# 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\
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**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2018, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57567 "2018-03-01T14:16:28Z")

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Join Date: Sep 2000  
Location: Lethbridge, Alberta  
Posts: 13,283  
Something new you learned recently

1. Humpty Dumpty was actually a cannon used in the English Civil War.
2. Rifling was actually invented in the late 15th century.
3. John Adams visited Shakespeare’s home in Stratford-upon-Avon with Thomas Jefferson. While there, they chipped off a piece of one of Shakespeare’s chairs as a souvenir.
4. Late in his reign, King William IV, third son of George III, told the U.S. ambassador at a dinner party that he regretted not being “born a free, independent American, so much did he respect that nation, which had given birth to George Washington, the greatest man that ever lived.”
5. The Ramones recorded a song called Chop Suey.
6. The wife of Jiro Horikoshi, who before WWII designed the famed Zero fighter plane for the Japanese military, did not die of tuberculosis as was shown in the 2013 Studio Ghibli film “The Wind Rises”
7. Dylan Thomas was a teenager when many of the poems for which he became famous were published, including “And death shall have no dominion”.
8. “Cnidaria” is the phylum that includes jellyfish. The “C” is silent. I have no idea why the “C” is there, though.
9. Tartar on your teeth is the same as Cream of Tartar, which is why baking soda neutralizes it, same way it does when making baking powder from the same ingredients.

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**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:** [March 1, 2018, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57568 "2018-03-01T15:12:18Z")

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> [@Spoons](#):
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> 1. “Cnidaria” is the phylum that includes jellyfish. The “C” is silent. I have no idea why the “C” is there, though.

Off topic:

Surely the “c” is there because jellyfish live in the deep blue c…

(I’ll show myself out.)

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**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:** [March 1, 2018, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57569 "2018-03-01T16:42:20Z")

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Something new you learned recently

1. Humpty Dumpty was actually a cannon used in the English Civil War.
2. Rifling was actually invented in the late 15th century.
3. John Adams visited Shakespeare’s home in Stratford-upon-Avon with Thomas Jefferson. While there, they chipped off a piece of one of Shakespeare’s chairs as a souvenir.
4. Late in his reign, King William IV, third son of George III, told the U.S. ambassador at a dinner party that he regretted not being “born a free, independent American, so much did he respect that nation, which had given birth to George Washington, the greatest man that ever lived.”
5. The Ramones recorded a song called Chop Suey.
6. The wife of Jiro Horikoshi, who before WWII designed the famed Zero fighter plane for the Japanese military, did not die of tuberculosis as was shown in the 2013 Studio Ghibli film “The Wind Rises”
7. Dylan Thomas was a teenager when many of the poems for which he became famous were published, including “And death shall have no dominion”.
8. “Cnidaria” is the phylum that includes jellyfish. The “C” is silent. I have no idea why the “C” is there, though.
9. Tartar on your teeth is the same as Cream of Tartar, which is why baking soda neutralizes it, same way it does when making baking powder from the same ingredients.
10. The title role in the movie “Beetlejuice” was originally offered to Sammy Davis, Jr.

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**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:** [March 1, 2018, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57570 "2018-03-01T17:17:26Z")

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Something new you learned recently

1. Humpty Dumpty was actually a cannon used in the English Civil War.
2. Rifling was actually invented in the late 15th century.
3. John Adams visited Shakespeare’s home in Stratford-upon-Avon with Thomas Jefferson. While there, they chipped off a piece of one of Shakespeare’s chairs as a souvenir.
4. Late in his reign, King William IV, third son of George III, told the U.S. ambassador at a dinner party that he regretted not being “born a free, independent American, so much did he respect that nation, which had given birth to George Washington, the greatest man that ever lived.”
5. The Ramones recorded a song called Chop Suey.
6. The wife of Jiro Horikoshi, who before WWII designed the famed Zero fighter plane for the Japanese military, did not die of tuberculosis as was shown in the 2013 Studio Ghibli film “The Wind Rises”
7. Dylan Thomas was a teenager when many of the poems for which he became famous were published, including “And death shall have no dominion”.
8. “Cnidaria” is the phylum that includes jellyfish. The “C” is silent. I have no idea why the “C” is there, though.
9. Tartar on your teeth is the same as Cream of Tartar, which is why baking soda neutralizes it, same way it does when making baking powder from the same ingredients.
10. The title role in the movie “Beetlejuice” was originally offered to Sammy Davis, Jr.
11. The film _The Grapes of Wrath_ was shown in the USSR in 1948 because it showed the plight of people under capitalism, but was soon withdrawn because audiences noticed that, as shown in the film, even poor Americans could afford a car.

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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:** [March 2, 2018, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57571 "2018-03-02T05:35:33Z")

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Something new you learned recently

1. Humpty Dumpty was actually a cannon used in the English Civil War.
2. Rifling was actually invented in the late 15th century.
3. John Adams visited Shakespeare’s home in Stratford-upon-Avon with Thomas Jefferson. While there, they chipped off a piece of one of Shakespeare’s chairs as a souvenir.
4. Late in his reign, King William IV, third son of George III, told the U.S. ambassador at a dinner party that he regretted not being “born a free, independent American, so much did he respect that nation, which had given birth to George Washington, the greatest man that ever lived.”
5. The Ramones recorded a song called Chop Suey.
6. The wife of Jiro Horikoshi, who before WWII designed the famed Zero fighter plane for the Japanese military, did not die of tuberculosis as was shown in the 2013 Studio Ghibli film “The Wind Rises”
7. Dylan Thomas was a teenager when many of the poems for which he became famous were published, including “And death shall have no dominion”.
8. “Cnidaria” is the phylum that includes jellyfish. The “C” is silent. I have no idea why the “C” is there, though.
9. Tartar on your teeth is the same as Cream of Tartar, which is why baking soda neutralizes it, same way it does when making baking powder from the same ingredients.
10. The title role in the movie “Beetlejuice” was originally offered to Sammy Davis, Jr.
11. The film The Grapes of Wrath was shown in the USSR in 1948 because it showed the plight of people under capitalism, but was soon withdrawn because audiences noticed that, as shown in the film, even poor Americans could afford a car.
12. Poet Walt Whitman and President Lincoln’s aide John Hay knew each other, and Whitman occasionally came to call on Hay in the White House, but there is no record that Whitman, who greatly admired Lincoln, ever actually met the President

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**Author:** ![RadioWave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/91b2a8/32.png) [@RadioWave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadioWave)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2018, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57572 "2018-03-03T00:45:05Z")

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Something new you learned recently

1. Humpty Dumpty was actually a cannon used in the English Civil War.
2. Rifling was actually invented in the late 15th century.
3. John Adams visited Shakespeare’s home in Stratford-upon-Avon with Thomas Jefferson. While there, they chipped off a piece of one of Shakespeare’s chairs as a souvenir.
4. Late in his reign, King William IV, third son of George III, told the U.S. ambassador at a dinner party that he regretted not being “born a free, independent American, so much did he respect that nation, which had given birth to George Washington, the greatest man that ever lived.”
5. The Ramones recorded a song called Chop Suey.
6. The wife of Jiro Horikoshi, who before WWII designed the famed Zero fighter plane for the Japanese military, did not die of tuberculosis as was shown in the 2013 Studio Ghibli film “The Wind Rises”
7. Dylan Thomas was a teenager when many of the poems for which he became famous were published, including “And death shall have no dominion”.
8. “Cnidaria” is the phylum that includes jellyfish. The “C” is silent. I have no idea why the “C” is there, though.
9. Tartar on your teeth is the same as Cream of Tartar, which is why baking soda neutralizes it, same way it does when making baking powder from the same ingredients.
10. The title role in the movie “Beetlejuice” was originally offered to Sammy Davis, Jr.
11. The film The Grapes of Wrath was shown in the USSR in 1948 because it showed the plight of people under capitalism, but was soon withdrawn because audiences noticed that, as shown in the film, even poor Americans could afford a car.
12. Poet Walt Whitman and President Lincoln’s aide John Hay knew each other, and Whitman occasionally came to call on Hay in the White House, but there is no record that Whitman, who greatly admired Lincoln, ever actually met the President
13. Condors have bald heads so that no feathers get gunked up when they stick their heads inside their food.

New Topic  
Colors that you don’t really know what they are.

1. Taupe

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2018, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57573 "2018-03-03T00:56:25Z")

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Colors that you don’t really know what they are.

1. Taupe
2. Fuschia

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**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:** [March 3, 2018, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57574 "2018-03-03T01:19:02Z")

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Colors that you don’t really know what they are.

1. Taupe
2. Fuschia
3. Nacarat

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**Author:** ![Mr\_Zox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Mr\_Zox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Zox)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2018, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57575 "2018-03-03T01:48:51Z")

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NOT in play:

> **[Paint colors designed by neural network, Part 2](https://www.aiweirdness.com/160985569682/)**
>
> So it turns out you can train a neural network
> \[http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/post/160776374467/new-paint-colors-invented-by-neural-network\] 
> to generate paint colors if you give it a list of 7,700 Sherwin-Williams...

Have fun. }😉

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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:** [March 3, 2018, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57576 "2018-03-03T02:05:03Z")

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Colors that you don’t really know what they are.

1. Taupe
2. Fuschia
3. Nacarat
4. [Puce](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZgkMaM3-pM)

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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:** [March 3, 2018, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57577 "2018-03-03T03:07:15Z")

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Colors that you don’t really know what they are.

1. Taupe
2. Fuschia
3. Nacarat
4. Puce
5. burnt umber

Some kind of brown, I’m guessing…?

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**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2018, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57578 "2018-03-03T03:21:30Z")

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Colors that you don’t really know what they are.

1. Taupe
2. Fuschia
3. Nacarat
4. Puce
5. burnt umber
6. Isabella or Isabelline

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**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:** [March 3, 2018, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57579 "2018-03-03T13:56:35Z")

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Colors that you don’t really know what they are.

1. Taupe
2. Fuschia
3. Nacarat
4. Puce
5. burnt umber
6. Isabella or Isabelline
7. Falu

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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:** [March 3, 2018, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57580 "2018-03-03T14:13:18Z")

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Colors that you don’t really know what they are.

1. Taupe
2. Fuschia
3. Nacarat
4. Puce
5. burnt umber
6. Isabella or Isabelline
7. Falu
8. Khaki

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**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:** [March 3, 2018, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57581 "2018-03-03T14:23:38Z")

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Colors that you don’t really know what they are.

1. Taupe
2. Fuschia
3. Nacarat
4. Puce
5. burnt umber
6. Isabella or Isabelline
7. Falu
8. Khaki
9. Topaz

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**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:** [March 3, 2018, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57582 "2018-03-03T19:01:01Z")

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Colors that you don’t really know what they are.

1. Taupe
2. Fuschia
3. Nacarat
4. Puce
5. burnt umber
6. Isabella or Isabelline
7. Falu
8. Khaki
9. Topaz
10. Periwinkle

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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:** [March 3, 2018, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57583 "2018-03-03T21:14:32Z")

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Colors that you don’t really know what they are.

1. Taupe
2. Fuschia
3. Nacarat
4. Puce
5. Burnt umber
6. Isabella or Isabelline
7. Falu
8. Khaki
9. Topaz
10. Periwinkle
11. Ecru

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**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:** [March 3, 2018, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57584 "2018-03-03T21:26:52Z")

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Colors that you don’t really know what they are.

1. Taupe
2. Fuschia
3. Nacarat
4. Puce
5. Burnt umber
6. Isabella or Isabelline
7. Falu
8. Khaki
9. Topaz
10. Periwinkle
11. Ecru
12. Sinoper

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**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:** [March 3, 2018, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57585 "2018-03-03T21:38:50Z")

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Colors that you don’t really know what they are.

1. Taupe
2. Fuschia
3. Nacarat
4. Puce
5. Burnt umber
6. Isabella or Isabelline
7. Falu
8. Khaki
9. Topaz
10. Periwinkle
11. Ecru
12. Sinoper
13. Octarine

New!  
Today is the anniversary of the first performance of Carmen in 1875. So,

Favorite Operas.

1. Carmen, by Bizet

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2018, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/57586 "2018-03-04T00:27:55Z")

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Favorite Operas.

1. Carmen, by Bizet
2. The Barber of Seville, by Rossini

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