# 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:** 2268
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2016, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/45346 "2016-07-28T13:26:58Z")
Hockey is not a religion (though I know a few folks who would disagree) ---
**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:** [July 28, 2016, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/45347 "2016-07-28T13:28:41Z")
Actual places that are famous as the location of a miracle or a relic (any religion) 1. Torino/Turin (location of the Shroud of Turin) 2. Lourdes, France 3. Fatima, Portugal 4. Mexico City (Our Lady of Guadalupe) 5. Jerusalem, The Dome of the Rock 6. Egypt, the ten plagues 7. Basilica of Our Lord of the Miracles, Guadalajara de Buga Colombia 8. 34th Street 9. Lake Placid, NY (The Miracle on Ice) 10. The Miracle on the Hudson (River) ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2016, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/45348 "2016-07-28T13:42:01Z")
Actual places that are famous as the location of a miracle or a relic (any religion) 1. Torino/Turin (location of the Shroud of Turin) 2. Lourdes, France 3. Fatima, Portugal 4. Mexico City (Our Lady of Guadalupe) 5. Jerusalem, The Dome of the Rock 6. Egypt, the ten plagues 7. Basilica of Our Lord of the Miracles, Guadalajara de Buga Colombia 8. 34th Street 9. Lake Placid, NY (The Miracle on Ice) 10. The Miracle on the Hudson (River) 11. [St Andrew’s Cathedral](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Andrew%27s_Cathedral,_Patras), Patras Greece (location some of the bones of St Andrew) ---
**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:** [July 28, 2016, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/45349 "2016-07-28T14:20:46Z")
Actual places that are famous as the location of a miracle or a relic (any religion) 1. Torino/Turin (location of the Shroud of Turin) 2. Lourdes, France 3. Fatima, Portugal 4. Mexico City (Our Lady of Guadalupe) 5. Jerusalem, The Dome of the Rock 6. Egypt, the ten plagues 7. Basilica of Our Lord of the Miracles, Guadalajara de Buga Colombia 8. 34th Street 9. Lake Placid, NY (The Miracle on Ice) 10. The Miracle on the Hudson (River) 11. St Andrew’s Cathedral, Patras Greece (location of some of the bones of St Andrew) 12. The Kaaba, Mecca > **[Kaaba](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaaba)** > > The Kaaba (Arabic: ٱلْكَعْبَة, romanized: al-Kaʿba, lit. 'the Cube'\[a\], Arabic pronunciation: \[al.ˈkaʕ.ba\]), also spelled Ka'ba, Ka'bah or Kabah, sometimes referred to as al-Ka'ba al-Musharrafa (Arabic: ٱلْكَعْبَة ٱلْمُشَرَّفَة, romanized: al-Kaʿba l-Mušarrafa, lit. 'the Honored Ka'ba'\[b\], Arabic pronunciation: \[al.ˈkaʕ.ba‿l.mu.ˈʃar.ra.fa\]), is a stone building at the center of Islam's most important mosque and holiest site, the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. It is considered by In e... ---
**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:** [July 28, 2016, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/45350 "2016-07-28T14:35:32Z")
Actual places that are famous as the location of a miracle or a relic (any religion) 1. Torino/Turin (location of the Shroud of Turin) 2. Lourdes, France 3. Fatima, Portugal 4. Mexico City (Our Lady of Guadalupe) 5. Jerusalem, The Dome of the Rock 6. Egypt, the ten plagues 7. Basilica of Our Lord of the Miracles, Guadalajara de Buga Colombia 8. 34th Street 9. Lake Placid, NY (The Miracle on Ice) 10. The Miracle on the Hudson (River) 11. St Andrew’s Cathedral, Patras Greece (location of some of the bones of St Andrew) 12. The Kaaba, Mecca 13. Kandy, Sri Lanka They have a temple there which contains one of the Buddha’s teeth. I’ll pass. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2016, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/45351 "2016-07-28T16:47:41Z")
Words that contain every vowel (A, E, I, O, U and Y) exactly once 1. Omnisexually ---
**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:** [July 28, 2016, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/45352 "2016-07-28T16:59:36Z")
Words that contain every vowel (A, E, I, O, U and Y) exactly once 1. Omnisexually ---
**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:** [July 28, 2016, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/45353 "2016-07-28T17:04:22Z")
Words that contain every vowel (A, E, I, O, U and Y) exactly once 1. Omnisexually 2. Facetiously Are you sure there’s 13 of these?? ---
**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:** [July 28, 2016, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/45354 "2016-07-28T17:04:33Z")
Words that contain every vowel (A, E, I, O, U and Y) exactly once 1. Omnisexually 2. Facetiously 3. Iouea [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Iouea](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Iouea) ---
**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:** [July 28, 2016, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/45355 "2016-07-28T17:05:24Z")
_n/m - weird board glitch_ ---
**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:** [July 28, 2016, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/45356 "2016-07-28T17:10:15Z")
Words that contain every vowel (A, E, I, O, U and Y) exactly once 1. Omnisexually 2. Facetiously 3. Ambidextrously (Note: Iouea has no “Y”) ---
**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:** [July 28, 2016, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/45357 "2016-07-28T17:10:47Z")
Words that contain every vowel (A, E, I, O, U and Y) exactly once 1. Omnisexually 2. Facetiously 3. Ambidextrously 4. Pseudomythical (“Iouea” doesn’t count for the same reason my “Sequoia” didn’t - no Y) (according to the Google search I found, there are only seven of these - it might be wrong, though) ---
**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:** [July 28, 2016, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/45358 "2016-07-28T17:14:01Z")
Words that contain every vowel (A, E, I, O, U and Y) exactly once 1. Omnisexually 2. Facetiously 3. Ambidextrously 4. Pseudomythical 5. Abstemiously ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2016, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/45359 "2016-07-28T17:54:52Z")
Words that contain every vowel (A, E, I, O, U and Y) exactly once 1. Omnisexually 2. Facetiously 3. Ambidextrously 4. Pseudomythical 5. Abstemiously 6. Toby Maguire ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2016, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/45360 "2016-07-28T18:18:49Z")
Words that contain every vowel (A, E, I, O, U and Y) exactly once 1. Omnisexually 2. Facetiously 3. Ambidextrously 4. Pseudomythical 5. Abstemiously 6. Unviolatedly Tobey Maguire has an e in each name. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2016, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/45361 "2016-07-28T19:03:19Z")
Words that contain every vowel (A, E, I, O, U and Y) exactly once 1. Omnisexually 2. Facetiously 3. Ambidextrously 4. Pseudomythical 5. Abstemiously 6. Unviolatedly 7. Hugoweavingly To act in a manner reminiscent of Hugo Weaving. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2016, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/45362 "2016-07-28T19:09:23Z")
Words that contain every vowel (A, E, I, O, U and Y) exactly once 1. Omnisexually 2. Facetiously 3. Ambidextrously 4. Pseudomythical 5. Abstemiously 6. Unviolatedly 7. Hugoweavingly 8. Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz According to [Sesame Street,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr5er4ueWBQ) it’s pronounced _“Abca-def-ghee-jickle-manop-kerr-stoov-wix-iz.”_ ---
**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:** [July 28, 2016, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/45363 "2016-07-28T19:23:34Z")
Words that contain every vowel (A, E, I, O, U and Y) exactly once 1. Omnisexually 2. Facetiously 3. Ambidextrously 4. Pseudomythical 5. Abstemiously 6. Unviolatedly 7. Hugoweavingly 8. Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 9. questionably ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2016, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/45364 "2016-07-28T19:42:38Z")
Words that contain every vowel (A, E, I, O, U and Y) exactly once 1. Omnisexually 2. Facetiously 3. Ambidextrously 4. Pseudomythical 5. Abstemiously 6. Unviolatedly 7. Hugoweavingly 8. Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 9. questionably 10. Audiometry 11. Equivocally ---
**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:** [July 28, 2016, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/45365 "2016-07-28T23:20:01Z")
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