# 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:** 359
**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:** [August 28, 2011, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7162 "2011-08-28T16:35:49Z")
By consensus the greatest poet of a language: 1. Pushkin, Russian 2. Dante Alighieri, Italian ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2011, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7163 "2011-08-28T16:58:01Z")
By consensus the greatest poet of a language: 1. Pushkin, Russian 2. Dante Alighieri, Italian 3. Homer, Greek ---
**Author:** ![colonial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@colonial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colonial)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2011, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7164 "2011-08-28T21:35:40Z")
By consensus the greatest poet of a language: 1. Pushkin, Russian 2. Dante Alighieri, Italian 3. Homer, Greek 4. Luis de Camoes, Portugese ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2011, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7165 "2011-08-28T23:04:50Z")
By consensus the greatest poet of a language: 1. Pushkin, Russian 2. Dante Alighieri, Italian 3. Homer, Greek 4. Luis de Camoes, Portugese 5. William Shakespeare, [del]Klingon[/del] English Well, somebody had to drop the bomb - it might as well be me… ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2011, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7166 "2011-08-28T23:14:35Z")
> [@colonial](#): > > So you’re _not_ paranoid about being considered a this or a that? nope - I know who I am, and what people think of me is their problem, not mine. ---
**Author:** ![colonial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@colonial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colonial)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2011, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7167 "2011-08-28T23:37:24Z")
By consensus the greatest poet of a language: 1. Pushkin, Russian 2. Dante Alighieri, Italian 3. Homer, Greek 4. Luis de Camoes, Portugese 5. William Shakespeare, English 6. Tagore, Bengali (also a musician, Tagore composed the music and lyrics of the national anthems of both India and Bengladesh) ---
**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:** [August 29, 2011, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7168 "2011-08-29T00:11:36Z")
By consensus the greatest poet of a language: 1. Pushkin, Russian 2. Dante Alighieri, Italian 3. Homer, Greek 4. Luis de Camoes, Portugese 5. William Shakespeare, English 6. Tagore, Bengali (also a musician, Tagore composed the music and lyrics of the national anthems of both India and Bengladesh) 7. Virgil, Latin ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7169 "2011-08-29T02:31:24Z")
By consensus the greatest poet of a language: 1. Pushkin, Russian 2. Dante Alighieri, Italian 3. Homer, Greek 4. Luis de Camoes, Portugese 5. William Shakespeare, English 6. Tagore, Bengali (also a musician, Tagore composed the music and lyrics of the national anthems of both India and Bengladesh) 7. Virgil, Latin 8. Federico García Lorca, Spanish ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7170 "2011-08-29T02:35:19Z")
By consensus the greatest poet of a language: 1. Pushkin, Russian 2. Dante Alighieri, Italian 3. Homer, Greek 4. Luis de Camoes, Portugese 5. William Shakespeare, English 6. Tagore, Bengali (also a musician, Tagore composed the music and lyrics of the national anthems of both India and Bengladesh) 7. Virgil, Latin 8. Federico García Lorca, Spanish 9. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German ---
**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:** [August 29, 2011, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7171 "2011-08-29T02:44:30Z")
By consensus the greatest poet of a language: 1. Pushkin, Russian 2. Dante Alighieri, Italian 3. Homer, Greek 4. Luis de Camoes, Portugese 5. William Shakespeare, English 6. Tagore, Bengali 7. Virgil, Latin 8. Federico García Lorca, Spanish 9. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German 10. Charles Baudelaire, French Eminently debatable, of course… ---
**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:** [August 29, 2011, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7172 "2011-08-29T04:14:47Z")
By consensus the greatest poet of a language: 1. Pushkin, Russian 2. Dante Alighieri, Italian 3. Homer, Greek 4. Luis de Camoes, Portugese 5. William Shakespeare, English 6. Tagore, Bengali 7. Virgil, Latin 8. Federico García Lorca, Spanish 9. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German 10. Charles Baudelaire, French 11. Bjornstjerne Bjornson, Norwegian ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7173 "2011-08-29T07:40:24Z")
By consensus the greatest poet of a language: 1. Pushkin, Russian 2. Dante Alighieri, Italian 3. Homer, Greek 4. Luis de Camoes, Portugese 5. William Shakespeare, English 6. Tagore, Bengali 7. Virgil, Latin 8. Federico García Lorca, Spanish 9. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German 10. Charles Baudelaire, French 11. Bjornstjerne Bjornson, Norwegian 12. Master Grunthos the Flatulent, Azgoths of Kria His reading of his own poem _Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning_ met with incredibly moving responses. ---
**Author:** ![JessMagic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c0e974/32.png) [@JessMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JessMagic)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7174 "2011-08-29T08:34:24Z")
By consensus the greatest poet of a language: 1. Pushkin, Russian 2. Dante Alighieri, Italian 3. Homer, Greek 4. Luis de Camoes, Portugese 5. William Shakespeare, English 6. Tagore, Bengali 7. Virgil, Latin 8. Federico García Lorca, Spanish 9. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German 10. Charles Baudelaire, French 11. Bjornstjerne Bjornson, Norwegian 12. Master Grunthos the Flatulent, Azgoths of Kria 13. Rabbie Burns, Scots Next category - foreign countries visited by a member, or members, of the Simpsons cartoon family: 1. Australia [Should be able to rattle through this one pretty quickly!] ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7175 "2011-08-29T11:47:57Z")
foreign countries visited by a member, or members, of the Simpsons cartoon family: 1. Australia 2. England ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7176 "2011-08-29T11:51:54Z")
foreign countries visited by a member, or members, of the Simpsons cartoon family: 1. Australia 2. England 3. France ---
**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:** [August 29, 2011, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7177 "2011-08-29T13:28:43Z")
foreign countries visited by a member, or members, of the Simpsons cartoon family: 1. Australia 2. England 3. France 4. Mexico ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7178 "2011-08-29T13:43:53Z")
foreign countries visited by a member, or members, of the Simpsons cartoon family: 1. Australia 2. England 3. France 4. Mexico 5. Brazil ---
**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:** [August 29, 2011, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7179 "2011-08-29T15:12:13Z")
foreign countries visited by a member, or members, of the Simpsons cartoon family: 1. Australia 2. England 3. France 4. Mexico 5. Brazil 6. Japan Pretty sure this is another repeat category. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7180 "2011-08-29T15:56:06Z")
foreign countries visited by a member, or members, of the Simpsons cartoon family: 1. Australia 2. England 3. France 4. Mexico 5. Brazil 6. Japan 7. Pepsi Presents New Zanzibar ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7181 "2011-08-29T17:33:20Z")
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