# 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:** 3178
**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:** [December 26, 2018, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63548 "2018-12-26T14:24:06Z")
Ten ladies dancing, upped to 13 to fit the thread. Famous female dancers, and their type of dance–ballet, ballroom, jazz, tap etc 1. Anna Pavlova - ballet 2. Martha Graham — modern 3. Misty Copeland - ballet 4. Shakira — belly dancing 5. Shirley Temple - tap 6. Margot Fonteyn - ballet 7. Salome (daughter of Herodias) — ancient, biblical era [del]8. Ginger Rogers - ballroom dancing[/del] 8. Bebe Neuwirth - musicals ---
**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:** [December 26, 2018, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63549 "2018-12-26T14:52:27Z")
Then why the strikethrough text? I don’t get it. Restoring… Ten ladies dancing, upped to 13 to fit the thread. Famous female dancers, and their type of dance–ballet, ballroom, jazz, tap etc 1. Anna Pavlova - ballet 2. Martha Graham — modern 3. Misty Copeland - ballet 4. Shakira — belly dancing; NSFW, [SPOILER][https://goo.gl/2uxmRD[/SPOILER]](https://goo.gl/2uxmRD%5B/SPOILER%5D) 5. Shirley Temple - tap 6. Margot Fonteyn - ballet 7. Salome (daughter of Herodias) — ancient, biblical era 8. Ginger Rogers - ballroom dancing 9. Bebe Neuwirth - musicals 10. Serena Wilson — belly dancing; NSFW, [SPOILER][https://goo.gl/H2wWhU[/SPOILER]](https://goo.gl/H2wWhU%5B/SPOILER%5D) ---
**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:** [December 26, 2018, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63550 "2018-12-26T14:54:48Z")
Then why the strikethrough text? I don’t get it. Restoring… Ten ladies dancing, upped to 13 to fit the thread. Famous female dancers, and their type of dance–ballet, ballroom, jazz, tap etc 1. Anna Pavlova - ballet 2. Martha Graham — modern 3. Misty Copeland - ballet 4. Shakira — belly dancing 5. Shirley Temple - tap 6. Margot Fonteyn - ballet 7. Salome (daughter of Herodias) — ancient, biblical era 8. Ginger Rogers - ballroom dancing 9. Bebe Neuwirth - musicals 10. Serena Wilson — belly dancing ---
**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:** [December 26, 2018, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63551 "2018-12-26T14:57:27Z")
Ten ladies dancing, upped to 13 to fit the thread. Famous female dancers, and their type of dance–ballet, ballroom, jazz, tap etc 1. Anna Pavlova - ballet 2. Martha Graham — modern 3. Misty Copeland - ballet 4. Shakira — belly dancing 5. Shirley Temple - tap 6. Margot Fonteyn - ballet 7. Salome (daughter of Herodias) — ancient, biblical era 8. Ginger Rogers - ballroom dancing 9. Bebe Neuwirth - musicals 10. Serena Wilson — belly dancing 11. Cyd Charisse - musicals ---
**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:** [December 26, 2018, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63552 "2018-12-26T15:05:23Z")
Ten ladies dancing, upped to 13 to fit the thread. Famous female dancers, and their type of dance–ballet, ballroom, jazz, tap etc 1. Anna Pavlova - ballet 2. Martha Graham — modern 3. Misty Copeland - ballet 4. Shakira — belly dancing 5. Shirley Temple - tap 6. Margot Fonteyn - ballet 7. Salome (daughter of Herodias) — ancient, biblical era 8. Ginger Rogers - ballroom dancing 9. Bebe Neuwirth - musicals 10. Serena Wilson — belly dancing 11. Cyd Charisse - musicals 12. Ann Miller - tap/musicals ---
**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:** [December 26, 2018, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63553 "2018-12-26T15:13:21Z")
Ten ladies dancing, upped to 13 to fit the thread. Famous female dancers, and their type of dance–ballet, ballroom, jazz, tap etc 1. Anna Pavlova - ballet 2. Martha Graham — modern 3. Misty Copeland - ballet 4. Shakira — belly dancing 5. Shirley Temple - tap 6. Margot Fonteyn - ballet 7. Salome (daughter of Herodias) — ancient, biblical era 8. Ginger Rogers - ballroom dancing 9. Bebe Neuwirth - musicals 10. Serena Wilson — belly dancing 11. Cyd Charisse - musicals 12. Ann Miller - tap/musicals 13. Chita Rivera - musicals Leaping lizards!. We skipped the ten lords a-leaping. It’s ten lords a leaping, nine ladies dancing) Thirteen male dancers 1. Gregory Himes - Tap and ballet ---
**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:** [December 26, 2018, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63554 "2018-12-26T15:19:24Z")
13 women know for their big breasts. 1. Dolly Parton 2. Raquel Welch; [https://goo.gl/JBnLpc](https://goo.gl/JBnLpc) ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2018, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63555 "2018-12-26T15:23:33Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > 13 women know for their big breasts. > > 1. Dolly Parton > 2. Raquel Welch; [Raquel Welch cleavage - Google Search](https://goo.gl/JBnLpc) No. May I suggest we don’t do this? ---
**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:** [December 26, 2018, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63556 "2018-12-26T15:37:09Z")
Leaping lizards!. We skipped the ten lords a-leaping. It’s ten lords a leaping, nine ladies dancing) Thirteen male dancers 1. Gregory Himes - Tap and ballet 2. Fred Astaire - musicals ---
**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:** [December 26, 2018, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63557 "2018-12-26T15:42:18Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > No. > > May I suggest we don’t do this? Annie changed the topic and I got ninja’d! She had prefaced it with something like 8 maids a milking, something like that, and then she played Dolly Parton. Yes, okay! ---
**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:** [December 26, 2018, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63558 "2018-12-26T15:45:05Z")
Thirteen male dancers 1. Gregory Himes - Tap and ballet 2. Fred Astaire - musicals 3. Joshua Tuason — modern; gImages [https://goo.gl/KY1EN4](https://goo.gl/KY1EN4) My son! ETA: On that gImages link, a few images down shows Joshua and another guy standing together in street clothes. That’s my other son, Matthew. ETA-2: this image, Matthew and Joshua together — [https://goo.gl/J6LvNh](https://goo.gl/J6LvNh) ---
**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:** [December 26, 2018, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63559 "2018-12-26T15:48:13Z")
See below ---
**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:** [December 26, 2018, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63560 "2018-12-26T15:49:31Z")
Thirteen male dancers 1. Gregory Himes - Tap and ballet 2. Fred Astaire - musicals 3. Joshua Tuason — modern; gImages 4. Ben Vereen - mostly musicals For the "eight maids a-milking, maybe the topic should be “!3 suggested topics for the eight maids a-milking?” ---
**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:** [December 26, 2018, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63561 "2018-12-26T15:51:24Z")
Fixed. Thirteen male dancers 1. Gregory Himes - Tap and ballet 2. Fred Astaire - musicals 3. Joshua Tuason — modern; gImages [https://goo.gl/KY1EN4](https://goo.gl/KY1EN4) 4. Ben Vereen - mostly musicals ---
**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:** [December 26, 2018, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63562 "2018-12-26T15:55:03Z")
[Good job on your kids, Bullitt! You have reason to be proud.] ---
**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:** [December 26, 2018, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63563 "2018-12-26T15:55:45Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > [Good job on your kids, Bullitt! You have reason to be proud.] Thank you, Professor! ---
**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:** [December 26, 2018, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63564 "2018-12-26T16:55:35Z")
Thirteen male dancers 1. Gregory Himes - Tap and ballet 2. Fred Astaire - musicals 3. Joshua Tuason — modern; gImages [https://goo.gl/KY1EN4](https://goo.gl/KY1EN4) 4. Ben Vereen - mostly musicals 5. Tommy Tune - ditto ---
**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:** [December 26, 2018, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63565 "2018-12-26T17:54:07Z")
Thirteen male dancers 1. Gregory Himes - Tap and ballet 2. Fred Astaire - musicals 3. Joshua Tuason — modern; gImages [https://goo.gl/KY1EN4](https://goo.gl/KY1EN4) 4. Ben Vereen - mostly musicals 5. Tommy Tune - ditto 6. Mikhail Baryshnikov - ballet ---
**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:** [December 26, 2018, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63566 "2018-12-26T17:59:41Z")
Thirteen male dancers 1. Gregory Himes - Tap and ballet 2. Fred Astaire - musicals 3. Joshua Tuason — modern; gImages [https://goo.gl/KY1EN4](https://goo.gl/KY1EN4) 4. Ben Vereen - mostly musicals 5. Tommy Tune - ditto 6. Mikhail Baryshnikov - ballet 7. Michael Flatley - Lord of the Dance ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2018, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/63567 "2018-12-26T19:10:10Z")
Thirteen male dancers 1. Gregory Himes - Tap and ballet 2. Fred Astaire - musicals 3. Joshua Tuason — modern; gImages [https://goo.gl/KY1EN4](https://goo.gl/KY1EN4) 4. Ben Vereen - mostly musicals 5. Tommy Tune - ditto 6. Mikhail Baryshnikov - ballet 7. Michael Flatley - Lord of the Dance 8. Gene Kelly - In the rain. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=3177) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=3179)