# 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:** 772
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/15422 "2013-04-06T13:57:30Z")
Hilarious April Fool’s jokes that you have been a part of: 1. An Eviltron placed in my nephew’s bedroom last year. Drove him almost out of his mind over the course of a couple of days. 2. Sent out corporate memo notifying superiors that 40% of all time-off requests occurred on either Friday or Monday. 3. I wrote an article in my college newspaper with the headline “Westhead to Replace Westhead” about one of the walkons on our basketball team dropping out of school to take over as head coach at Loyola Marymount, where his father was. I got to meet his dad at graduation, he got a kick out of it. 4. Since it’s opened up: My friend was having intermittent transmission problems with one of his cars. From work he called his wife and told her that he had found a suitable replacement transmission at a great price, but he needed the “code” from the transmission. The “code” was printed on a plate on the transmission itself. But you needed to crawl under the car to read the code. Well, on the morning of April 1’st my friend had his wife on her back, on a wet gravel driveway, crawling under a car, and looking for the nameplate that held the secret information. This went on for quite a while: “I don’t see anything.” “You need to crawl further. It’s on the other side of the casing.” Holy shit I can’t believe they’re still married. And actually they are a wonderfully happy couple, despite my friend’s conundrums. 5. Surprise FDA Inspection at work 6. I once posted a phony April Fool’s Day prank that I never really took part in, just to pad the count and get a moribund SDMB game up to 13 faster. 7. This year my daughter surprised her mom with fake vomit in the garage. 8. One of my roomates in university was a huge death metal fan and we used to tease him about songs containing backwards messages, etc… So when he was out we took almost all his cassettes, opened them up, reversed the spools, and put them back together. We thought it would be hilarious because his music would be backwards, but it was even funnier that he insisted his tape deck was not working properly by trying tape after tape… even after we had explained the prank. 9. While playing poker in college, we stacked the deck while one player was in the bathroom so he would get dealt a royal flush. It was a lot of fun watching him try desperately to keep a poker face when he realized he had such a fantastic hand. (This wasn’t April Fools’ Day, but somehow at this point I doubt anyone cares. :P) 10. I did the same thing as astorian 11. Over an article summarizing a discussion of the difficulties of church missions in politically volatile countries at a Methodist church I ran the 36 pt headline “Methodist Women Discuss Missionary Position”. It was also my last day at the paper. 12. Had a lawyer send a letter to some friends to “cease and desist” their answering machine recording because of the background music. ---
**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:** [April 6, 2013, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/15423 "2013-04-06T15:39:13Z")
1. An Eviltron placed in my nephew’s bedroom last year. Drove him almost out of his mind over the course of a couple of days. 2. Sent out corporate memo notifying superiors that 40% of all time-off requests occurred on either Friday or Monday. 3. I wrote an article in my college newspaper with the headline “Westhead to Replace Westhead” about one of the walkons on our basketball team dropping out of school to take over as head coach at Loyola Marymount, where his father was. I got to meet his dad at graduation, he got a kick out of it. 4. Since it’s opened up: My friend was having intermittent transmission problems with one of his cars. From work he called his wife and told her that he had found a suitable replacement transmission at a great price, but he needed the “code” from the transmission. The “code” was printed on a plate on the transmission itself. But you needed to crawl under the car to read the code. Well, on the morning of April 1’st my friend had his wife on her back, on a wet gravel driveway, crawling under a car, and looking for the nameplate that held the secret information. This went on for quite a while: “I don’t see anything.” “You need to crawl further. It’s on the other side of the casing.” Holy shit I can’t believe they’re still married. And actually they are a wonderfully happy couple, despite my friend’s conundrums. 5. Surprise FDA Inspection at work 6. I once posted a phony April Fool’s Day prank that I never really took part in, just to pad the count and get a moribund SDMB game up to 13 faster. 7. This year my daughter surprised her mom with fake vomit in the garage. 8. One of my roomates in university was a huge death metal fan and we used to tease him about songs containing backwards messages, etc… So when he was out we took almost all his cassettes, opened them up, reversed the spools, and put them back together. We thought it would be hilarious because his music would be backwards, but it was even funnier that he insisted his tape deck was not working properly by trying tape after tape… even after we had explained the prank. 9. While playing poker in college, we stacked the deck while one player was in the bathroom so he would get dealt a royal flush. It was a lot of fun watching him try desperately to keep a poker face when he realized he had such a fantastic hand. (This wasn’t April Fools’ Day, but somehow at this point I doubt anyone cares. :P) 10. I did the same thing as astorian 11. Over an article summarizing a discussion of the difficulties of church missions in politically volatile countries at a Methodist church I ran the 36 pt headline “Methodist Women Discuss Missionary Position”. It was also my last day at the paper. 12. Had a lawyer send a letter to some friends to “cease and desist” their answering machine recording because of the background music. 13. I swapped my friend’s Motrin tablet with an orange M&M. TV or movie characters’ trademark clothing item: 1. Fourth Doctor’s long scarf ---
**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:** [April 6, 2013, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/15424 "2013-04-06T15:42:18Z")
TV or movie characters’ trademark clothing item: 1. Fourth Doctor’s long scarf 2. Columbo’s wrinkled raincoat ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/15425 "2013-04-06T16:06:56Z")
TV or movie characters’ trademark clothing item: 1. Fourth Doctor’s long scarf 2. Columbo’s wrinkled raincoat 3. Indy’s fedora. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/15426 "2013-04-06T16:08:48Z")
TV or movie characters’ trademark clothing item: 1. Fourth Doctor’s long scarf 2. Columbo’s wrinkled raincoat 3. Indy’s fedora. 4. Oddjob’s Bowler ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/15427 "2013-04-06T16:20:08Z")
TV or movie characters’ trademark clothing item: 1. Fourth Doctor’s long scarf 2. Columbo’s wrinkled raincoat 3. Indy’s fedora. 4. Oddjob’s Bowler 5. Adrian Monk’s suit ---
**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:** [April 6, 2013, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/15428 "2013-04-06T17:35:59Z")
TV or movie characters’ trademark clothing item: 1. Fourth Doctor’s long scarf 2. Columbo’s wrinkled raincoat 3. Indy’s fedora. 4. Oddjob’s Bowler 5. Adrian Monk’s suit 6. Fonzie’s black leather jacket ---
**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:** [April 6, 2013, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/15429 "2013-04-06T17:38:58Z")
TV or movie characters’ trademark clothing item: 1. Fourth Doctor’s long scarf 2. Columbo’s wrinkled raincoat 3. Indy’s fedora. 4. Oddjob’s Bowler 5. Adrian Monk’s suit 6. Fonzie’s black leather jacket 7. Sister Bertrille’s nun’s habit ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/15430 "2013-04-06T17:58:28Z")
TV or movie characters’ trademark clothing item: 1. Fourth Doctor’s long scarf 2. Columbo’s wrinkled raincoat 3. Indy’s fedora. 4. Oddjob’s Bowler 5. Adrian Monk’s suit 6. Fonzie’s black leather jacket 7. Sister Bertrille’s nun’s habit 8. Ten’s classic Converse Lo-Tops ---
**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:** [April 6, 2013, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/15431 "2013-04-06T18:03:17Z")
TV or movie characters’ trademark clothing item: 1. Fourth Doctor’s long scarf 2. Columbo’s wrinkled raincoat 3. Indy’s fedora. 4. Oddjob’s Bowler 5. Adrian Monk’s suit 6. Fonzie’s black leather jacket 7. Sister Bertrille’s nun’s habit 8. Ten’s classic Converse Lo-Tops 9. Alice Nelson’s blue housekeeper’s outfit ---
**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:** [April 6, 2013, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/15432 "2013-04-06T18:37:41Z")
TV or movie characters’ trademark clothing item: 1. Fourth Doctor’s long scarf 2. Columbo’s wrinkled raincoat 3. Indy’s fedora. 4. Oddjob’s Bowler 5. Adrian Monk’s suit 6. Fonzie’s black leather jacket 7. Sister Bertrille’s nun’s habit 8. Ten’s classic Converse Lo-Tops 9. Alice Nelson’s blue housekeeper’s outfit 10. Beavis and Butt-head’s Metallica and AC/DC T-shirts ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/15433 "2013-04-06T18:51:18Z")
TV or movie characters’ trademark clothing item: 1. Fourth Doctor’s long scarf 2. Columbo’s wrinkled raincoat 3. Indy’s fedora. 4. Oddjob’s Bowler 5. Adrian Monk’s suit 6. Fonzie’s black leather jacket 7. Sister Bertrille’s nun’s habit 8. Ten’s classic Converse Lo-Tops 9. Alice Nelson’s blue housekeeper’s outfit 10. Beavis and Butt-head’s Metallica and AC/DC T-shirts 11. Jeannie’s harem outfit ---
**Author:** ![Blkshp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blkshp/32/7135_2.png) [@Blkshp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blkshp)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/15434 "2013-04-06T19:56:21Z")
TV or movie characters’ trademark clothing item: 1. Fourth Doctor’s long scarf 2. Columbo’s wrinkled raincoat 3. Indy’s fedora. 4. Oddjob’s Bowler 5. Adrian Monk’s suit 6. Fonzie’s black leather jacket 7. Sister Bertrille’s nun’s habit 8. Ten’s classic Converse Lo-Tops 9. Alice Nelson’s blue housekeeper’s outfit 10. Beavis and Butt-head’s Metallica and AC/DC T-shirts 11. Jeannie’s harem outfit 12. Hoss’s hat ---
**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:** [April 6, 2013, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/15435 "2013-04-06T21:11:40Z")
TV or movie characters’ trademark clothing item: 1. Fourth Doctor’s long scarf 2. Columbo’s wrinkled raincoat 3. Indy’s fedora. 4. Oddjob’s Bowler 5. Adrian Monk’s suit 6. Fonzie’s black leather jacket 7. Sister Bertrille’s nun’s habit 8. Ten’s classic Converse Lo-Tops 9. Alice Nelson’s blue housekeeper’s outfit 10. Beavis and Butt-head’s Metallica and AC/DC T-shirts 11. Jeannie’s harem outfit 12. Hoss’s hat 13. Eleventh Doctor’s bowtie (and, arguably, fez) New list: Movies/TV shoes featuring someone playing the leader of a country who is not the U.S. President: 1. Bette Davis, Elizabeth I, _The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex_ ---
**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:** [April 6, 2013, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/15436 "2013-04-06T21:42:42Z")
Movies/TV shoes featuring someone playing the leader of a country who is not the U.S. President: 1. Bette Davis, Elizabeth I, _The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex_ 2. George Arliss, Benjamin Disraeli, _Disraeli_ ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/15437 "2013-04-06T22:01:55Z")
Movies/TV shoes featuring someone playing the leader of a country who is not the U.S. President: 1. Bette Davis, Elizabeth I, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex 2. George Arliss, Benjamin Disraeli, Disraeli 3. Hugh Grant, the Prime Minister, _Love Actually_ ---
**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:** [April 6, 2013, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/15438 "2013-04-06T22:40:39Z")
[quote=“Prof.Pepperwinkle, post:15437, topic:549173”] Movies/TV shows featuring someone playing the leader of a country who is not the U.S. President: 1. Bette Davis, Elizabeth I, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex 2. George Arliss, Benjamin Disraeli, Disraeli 3. Hugh Grant, the Prime Minister, _Love Actually_ 4. Paul Eddington, Prime Minister Jim Hacker, _Yes, Prime Minister_ ---
**Author:** ![Blkshp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blkshp/32/7135_2.png) [@Blkshp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blkshp)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/15439 "2013-04-06T22:49:31Z")
Movies/TV shows featuring someone playing the leader of a country who is not the U.S. President: 1. Bette Davis, Elizabeth I, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex 2. George Arliss, Benjamin Disraeli, Disraeli 3. Hugh Grant, the Prime Minister, Love Actually 4. Paul Eddington, Prime Minister Jim Hacker, Yes, Prime Minister 5. Forrest Whitaker, His Excellency President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of all the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea, and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular (etc.) Idi Amin Dada, The Last King of Scotland ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/15440 "2013-04-06T22:57:46Z")
Movies/TV shows featuring someone playing the leader of a country who is not the U.S. President: 1. Bette Davis, Elizabeth I, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex 2. George Arliss, Benjamin Disraeli, Disraeli 3. Hugh Grant, the Prime Minister, Love Actually 4. Paul Eddington, Prime Minister Jim Hacker, Yes, Prime Minister 5. Forrest Whitaker, His Excellency President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of all the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea, and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular (etc.) Idi Amin Dada, The Last King of Scotland 6. James Earl Jones in “Coming to America” ---
**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:** [April 6, 2013, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/15441 "2013-04-06T23:05:03Z")
Movies/TV shows featuring someone playing the leader of a country who is not the U.S. President: 1. Bette Davis, Elizabeth I, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex 2. George Arliss, Benjamin Disraeli, Disraeli 3. Hugh Grant, the Prime Minister, Love Actually 4. Paul Eddington, Prime Minister Jim Hacker, Yes, Prime Minister 5. Forrest Whitaker, His Excellency President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of all the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea, and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular (etc.) Idi Amin Dada, The Last King of Scotland 6. James Earl Jones in “Coming to America” 7. John Lone, Emperor Puyi, **The Last Emperor** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=771) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=773)