# 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:** 2469
**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:** [February 2, 2017, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/49366 "2017-02-02T09:17:32Z")
For Groundhog Day: odd, interesting or memorable rodent names 1. whistle-pig (a regional name for groundhog) 2. Middle East blind mole-rat ---
**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:** [February 2, 2017, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/49367 "2017-02-02T11:52:42Z")
For Groundhog Day: odd, interesting or memorable rodent names 1. whistle-pig (a regional name for groundhog) 2. Middle East blind mole-rat 3. horned gopher (extinct) ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/49368 "2017-02-02T12:44:19Z")
For Groundhog Day: odd, interesting or memorable rodent names 1. whistle-pig (a regional name for groundhog) 2. Middle East blind mole-rat 3. horned gopher (extinct) 4. Naked Mole Rat ---
**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:** [February 2, 2017, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/49369 "2017-02-02T12:51:05Z")
For Groundhog Day: odd, interesting or memorable rodent names 1. whistle-pig (a regional name for groundhog) 2. Middle East blind mole-rat 3. horned gopher (extinct) 4. Naked Mole Rat 5. Mickey ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/49370 "2017-02-02T13:31:31Z")
For Groundhog Day: odd, interesting or memorable rodent names 1. whistle-pig (a regional name for groundhog) 2. Middle East blind mole-rat 3. horned gopher (extinct) 4. Naked Mole Rat 5. Mickey 6. Capybara (web-footed 200-pounders) ---
**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:** [February 2, 2017, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/49371 "2017-02-02T14:34:26Z")
For Groundhog Day: odd, interesting or memorable rodent names 1. whistle-pig (a regional name for groundhog) 2. Middle East blind mole-rat 3. horned gopher (extinct) 4. Naked Mole Rat 5. Mickey 6. Capybara (web-footed 200-pounders) 7. _Josephoartigasia monesi_ (1 ton rodent that lived 4 -2 million years ago) ---
**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:** [February 2, 2017, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/49372 "2017-02-02T14:54:46Z")
For Groundhog Day: odd, interesting or memorable rodent names 1. whistle-pig (a regional name for groundhog) 2. Middle East blind mole-rat 3. horned gopher (extinct) 4. Naked Mole Rat 5. Mickey 6. Capybara (web-footed 200-pounders) 7. Josephoartigasia monesi (1 ton rodent that lived 4 -2 million years ago) 8. spiny dormouse ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/49373 "2017-02-02T15:31:18Z")
For Groundhog Day: odd, interesting or memorable rodent names 1. whistle-pig (a regional name for groundhog) 2. Middle East blind mole-rat 3. horned gopher (extinct) 4. Naked Mole Rat 5. Mickey 6. Capybara (web-footed 200-pounders) 7. Josephoartigasia monesi (1 ton rodent that lived 4 -2 million years ago) 8. spiny dormouse 9. Pseudomys (Cause it’s a fake mys, I guess) ---
**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:** [February 2, 2017, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/49374 "2017-02-02T15:33:27Z")
For Groundhog Day: odd, interesting or memorable rodent names 1. whistle-pig (a regional name for groundhog) 2. Middle East blind mole-rat 3. horned gopher (extinct) 4. Naked Mole Rat 5. Mickey 6. Capybara (web-footed 200-pounders) 7. Josephoartigasia monesi (1 ton rodent that lived 4 -2 million years ago) 8. spiny dormouse 9. Pseudomys 10. Spiny Norman Interviewer: “Was there anything unusual about him?” Gloria: “I should say not. Except, that Dinsdale was convinced that he was being watched by a giant hedgehog whom he referred to as ‘Spiny Norman’.” Interviewer: “How big was Norman supposed to be?” Gloria: “Normally Spiny Norman was wont to be about twelve feet from snout to tail, but when Dinsdale was depressed Norman could be anything up to eight hundred yards long. When Norman was about Dinsdale would go very quiet and start wobbling and his nose would swell up and his teeth would move about and he’d get very violent and claim that he’d laid Stanley Baldwin.” [http://www.montypython.net/scripts/piranha.php](http://www.montypython.net/scripts/piranha.php) ---
**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:** [February 2, 2017, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/49375 "2017-02-02T16:20:55Z")
“He was a gentleman, Dinsdale, and what’s more he knew how to treat a female impersonator.” ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/49376 "2017-02-02T17:01:23Z")
Disqualified. Hedgehogs are erinaceids, not rodents. More closely related to shrews. Never mind, groundhogs are not rodents either. ---
**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:** [February 2, 2017, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/49377 "2017-02-02T17:32:44Z")
Curious as to why groundhogs are not rodents? They belong to the order _Rodentia_ according to [Britannica.com](http://Britannica.com): "Groundhog (Marmota monax), also called woodchuck, one of 14 species of marmots (Marmota), considered basically a giant North American ground squirrel. It is sometimes destructive to gardens and pasturelands. Classified as a marmot, the groundhog is a member of the squirrel family, Sciuridae, within the order Rodentia. This stout-bodied rodent weighs up to 6 kg (13 pounds) . . . [Groundhog | Size, Diet, Groundhog Day, & Facts | Britannica](https://www.britannica.com/animal/groundhog) Also according to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History site: Marmota monax Woodchuck Order: Rodentia Family: Sciuridae [https://naturalhistory.si.edu/mna/image\_info.cfm?species\_id=146](https://naturalhistory.si.edu/mna/image_info.cfm?species_id=146) and this book: Thorington, R.W., Jr.; Hoffman, R.S. (2005). “Family Sciuridae”. In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 802 ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/49378 "2017-02-02T19:14:50Z")
For Groundhog Day: odd, interesting or memorable rodent names 1. whistle-pig (a regional name for groundhog) 2. Middle East blind mole-rat 3. horned gopher (extinct) 4. Naked Mole Rat 5. Mickey 6. Capybara (web-footed 200-pounders) 7. Josephoartigasia monesi (1 ton rodent that lived 4 -2 million years ago) 8. spiny dormouse 9. Pseudomys 10. Spiny Norman 11. Flying squirrel ---
**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:** [February 2, 2017, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/49379 "2017-02-02T22:32:04Z")
For Groundhog Day: odd, interesting or memorable rodent names 1. whistle-pig (a regional name for groundhog) 2. Middle East blind mole-rat 3. horned gopher (extinct) 4. Naked Mole Rat 5. Mickey 6. Capybara (web-footed 200-pounders) 7. Josephoartigasia monesi (1 ton rodent that lived 4 -2 million years ago) 8. spiny dormouse 9. Pseudomys 10. Spiny Norman 11. Flying squirrel 12. Mighty Mouse ---
**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:** [February 2, 2017, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/49380 "2017-02-02T22:58:34Z")
For Groundhog Day: odd, interesting or memorable rodent names 1. whistle-pig (a regional name for groundhog) 2. Middle East blind mole-rat 3. horned gopher (extinct) 4. Naked Mole Rat 5. Mickey 6. Capybara (web-footed 200-pounders) 7. Josephoartigasia monesi (1 ton rodent that lived 4 -2 million years ago) 8. spiny dormouse 9. Pseudomys 10. Spiny Norman 11. Flying squirrel 12. Mighty Mouse 13. Minnie Mouse Next: Fiction told in the first person: 1. The Spenser novels by Robert B. Parker, starting with The Godwulf Manuscript ---
**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:** [February 2, 2017, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/49381 "2017-02-02T23:00:51Z")
Fiction told in the first person: 1. The Spenser novels by Robert B. Parker, starting with The Godwulf Manuscript 2. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/49382 "2017-02-02T23:26:59Z")
Fiction told in the first person: 1. The Spenser novels by Robert B. Parker, starting with The Godwulf Manuscript 2. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 3. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens ---
**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:** [February 3, 2017, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/49383 "2017-02-03T00:07:49Z")
Fiction told in the first person: 1. The Spenser novels by Robert B. Parker, starting with The Godwulf Manuscript 2. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 3. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens 4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee ---
**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:** [February 3, 2017, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/49384 "2017-02-03T00:15:15Z")
Fiction told in the first person: 1. The Spenser novels by Robert B. Parker, starting with The Godwulf Manuscript 2. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 3. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens 4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 5. Aztec by Gary Jennings In the form of a long oral history provided to Catholic monks. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2017, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/49385 "2017-02-03T00:20:27Z")
Fiction told in the first person: 1. The Spenser novels by Robert B. Parker, starting with The Godwulf Manuscript 2. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 3. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens 4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 5. Aztec by Gary Jennings 6. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=2468) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=2470)