# 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:** 383
**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:** [September 21, 2011, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7642 "2011-09-21T13:30:15Z")
Unusual house pets 1. Iguana 2. Potbellied pig 3. Chimpanzee ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7643 "2011-09-21T14:14:39Z")
Unusual house pets 1. Iguana 2. Potbellied pig 3. Chimpanzee 4. Robot dog They were big for a while. ---
**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:** [September 21, 2011, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7644 "2011-09-21T14:29:56Z")
Unusual house pets 1. Iguana 2. Potbellied pig 3. Chimpanzee 4. Robot dog 5. Leopard > **[Bringing Up Baby](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bringing_up_baby)** > > Bringing Up Baby is a 1938 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, and starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. It was released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film tells the story of a paleontologist in a number of predicaments involving a scatterbrained heiress and a leopard named Baby. The screenplay was adapted by Dudley Nichols and Hagar Wilde from a short story by Wilde which originally appeared in Collier's Weekly magazine on April 10, 1937. > The script was written specif... ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7645 "2011-09-21T15:33:31Z")
Unusual house pets 1. Iguana 2. Potbellied pig 3. Chimpanzee 4. Robot dog 5. Leopard 6. Prairie dog ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7646 "2011-09-21T15:35:56Z")
Unusual house pets 1. Iguana 2. Potbellied pig 3. Chimpanzee 4. Robot dog 5. Leopard 6. Prairie dog 7. Hedgehog ---
**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:** [September 21, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7647 "2011-09-21T15:51:03Z")
Unusual house pets 1. Iguana 2. Potbellied pig 3. Chimpanzee 4. Robot dog 5. Leopard 6. Prairie dog 7. Hedgehog 8. Sugar glider ---
**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:** [September 21, 2011, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7648 "2011-09-21T16:24:01Z")
Unusual house pets 1. Iguana 2. Potbellied pig 3. Chimpanzee 4. Robot dog 5. Leopard 6. Prairie dog 7. Hedgehog 8. Sugar glider 9. Bushbaby Requested by the little girl as a birthday present in _2001: A Space Odyssey_. [Galago - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushbaby) ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7649 "2011-09-21T17:32:21Z")
Unusual house pets 1. Iguana 2. Potbellied pig 3. Chimpanzee 4. Robot dog 5. Leopard 6. Prairie dog 7. Hedgehog 8. Sugar glider 9. Bushbaby 10. Sugar glider > **[Sugar glider](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_glider)** > > .mw-parser-output .legend{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .legend-color{display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid black;background-color:transparent;color:black}.mw-parser-output .legend-text{}   P. b. breviceps (introduced in Tasmania) >    P. b. longicaudatus >    P. b. ariel >    P. b. papuanus >    P. b. tafa\[note 1\] >    P. b. flavidus\[note 2\] >    P. b. biacensis\[note 3\] > P. (Belideus) b... ---
**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:** [September 21, 2011, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7650 "2011-09-21T17:33:32Z")
Unusual house pets 1. Iguana 2. Potbellied pig 3. Chimpanzee 4. Robot dog 5. Leopard 6. Prairie dog 7. Hedgehog 8. Sugar glider 9. Bushbaby 10. Sugar glider 11. Python My BIL had a big one; it nearly squeezed him to death once. ---
**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:** [September 21, 2011, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7651 "2011-09-21T17:34:01Z")
I guess sugar gliders are so cute they need to be included twice! 😃 (see #8) ---
**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:** [September 21, 2011, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7652 "2011-09-21T17:47:51Z")
Substitution made. Unusual house pets 1. Iguana 2. Potbellied pig 3. Chimpanzee 4. Robot dog 5. Leopard 6. Prairie dog 7. Hedgehog 8. Sugar glider 9. Bushbaby 10. Tarantula 11. Python ---
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7653 "2011-09-21T17:58:02Z")
Unusual house pets 1. Iguana 2. Potbellied pig 3. Chimpanzee 4. Robot dog 5. Leopard 6. Prairie dog 7. Hedgehog 8. Sugar glider 9. Bushbaby 10. Tarantula 11. Python 12. Leopard Gecko ---
**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:** [September 21, 2011, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7654 "2011-09-21T18:12:33Z")
Unusual house pets 1. Iguana 2. Potbellied pig 3. Chimpanzee 4. Robot dog 5. Leopard 6. Prairie dog 7. Hedgehog 8. Sugar glider 9. Bushbaby 10. Tarantula 11. Python 12. Leopard Gecko 13. Ocelot Annual conventions for geeky hobbies 1. Gen Con (gaming) ---
**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:** [September 21, 2011, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7655 "2011-09-21T18:17:20Z")
Annual conventions for geeky hobbies 1. Gen Con (gaming) 2. Montréal Guitar Show ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7656 "2011-09-21T19:14:16Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > I guess sugar gliders are so cute they need to be included twice! 😃 (see #8) :smack: I’d fix, but the caravan has moved on. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7657 "2011-09-21T19:15:53Z")
Annual conventions for geeky hobbies 1. Gen Con (gaming) 2. Montréal Guitar Show 3. DexCon LARPing > **[DexCon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DexCon)** > > DEXCON is a five-day gaming convention, held annually every July in Morristown, New Jersey, run by Double Exposure, Inc. It has a reputation for attracting leading game industry talent to participate, > and hosts several national and world gaming championships. > > It includes a number of different departments hosting multiple types of gaming, including board gaming, Larping, video gaming, and wargaming. It also hosts a number of special events and new game releases. > DEXCONs 1 through 6 were held ye... ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7658 "2011-09-21T19:41:20Z")
Annual conventions for geeky hobbies 1. Gen Con (gaming) 2. Montréal Guitar Show 3. DexCon 4. [I-Con](http://www.iconsf.org/) ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7659 "2011-09-21T23:50:51Z")
[quote=“anyrose, post:7658, topic:549173”] Annual conventions for geeky hobbies 1. Gen Con (gaming) 2. Montréal Guitar Show 3. DexCon 4. I-Con 5. National Square Dance Convention Next one is in [Spokane, WA](http://www.61nsdc.com/) ---
**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:** [September 22, 2011, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7660 "2011-09-22T03:18:15Z")
Annual conventions for geeky hobbies 1. Gen Con (gaming) 2. Montréal Guitar Show 3. DexCon 4. I-Con 5. National Square Dance Convention 6. Blizzcon (for Blizzard games) ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/7661 "2011-09-22T14:45:27Z")
Annual conventions for geeky hobbies 1. Gen Con (gaming) 2. Montréal Guitar Show 3. DexCon 4. I-Con 5. National Square Dance Convention 6. Blizzcon (for Blizzard games) 7. Slash-con An annual convention for slash writers. Most recent one was in Oxnard, CA. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=382) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=384)