# 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:** 25

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**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/481 "2010-08-25T21:26:13Z")

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Bands that have body parts in their name

1. Stiff Little Fingers
2. Talking Heads
3. Third Eye Blind
4. Heart
5. Spınal Tap
6. Nine Inch Nails
7. Bad Brains
8. Joe Cocker
9. Robert Johnson

> [@Dolores Reborn](#):
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> Sorry! 😉

Ditto! 😃

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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:** [August 25, 2010, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/482 "2010-08-25T21:30:09Z")

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Bands that have body parts in their name

1. Stiff Little Fingers
2. Talking Heads
3. Third Eye Blind
4. Heart
5. Spınal Tap
6. Nine Inch Nails
7. Bad Brains
8. Joe Cocker
9. Robert Johnson
10. Small Faces

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**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/483 "2010-08-25T21:35:56Z")

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Bands that have body parts in their name

1. Stiff Little Fingers
2. Talking Heads
3. Third Eye Blind
4. Heart
5. Spınal Tap
6. Nine Inch Nails
7. Bad Brains
8. Joe Cocker
9. Robert Johnson
10. Small Faces
11. Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

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**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/484 "2010-08-25T21:44:01Z")

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Bands that have body parts in their name

1. Stiff Little Fingers
2. Talking Heads
3. Third Eye Blind
4. Heart
5. Spınal Tap
6. Nine Inch Nails
7. Bad Brains
8. Joe Cocker
9. Robert Johnson
10. Small Faces
11. Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
12. Flaming Lips

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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:** [August 25, 2010, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/485 "2010-08-25T22:05:39Z")

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Bands that have body parts in their name

1. Stiff Little Fingers
2. Talking Heads
3. Third Eye Blind
4. Heart
5. Spınal Tap
6. Nine Inch Nails
7. Bad Brains
8. Joe Cocker
9. Robert Johnson
10. Small Faces
11. Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
12. Flaming Lips
13. Fingerbang 🙂

Next: Child stars who’ve successfully transitioned to adult roles

1. Neil Patrick Harris  
ETA: Sorry if I had too many (3) in that last one. I waited quite awhile before responding with #13 to make sure I wasn’t bogarting the list.

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**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/486 "2010-08-25T22:17:42Z")

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Next: Child stars who’ve successfully transitioned to adult roles

1. Neil Patrick Harris
2. Ron Howard (though he’s mostly a director now)

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**Author:** ![willthekittensurvive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/91b2a8/32.png) [@willthekittensurvive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/willthekittensurvive)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/487 "2010-08-25T23:28:01Z")

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Child stars who’ve successfully transitioned to adult roles

1. Neil Patrick Harris
2. Ron Howard  
3.Anna Paquin

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**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/488 "2010-08-25T23:53:20Z")

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Child stars who’ve successfully transitioned to adult roles

1. Neil Patrick Harris
2. Ron Howard
3. Anna Paquin
4. Christina Ricci

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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:** [August 26, 2010, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/489 "2010-08-26T00:03:34Z")

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Child stars who’ve successfully transitioned to adult roles

1. Neil Patrick Harris
2. Ron Howard
3. Anna Paquin
4. Christina Ricci
5. Jodie Foster

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**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:** [August 26, 2010, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/490 "2010-08-26T03:47:31Z")

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Child stars who’ve successfully transitioned to adult roles

1. Neil Patrick Harris
2. Ron Howard
3. Anna Paquin
4. Christina Ricci
5. Jodie Foster
6. Michael J. Fox

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**Author:** ![cucuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7feea3/32.png) [@cucuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cucuy)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/491 "2010-08-26T03:50:38Z")

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Child stars who’ve successfully transitioned to adult roles

1. Neil Patrick Harris
2. Ron Howard
3. Anna Paquin
4. Christina Ricci
5. Jodie Foster
6. Michael J. Fox
7. Jason Bateman

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**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/492 "2010-08-26T04:00:23Z")

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Child stars who’ve successfully transitioned to adult roles

1. Neil Patrick Harris
2. Ron Howard
3. Anna Paquin
4. Christina Ricci
5. Jodie Foster
6. Michael J. Fox
7. Jason Bateman
8. Robert Blake

Didn’t we already do a similar list? :dubious:

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**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_jeffrey_lebowski/32/215_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Jeffrey_Lebowski)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/493 "2010-08-26T04:28:06Z")

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I believe so. Also, I don’t know that MJF was a child star.

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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:** [August 26, 2010, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/494 "2010-08-26T13:14:07Z")

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Child stars who’ve successfully transitioned to adult roles

1. Neil Patrick Harris
2. Ron Howard
3. Anna Paquin
4. Christina Ricci
5. Jodie Foster
6. Michael J. Fox
7. Jason Bateman
8. Robert Blake
9. Christina Applegate

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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/495 "2010-08-26T13:18:52Z")

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Child stars who’ve successfully transitioned to adult roles

1. Neil Patrick Harris
2. Ron Howard
3. Anna Paquin
4. Christina Ricci
5. Jodie Foster
6. Michael J. Fox
7. Jason Bateman
8. Robert Blake
9. Christina Applegate
10. Brooke Shields

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**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/496 "2010-08-26T13:59:15Z")

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Child stars who’ve successfully transitioned to adult roles

1. Neil Patrick Harris
2. Ron Howard
3. Anna Paquin
4. Christina Ricci
5. Jodie Foster
6. Michael J. Fox
7. Jason Bateman
8. Robert Blake
9. Christina Applegate
10. Brooke Shields
11. Jackie Earle Haley

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**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:** [August 26, 2010, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/497 "2010-08-26T15:38:07Z")

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Child stars who’ve successfully transitioned to adult roles

1. Neil Patrick Harris
2. Ron Howard
3. Anna Paquin
4. Christina Ricci
5. Jodie Foster
6. Michael J. Fox
7. Jason Bateman
8. Robert Blake
9. Christina Applegate
10. Brooke Shields
11. Jackie Earle Haley
12. Courtney Cox

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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:** [August 26, 2010, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/498 "2010-08-26T16:50:33Z")

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Child stars who’ve successfully transitioned to adult roles

1. Neil Patrick Harris
2. Ron Howard
3. Anna Paquin
4. Christina Ricci
5. Jodie Foster
6. Michael J. Fox
7. Jason Bateman
8. Robert Blake
9. Christina Applegate
10. Brooke Shields
11. Jackie Earle Haley
12. Courtney Cox
13. Ray Liotta

New catagory:

Creative casts, groups, whatever with only one major player still alive:

1. The Golden Girls: Betty White

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**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:** [August 26, 2010, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/499 "2010-08-26T16:55:19Z")

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Ooo, that’s gonna be tough. Sure you don’t wanna word it, “Creative casts, groups, whatever of which at least one major player has died”?

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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:** [August 26, 2010, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/500 "2010-08-26T17:00:32Z")

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Okay, let’s say only half or fewer of the major players alive (though I bet we could find 13 with only one).

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