# 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:** 2269
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/45366 "2016-07-29T02:26:21Z")
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 12. cyberjournalism 13. Cyanomercuric Next: Famous peson born in a town that is now a ghost town. 1. Ralph Kiner Top home run hitter in 50s.,Santa Rita, NM. The Santa Rita town site is now in mid-air, hundreds of feet above the floor of a copper mine pit. ---
**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 29, 2016, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/45367 "2016-07-29T02:37:51Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > Famous peson born in a town that is now a ghost town. Are you sure we’re going to find thirteen people who qualify for this category? ---
**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:** [July 29, 2016, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/45368 "2016-07-29T03:09:57Z")
Alas, poor Baker’s Dozen thread! We hardly knew ye… ---
**Author:** ![Nelson\_Pike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Nelson\_Pike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nelson_Pike)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/45369 "2016-07-29T03:22:15Z")
Famous peson born in a town that is now a ghost town. 1. Ralph Kiner Top home run hitter in 50s.,Santa Rita, NM. The Santa Rita town site is now in mid-air, hundreds of feet above the floor of a copper mine pit. [/QUOTE] OK if we also make it a town that no longer exists? 1. Mentuhotep (Thebes, Egypt) ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/45370 "2016-07-29T12:56:33Z")
Famous peson born in a town that is now a ghost town. 1. Ralph Kiner – Santa Rita NM 2. Mentuhotep – Thebes, Egypt 3. Don Everly --Brownie KY Of the Everly Brothers. Come on, this isn’t that hard. ---
**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 29, 2016, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/45371 "2016-07-29T12:59:07Z")
Famous person born in a town that is now a ghost town. 1. Ralph Kiner - Top home run hitter in 50s.,Santa Rita, NM. The Santa Rita town site is now in mid-air, hundreds of feet above the floor of a copper mine pit. 2. Mentuhotep (Thebes, Egypt) 3. Don Everly --Brownie KY 4. Jim Allen, West Indies cricket player from Harris Village, Montserrat Harris Village was one of about 30 settlements abandoned after the eruption of the Soufrière Hills volcano in 1995. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2016, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/45372 "2016-07-29T13:10:03Z")
Famous person born in a town that is now a ghost town. 1. Ralph Kiner - Top home run hitter in 50s.,Santa Rita, NM. The Santa Rita town site is now in mid-air, hundreds of feet above the floor of a copper mine pit. 2. Mentuhotep (Thebes, Egypt) 3. Don Everly --Brownie KY 4. Jim Allen, West Indies cricket player from Harris Village, Montserrat 5. Poppaea Sabina, second wife of the Emperor Nero and born in Pompeii. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/45373 "2016-07-29T14:37:45Z")
Famous person born in a town that is now a ghost town. 1. Ralph Kiner - T,Santa Rita, NM. 2. Mentuhotep (Thebes, Egypt) 3. Don Everly --Brownie KY 4. Jim Allen, West Indies cricket player from Harris Village, Montserrat 5. Poppaea Sabina, second wife of the Emperor Nero and born in Pompeii. 6. Willie Mays – Westfield Alabama When he was born there, it was a company town owned by US Steel, which later leveled the old town, to make industrial space. ---
**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 29, 2016, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/45374 "2016-07-29T19:45:18Z")
Famous person born in a town that is now a ghost town. 1. Ralph Kiner - T,Santa Rita, NM. 2. Mentuhotep (Thebes, Egypt) 3. Don Everly --Brownie KY 4. Jim Allen, West Indies cricket player from Harris Village, Montserrat 5. Poppaea Sabina, second wife of the Emperor Nero and born in Pompeii. 6. Willie Mays – Westfield Alabama 7. Alexander the Great, Pella, Macedon Nothing there now but fields and an archaeological dig, where a farmer found the remnants of the royal city. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/45375 "2016-07-29T21:07:46Z")
Famous person born in a town that is now a ghost town. 1. Ralph Kiner - T,Santa Rita, NM. 2. Mentuhotep (Thebes, Egypt) 3. Don Everly --Brownie KY 4. Jim Allen, West Indies cricket player from Harris Village, Montserrat 5. Poppaea Sabina, second wife of the Emperor Nero and born in Pompeii. 6. Willie Mays – Westfield Alabama 7. Alexander the Great, Pella, Macedon 8. Hannibal, Carthage The city was conquered and destroyed. ---
**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 29, 2016, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/45376 "2016-07-29T22:54:58Z")
Famous person born in a town that is now a ghost town. 1. Ralph Kiner - T,Santa Rita, NM. 2. Mentuhotep (Thebes, Egypt) 3. Don Everly --Brownie KY 4. Jim Allen, West Indies cricket player from Harris Village, Montserrat 5. Poppaea Sabina, second wife of the Emperor Nero and born in Pompeii. 6. Willie Mays – Westfield Alabama 7. Alexander the Great, Pella, Macedon 8. Hannibal, Carthage 9. Tom and Dick Smothers, Governor’s Island, New York The island is a now closed military base in New York Harbor. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2016, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/45377 "2016-07-30T03:03:57Z")
Famous person born in a town that is now a ghost town. 1. Ralph Kiner - T,Santa Rita, NM. 2. Mentuhotep (Thebes, Egypt) 3. Don Everly --Brownie KY 4. Jim Allen, West Indies cricket player from Harris Village, Montserrat 5. Poppaea Sabina, second wife of the Emperor Nero and born in Pompeii. 6. Willie Mays – Westfield Alabama 7. Alexander the Great, Pella, Macedon 8. Hannibal, Carthage 9. Tom and Dick Smothers, Governor’s Island, New York 10. Myrna Loy – Radersburg, Montana ---
**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 30, 2016, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/45378 "2016-07-30T04:15:33Z")
Famous person born in a town that is now a ghost town. 1. Ralph Kiner - T,Santa Rita, NM. 2. Mentuhotep (Thebes, Egypt) 3. Don Everly --Brownie KY 4. Jim Allen, West Indies cricket player from Harris Village, Montserrat 5. Poppaea Sabina, second wife of the Emperor Nero and born in Pompeii. 6. Willie Mays – Westfield Alabama 7. Alexander the Great, Pella, Macedon 8. Hannibal, Carthage 9. Tom and Dick Smothers, Governor’s Island, New York 10. Myrna Loy – Radersburg, Montana 11. Phaedo of Elis, Greece Philosopher, for whom one of Plato’s famous dialogues is named. There’s a modern district and village in Greece nearby with the same name but the ancient city is in ruins. By the way Governor’s Island is now busy during the day with a park, school and artistic and cultural activities going on, but nobody lives there. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2016, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/45379 "2016-07-30T12:02:22Z")
Famous person born in a town that is now a ghost town. 1. Ralph Kiner - Santa Rita, NM. 2. Mentuhotep (Thebes, Egypt) 3. Don Everly --Brownie KY 4. Jim Allen, West Indies cricket player from Harris Village, Montserrat 5. Poppaea Sabina, second wife of the Emperor Nero and born in Pompeii. 6. Willie Mays – Westfield Alabama 7. Alexander the Great, Pella, Macedon 8. Hannibal, Carthage 9. Tom and Dick Smothers, Governor’s Island, New York 10. Myrna Loy – Radersburg, Montana 11. Phaedo of Elis, Greece 12. Mark Twain – Florida, Missouri ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2016, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/45380 "2016-07-30T14:59:59Z")
Famous person born in a town that is now a ghost town. 1. Ralph Kiner - Santa Rita, NM. 2. Mentuhotep (Thebes, Egypt) 3. Don Everly --Brownie KY 4. Jim Allen, West Indies cricket player from Harris Village, Montserrat 5. Poppaea Sabina, second wife of the Emperor Nero and born in Pompeii. 6. Willie Mays – Westfield Alabama 7. Alexander the Great, Pella, Macedon 8. Hannibal, Carthage 9. Tom and Dick Smothers, Governor’s Island, New York 10. Myrna Loy – Radersburg, Montana 11. Phaedo of Elis, Greece 12. Mark Twain – Florida, Missouri 13. Eva Adams – Wonder, Nevada She was director of the US Mint through the 1960s, appointed by President Kennedy. Everyone seems to have found this topic problematic, so I’ll wrap it up and pass. ---
**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 30, 2016, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/45381 "2016-07-30T15:01:40Z")
You have to “mind” these songs. 1. You Were On My Mind - We Five ---
**Author:** ![Thin\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Thin\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thin_Ice)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2016, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/45382 "2016-07-30T16:42:26Z")
You have to “mind” these songs. 1. You Were On My Mind - We Five 2. Mind Games - John Lennon ---
**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 30, 2016, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/45383 "2016-07-30T16:48:52Z")
You have to “mind” these songs. 1. You Were On My Mind - We Five 2. Mind Games - John Lennon 3. Always on My Mind - Gwen McCrae, Brenda Lee, Willie Nelson, Elvis Presley, Loretta Lynn, the Pet Shop Boys, and others ---
**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:** [July 30, 2016, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/45384 "2016-07-30T17:17:51Z")
You have to “mind” these songs. 1. You Were On My Mind - We Five 2. Mind Games - John Lennon 3. Always on My Mind - Gwen McCrae, Brenda Lee, Willie Nelson, Elvis Presley, Loretta Lynn, the Pet Shop Boys, and others 4. New York State of Mind - Billy Joel ---
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You have to “mind” these songs. 1. You Were On My Mind - We Five 2. Mind Games - John Lennon 3. Always on My Mind - Gwen McCrae, Brenda Lee, Willie Nelson, Elvis Presley, Loretta Lynn, the Pet Shop Boys, and others 4. New York State of Mind - Billy Joel 5. Georgia On My Mind - Ray Charles [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=2268) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=2270)