# 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:** 3106
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2018, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/62107 "2018-10-23T22:43:20Z")
A Prized Possession from your Youth that You Still Have 1. Baseball glove 2. Tons of comic books 3. A kids book on the presidents - Washington to Eisenhower! 4. My stuffed animal, Dumbo the Elephant, from about 1970. He needs a cleaning. 5. Basketball cards 6. My Lord of the Rings book collection 7. Baseball Cards - more than 55,000 mostly from the 70s and 80s. 8. Pocket knife - 7th(?) birthday present from my grandfather 9. A patchwork quilt my grandmother made 10. The stuffed bear my Dad bought for me, the day I was born. 11. A Frosty-the-Snowman nightlight I’ve had since I was 6 mos. old. 12. Collection of Matchbox cars from the 60s. ---
**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:** [October 23, 2018, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/62108 "2018-10-23T23:56:29Z")
A Prized Possession from your Youth that You Still Have 1. Baseball glove 2. Tons of comic books 3. A kids book on the presidents - Washington to Eisenhower! 4. My stuffed animal, Dumbo the Elephant, from about 1970. He needs a cleaning. 5. Basketball cards 6. My Lord of the Rings book collection 7. Baseball Cards - more than 55,000 mostly from the 70s and 80s. 8. Pocket knife - 7th(?) birthday present from my grandfather 9. A patchwork quilt my grandmother made 10. The stuffed bear my Dad bought for me, the day I was born. 11. A Frosty-the-Snowman nightlight I’ve had since I was 6 mos. old. 12. Collection of Matchbox cars from the 60s. 13. A handcarved wooden box from Mexico that my mom brought home when I was 7 New Songs that remind you of a bygone generation 1. Happy Days Are Here Again (1930s) ---
**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:** [October 24, 2018, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/62109 "2018-10-24T00:45:01Z")
Songs that remind you of a bygone generation 1. Happy Days Are Here Again (1930s) 2. Little Brown Jug (1939) ---
**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:** [October 24, 2018, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/62110 "2018-10-24T01:34:03Z")
Songs that remind you of a bygone generation 1. Happy Days Are Here Again (1930s) 2. Little Brown Jug (1939) 3. Tiger Rag (1917) ---
**Author:** ![CharmaChameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@CharmaChameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CharmaChameleon)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2018, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/62111 "2018-10-24T01:42:16Z")
Songs that remind you of a bygone generation 1. Happy Days Are Here Again (1930s) 2. Little Brown Jug (1939) 3. Tiger Rag (1917) 4. Midnight in Moscow (1962) ---
**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:** [October 24, 2018, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/62112 "2018-10-24T03:26:34Z")
Songs that remind you of a bygone generation 1. Happy Days Are Here Again (1930s) 2. Little Brown Jug (1939) 3. Tiger Rag (1917) 4. Midnight in Moscow (1962) 5. Battle Hymn of the Republic (1861) ---
**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:** [October 24, 2018, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/62113 "2018-10-24T03:57:08Z")
Songs that remind you of a bygone generation 1. Happy Days Are Here Again (1930s) 2. Little Brown Jug (1939) 3. Tiger Rag (1917) 4. Midnight in Moscow (1962) 5. Battle Hymn of the Republic (1861) 6. Daisy Bell aka A Bicycle Built for Two (1892) ---
**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:** [October 24, 2018, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/62114 "2018-10-24T04:19:48Z")
Songs that remind you of a bygone generation 1. Happy Days Are Here Again (1930s) 2. Little Brown Jug (1939) 3. Tiger Rag (1917) 4. Midnight in Moscow (1962) 5. Battle Hymn of the Republic (1861) 6. Daisy Bell aka A Bicycle Built for Two (1892) 7. The Entertainer (1902) ---
**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:** [October 24, 2018, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/62115 "2018-10-24T05:15:39Z")
Songs that remind you of a bygone generation 1. Happy Days Are Here Again (1930s) 2. Little Brown Jug (1939) 3. Tiger Rag (1917) 4. Midnight in Moscow (1962) 5. Battle Hymn of the Republic (1861) 6. Daisy Bell aka A Bicycle Built for Two (1892) 7. The Entertainer (1902) 8. Hello! Ma Baby (1955), especially when sung by Michigan J. Frog: [Michigan J. Frog - "Hello My Baby" - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkfU1JqmkHM) ---
**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:** [October 24, 2018, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/62116 "2018-10-24T10:36:26Z")
Songs that remind you of a bygone generation 1. Happy Days Are Here Again (1930s) 2. Little Brown Jug (1939) 3. Tiger Rag (1917) 4. Midnight in Moscow (1962) 5. Battle Hymn of the Republic (1861) 6. Daisy Bell aka A Bicycle Built for Two (1892) 7. The Entertainer (1902) 8. Hello! Ma Baby (1955), especially when sung by Michigan J. Frog: 9. Moonlight Bay (1912) Nitpick - _Hello Ma Baby_ is from 1899 ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2018, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/62117 "2018-10-24T12:14:42Z")
> [@Bayaker](#): > > Nitpick - _Hello Ma Baby_ is from 1899 Also, apparently his original name was “Enrico” and the cornerstone where he was found was from 1892 which would have made it impossible for him to know most of those songs … unless the building was in Tin Pan Alley. Songs that remind you of a bygone generation 1. Happy Days Are Here Again (1930s) 2. Little Brown Jug (1939) 3. Tiger Rag (1917) 4. Midnight in Moscow (1962) 5. Battle Hymn of the Republic (1861) 6. Daisy Bell aka A Bicycle Built for Two (1892) 7. The Entertainer (1902) 8. Hello! Ma Baby (1955), especially when sung by Michigan J. Frog: 9. Moonlight Bay (1912) 10. Blue Moon (1934) ---
**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:** [October 24, 2018, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/62118 "2018-10-24T13:09:58Z")
Songs that remind you of a bygone generation 1. Happy Days Are Here Again (1930s) 2. Little Brown Jug (1939) 3. Tiger Rag (1917) 4. Midnight in Moscow (1962) 5. Battle Hymn of the Republic (1861) 6. Daisy Bell aka A Bicycle Built for Two (1892) 7. The Entertainer (1902) 8. Hello! Ma Baby (1955), especially when sung by Michigan J. Frog: 9. Moonlight Bay (1912) 10. Blue Moon (1934) 11. Strange Fruit (1939) ---
**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:** [October 24, 2018, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/62119 "2018-10-24T13:21:14Z")
> [@Bayaker](#): > > Nitpick - _Hello Ma Baby_ is from 1899 The Michigan J. Frog version is 1955. > [@](#): > > The song may be best known today as the introductory song in the famous Warner Bros. cartoon One Froggy Evening (1955), sung by the character later dubbed Michigan J. Frog and high-stepping in the style of a cakewalk. > **[Hello! Ma Baby](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello!_Ma_Baby)** > > "Hello! Ma Baby" is a Tin Pan Alley song written in 1899 by the songwriting team of Joseph E. Howard and Ida Emerson, known as "Howard and Emerson". Its subject is a man who has a girlfriend he knows only through the telephone. At the time, telephones were relatively novel, present in fewer than 10% of U.S. households, and this was the first well-known song to refer to the device. Additionally, the word "Hello" itself was primarily associated with telephone use after Edison's utterance—b The song... Songs that remind you of a bygone generation 1. Happy Days Are Here Again (1930s) 2. Little Brown Jug (1939) 3. Tiger Rag (1917) 4. Midnight in Moscow (1962) 5. Battle Hymn of the Republic (1861) 6. Daisy Bell aka A Bicycle Built for Two (1892) 7. The Entertainer (1902) 8. Hello! Ma Baby (1955), especially when sung by Michigan J. Frog: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkfU1JqmkHM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkfU1JqmkHM) 9. Moonlight Bay (1912) 10. Blue Moon (1934) 11. Strange Fruit (1939) 12. Moon River (1960s) ---
**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:** [October 24, 2018, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/62120 "2018-10-24T13:24:19Z")
Songs that remind you of a bygone generation 1. Happy Days Are Here Again (1930s) 2. Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (1940s) ---
**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:** [October 24, 2018, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/62121 "2018-10-24T13:33:14Z")
Cleanup: Songs that remind you of a bygone generation 1. Happy Days Are Here Again (1930s) 2. Little Brown Jug (1939) 3. Tiger Rag (1917) 4. Midnight in Moscow (1962) 5. Battle Hymn of the Republic (1861) 6. Daisy Bell aka A Bicycle Built for Two (1892) 7. The Entertainer (1902) 8. Hello! Ma Baby (1955), especially when sung by Michigan J. Frog: [Michigan J. Frog - "Hello My Baby" - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkfU1JqmkHM) 9. Moonlight Bay (1912) 10. Blue Moon (1934) 11. Strange Fruit (1939) 12. Moon River (1960s) 13. Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (1940s) Next up: Good things to come out of the 1960’s 1. Rock Music ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2018, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/62122 "2018-10-24T13:35:36Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Next up: Good things to come out of the 1960’s > > 1. Rock Music ??? Rock music didn’t come out of the 60s ---
**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:** [October 24, 2018, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/62123 "2018-10-24T13:38:04Z")
Well, if you are going to be pedantic about it Good things to come out of the last half of the 20th century: 1. Rock Music ---
**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:** [October 24, 2018, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/62124 "2018-10-24T13:46:31Z")
Good things to come out of the last half of the 20th century: 1. Rock Music 2. Video games [6 technologies to thank the 1960s for | TechRadar](https://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/6-technologies-to-thank-the-1960s-for-650980) ---
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Good things to come out of the last half of the 20th century: 1. Rock Music 2. Video games 3. Space exploration ---
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