# 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:** 3025
**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:** [July 27, 2018, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/60487 "2018-07-27T04:24:13Z")
Songs in which the singer refers to himself or herself by name 1 “Who Do You Love” by George Thorogood ( she said "Lonesome George you don’t understand,) 2. “Creeque Alley” by The Mamas and the Papas 3. “I’m in Love With Your Girlfriend” by Mojo Nixon (“oh Mojo, I’d just love to come home with you”) 4. “Serve Somebody” by Bob Dylan (“You may call me Bobby, or you may call me Zimmy”) ---
**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:** [July 27, 2018, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/60488 "2018-07-27T04:39:22Z")
Songs in which the singer refers to himself or herself by name 1 “Who Do You Love” by George Thorogood ( she said "Lonesome George you don’t understand,) 2. “Creeque Alley” by The Mamas and the Papas 3. “I’m in Love With Your Girlfriend” by Mojo Nixon (“oh Mojo, I’d just love to come home with you”) 4. “Serve Somebody” by Bob Dylan (“You may call me Bobby, or you may call me Zimmy”) 5. “Taxi,” by Harry Chapin (“And she said, ‘How are you Harry?’; I said, ‘How are you Sue?’”) ---
**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 27, 2018, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/60489 "2018-07-27T04:45:34Z")
Songs in which the singer refers to himself or herself by name 1 “Who Do You Love” by George Thorogood ( she said "Lonesome George you don’t understand,) 2. “Creeque Alley” by The Mamas and the Papas 3. “I’m in Love With Your Girlfriend” by Mojo Nixon (“oh Mojo, I’d just love to come home with you”) 4. “Serve Somebody” by Bob Dylan (“You may call me Bobby, or you may call me Zimmy”) 5. “Taxi,” by Harry Chapin (“And she said, ‘How are you Harry?’; I said, ‘How are you Sue?’”) 6. “#9 Dream”, John Lennon (“Hear somebody call out my name (John)”) ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2018, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/60490 "2018-07-27T10:59:11Z")
Songs in which the singer refers to himself or herself by name 1 “Who Do You Love” by George Thorogood ( she said "Lonesome George you don’t understand,) 2. “Creeque Alley” by The Mamas and the Papas 3. “I’m in Love With Your Girlfriend” by Mojo Nixon (“oh Mojo, I’d just love to come home with you”) 4. “Serve Somebody” by Bob Dylan (“You may call me Bobby, or you may call me Zimmy”) 5. “Taxi,” by Harry Chapin (“And she said, ‘How are you Harry?’; I said, ‘How are you Sue?’”) 6. “#9 Dream”, John Lennon (“Hear somebody call out my name (John)”) 7. “You Never Even Called Me by My Name” by David Allan Coe ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2018, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/60491 "2018-07-27T11:39:43Z")
Songs in which the singer refers to himself or herself by name 1 “Who Do You Love” by George Thorogood ( she said "Lonesome George you don’t understand,) 2. “Creeque Alley” by The Mamas and the Papas 3. “I’m in Love With Your Girlfriend” by Mojo Nixon (“oh Mojo, I’d just love to come home with you”) 4. “Serve Somebody” by Bob Dylan (“You may call me Bobby, or you may call me Zimmy”) 5. “Taxi,” by Harry Chapin (“And she said, ‘How are you Harry?’; I said, ‘How are you Sue?’”) 6. “#9 Dream”, John Lennon (“Hear somebody call out my name (John)”) 7. “You Never Even Called Me by My Name” by David Allan Coe 8. “Piano Man” by Billy Joel (“He said, ‘Bill, I believe this is killing me’”) ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2018, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/60492 "2018-07-27T12:05:18Z")
Songs in which the singer refers to himself or herself by name 1 “Who Do You Love” by George Thorogood ( she said "Lonesome George you don’t understand,) 2. “Creeque Alley” by The Mamas and the Papas 3. “I’m in Love With Your Girlfriend” by Mojo Nixon (“oh Mojo, I’d just love to come home with you”) 4. “Serve Somebody” by Bob Dylan (“You may call me Bobby, or you may call me Zimmy”) 5. “Taxi,” by Harry Chapin (“And she said, ‘How are you Harry?’; I said, ‘How are you Sue?’”) 6. “#9 Dream”, John Lennon (“Hear somebody call out my name (John)”) 7. “You Never Even Called Me by My Name” by David Allan Coe 8. “Piano Man” by Billy Joel (“He said, ‘Bill, I believe this is killing me’”) 9. R.E.M. “Strange” - cover of song by Wire - instead of singing the line “Joey’s nervous,” lead singer Michael Stipe sings “Michael’s nervous” ---
**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 27, 2018, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/60493 "2018-07-27T12:48:04Z")
Songs in which the singer refers to himself or herself by name 1 “Who Do You Love” by George Thorogood ( she said "Lonesome George you don’t understand,) 2. “Creeque Alley” by The Mamas and the Papas 3. “I’m in Love With Your Girlfriend” by Mojo Nixon (“oh Mojo, I’d just love to come home with you”) 4. “Serve Somebody” by Bob Dylan (“You may call me Bobby, or you may call me Zimmy”) 5. “Taxi,” by Harry Chapin (“And she said, ‘How are you Harry?’; I said, ‘How are you Sue?’”) 6. “#9 Dream”, John Lennon (“Hear somebody call out my name (John)”) 7. “You Never Even Called Me by My Name” by David Allan Coe 8. “Piano Man” by Billy Joel (“He said, ‘Bill, I believe this is killing me’”) 9. R.E.M. “Strange” - cover of song by Wire - instead of singing the line “Joey’s nervous,” lead singer Michael Stipe sings “Michael’s nervous” 10. “Nasty Boys” by Janet Jackson (“No my first name ain’t baby/It’s Janet/Miss Jackson if you’re nasty”) ---
**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:** [July 27, 2018, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/60494 "2018-07-27T13:38:55Z")
Songs in which the singer refers to himself or herself by name 1 “Who Do You Love” by George Thorogood ( she said "Lonesome George you don’t understand,) 2. “Creeque Alley” by The Mamas and the Papas 3. “I’m in Love With Your Girlfriend” by Mojo Nixon (“oh Mojo, I’d just love to come home with you”) 4. “Serve Somebody” by Bob Dylan (“You may call me Bobby, or you may call me Zimmy”) 5. “Taxi,” by Harry Chapin (“And she said, ‘How are you Harry?’; I said, ‘How are you Sue?’”) 6. “#9 Dream”, John Lennon (“Hear somebody call out my name (John)”) 7. “You Never Even Called Me by My Name” by David Allan Coe 8. “Piano Man” by Billy Joel (“He said, ‘Bill, I believe this is killing me’”) 9. R.E.M. “Strange” - cover of song by Wire - instead of singing the line “Joey’s nervous,” lead singer Michael Stipe sings “Michael’s nervous” 10. “Nasty Boys” by Janet Jackson (“No my first name ain’t baby/It’s Janet/Miss Jackson if you’re nasty”) 11. “A Simple Desultory Philippic” by Simon and Garfunkel (“I been Roy Halley’d and Art Garfunkel’d”) ---
**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:** [July 27, 2018, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/60495 "2018-07-27T14:12:53Z")
Songs in which the singer refers to himself or herself by name 1 “Who Do You Love” by George Thorogood ( she said "Lonesome George you don’t understand,) 2. “Creeque Alley” by The Mamas and the Papas 3. “I’m in Love With Your Girlfriend” by Mojo Nixon (“oh Mojo, I’d just love to come home with you”) 4. “Serve Somebody” by Bob Dylan (“You may call me Bobby, or you may call me Zimmy”) 5. “Taxi,” by Harry Chapin (“And she said, ‘How are you Harry?’; I said, ‘How are you Sue?’”) 6. “#9 Dream”, John Lennon (“Hear somebody call out my name (John)”) 7. “You Never Even Called Me by My Name” by David Allan Coe 8. “Piano Man” by Billy Joel (“He said, ‘Bill, I believe this is killing me’”) 9. R.E.M. “Strange” - cover of song by Wire - instead of singing the line “Joey’s nervous,” lead singer Michael Stipe sings “Michael’s nervous” 10. “Nasty Boys” by Janet Jackson (“No my first name ain’t baby/It’s Janet/Miss Jackson if you’re nasty”) 11. “A Simple Desultory Philippic” by Simon and Garfunkel (“I been Roy Halley’d and Art Garfunkel’d”) 12. “I Was Made to Love Her” by Stevie Wonder (“I was made to please her/You know Stevie ain’t gonna leave her”) ---
**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 27, 2018, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/60496 "2018-07-27T14:19:38Z")
Songs in which the singer refers to himself or herself by name 1 “Who Do You Love” by George Thorogood ( she said "Lonesome George you don’t understand,) 2. “Creeque Alley” by The Mamas and the Papas 3. “I’m in Love With Your Girlfriend” by Mojo Nixon (“oh Mojo, I’d just love to come home with you”) 4. “Serve Somebody” by Bob Dylan (“You may call me Bobby, or you may call me Zimmy”) 5. “Taxi,” by Harry Chapin (“And she said, ‘How are you Harry?’; I said, ‘How are you Sue?’”) 6. “#9 Dream”, John Lennon (“Hear somebody call out my name (John)”) 7. “You Never Even Called Me by My Name” by David Allan Coe 8. “Piano Man” by Billy Joel (“He said, ‘Bill, I believe this is killing me’”) 9. R.E.M. “Strange” - cover of song by Wire - instead of singing the line “Joey’s nervous,” lead singer Michael Stipe sings “Michael’s nervous” 10. “Nasty Boys” by Janet Jackson (“No my first name ain’t baby/It’s Janet/Miss Jackson if you’re nasty”) 11. “A Simple Desultory Philippic” by Simon and Garfunkel (“I been Roy Halley’d and Art Garfunkel’d”) 12. “I Was Made to Love Her” by Stevie Wonder (“I was made to please her/You know Stevie ain’t gonna leave her”) 13. “Famous Blue Raincoat” by Leonard Cohen ("Sincerely, L. Cohen) Next up: The 13 Best episodes of The Big Bang Theory 1. The Staircase Implementation ---
**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:** [July 27, 2018, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/60497 "2018-07-27T14:43:19Z")
The 13 Best episodes of The Big Bang Theory 1. The Staircase Implementation 2. The Proton Transmogrification ---
**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 27, 2018, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/60498 "2018-07-27T14:51:04Z")
The 13 Best episodes of The Big Bang Theory 1. The Staircase Implementation 2. The Proton Transmogrification 3. The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis ---
**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 27, 2018, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/60499 "2018-07-27T14:56:32Z")
The 13 Best episodes of The Big Bang Theory 1. The Staircase Implementation 2. The Proton Transmogrification 3. The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis 4. The Long Distance Dissonance ---
**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:** [July 27, 2018, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/60500 "2018-07-27T14:59:08Z")
The 13 Best episodes of The Big Bang Theory 1. The Staircase Implementation 2. The Proton Transmogrification 3. The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis 4. The Long Distance Dissonance 5. The Monetary Insufficiency ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2018, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/60501 "2018-07-27T15:03:29Z")
The 13 Best episodes of The Big Bang Theory 1. The Staircase Implementation 2. The Proton Transmogrification 3. The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis 4. The Long Distance Dissonance 5. The Monetary Insufficiency 6. The Locomotion Interruption ---
**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:** [July 27, 2018, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/60502 "2018-07-27T15:47:17Z")
The 13 Best episodes of The Big Bang Theory 1. The Staircase Implementation 2. The Proton Transmogrification 3. The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis 4. The Long Distance Dissonance 5. The Monetary Insufficiency 6. The Locomotion Interruption 7. The Roommate Transmogrification ---
**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:** [July 27, 2018, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/60503 "2018-07-27T19:33:25Z")
The 13 Best episodes of The Big Bang Theory 1. The Staircase Implementation 2. The Proton Transmogrification 3. The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis 4. The Long Distance Dissonance 5. The Monetary Insufficiency 6. The Locomotion Interruption 7. The Roommate Transmogrification 8. The Precious Fragmentation ---
**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:** [July 28, 2018, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/60504 "2018-07-28T22:43:48Z")
The 13 Best episodes of The Big Bang Theory 1. The Staircase Implementation 2. The Proton Transmogrification 3. The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis 4. The Long Distance Dissonance 5. The Monetary Insufficiency 6. The Locomotion Interruption 7. The Roommate Transmogrification 8. The Precious Fragmentation 9. The Adhesive Duck Deficiency ---
**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:** [July 28, 2018, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/60505 "2018-07-28T22:58:07Z")
The 13 Best episodes of The Big Bang Theory 1. The Staircase Implementation 2. The Proton Transmogrification 3. The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis 4. The Long Distance Dissonance 5. The Monetary Insufficiency 6. The Locomotion Interruption 7. The Roommate Transmogrification 8. The Precious Fragmentation 9. The Adhesive Duck Deficiency 10. The Convention Conundrum (my two actual favorites were already picked, at #3 and #9 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2018, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/60506 "2018-07-29T19:31:28Z")
The 13 Best episodes of The Big Bang Theory 1. The Staircase Implementation 2. The Proton Transmogrification 3. The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis 4. The Long Distance Dissonance 5. The Monetary Insufficiency 6. The Locomotion Interruption 7. The Roommate Transmogrification 8. The Precious Fragmentation 9. The Adhesive Duck Deficiency 10. The Convention Conundrum 11. The Shiny Trinket Maneuver [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=3024) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=3026)