# 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:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/13722 "2012-12-13T02:46:12Z")

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You’ve been a very bad boy/girl this year. What does Santa leave under your tree?

1. Jerry Sandusky
2. The Romney Administration
3. A gift card for Guy Fieri’s new Times Square restaurant
4. A pair of tickets to the Winter Classic.
5. Buffalo Bills playoff tickets
6. “Nick Gilder’s Greatest Hits” on 8 track
7. Obama
8. A well-wrapped, sexily dressed member of the gender opposite your sexual preference
9. The All-New Richard Gere Habitrail Kit
10. Not just a lump of coal, but a lung cancer diagnosis
11. Doom, Despair, and two Boxes of Agony.
12. A DVD twin pack of _The Jersey Shore_ and _Keeping up with the Kardashians_

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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:** [December 13, 2012, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/13723 "2012-12-13T03:16:42Z")

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> [@John\_DiFool](#):
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> 1. Doom, Despair, and two Boxes of Agony.

Deep dark depression, excessive misery  
If it weren’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/13724 "2012-12-13T06:46:29Z")

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You’ve been a very bad boy/girl this year. What does Santa leave under your tree?

1. Jerry Sandusky
2. The Romney Administration
3. A gift card for Guy Fieri’s new Times Square restaurant
4. A pair of tickets to the Winter Classic.
5. Buffalo Bills playoff tickets
6. “Nick Gilder’s Greatest Hits” on 8 track
7. Obama
8. A well-wrapped, sexily dressed member of the gender opposite your sexual preference
9. The All-New Richard Gere Habitrail Kit
10. Not just a lump of coal, but a lung cancer diagnosis
11. Doom, Despair, and two Boxes of Agony.
12. A DVD twin pack of _The Jersey Shore_ and _Keeping up with the Kardashians_
13. A full-volume set of all the Roger Moore James Bond films

I’ll pass; I got nothin’ right now.

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**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:** [December 13, 2012, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/13725 "2012-12-13T07:39:17Z")

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> [@ekedolphin](#):
>
> You’ve been a very bad boy/girl this year. What does Santa leave under your tree?
> 
> 1. Jerry Sandusky
> 2. The Romney Administration
> 3. A gift card for Guy Fieri’s new Times Square restaurant
> 4. A pair of tickets to the Winter Classic.
> 5. Buffalo Bills playoff tickets
> 6. “Nick Gilder’s Greatest Hits” on 8 track
> 7. Obama
> 8. A well-wrapped, sexily dressed member of the gender opposite your sexual preference
> 9. The All-New Richard Gere Habitrail Kit
> 10. Not just a lump of coal, but a lung cancer diagnosis
> 11. Doom, Despair, and two Boxes of Agony.
> 12. A DVD twin pack of _The Jersey Shore_ and _Keeping up with the Kardashians_
> 13. A full-volume set of all the Roger Moore James Bond films
> 
> I’ll pass; I got nothin’ right now.

I’ll do one.

Christmas candies and cookies.

1. Gingerbread men

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/13726 "2012-12-13T10:36:29Z")

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Christmas candies and cookies

1. Gingerbread men
2. Dansk butter cookies in the metal tin  
Check out the nutrition facts for them some time. Are they bad for you, or _what?!_ And yet they taste soooo good.

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**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:** [December 13, 2012, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/13727 "2012-12-13T11:57:22Z")

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Christmas candies and cookies

1. Gingerbread men
2. Dansk butter cookies in the metal tin
3. Candy Canes

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**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/13728 "2012-12-13T12:14:24Z")

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Christmas candies and cookies

1. Gingerbread men
2. Dansk butter cookies in the metal tin
3. Candy Canes
4. Ribbon Candy  
(To be purchased and served only by grandmothers.)

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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:** [December 13, 2012, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/13729 "2012-12-13T13:18:07Z")

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Christmas candies and cookies

1. Gingerbread men
2. Dansk butter cookies in the metal tin
3. Candy Canes
4. Ribbon Candy
5. Pfeffernüsse

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**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:** [December 13, 2012, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/13730 "2012-12-13T14:27:28Z")

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Christmas candies and cookies

1. Gingerbread men
2. Dansk butter cookies in the metal tin
3. Candy Canes
4. Ribbon Candy
5. Pfeffernüsse
6. Baskin Robbins Peppermint Ice Cream (w/ bits of peppermint candy)

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**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/13731 "2012-12-13T14:30:45Z")

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Christmas candies and cookies

1. Gingerbread men
2. Dansk butter cookies in the metal tin
3. Candy Canes
4. Ribbon Candy
5. Pfeffernüsse
6. Baskin Robbins Peppermint Ice Cream (w/ bits of peppermint candy)
7. Sugar plums

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**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:** [December 13, 2012, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/13732 "2012-12-13T14:34:59Z")

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Christmas candies and cookies

1. Gingerbread men
2. Dansk butter cookies in the metal tin
3. Candy Canes
4. Ribbon Candy
5. Pfeffernüsse
6. Baskin Robbins Peppermint Ice Cream (w/ bits of peppermint candy)
7. Sugar plums
8. Hershey’s Kisses, in the red and green wraps

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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:** [December 13, 2012, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/13733 "2012-12-13T15:23:39Z")

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Christmas candies and cookies

1. Gingerbread men
2. Dansk butter cookies in the metal tin
3. Candy Canes
4. Ribbon Candy
5. Pfeffernüsse
6. Baskin Robbins Peppermint Ice Cream (w/ bits of peppermint candy)
7. Sugar plums
8. Hershey’s Kisses, in the red and green wraps
9. Peppermint bark

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**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/13734 "2012-12-13T16:11:03Z")

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Christmas candies and cookies

1. Gingerbread men
2. Dansk butter cookies in the metal tin
3. Candy Canes
4. Ribbon Candy
5. Pfeffernüsse
6. Baskin Robbins Peppermint Ice Cream (w/ bits of peppermint candy)
7. Sugar plums
8. Hershey’s Kisses, in the red and green wraps
9. Peppermint bark
10. Fruitcake

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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:** [December 13, 2012, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/13735 "2012-12-13T16:14:17Z")

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Christmas candies and cookies

1. Gingerbread men
2. Dansk butter cookies in the metal tin
3. Candy Canes
4. Ribbon Candy
5. Pfeffernüsse
6. Baskin Robbins Peppermint Ice Cream (w/ bits of peppermint candy)
7. Sugar plums
8. Hershey’s Kisses, in the red and green wraps
9. Peppermint bark
10. Fruitcake
11. Shortbread  
Well, for me anyway.

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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:** [December 13, 2012, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/13736 "2012-12-13T16:23:43Z")

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Christmas candies and cookies

1. Gingerbread men
2. Dansk butter cookies in the metal tin
3. Candy Canes
4. Ribbon Candy
5. Pfeffernüsse
6. Baskin Robbins Peppermint Ice Cream (w/ bits of peppermint candy)
7. Sugar plums
8. Hershey’s Kisses, in the red and green wraps
9. Peppermint bark
10. Fruitcake
11. Shortbread
12. Hollow Chocolate Santas and Snowmen

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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:** [December 13, 2012, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/13737 "2012-12-13T16:32:04Z")

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Christmas candies and cookies

1. Gingerbread men
2. Dansk butter cookies in the metal tin
3. Candy Canes
4. Ribbon Candy
5. Pfeffernüsse
6. Baskin Robbins Peppermint Ice Cream (w/ bits of peppermint candy)
7. Sugar plums
8. Hershey’s Kisses, in the red and green wraps
9. Peppermint bark
10. Fruitcake
11. Shortbread
12. Hollow Chocolate Santas and Snowmen
13. Eggnog ice cream

Well, we’ve had actors who’ve played Santa. So let’s go in the opposite direction.

New category: Actors who have played Hitler

1. Bruno Ganz

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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:** [December 13, 2012, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/13738 "2012-12-13T16:44:32Z")

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Actors who have played Hitler

1. Bruno Ganz
2. Dick Shawn

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/13739 "2012-12-13T16:52:41Z")

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Actors who have played Hitler

1. Bruno Ganz
2. Dick Shawn
3. Mel Brooks (_ **To Be or Not to Be** _)

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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:** [December 13, 2012, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/13740 "2012-12-13T17:15:09Z")

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Actors who have played Hitler

1. Bruno Ganz
2. Dick Shawn
3. Mel Brooks (_ **To Be or Not to Be** _)
4. Anthony Hopkins

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/13741 "2012-12-13T18:12:22Z")

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Actors who have played Hitler

1. Bruno Ganz, _Downfall_
2. Dick Shawn, _The Producers_
3. Mel Brooks, _To Be or Not to Be_
4. Anthony Hopkins, _The Bunker_
5. Trey Parker, _South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut_

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