# 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:** ![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:** [July 28, 2019, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/66928 "2019-07-28T19:55:52Z")

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Bucket List place you most want to visit:

1. Athens Acropolis
2. Musee d’Orsay, Paris
3. British Museum, London
4. Switzerland
5. Antarctica
6. Machu Picchu
7. Alicante, Spain
8. Egyptian pyramids
9. London’s West End
10. Broadway
11. Iceland

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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:** [July 29, 2019, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/66929 "2019-07-29T02:33:58Z")

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Bucket List place you most want to visit:

1. Athens Acropolis
2. Musee d’Orsay, Paris
3. British Museum, London
4. Switzerland
5. Antarctica
6. Machu Picchu
7. Alicante, Spain
8. Egyptian pyramids
9. London’s West End
10. Broadway
11. Iceland
12. St. Petersburg, Russia

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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:** [July 29, 2019, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/66930 "2019-07-29T04:46:26Z")

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Bucket List place you most want to visit:

1. Athens Acropolis
2. Musee d’Orsay, Paris
3. British Museum, London
4. Switzerland
5. Antarctica
6. Machu Picchu
7. Alicante, Spain
8. Egyptian pyramids
9. London’s West End
10. Broadway
11. Iceland
12. St. Petersburg, Russia
13. The Grand Canyon

People have told me you can’t really experience it without seeing it in person.

I’ll pass.

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**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 29, 2019, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/66931 "2019-07-29T07:29:45Z")

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New: Individuals a Terminator might target, and when:

1. Donald Trump, in 2016 (if not decades before).

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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:** [July 29, 2019, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/66932 "2019-07-29T08:33:40Z")

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New: Individuals a Terminator might target, and when:

1. Donald Trump, in 2016 (if not decades before).
2. Adolf Hitler, in 1930.

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**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 29, 2019, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/66933 "2019-07-29T11:09:06Z")

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Individuals a Terminator might target, and when:

1. Donald Trump, in 2016 (if not decades before).
2. Adolf Hitler, in 1930.
3. Gaius Julius Caesar, 49 BC (on the banks of the Rubicon)

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**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/66934 "2019-07-29T11:10:45Z")

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New: Individuals a Terminator might target, and when:

1. Donald Trump, in 2016 (if not decades before).
2. Adolf Hitler, in 1930
3. Gaius Julius Caesar, 49 BC (on the banks of the Rubicon)
4. Bill Gates - 1985 before the IBM contract

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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:** [July 29, 2019, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/66935 "2019-07-29T12:25:25Z")

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Individuals a Terminator might target, and when:

1. Donald Trump, in 2016 (if not decades before).
2. Adolf Hitler, in 1930
3. Gaius Julius Caesar, 49 BC (on the banks of the Rubicon)
4. Bill Gates - 1985 before the IBM contract
5. James Cameron, in 1982 (before he made _The Terminator_)

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**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:** [July 29, 2019, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/66936 "2019-07-29T14:04:07Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> Individuals a Terminator might target, and when:
> 
> 1. James Cameron, in 1982 (before he made The Terminator)

Now that’s irony!

Individuals a Terminator might target, and when:

1. Donald Trump, in 2016 (if not decades before).
2. Adolf Hitler, in 1930
3. Gaius Julius Caesar, 49 BC (on the banks of the Rubicon)
4. Bill Gates - 1985 before the IBM contract
5. James Cameron, in 1982 (before he made The Terminator)
6. Charles Manson - Before he formed his cult in 1968

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**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 29, 2019, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/66937 "2019-07-29T14:46:03Z")

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Individuals a Terminator might target, and when:

1. Donald Trump, in 2016 (if not decades before).
2. Adolf Hitler, in 1930
3. Gaius Julius Caesar, 49 BC (on the banks of the Rubicon)
4. Bill Gates - 1985 before the IBM contract
5. James Cameron, in 1982 (before he made The Terminator)
6. Charles Manson - Before he formed his cult in 1968
7. Marx and Engels - 1848, before publishing the Communist Manifesto

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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:** [July 29, 2019, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/66938 "2019-07-29T15:20:23Z")

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> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> Bucket List place you most want to visit:
> 
> …13. The Grand Canyon
> 
> People have told me you can’t really experience it without seeing it in person…

Quite true! Pictures, even big ones, just don’t do it justice.

Individuals a Terminator might target, and when:

1. Donald Trump, in 2016 (if not decades before).
2. Adolf Hitler, in 1930
3. Gaius Julius Caesar, 49 BC (on the banks of the Rubicon)
4. Bill Gates - 1985 before the IBM contract
5. James Cameron, in 1982 (before he made The Terminator)
6. Charles Manson - Before he formed his cult in 1968
7. Marx and Engels - 1848, before publishing the Communist Manifesto
8. Josef Stalin - when he was robbing banks in the early 1900s

[![](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin#/media/File:Stalin_1902.jpg) ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin#/media/File:Stalin_1902.jpg)

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**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 29, 2019, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/66939 "2019-07-29T16:53:28Z")

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Individuals a Terminator might target, and when:

1. Donald Trump, in 2016 (if not decades before).
2. Adolf Hitler, in 1930
3. Gaius Julius Caesar, 49 BC (on the banks of the Rubicon)
4. Bill Gates - 1985 before the IBM contract
5. James Cameron, in 1982 (before he made The Terminator)
6. Charles Manson - Before he formed his cult in 1968
7. Marx and Engels - 1848, before publishing the Communist Manifesto
8. Osama bin Laden, before he got up to his terroristic mayhem.

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**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 29, 2019, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/66940 "2019-07-29T17:01:31Z")

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Individuals a Terminator might target, and when:

1. Donald Trump, in 2016 (if not decades before).
2. Adolf Hitler, in 1930
3. Gaius Julius Caesar, 49 BC (on the banks of the Rubicon)
4. Bill Gates - 1985 before the IBM contract
5. James Cameron, in 1982 (before he made The Terminator)
6. Charles Manson - Before he formed his cult in 1968
7. Marx and Engels - 1848, before publishing the Communist Manifesto
8. Josef Stalin - when he was robbing banks in the early 1900s
9. Osama bin Laden, before he got up to his terroristic mayhem.

Cleaning up.

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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:** [July 29, 2019, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/66941 "2019-07-29T17:01:51Z")

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Individuals a Terminator might target, and when:

1. Donald Trump, in 2016 (if not decades before).
2. Adolf Hitler, in 1930
3. Gaius Julius Caesar, 49 BC (on the banks of the Rubicon)
4. Bill Gates - 1985 before the IBM contract
5. James Cameron, in 1982 (before he made The Terminator)
6. Charles Manson - Before he formed his cult in 1968
7. Marx and Engels - 1848, before publishing the Communist Manifesto
8. Osama bin Laden, before he got up to his terroristic mayhem.
9. O J Simpson - June 11, 1994

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**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 29, 2019, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/66942 "2019-07-29T22:07:03Z")

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Individuals a Terminator might target, and when:

1. Donald Trump, in 2016 (if not decades before).
2. Adolf Hitler, in 1930
3. Gaius Julius Caesar, 49 BC (on the banks of the Rubicon)
4. Bill Gates - 1985 before the IBM contract
5. James Cameron, in 1982 (before he made The Terminator)
6. Charles Manson - Before he formed his cult in 1968
7. Marx and Engels - 1848, before publishing the Communist Manifesto
8. Josef Stalin - when he was robbing banks in the early 1900s
9. Osama bin Laden, before he got up to his terroristic mayhem.
10. O J Simpson - June 11, 1994
11. Kim Il-sung - 1948 or before he began procreating

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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:** [July 30, 2019, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/66943 "2019-07-30T00:32:52Z")

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Individuals a Terminator might target, and when:

1. Donald Trump, in 2016 (if not decades before).
2. Adolf Hitler, in 1930
3. Gaius Julius Caesar, 49 BC (on the banks of the Rubicon)
4. Bill Gates - 1985 before the IBM contract
5. James Cameron, in 1982 (before he made The Terminator)
6. Charles Manson - Before he formed his cult in 1968
7. Marx and Engels - 1848, before publishing the Communist Manifesto
8. Josef Stalin - when he was robbing banks in the early 1900s
9. Osama bin Laden, before he got up to his terroristic mayhem.
10. O J Simpson - June 11, 1994
11. Kim Il-sung - 1948 or before he began procreating
12. V.I. Lenin, 1887 (nip him in the bud)

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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:** [July 30, 2019, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/66944 "2019-07-30T03:55:05Z")

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Individuals a Terminator might target, and when:

1. Donald Trump, in 2016 (if not decades before).
2. Adolf Hitler, in 1930
3. Gaius Julius Caesar, 49 BC (on the banks of the Rubicon)
4. Bill Gates - 1985 before the IBM contract
5. James Cameron, in 1982 (before he made The Terminator)
6. Charles Manson - Before he formed his cult in 1968
7. Marx and Engels - 1848, before publishing the Communist Manifesto
8. Josef Stalin - when he was robbing banks in the early 1900s
9. Osama bin Laden, before he got up to his terroristic mayhem.
10. O J Simpson - June 11, 1994
11. Kim Il-sung - 1948 or before he began procreating
12. V.I. Lenin, 1887 (nip him in the bud)
13. Pol Pot, hit by a bus while crossing the street in Paris, 1950

Next category:

Those who died too young but whom a reprogrammed Terminator might save (with place and age)

1. Edgar Allan Poe (Baltimore, age 40)

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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:** [July 30, 2019, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/66945 "2019-07-30T04:16:22Z")

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Those who died too young but whom a reprogrammed Terminator might save (with place and age)

1. Edgar Allan Poe (Baltimore, age 40)
2. Masaccio (Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone) (Rome, 27)

A painter who helped start the Renaissance. Founder of the 27 Club.

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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:** [July 30, 2019, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/66946 "2019-07-30T06:05:18Z")

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Those who died too young but whom a reprogrammed Terminator might save (with place and age)

1. Edgar Allan Poe (Baltimore, age 40)
2. Masaccio (Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone) (Rome, 27)
3. Irene Nemirovsky (Auschwitz, age 39, 1942)

A talented novelist; several of her books were published in her lifetime; her _Suite Francaise_ was published to great acclaim in 2004

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**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 30, 2019, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/66947 "2019-07-30T10:36:25Z")

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1. Edgar Allan Poe (Baltimore, age 40)
2. Masaccio (Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone) (Rome, 27)
3. Irene Nemirovsky (Auschwitz, age 39, 1942)
4. Anne Frank (Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, age 15)

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