York) - prostitutes
3. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R, California) - fathered a bastard child
4. Bill Clinton (D. former POTUS) - Monica Lewinsky et al
5. Warren G. Harding (R-Ohio) - had a longtime mistress with whom he probably fathered a daughter.
6. Gary Hart, forced to withdraw from US presidential candidacy over relationship with Donna Rice.
7. Jim McGreevey - Resigned as Governor of New Jersey when his gay affairs came out

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**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:** [April 16, 2016, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42730 "2016-04-16T14:14:43Z")

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Things people enjoy that, if they disappeared tomorrow, you wouldn’t shed a tear

1. Cookies
2. Cigarettes
3. Light beer
4. Heroin
5. Fox News
6. Cigars
7. Dancing
8. Every movie and pop song released in the past ten years.
9. Jazz
10. Politicians who’ve been the subject of a sex scandal, proven or otherwise.
11. Video games

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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 16, 2016, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42731 "2016-04-16T15:14:50Z")

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Things people enjoy that, if they disappeared tomorrow, you wouldn’t shed a tear

1. Cookies
2. Cigarettes
3. Light beer
4. Heroin
5. Fox News
6. Cigars
7. Dancing
8. Every movie and pop song released in the past ten years.
9. Jazz
10. Politicians who’ve been the subject of a sex scandal, proven or otherwise.
11. Video games
12. Gangsta rap

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**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:** [April 16, 2016, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42732 "2016-04-16T15:48:45Z")

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Things people enjoy that, if they disappeared tomorrow, you wouldn’t shed a tear

1. Cookies
2. Cigarettes
3. Light beer
4. Heroin
5. Fox News
6. Cigars
7. Dancing
8. Every movie and pop song released in the past ten years.
9. Jazz
10. Politicians who’ve been the subject of a sex scandal, proven or otherwise.
11. Video games
12. Gangsta rap
13. Netflix

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1. Ruggles of Red Gap

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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 16, 2016, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42733 "2016-04-16T15:56:41Z")

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Next: Titles with Alliteration

1. Ruggles of Red Gap
2. Smilla’s Sense of Snow  
Inadvertent, translated to English from the Danish “Frøken Smillas fornemmelse for sne”.

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**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42734 "2016-04-16T16:03:31Z")

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Next: Titles with Alliteration

1. Ruggles of Red Gap
2. Smilla’s Sense of Snow  
3 The War with Mr Wizzle

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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 16, 2016, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42735 "2016-04-16T16:34:56Z")

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Titles with Alliteration

1. Ruggles of Red Gap
2. Smilla’s Sense of Snow  
3 The War with Mr Wizzle
3. A Tale of Two Cities

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**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42736 "2016-04-16T17:03:35Z")

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Titles with Alliteration

1. Ruggles of Red Gap
2. Smilla’s Sense of Snow  
3 The War with Mr Wizzle
3. A Tale of Two Cities.
4. The Shell Seekers

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**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:** [April 16, 2016, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42737 "2016-04-16T17:52:21Z")

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Titles with Alliteration

1. Ruggles of Red Gap
2. Smilla’s Sense of Snow  
3 The War with Mr Wizzle
3. A Tale of Two Cities.
4. The Shell Seekers
5. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

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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 16, 2016, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42738 "2016-04-16T18:59:58Z")

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Titles with Alliteration

1. Ruggles of Red Gap
2. Smilla’s Sense of Snow  
3 The War with Mr Wizzle
3. A Tale of Two Cities.
4. The Shell Seekers
5. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
6. The Wind in the Willows

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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 16, 2016, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42739 "2016-04-16T19:22:41Z")

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Titles with Alliteration

1. Ruggles of Red Gap
2. Smilla’s Sense of Snow  
3 The War with Mr Wizzle
3. A Tale of Two Cities.
4. The Shell Seekers
5. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
6. The Wind in the Willows
7. Sense and Sensibility

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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 16, 2016, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42740 "2016-04-16T20:03:21Z")

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Titles with Alliteration

1. Ruggles of Red Gap
2. Smilla’s Sense of Snow  
3 The War with Mr Wizzle
3. A Tale of Two Cities.
4. The Shell Seekers
5. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
6. The Wind in the Willows
7. Sense and Sensibility
8. The Magical Monarch of Mo

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**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42741 "2016-04-16T20:08:24Z")

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Titles with Alliteration

1. Ruggles of Red Gap
2. Smilla’s Sense of Snow  
3 The War with Mr Wizzle
3. A Tale of Two Cities.
4. The Shell Seekers
5. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
6. The Wind in the Willows
7. Sense and Sensibility
8. The Magical Monarch of Mo
9. Dog Day Afternoon

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**Author:** ![quiltguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e47774/32.png) [@quiltguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42742 "2016-04-16T20:31:11Z")

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Titles with Alliteration

1. Ruggles of Red Gap
2. Smilla’s Sense of Snow  
3 The War with Mr Wizzle
3. A Tale of Two Cities.
4. The Shell Seekers
5. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
6. The Wind in the Willows
7. Sense and Sensibility
8. The Magical Monarch of Mo
9. Dog Day Afternoon
10. Mr. Hulot’s Holiday

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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 16, 2016, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42743 "2016-04-16T21:07:23Z")

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Titles with Alliteration

1. Ruggles of Red Gap
2. Smilla’s Sense of Snow  
3 The War with Mr Wizzle
3. A Tale of Two Cities.
4. The Shell Seekers
5. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
6. The Wind in the Willows
7. Sense and Sensibility
8. The Magical Monarch of Mo
9. Dog Day Afternoon
10. Mr. Hulot’s Holiday
11. Nicholas Nickleby

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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 16, 2016, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/42744 "2016-04-16T21:31:59Z")

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Titles with Alliteration

1. Ruggles of Red Gap

2. Smilla’s Sense of Snow  
3 The War with Mr Wizzle

3. A Tale of Two Cities.

4. The Shell Seekers

5. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

6. The Wind in the Willows

7. Sense and Sensibility

8. The Magical Monarch of Mo

9. Dog Day Afternoon

10. Mr. Hulot’s Holiday

11. Nicholas Nickleby

12. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe  
New:  
Unsuccessful Presidential candidates / election year

13. Al Smith, 1928

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