# 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:** 600
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11982 "2012-08-28T19:50:33Z")
Defunct airlines 1. Eastern 2. TWA 3. PSA 4. Pan Am (Pan American World Airway) 5. Midwest Express 6. Braniff 7. Ozark 8. Continental ---
**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:** [August 28, 2012, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11983 "2012-08-28T20:08:08Z")
Defunct airlines 1. Eastern 2. TWA 3. PSA 4. Pan Am (Pan American World Airway) 5. Midwest Express 6. Braniff 7. Ozark 8. Continental 9. People Express ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11984 "2012-08-28T21:21:46Z")
Defunct airlines 1. Eastern 2. TWA 3. PSA 4. Pan Am (Pan American World Airway) 5. Midwest Express 6. Braniff 7. Ozark 8. Continental 9. People Express 10. Piedmont ---
**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, 2012, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11985 "2012-08-28T21:27:36Z")
Defunct airlines 1. Eastern 2. TWA 3. PSA 4. Pan Am (Pan American World Airway) 5. Midwest Express 6. Braniff 7. Ozark 8. Continental 9. People Express 10. Piedmont 11. Frontier ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11986 "2012-08-29T01:47:08Z")
Defunct airlines 1. Eastern 2. TWA 3. PSA 4. Pan Am (Pan American World Airway) 5. Midwest Express 6. Braniff 7. Ozark 8. Continental 9. People Express 10. Piedmont 11. Frontier 12. Reno Air ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11987 "2012-08-29T03:11:59Z")
Defunct airlines 1. Eastern 2. TWA 3. PSA 4. Pan Am (Pan American World Airway) 5. Midwest Express 6. Braniff 7. Ozark 8. Continental 9. People Express 10. Piedmont 11. Frontier 12. Reno Air 13. National Best Picture Oscar Winners that didn’t deserve it: 1. Driving Miss Daisy ---
**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, 2012, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11988 "2012-08-29T03:19:11Z")
Best Picture Oscar Winners that didn’t deserve it: 1. Driving Miss Daisy 2. The Return of the King Fellowship of the Ring was much better IMHO, and didn’t win. ---
**Author:** ![JessMagic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c0e974/32.png) [@JessMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JessMagic)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11989 "2012-08-29T03:42:59Z")
Best Picture Oscar Winners that didn’t deserve it: 1. Driving Miss Daisy 2. The Return of the King 3. Slumdog Millionaire It just sucked. ---
**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, 2012, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11990 "2012-08-29T05:17:57Z")
Best Picture Oscar Winners that didn’t deserve it: 1. Driving Miss Daisy 2. The Return of the King 3. Slumdog Millionaire 4. The Greatest Show on Earth ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11991 "2012-08-29T08:18:17Z")
Best Picture Oscar Winners that didn’t deserve it: 1. Driving Miss Daisy 2. The Return of the King 3. Slumdog Millionaire 4. The Greatest Show on Earth 5. Chariots of Fire ---
**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:** [August 29, 2012, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11992 "2012-08-29T13:22:59Z")
Best Picture Oscar Winners that didn’t deserve it: 1. Driving Miss Daisy 2. The Return of the King 3. Slumdog Millionaire 4. The Greatest Show on Earth 5. Chariots of Fire 6. Forrest Gump ---
**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, 2012, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11993 "2012-08-29T14:35:17Z")
Best Picture Oscar Winners that didn’t deserve it: 1. Driving Miss Daisy 2. The Return of the King 3. Slumdog Millionaire 4. The Greatest Show on Earth 5. Chariots of Fire 6. Forrest Gump 7. Cimarron ---
**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, 2012, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11994 "2012-08-29T15:20:49Z")
Best Picture Oscar Winners that didn’t deserve it: 1. Driving Miss Daisy 2. The Return of the King 3. Slumdog Millionaire 4. The Greatest Show on Earth 5. Chariots of Fire 6. Forrest Gump 7. Cimarron 8. Rebecca Saw it recently, and it wasn’t all that. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11995 "2012-08-29T17:11:52Z")
Best Picture Oscar Winners that didn’t deserve it: 1. Driving Miss Daisy 2. The Return of the King 3. Slumdog Millionaire 4. The Greatest Show on Earth 5. Chariots of Fire 6. Forrest Gump 7. Cimarron 8. Rebecca 9. How Green Was My Valley ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11996 "2012-08-29T18:10:34Z")
Best Picture Oscar Winners that didn’t deserve it: 1. Driving Miss Daisy 2. The Return of the King 3. Slumdog Millionaire 4. The Greatest Show on Earth 5. Chariots of Fire 6. Forrest Gump 7. Cimarron 8. Rebecca 9. How Green Was My Valley 10. Gladiator ---
**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 30, 2012, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11997 "2012-08-30T01:33:51Z")
Best Picture Oscar Winners that didn’t deserve it: 1. Driving Miss Daisy 2. The Return of the King 3. Slumdog Millionaire 4. The Greatest Show on Earth 5. Chariots of Fire 6. Forrest Gump 7. Cimarron 8. Rebecca 9. How Green Was My Valley 10. Gladiator 11. Braveheart Apollo 13, also nominated that year (1995), was a better movie. And I think Gladiator did deserve to win. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2012, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11998 "2012-08-30T02:45:27Z")
Best Picture Oscar Winners that didn’t deserve it: 1. Driving Miss Daisy 2. The Return of the King 3. Slumdog Millionaire 4. The Greatest Show on Earth 5. Chariots of Fire 6. Forrest Gump 7. Cimarron 8. Rebecca 9. How Green Was My Valley 10. Gladiator 11. Braveheart 12. The English Patient Taking Elaine Benes’s word for it. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2012, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11999 "2012-08-30T11:41:58Z")
Best Picture Oscar Winners that didn’t deserve it: 1. Driving Miss Daisy 2. The Return of the King 3. Slumdog Millionaire 4. The Greatest Show on Earth 5. Chariots of Fire 6. Forrest Gump 7. Cimarron 8. Rebecca 9. How Green Was My Valley 10. Gladiator 11. Braveheart 12. The English Patient 13. Shakespeare in Love New Category: A USA State You Want to Visit 14. Alaska ---
**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:** [August 30, 2012, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/12000 "2012-08-30T12:04:13Z")
New Category: A USA State You Want to Visit 1. Alaska 2. California ---
**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 30, 2012, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/12001 "2012-08-30T13:31:51Z")
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