# 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:** 564
**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 18, 2012, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11262 "2012-06-18T20:41:29Z")
The last DC I went to, Harlan Ellison was the headliner. That’s how long it’s been (early 90s?) ---
**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 18, 2012, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11263 "2012-06-18T21:20:41Z")
If you were a witch, what would be a particularly useless creature to have as your familiar? 1. Goldfish (or other aquarium fish) 2. Galapagos tortoise 3. Earthworm 4. Lichen 5. Blue whale 6. Clam 7. Geoduck 8. Platypus 9. Opossum 10. E. coli 11. My dog 12. Your conjoined twin 13. The carp in my mom’s pond ---
**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 18, 2012, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11264 "2012-06-18T21:25:07Z")
A new category just for **Leaffan** > [@Leaffan](#): > > …this stuff is available by Google and not much fun. For me anyway. Things that can’t be found with Google: 1. Helen Sprackling, “Fruit Trenchers of the 16th and 17th Centuries” _Antiques_ (July 1961) ---
**Author:** ![tripthicket](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripthicket/32/297_2.png) [@tripthicket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tripthicket)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11265 "2012-06-18T22:53:20Z")
Things that can’t be found with Google: 1. Helen Sprackling, “Fruit Trenchers of the 16th and 17th Centuries” Antiques (July 1961) 2. Who gave me my first real kiss ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11266 "2012-06-18T23:07:53Z")
Things that can’t be found with Google: 1. Helen Sprackling, “Fruit Trenchers of the 16th and 17th Centuries” Antiques (July 1961) 2. Who gave me my first real kiss 3. Where did I leave my car keys? ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11267 "2012-06-18T23:19:50Z")
Things that can’t be found with Google: 1. Helen Sprackling, “Fruit Trenchers of the 16th and 17th Centuries” Antiques (July 1961) 2. Who gave me my first real kiss 3. Where did I leave my car keys? 4. the name of your childhood pet ---
**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 19, 2012, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11268 "2012-06-19T00:05:42Z")
Things that can’t be found with Google: 1. Helen Sprackling, “Fruit Trenchers of the 16th and 17th Centuries” Antiques (July 1961) 2. Who gave me my first real kiss 3. Where did I leave my car keys? 4. the name of your childhood pet 5. Enlightenment ---
**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 19, 2012, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11269 "2012-06-19T00:12:02Z")
Things that can’t be found with Google: 1. Helen Sprackling, “Fruit Trenchers of the 16th and 17th Centuries” Antiques (July 1961) 2. Who gave me my first real kiss 3. Where did I leave my car keys? 4. the name of your childhood pet 5. Enlightenment 6. Who put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp? ---
**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:** [June 19, 2012, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11270 "2012-06-19T00:32:37Z")
Things that can’t be found with Google: 1. Helen Sprackling, “Fruit Trenchers of the 16th and 17th Centuries” Antiques (July 1961) 2. Who gave me my first real kiss 3. Where did I leave my car keys? 4. the name of your childhood pet 5. Enlightenment 6. Who put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp? 7. How much money is currently in my checking account? ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11271 "2012-06-19T00:54:42Z")
Things that can’t be found with Google: 1. Helen Sprackling, “Fruit Trenchers of the 16th and 17th Centuries” Antiques (July 1961) 2. Who gave me my first real kiss 3. Where did I leave my car keys? 4. the name of your childhood pet 5. Enlightenment 6. Who put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp? 7. How much money is currently in my checking account? 8. The missing pages of J.W. Booth’s diary ---
**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:** [June 19, 2012, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11272 "2012-06-19T01:10:32Z")
Things that can’t be found with Google: 1. Helen Sprackling, “Fruit Trenchers of the 16th and 17th Centuries” Antiques (July 1961) 2. Who gave me my first real kiss 3. Where did I leave my car keys? 4. the name of your childhood pet 5. Enlightenment 6. Who put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp? 7. How much money is currently in my checking account? 8. The missing pages of J.W. Booth’s diary 9. The size of my … shoes. Wow! A topic in dedication. Thanks **Grandmother**! ---
**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 19, 2012, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11273 "2012-06-19T01:25:38Z")
Things that can’t be found with Google: 1. Helen Sprackling, “Fruit Trenchers of the 16th and 17th Centuries” Antiques (July 1961) 2. Who gave me my first real kiss 3. Where did I leave my car keys? 4. the name of your childhood pet 5. Enlightenment 6. Who put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp? 7. How much money is currently in my checking account? 8. The missing pages of J.W. Booth’s diary 9. The size of my … shoes. 10. My virginity. Lost it years ago, haven’t found it since. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11274 "2012-06-19T01:33:20Z")
Things that can’t be found with Google: 1. Helen Sprackling, “Fruit Trenchers of the 16th and 17th Centuries” Antiques (July 1961) 2. Who gave me my first real kiss 3. Where did I leave my car keys? 4. the name of your childhood pet 5. Enlightenment 6. Who put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp? 7. How much money is currently in my checking account? 8. The missing pages of J.W. Booth’s diary 9. The size of my … shoes. 10. My virginity. 11. Pictures of Kirk Cameron’s nipples ---
**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 19, 2012, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11275 "2012-06-19T01:40:30Z")
Things that can’t be found with Google: 1. Helen Sprackling, “Fruit Trenchers of the 16th and 17th Centuries” Antiques (July 1961) 2. Who gave me my first real kiss 3. Where did I leave my car keys? 4. The name of your childhood pet 5. Enlightenment 6. Who put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp? 7. How much money is currently in my checking account? 8. The missing pages of J.W. Booth’s diary 9. The size of my … shoes. 10. My virginity. 11. Pictures of Kirk Cameron’s nipples 12. Mark Zuckerberg’s conscience ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11276 "2012-06-19T03:57:07Z")
Things that can’t be found with Google: 1. Helen Sprackling, “Fruit Trenchers of the 16th and 17th Centuries” Antiques (July 1961) 2. Who gave me my first real kiss 3. Where did I leave my car keys? 4. The name of your childhood pet 5. Enlightenment 6. Who put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp? 7. How much money is currently in my checking account? 8. The missing pages of J.W. Booth’s diary 9. The size of my … shoes. 10. My virginity. 11. Pictures of Kirk Cameron’s nipples 12. Mark Zuckerberg’s conscience 13. The deleted footage of _Gone With the Wind_ Next-up: Characters who have secret lairs/what those lairs are 14. The Phantom of the Opera- Gothic apartment under a Parisian opera house T ---
**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:** [June 19, 2012, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11277 "2012-06-19T04:00:15Z")
Next-up: Characters who have secret lairs/what those lairs are 1. The Phantom of the Opera- Gothic apartment under a Parisian opera house 2. Batman - The Bat Cave ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11278 "2012-06-19T04:11:37Z")
Next-up: Characters who have secret lairs/what those lairs are 1. The Phantom of the Opera- Gothic apartment under a Parisian opera house 2. Batman - The Bat Cave 3. Professor Rathe- _Young Sherlock Holmes-_ an underground pyramid in London You always wonder where they find their contractors. (“Consider us for your next massive top secret in plain sight project.”) Or for Phantom and others like him how he gets people to help him move in some of the massive objects he has in there; perhaps he has it delivered: “Go through the mirror in the third dressing room, down the corkscrew stairs, okay, when you get to the gondola docks at the sewer take the one on the right as you face it, trust me- unless you want to sink in sewage or burst into flames ignore the other two- and paddle until you get to to green flaming lamp, and there take a left. NOT A RIGHT, the deformed recluse who lives to the right there makes me look like Brad Pitt and he’s a Jesus Freak to boot so stay away… watch out for Jean Valjean, he likes to traipse bodies through there and he’ll try to guilt you into helping so just keep walking no matter how pitiful he sings. That should get you to the falling lassos and the poison darts …” ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11279 "2012-06-19T04:13:53Z")
BTW, “lair” can be interpreted as any top secret HQ or housing. It doesn’t have to be super elaborate or from a comic book/Gothic novel. ---
**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 19, 2012, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11280 "2012-06-19T04:41:36Z")
Next-up: Characters who have secret lairs/what those lairs are 1. The Phantom of the Opera- Gothic apartment under a Parisian opera house 2. Batman - The Bat Cave 3. Professor Rathe- _Young Sherlock Holmes-_ an underground pyramid in London 4. Blofeld - volcano, alpine fortress, tropical island, oil platform ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11281 "2012-06-19T08:01:41Z")
Next-up: Characters who have secret lairs/what those lairs are 1. The Phantom of the Opera- Gothic apartment under a Parisian opera house 2. Batman - The Bat Cave 3. Professor Rathe- _Young Sherlock Holmes-_ an underground pyramid in London 4. Blofeld - volcano, alpine fortress, tropical island, oil platform 5. Superman- Fortress of Solitude [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=563) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=565)