# 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:** ![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:** [November 21, 2011, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/8662 "2011-11-21T03:32:24Z")

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Popular songs that contain one or more words you wouldn’t expect to find in a popular song (with word)

1. Janis Ian, “At Seventeen” (debentures)
2. Steve Miller Band, “The Joker” (pompatus)
3. The Eagles “Hotel California” (colitas)
4. Kesha, “Grow a Pear” (phonics, as in “I’m just not hooked on your phonics”)
5. Live, “Lightning Crashes” (placenta)
6. Blink 182, “What’s My Age Again?” (sodomy)
7. Motorhead, “Motorhead” (parallelogram)
8. Don Henley, “Drivin’ With Your Eyes Closed” (Rimbaud)
9. Gordon Lightfoot, “Canadian Railroad Trilogy” (muskeg)
10. Alan Parsons Project, “Stereotomy” (monochrome)

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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:** [November 21, 2011, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/8663 "2011-11-21T04:48:13Z")

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Popular songs that contain one or more words you wouldn’t expect to find in a popular song (with word)

1. Janis Ian, “At Seventeen” (debentures)
2. Steve Miller Band, “The Joker” (pompatus)
3. The Eagles “Hotel California” (colitas)
4. Kesha, “Grow a Pear” (phonics, as in “I’m just not hooked on your phonics”)
5. Live, “Lightning Crashes” (placenta)
6. Blink 182, “What’s My Age Again?” (sodomy)
7. Motorhead, “Motorhead” (parallelogram)
8. Don Henley, “Drivin’ With Your Eyes Closed” (Rimbaud)
9. Gordon Lightfoot, “Canadian Railroad Trilogy” (muskeg)
10. Alan Parsons Project, “Stereotomy” (monochrome)
11. Weird Al Yankovic, “Pancreas” (in addition to the title, the song includes the words amylase, bladder, carbohydrates, deuodenum, enzymes, glucagon, hormones, insulin, inversely proportional, islets of Langerhans, lipase, metabolizing, secreting, spleen, and tripsin)

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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/8664 "2011-11-21T05:39:42Z")

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Popular songs that contain one or more words you wouldn’t expect to find in a popular song (with word)

1. Janis Ian, “At Seventeen” (debentures)
2. Steve Miller Band, “The Joker” (pompatus)
3. The Eagles “Hotel California” (colitas)
4. Kesha, “Grow a Pear” (phonics, as in “I’m just not hooked on your phonics”)
5. Live, “Lightning Crashes” (placenta)
6. Blink 182, “What’s My Age Again?” (sodomy)
7. Motorhead, “Motorhead” (parallelogram)
8. Don Henley, “Drivin’ With Your Eyes Closed” (Rimbaud)
9. Gordon Lightfoot, “Canadian Railroad Trilogy” (muskeg)
10. Alan Parsons Project, “Stereotomy” (monochrome)
11. Weird Al Yankovic, “Pancreas” (in addition to the title, the song includes the words amylase, bladder, carbohydrates, deuodenum, enzymes, glucagon, hormones, insulin, inversely proportional, islets of Langerhans, lipase, metabolizing, secreting, spleen, and tripsin)
12. Murray Head, “One Night in Bangkok” (Somerset Maugham)

“Tea girls warm and sweet/some-are-set-up in the Somerset Maugham suite”

Admittedly it’s a showtune, but it was tremendously popular and reached the Top 3 on the pop charts.

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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:** [November 21, 2011, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/8665 "2011-11-21T16:45:56Z")

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Popular songs that contain one or more words you wouldn’t expect to find in a popular song (with word)

1. Janis Ian, “At Seventeen” (debentures)
2. Steve Miller Band, “The Joker” (pompatus)
3. The Eagles “Hotel California” (colitas)
4. Kesha, “Grow a Pear” (phonics, as in “I’m just not hooked on your phonics”)
5. Live, “Lightning Crashes” (placenta)
6. Blink 182, “What’s My Age Again?” (sodomy)
7. Motorhead, “Motorhead” (parallelogram)
8. Don Henley, “Drivin’ With Your Eyes Closed” (Rimbaud)
9. Gordon Lightfoot, “Canadian Railroad Trilogy” (muskeg)
10. Alan Parsons Project, “Stereotomy” (monochrome)
11. Weird Al Yankovic, “Pancreas” (in addition to the title, the song includes the words amylase, bladder, carbohydrates, deuodenum, enzymes, glucagon, hormones, insulin, inversely proportional, islets of Langerhans, lipase, metabolizing, secreting, spleen, and tripsin)
12. Murray Head, “One Night in Bangkok” (Somerset Maugham)
13. Blondie, “Rapture” (sacroiliac)

Passing on next category

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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:** [November 21, 2011, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/8666 "2011-11-21T16:50:00Z")

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Movies you know you should see but have just never gotten around to… and maybe never will.

1. “Schindler’s List”

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**Author:** ![YoDoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e68b1a/32.png) [@YoDoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YoDoc)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/8667 "2011-11-21T18:06:22Z")

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Movies you know you should see but have just never gotten around to… and maybe never will.

1. “Schindler’s List”
2. “Das Boot”

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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:** [November 21, 2011, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/8668 "2011-11-21T18:16:09Z")

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Movies you know you should see but have just never gotten around to… and maybe never will.

1. “Schindler’s List”
2. “Das Boot”
3. “Pulp Fiction”

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**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/8669 "2011-11-21T18:24:31Z")

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Movies you know you should see but have just never gotten around to… and maybe never will.

1. “Schindler’s List”
2. “Das Boot”
3. “Pulp Fiction”
4. “The Birds”

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**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:** [November 21, 2011, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/8670 "2011-11-21T18:39:50Z")

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Movies you know you should see but have just never gotten around to… and maybe never will.

1. “Schindler’s List”
2. “Das Boot”
3. “Pulp Fiction”
4. “The Birds”
5. “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre”

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**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:** [November 21, 2011, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/8671 "2011-11-21T20:12:29Z")

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Movies you know you should see but have just never gotten around to… and maybe never will.

1. “Schindler’s List”
2. “Das Boot”
3. “Pulp Fiction”
4. “The Birds”
5. "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
6. “The Lord of the Rings” All of 'em.

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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:** [November 21, 2011, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/8672 "2011-11-21T20:16:31Z")

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Movies you know you should see but have just never gotten around to… and maybe never will.

1. “Schindler’s List”
2. “Das Boot”
3. “Pulp Fiction”
4. “The Birds”
5. "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
6. “The Lord of the Rings” All of 'em.
7. “Harry Potter” All of 'em.

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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:** [November 21, 2011, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/8673 "2011-11-21T20:47:30Z")

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Movies you know you should see but have just never gotten around to… and maybe never will.

1. “Schindler’s List”
2. “Das Boot”
3. “Pulp Fiction”
4. “The Birds”
5. “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre”
6. “The Lord of the Rings” All of 'em.
7. “Harry Potter” All of 'em.
8. “ET”

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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:** [November 21, 2011, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/8674 "2011-11-21T20:56:31Z")

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Movies you know you should see but have just never gotten around to… and maybe never will.

1. “Schindler’s List”
2. “Das Boot”
3. “Pulp Fiction”
4. “The Birds”
5. “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre”
6. “The Lord of the Rings” All of 'em.
7. “Harry Potter” All of 'em.
8. “E.T.”
9. “The Shawshank Redemption”

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**Author:** ![YoDoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e68b1a/32.png) [@YoDoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YoDoc)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/8675 "2011-11-21T21:27:54Z")

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Movies you know you should see but have just never gotten around to… and maybe never will.

1. “Schindler’s List”
2. “Das Boot”
3. “Pulp Fiction”
4. “The Birds”
5. “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre”
6. “The Lord of the Rings” All of 'em.
7. “Harry Potter” All of 'em.
8. “E.T.”
9. “The Shawshank Redemption”
10. “A Nation Is Born”

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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:** [November 21, 2011, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/8676 "2011-11-21T23:52:19Z")

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Movies you know you should see but have just never gotten around to… and maybe never will.

1. “Schindler’s List”
2. “Das Boot”
3. “Pulp Fiction”
4. “The Birds”
5. “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre”
6. “The Lord of the Rings” All of 'em.
7. “Harry Potter” All of 'em.
8. “E.T.”
9. “The Shawshank Redemption”
10. “A Nation Is Born”
11. “Avatar”

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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:** [November 22, 2011, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/8677 "2011-11-22T01:01:25Z")

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Movies you know you should see but have just never gotten around to… and maybe never will.

1. “Schindler’s List”
2. “Das Boot”
3. “Pulp Fiction”
4. “The Birds”
5. “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre”
6. “The Lord of the Rings” All of 'em.
7. “Harry Potter” All of 'em.
8. “E.T.”
9. “The Shawshank Redemption”
10. “A Nation Is Born”
11. “Avatar”
12. “Batman” All of 'em from Michael Keaton to Christian Bale.

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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:** [November 22, 2011, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/8678 "2011-11-22T01:04:11Z")

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> [@YoDoc](#):
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> 1. “A Nation Is Born”

I am unfamiliar with this title. Looking at IMDB, I see there’s a miniseries about Israel called this. Is that what you’re talking about?

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**Author:** ![YoDoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e68b1a/32.png) [@YoDoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YoDoc)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/8679 "2011-11-22T01:34:23Z")

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> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
>
> I am unfamiliar with this title. Looking at IMDB, I see there’s a miniseries about Israel called this. Is that what you’re talking about?

Sorry. Birth of A Nation. DW Griffith. My bad. Post edited.

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**Author:** ![YoDoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e68b1a/32.png) [@YoDoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YoDoc)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/8680 "2011-11-22T01:35:33Z")

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> [@YoDoc](#):
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> Sorry. Birth of A Nation. DW Griffith. My bad. Post edited.

Or not.

ATTENTION! That’s supposed to be “Birth of A Nation”. That is all.

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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/8681 "2011-11-22T02:24:45Z")

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> [@YoDoc](#):
>
> Sorry. Birth of A Nation. DW Griffith. My bad. Post edited.

_A Nation Is Born_ is about the relationship between an older, powerful, established nation and a young, new, up and coming nation. The older nation grows resentful when the younger one becomes more powerful. Also filmed as _The Patriot_ by Mel Gibson.

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