# 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:** 560
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11182 "2012-06-12T03:58:02Z")
Famous Dead People with Alliterative Names 1. Marilyn Monroe 2. (Reverend) Jim Jones 3. Herbert Hoover 4. Roy Rogers 5. Charlie Chaplin 6. Galileo Galilei 7. Hubert Horatio Humphrey Once referred to in a speech by Jimmy Carter as Hubert Horatio Hornblower Humphrey (true) making him a rare quadroalliterative. ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11183 "2012-06-12T16:59:44Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > Not to be picky, but how do Elvis and Lisa Mary escape the \*Post No Bill and Chelseas \*condition? Who was Lisa except Elvis’ daughter and Jackson’s beard? You forgot her 108 day marriage to Nick Cage! Seriously, up until 2002, I would agree with you but… during the last decade or so she has made quite a name for herself with 3 critically acclaimed albums as a singer/songwriter and multiple honours for her charity and humanitarian efforts as well as her work developing music programs in schools. Famous Dead People with Alliterative Names 1. Marilyn Monroe 2. (Reverend) Jim Jones 3. Herbert Hoover 4. Roy Rogers 5. Charlie Chaplin 6. Galileo Galilei 7. Hubert Horatio Humphrey 8. Farrah Fawcett ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11184 "2012-06-12T18:00:08Z")
Famous Dead People with Alliterative Names 1. Marilyn Monroe 2. (Reverend) Jim Jones 3. Herbert Hoover 4. Roy Rogers 5. Charlie Chaplin 6. Galileo Galilei 7. Hubert Horatio Humphrey 8. Farrah Fawcett 9. Benjamin “Beast” Butler Civil War general, politician, Dennis Franz lookalike. Most famous for being the most hated man in the history of New Orleans due to his insults to the city ladies (which were retaliation for their actions towards his troops), and for being a Civil War [chamber pot model](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__W7iDq8tSBg/S9FhPGdlCiI/AAAAAAAABiQ/hpP3qAr0aXA/s1600/butler-chamber-pot.jpg). ---
**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:** [June 12, 2012, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11185 "2012-06-12T19:11:34Z")
Famous Dead People with Alliterative Names 1. Marilyn Monroe 2. (Reverend) Jim Jones 3. Herbert Hoover 4. Roy Rogers 5. Charlie Chaplin 6. Galileo Galilei 7. Hubert Horatio Humphrey 8. Farrah Fawcett 9. Benjamin “Beast” Butler 10. Hannibal Hamlin Another Civil War-era figure. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2012, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11186 "2012-06-12T20:04:14Z")
Famous Dead People with Alliterative Names 1. Marilyn Monroe 2. (Reverend) Jim Jones 3. Herbert Hoover 4. Roy Rogers 5. Charlie Chaplin 6. Galileo Galilei 7. Hubert Horatio Humphrey 8. Farrah Fawcett 9. Benjamin “Beast” Butler 10. Hannibal Hamlin 11. Jesse James ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11187 "2012-06-12T22:39:51Z")
Famous Dead People with Alliterative Names 1. Marilyn Monroe 2. (Reverend) Jim Jones 3. Herbert Hoover 4. Roy Rogers 5. Charlie Chaplin 6. Galileo Galilei 7. Hubert Horatio Humphrey 8. Farrah Fawcett 9. Benjamin “Beast” Butler 10. Hannibal Hamlin 11. Jesse James 12. Janis Joplin ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11188 "2012-06-12T22:52:07Z")
Famous Dead People with Alliterative Names 1. Marilyn Monroe 2. (Reverend) Jim Jones 3. Herbert Hoover 4. Roy Rogers 5. Charlie Chaplin 6. Galileo Galilei 7. Hubert Horatio Humphrey 8. Farrah Fawcett 9. Benjamin “Beast” Butler 10. Hannibal Hamlin 11. Jesse James 12. Janis Joplin 13. Dorothy Dandridge I chose the category before this one, so somebody else can choose the next up. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2012, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11189 "2012-06-13T00:16:56Z")
New category: Hugo award winning novels 1. _The Demolished Man_ by Alfred Bester ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11190 "2012-06-13T00:27:35Z")
Famous centenarians (famous for reasons other than being centenarians): 1. Bob Hope ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11191 "2012-06-13T00:43:06Z")
New category: Hugo award winning novels 1. _The Demolished Man_ by Alfred Bester 2. _Slaughterhouse 5_ by Kurt Vonnegut ---
**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:** [June 13, 2012, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11192 "2012-06-13T08:03:35Z")
New category: Hugo award winning novels 1. _The Demolished Man_ by Alfred Bester 2. _Slaughterhouse 5_ by Kurt Vonnegut 3. _A Canticle for Leibowitz_ by Walter M. Miller Jr ---
**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:** [June 13, 2012, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11193 "2012-06-13T13:01:00Z")
Hugo award winning novels 1. _The Demolished Man_ by Alfred Bester 2. _Slaughterhouse 5_ by Kurt Vonnegut 3. _A Canticle for Leibowitz_ by Walter M. Miller Jr 4. _Fahrenheit 451_ by Ray Bradbury ---
**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:** [June 13, 2012, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11194 "2012-06-13T13:30:01Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Famous Dead People with Alliterative Names > > …7. Hubert Horatio Humphrey > > Once referred to in a speech by Jimmy Carter as Hubert Horatio Hornblower Humphrey (true) making him a rare quadroalliterative. As I recall, Carter referred to him as “Hubert Horatio Hornblower,” immediately caught himself, and added his real last name, “Humphrey.” Hugo Award-winning novels 1. _The Demolished Man_ by Alfred Bester 2. _Slaughterhouse-Five_ by Kurt Vonnegut 3. _A Canticle for Leibowitz_ by Walter M. Miller Jr 4. _Fahrenheit 451_ by Ray Bradbury 5. _Starship Troopers_ by Robert A. Heinlein Long a favorite of mine. _The Forever War_ by Joe Haldeman and _Old Man’s War_ by John Scalzi are very complimentary updatings/retellings/reactions to it. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11195 "2012-06-13T15:52:13Z")
Hugo Award-winning novels 1. _The Demolished Man_ by Alfred Bester 2. _Slaughterhouse-Five_ by Kurt Vonnegut 3. _A Canticle for Leibowitz_ by Walter M. Miller Jr 4. _Fahrenheit 451_ by Ray Bradbury 5. _Starship Troopers_ by Robert A. Heinlein 6. _Old Man’s War_ by John Scalzi ---
**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:** [June 13, 2012, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11196 "2012-06-13T17:43:54Z")
Hugo Award-winning novels 1. _The Demolished Man_ by Alfred Bester 2. _Slaughterhouse-Five_ by Kurt Vonnegut 3. _A Canticle for Leibowitz_ by Walter M. Miller Jr 4. _Fahrenheit 451_ by Ray Bradbury 5. _Starship Troopers_ by Robert A. Heinlein 6. _Spin_ by Robert Charles Wilson _Old Man’s War_ was nominated for a Hugo but it lost to _Spin_. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11197 "2012-06-13T18:13:35Z")
Hugo Award-winning novels 1. _The Demolished Man_ by Alfred Bester 2. _Slaughterhouse-Five_ by Kurt Vonnegut 3. _A Canticle for Leibowitz_ by Walter M. Miller Jr 4. _Fahrenheit 451_ by Ray Bradbury 5. _Starship Troopers_ by Robert A. Heinlein 6. _Spin_ by Robert Charles Wilson 7. _Dune_ by Frank Herbert ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11198 "2012-06-13T18:35:34Z")
Hugo Award-winning novels 1. _The Demolished Man_ by Alfred Bester 2. _Slaughterhouse-Five_ by Kurt Vonnegut 3. _A Canticle for Leibowitz_ by Walter M. Miller Jr 4. _Fahrenheit 451_ by Ray Bradbury 5. _Starship Troopers_ by Robert A. Heinlein 6. _Spin_ by Robert Charles Wilson 7. _Dune_ by Frank Herbert 8. \*Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell \*by Susanna Clarke My apologies. Thank you, **Little Nemo** , for the correction. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2012, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11199 "2012-06-13T18:39:24Z")
Hugo Award-winning novels 1. _The Demolished Man_ by Alfred Bester 2. _Slaughterhouse-Five_ by Kurt Vonnegut 3. _A Canticle for Leibowitz_ by Walter M. Miller Jr 4. _Fahrenheit 451_ by Ray Bradbury 5. _Starship Troopers_ by Robert A. Heinlein 6. _Spin_ by Robert Charles Wilson 7. _Dune_ by Frank Herbert 8. \*Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell \*by Susanna Clarke 9. _The Vor Game_ by Lois McMaster Bujold The first of her four. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2012, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11200 "2012-06-13T19:02:24Z")
Hugo Award-winning novels 1. _The Demolished Man_ by Alfred Bester 2. _Slaughterhouse-Five_ by Kurt Vonnegut 3. _A Canticle for Leibowitz_ by Walter M. Miller Jr 4. _Fahrenheit 451_ by Ray Bradbury 5. _Starship Troopers_ by Robert A. Heinlein 6. _Spin_ by Robert Charles Wilson 7. _Dune_ by Frank Herbert 8. \*Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell \*by Susanna Clarke 9. _The Vor Game_ by Lois McMaster Bujold 10. _The Mote in God’s Eye_ by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle A classic first-contact novel. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11201 "2012-06-13T19:05:20Z")
Hugo Award-winning novels 1. _The Demolished Man_ by Alfred Bester 2. _Slaughterhouse-Five_ by Kurt Vonnegut 3. _A Canticle for Leibowitz_ by Walter M. Miller Jr 4. _Fahrenheit 451_ by Ray Bradbury 5. _Starship Troopers_ by Robert A. Heinlein 6. _Spin_ by Robert Charles Wilson 7. _Dune_ by Frank Herbert 8. \*Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell \*by Susanna Clarke 9. _The Vor Game_ by Lois McMaster Bujold 10. _The Mote in God’s Eye_ by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle 11. _Hyperion_ by Dan Simmons Warring AI’s, the death of Gods, the end of Humanity, and John Keats, all set to the structure of _The Canterbury Tales_ with Simmons writing in the voice of **six** (IIRC) separate science fiction writers for each of the tales. What’s not to love? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=559) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=561)