# 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:** 2791
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2017, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/55807 "2017-11-14T12:43:04Z")
Alternate Universe versions of things in our reality 1. The Inside Dope Chat Room (for the SDMB, natch.) 2. President Bernie Sanders 3. Second Russian Empire 4. The Beatles 2017 reunion: 50 years after Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band 5. Execution of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin 6. The hit Netflix show Ordinarier Things 7. The 2017 release of American Graffiti, Episode VIII: Toad in Vietnam 8. President Trump is renowned for humility and political efficiency 9. Lady GooGoo 10. Mazeroski strikes out and Yanks win 1960 World Series ---
**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:** [November 14, 2017, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/55808 "2017-11-14T13:52:00Z")
Alternate Universe versions of things in our reality 1. The Inside Dope Chat Room (for the SDMB, natch.) 2. President Bernie Sanders 3. Second Russian Empire 4. The Beatles 2017 reunion: 50 years after Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band 5. Execution of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin 6. The hit Netflix show Ordinarier Things 7. The 2017 release of American Graffiti, Episode VIII: Toad in Vietnam 8. President Trump is renowned for humility and political efficiency 9. Lady GooGoo 10. Mazeroski strikes out and Yanks win 1960 World Series 11. Celebrate 200 years of low prices at a Walworth’s Department Store near you. ---
**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:** [November 14, 2017, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/55809 "2017-11-14T14:10:07Z")
Alternate Universe versions of things in our reality 1. The Inside Dope Chat Room (for the SDMB, natch.) 2. President Bernie Sanders 3. Second Russian Empire 4. The Beatles 2017 reunion: 50 years after Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band 5. Execution of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin 6. The hit Netflix show Ordinarier Things 7. The 2017 release of American Graffiti, Episode VIII: Toad in Vietnam 8. President Trump is renowned for humility and political efficiency 9. Lady GooGoo 10. Mazeroski strikes out and Yanks win 1960 World Series 11. Celebrate 200 years of low prices at a Walworth’s Department Store near you. 12. Killer O.J. Simpson put to death by lethal injection. ---
**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:** [November 14, 2017, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/55810 "2017-11-14T16:56:15Z")
Alternate Universe versions of things in our reality 1. The Inside Dope Chat Room (for the SDMB, natch.) 2. President Bernie Sanders 3. Second Russian Empire 4. The Beatles 2017 reunion: 50 years after Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band 5. Execution of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin 6. The hit Netflix show Ordinarier Things 7. The 2017 release of American Graffiti, Episode VIII: Toad in Vietnam 8. President Trump is renowned for humility and political efficiency 9. Lady GooGoo 10. Mazeroski strikes out and Yanks win 1960 World Series 11. Celebrate 200 years of low prices at a Walworth’s Department Store near you. 12. Killer O.J. Simpson put to death by lethal injection. 13. Former First Husband Bill Clinton failed in his 2016 attempt to follow his wife’s Presidency with one of his own. I’ll pass. ---
**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:** [November 14, 2017, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/55811 "2017-11-14T17:55:46Z")
First Lines of Famous Novels that Aren’t Famous: 1. “The primroses were over.” - Watership Down, by Richard Adams ---
**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:** [November 14, 2017, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/55812 "2017-11-14T18:38:23Z")
First Lines of Famous Novels that Aren’t Famous: 1. “The primroses were over.” - Watership Down, by Richard Adams 2. “All of this happened, more or less.” - Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut ---
**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:** [November 14, 2017, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/55813 "2017-11-14T18:49:22Z")
First Lines of Famous Novels that Aren’t Famous: 1. “The primroses were over.” - Watership Down, by Richard Adams 2. “All of this happened, more or less.” - Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut 3. “Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns, stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst.” - The House of Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne ---
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First Lines of Famous Novels that Aren’t Famous: 1. “The primroses were over.” - Watership Down, by Richard Adams 2. “All of this happened, more or less.” - Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut 3. “Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns, stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst.” - The House of Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne 4. “It was four o’clock when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive.” - The Jungle, Upton Sinclair ---
**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:** [November 14, 2017, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/55815 "2017-11-14T19:40:17Z")
First Lines of Famous Novels that Aren’t Famous: 1. “The primroses were over.” - Watership Down, by Richard Adams 2. “All of this happened, more or less.” - Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut 3. “Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns, stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst.” - The House of Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne 4. “It was four o’clock when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive.” - The Jungle, Upton Sinclair 5. “It’s getting late.” - The Dark Fields (republished as Limitless) by Alan Glynn ---
**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:** [November 14, 2017, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/55816 "2017-11-14T20:11:25Z")
First Lines of Famous Novels that Aren’t Famous: 1. “The primroses were over.” - Watership Down, by Richard Adams 2. “All of this happened, more or less.” - Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut 3. “Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns, stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst.” - The House of Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne 4. “It was four o’clock when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive.” - The Jungle, Upton Sinclair 5. “It’s getting late.” - The Dark Fields (republished as Limitless) by Alan Glynn 6. “There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.” - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte ---
**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:** [November 14, 2017, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/55817 "2017-11-14T21:37:58Z")
First Lines of Famous Novels that Aren’t Famous: 1. “The primroses were over.” - Watership Down, by Richard Adams 2. “All of this happened, more or less.” - Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut 3. “Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns, stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst.” - The House of Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne 4. “It was four o’clock when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive.” - The Jungle, Upton Sinclair 5. “It’s getting late.” - The Dark Fields (republished as Limitless) by Alan Glynn 6. “There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.” - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 7. “You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.” - _Frankenstein_ by Mary Shelley ---
**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:** [November 14, 2017, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/55818 "2017-11-14T22:08:05Z")
First Lines of Famous Novels that Aren’t Famous: 1. “The primroses were over.” - Watership Down, by Richard Adams 2. “All of this happened, more or less.” - Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut 3. “Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns, stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst.” - The House of Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne 4. “It was four o’clock when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive.” - The Jungle, Upton Sinclair 5. “It’s getting late.” - The Dark Fields (republished as Limitless) by Alan Glynn 6. “There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.” - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 7. “You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.” - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 8. “I was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York, of a good Family, tho’ not of that Country, my Father being a Foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull: He got a good Estate by Merchandise, and leaving off his Trade, lived afterward at York, from whence he had married my Mother, Relations were named Robinson, a very good Family at Country, and from whom I was called Robinson Keutznaer; but by the usual Corruption of Words in England, we are now called, nay we call our Selves, and writer Name Crusoe, and so my Companions always call’d me.” - Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe ---
**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:** [November 14, 2017, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/55819 "2017-11-14T22:30:43Z")
First Lines of Famous Novels that Aren’t Famous: 1. “The primroses were over.” - Watership Down, by Richard Adams 2. “All of this happened, more or less.” - Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut 3. “Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns, stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst.” - The House of Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne 4. “It was four o’clock when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive.” - The Jungle, Upton Sinclair 5. “It’s getting late.” - The Dark Fields (republished as Limitless) by Alan Glynn 6. “There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.” - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 7. “You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.” - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 8. “I was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York, of a good Family, tho’ not of that Country, my Father being a Foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull: He got a good Estate by Merchandise, and leaving off his Trade, lived afterward at York, from whence he had married my Mother, Relations were named Robinson, a very good Family at Country, and from whom I was called Robinson Keutznaer; but by the usual Corruption of Words in England, we are now called, nay we call our Selves, and writer Name Crusoe, and so my Companions always call’d me.” - Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 9. “In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army.” - A Study in Scarlet, by Arthur Conan Doyle ---
**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:** [November 14, 2017, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/55820 "2017-11-14T22:57:07Z")
First Lines of Famous Novels that Aren’t Famous: 1. “The primroses were over.” - Watership Down, by Richard Adams 2. “All of this happened, more or less.” - Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut 3. “Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns, stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst.” - The House of Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne 4. “It was four o’clock when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive.” - The Jungle, Upton Sinclair 5. “It’s getting late.” - The Dark Fields (republished as Limitless) by Alan Glynn 6. “There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.” - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 7. “You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.” - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 8. “I was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York, of a good Family, tho’ not of that Country, my Father being a Foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull: He got a good Estate by Merchandise, and leaving off his Trade, lived afterward at York, from whence he had married my Mother, Relations were named Robinson, a very good Family at Country, and from whom I was called Robinson Keutznaer; but by the usual Corruption of Words in England, we are now called, nay we call our Selves, and writer Name Crusoe, and so my Companions always call’d me.” - Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 9. “In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army.” - A Study in Scarlet, by Arthur Conan Doyle 10. “Mr Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes.” Animal Farm, George Orwell ---
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First Lines of Famous Novels that Aren’t Famous: 1. “The primroses were over.” - Watership Down, by Richard Adams 2. “All of this happened, more or less.” - Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut 3. “Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns, stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst.” - The House of Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne 4. “It was four o’clock when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive.” - The Jungle, Upton Sinclair 5. “It’s getting late.” - The Dark Fields (republished as Limitless) by Alan Glynn 6. “There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.” - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 7. “You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.” - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 8. “I was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York, of a good Family, tho’ not of that Country, my Father being a Foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull: He got a good Estate by Merchandise, and leaving off his Trade, lived afterward at York, from whence he had married my Mother, Relations were named Robinson, a very good Family at Country, and from whom I was called Robinson Keutznaer; but by the usual Corruption of Words in England, we are now called, nay we call our Selves, and writer Name Crusoe, and so my Companions always call’d me.” - Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 9. “In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army.” - A Study in Scarlet, by Arthur Conan Doyle 10. “Mr Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes.” Animal Farm, George Orwell 11. “The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended.” 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke ---
**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:** [November 14, 2017, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/55822 "2017-11-14T23:32:56Z")
1. “The primroses were over.” - Watership Down, by Richard Adams 2. “All of this happened, more or less.” - Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut 3. “Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns, stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst.” - The House of Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne 4. “It was four o’clock when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive.” - The Jungle, Upton Sinclair 5. “It’s getting late.” - The Dark Fields (republished as Limitless) by Alan Glynn 6. “There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.” - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 7. “You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.” - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 8. “I was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York, of a good Family, tho’ not of that Country, my Father being a Foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull: He got a good Estate by Merchandise, and leaving off his Trade, lived afterward at York, from whence he had married my Mother, Relations were named Robinson, a very good Family at Country, and from whom I was called Robinson Keutznaer; but by the usual Corruption of Words in England, we are now called, nay we call our Selves, and writer Name Crusoe, and so my Companions always call’d me.” - Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 9. “In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army.” - A Study in Scarlet, by Arthur Conan Doyle 10. “Mr Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes.” Animal Farm, George Orwell 11. “The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended.” 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke 12. “In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him.” - The Beautiful & the Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald ---
**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:** [November 15, 2017, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/55823 "2017-11-15T03:46:17Z")
Noticed something interesting about John Steinbeck. Here are the opening lines from three of his books: “The Salinas Valley is in Northern California. It is a long narrow swale between two ranges of mountains, and the Salinas River winds and twists up the center until it falls at last into Monterey Bay.” - _East of Eden_ “To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.” - _The Grapes of Wrath_ “A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool.” - _Of Mice and Men_ I thought it was unusual how similar they are: a description of a natural geographic feature doing something. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2017, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/55824 "2017-11-15T04:30:15Z")
1. “The primroses were over.” - Watership Down, by Richard Adams 2. “All of this happened, more or less.” - Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut 3. “Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns, stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst.” - The House of Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne 4. “It was four o’clock when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive.” - The Jungle, Upton Sinclair 5. “It’s getting late.” - The Dark Fields (republished as Limitless) by Alan Glynn 6. “There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.” - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 7. “You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.” - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 8. “I was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York, of a good Family, tho’ not of that Country, my Father being a Foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull: He got a good Estate by Merchandise, and leaving off his Trade, lived afterward at York, from whence he had married my Mother, Relations were named Robinson, a very good Family at Country, and from whom I was called Robinson Keutznaer; but by the usual Corruption of Words in England, we are now called, nay we call our Selves, and writer Name Crusoe, and so my Companions always call’d me.” - Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 9. “In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army.” - A Study in Scarlet, by Arthur Conan Doyle 10. “Mr Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes.” Animal Farm, George Orwell 11. “The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended.” 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke 12. “In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him.” - The Beautiful & the Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald 13. “The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods.” Babbitt, by Sinclair Lewis Next subject: Movies with memorable opening credits (include video link if possible): 1. To Kill a Mockingbird, [To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) title sequence - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v04pqVoH7rE) ---
**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:** [November 15, 2017, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/55825 "2017-11-15T05:01:01Z")
Movies with memorable opening credits (include video link if possible): 1. To Kill a Mockingbird, [To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) title sequence - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v04pqVoH7rE) 2. Monty Python and the Holy Grail: [Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Opening Credits - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79TVMn_d_Pk) ---
**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:** [November 15, 2017, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/55826 "2017-11-15T07:10:24Z")
Movies with memorable opening credits (include video link if possible): 1. To Kill a Mockingbird, [To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) title sequence - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v04pqVoH7rE) 2. Monty Python and the Holy Grail: [Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Opening Credits - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79TVMn_d_Pk) 3. _Lord of War_: [Lord of War (Opening Title Sequence) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K1jBbq6zRo) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=2790) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=2792)