# 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:** 2187

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**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2016, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43726 "2016-05-20T19:08:45Z")

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Things that make you nostalgic for the 1990s:

1. Mix tapes
2. Super Nintendo
3. Mullets

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**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:** [May 20, 2016, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43727 "2016-05-20T19:19:31Z")

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Things that make you nostalgic for the 1990s:

1. Mix tapes
2. Super Nintendo
3. Mullets
4. Flannel shirts

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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:** [May 20, 2016, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43728 "2016-05-20T19:42:25Z")

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Things that make you nostalgic for the 1990s:

1. Mix tapes
2. Super Nintendo
3. Mullets
4. Flannel shirts
5. Combat boots

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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:** [May 20, 2016, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43729 "2016-05-20T19:49:32Z")

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Things that make you nostalgic for the 1990s:

1. Mix tapes
2. Super Nintendo
3. Mullets
4. Flannel shirts
5. Combat boots
6. Pre-9/11 mentality

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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:** [May 20, 2016, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43730 "2016-05-20T19:58:44Z")

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Things that make you nostalgic for the 1990s:

1. Mix tapes
2. Super Nintendo
3. Mullets
4. Flannel shirts
5. Combat boots
6. Pre-9/11 mentality
7. “Unchained Melody”

The Righteous Brothers’ cover used in “Ghost” really brings me back to the 90s

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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:** [May 20, 2016, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43731 "2016-05-20T20:24:11Z")

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Things that make you nostalgic for the 1990s:

1. Mix tapes
2. Super Nintendo
3. Mullets
4. Flannel shirts
5. Combat boots
6. Pre-9/11 mentality
7. “Unchained Melody”
8. Murphy Brown clips

Prime example: [the video cold open](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBOahSYRQtg) in the episode after she learned she was pregnant

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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:** [May 20, 2016, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43732 "2016-05-20T22:27:59Z")

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Things that make you nostalgic for the 1990s:

1. Mix tapes
2. Super Nintendo
3. Mullets
4. Flannel shirts
5. Combat boots
6. Pre-9/11 mentality
7. “Unchained Melody”
8. Murphy Brown clips
9. Social Security

My checks went farther than than they do now.

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**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2016, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43733 "2016-05-20T23:48:21Z")

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Things that make you nostalgic for the 1990s:

1. Mix tapes
2. Super Nintendo
3. Mullets
4. Flannel shirts
5. Combat boots
6. Pre-9/11 mentality
7. “Unchained Melody”
8. Murphy Brown clips
9. Social Security
10. Crystal Method

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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:** [May 21, 2016, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43734 "2016-05-21T00:38:05Z")

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Things that make you nostalgic for the 1990s:

1. Mix tapes
2. Super Nintendo
3. Mullets
4. Flannel shirts
5. Combat boots
6. Pre-9/11 mentality
7. “Unchained Melody”
8. Murphy Brown clips
9. Social Security
10. Crystal Method
11. Seinfeld

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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:** [May 21, 2016, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43735 "2016-05-21T02:42:14Z")

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Things that make you nostalgic for the 1990s:

1. Mix tapes
2. Super Nintendo
3. Mullets
4. Flannel shirts
5. Combat boots
6. Pre-9/11 mentality
7. “Unchained Melody”
8. Murphy Brown clips
9. Social Security
10. Crystal Method
11. Seinfeld
12. VHS tapes

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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:** [May 21, 2016, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43736 "2016-05-21T03:16:59Z")

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Things that make you nostalgic for the 1990s:

1. Mix tapes
2. Super Nintendo
3. Mullets
4. Flannel shirts
5. Combat boots
6. Pre-9/11 mentality
7. “Unchained Melody”
8. Murphy Brown clips
9. Social Security
10. Crystal Method
11. Seinfeld
12. VHS tapes
13. Cassette tapes and a Walkman

Simple technology does it for me  
New Category  
Because we’re following the Egyptair story: anyone or anything connected with Egypt

1. the Library of Alexandria

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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:** [May 21, 2016, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43737 "2016-05-21T03:57:50Z")

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Because we’re following the Egyptair story: anyone or anything connected with Egypt

1. the Library of Alexandria
2. The Nile River

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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:** [May 21, 2016, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43738 "2016-05-21T04:20:02Z")

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Because we’re following the Egyptair story: anyone or anything connected with Egypt

1. the Library of Alexandria
2. The Nile River
3. The Nubian Monument.

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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:** [May 21, 2016, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43739 "2016-05-21T04:56:15Z")

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Because we’re following the Egyptair story: anyone or anything connected with Egypt

1. the Library of Alexandria
2. The Nile River
3. The Nubian Monument.
4. Anubis

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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:** [May 21, 2016, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43740 "2016-05-21T05:16:57Z")

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Because we’re following the Egyptair story: anyone or anything connected with Egypt

1. the Library of Alexandria
2. The Nile River
3. The Nubian Monument.
4. Anubis
5. Omar Sharif

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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:** [May 21, 2016, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43741 "2016-05-21T11:01:01Z")

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Because we’re following the Egyptair story: anyone or anything connected with Egypt

1. the Library of Alexandria
2. The Nile River
3. The Nubian Monument.
4. Anubis
5. Omar Sharif
6. The Curse of the Revenge of the Ghost of the Son of the Crypt of the Mummy

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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:** [May 21, 2016, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43742 "2016-05-21T11:01:19Z")

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Because we’re following the Egyptair story: anyone or anything connected with Egypt

1. the Library of Alexandria
2. The Nile River
3. The Nubian Monument.
4. Anubis
5. Omar Sharif
6. The Curse of the Revenge of the Ghost of the Son of the Crypt of the Mummy
7. Passover

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**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:** [May 21, 2016, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43743 "2016-05-21T11:33:06Z")

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Because we’re following the Egyptair story: anyone or anything connected with Egypt

1. the Library of Alexandria
2. The Nile River
3. The Nubian Monument.
4. Anubis
5. Omar Sharif
6. The Curse of the Revenge of the Ghost of the Son of the Crypt of the Mummy
7. Passover
8. The Sphinx

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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:** [May 21, 2016, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43744 "2016-05-21T12:34:14Z")

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Because we’re following the Egyptair story: anyone or anything connected with Egypt

1. the Library of Alexandria
2. The Nile River
3. The Nubian Monument.
4. Anubis
5. Omar Sharif
6. The Curse of the Revenge of the Ghost of the Son of the Crypt of the Mummy
7. Passover
8. The Sphinx
9. (“Little Red Riding Hood”, by Sam the Sham and) The Pharaohs

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/b_K5b-JNc7E/maxresdefault.jpg "Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs - Little Red Riding Hood (HQ)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_K5b-JNc7E)

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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:** [May 21, 2016, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43745 "2016-05-21T12:49:23Z")

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Because we’re following the Egyptair story: anyone or anything connected with Egypt

1. the Library of Alexandria
2. The Nile River
3. The Nubian Monument.
4. Anubis
5. Omar Sharif
6. The Curse of the Revenge of the Ghost of the Son of the Crypt of the Mummy
7. Passover
8. The Sphinx
9. (“Little Red Riding Hood”, by Sam the Sham and) The Pharaohs
10. Cotton

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