# 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
**Page:** 794
### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2013, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/15862 "2013-04-22T12:19:12Z")
Favorite Princess Bride Quotes
1. No more rhymes now, I mean it! Anybody want a peanut?
2. You’ve heard of Plato? Socrates? Aristotle? Morons!
3. Inconceivable!
4. Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.
5. Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya! You killed my father, prepare to die!
6. He’s right on top of us. I wonder if he is using the same wind we are using.
7. I’m not left-handed either.
8. We face each other as God intended. Sportsmanlike. No tricks, no weapons, skill against skill alone.
9. As you wish.
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### Author:  [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2013, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/15863 "2013-04-22T12:28:20Z")
Favorite Princess Bride Quotes
1. No more rhymes now, I mean it! Anybody want a peanut?
2. You’ve heard of Plato? Socrates? Aristotle? Morons!
3. Inconceivable!
4. Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.
5. Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya! You killed my father, prepare to die!
6. He’s right on top of us. I wonder if he is using the same wind we are using.
7. I’m not left-handed either.
8. We face each other as God intended. Sportsmanlike. No tricks, no weapons, skill against skill alone.
9. As you wish.
10. Your strength, my brains, and his steel. Against sixty men? And you think a little head jiggle’s going to make me happy? Hmmmm???
My all-time favorite quote ever from the movie.
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### Author:  [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2013, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/15864 "2013-04-22T12:28:29Z")
Very bizarre. When I posted, I checked to see if I was Ninja’d. I wasn’t!
Here it is, **anyrose**.
Favorite Princess Bride Quotes
1. No more rhymes now, I mean it! Anybody want a peanut?
2. You’ve heard of Plato? Socrates? Aristotle? Morons!
3. Inconceivable!
4. Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.
5. Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya! You killed my father, prepare to die!
6. He’s right on top of us. I wonder if he is using the same wind we are using.
7. I’m not left-handed either.
8. We face each other as God intended. Sportsmanlike. No tricks, no weapons, skill against skill alone.
9. As you wish.
10. Your strength, my brains, and his steel. Against sixty men? And you think a little head jiggle’s going to make me happy? Hmmmm???
11. You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles.
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### Author:  [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2013, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/15865 "2013-04-22T12:30:10Z")
e7t - don’t forget my entry, please. Kthxbai. 🙂
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### Author:  [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2013, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/15866 "2013-04-22T12:57:32Z")
Favorite Princess Bride Quotes
1. No more rhymes now, I mean it! Anybody want a peanut?
2. You’ve heard of Plato? Socrates? Aristotle? Morons!
3. Inconceivable!
4. Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.
5. Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya! You killed my father, prepare to die!
6. He’s right on top of us. I wonder if he is using the same wind we are using.
7. I’m not left-handed either.
8. We face each other as God intended. Sportsmanlike. No tricks, no weapons, skill against skill alone.
9. As you wish.
10. Your strength, my brains, and his steel. Against sixty men? And you think a little head jiggle’s going to make me happy? Hmmmm???
11. You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles.
12. Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says different is trying to sell you something.
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2013, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/15867 "2013-04-22T13:19:47Z")
Favorite Princess Bride Quotes
1. No more rhymes now, I mean it! Anybody want a peanut?
2. You’ve heard of Plato? Socrates? Aristotle? Morons!
3. Inconceivable!
4. Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.
5. Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya! You killed my father, prepare to die!
6. He’s right on top of us. I wonder if he is using the same wind we are using.
7. I’m not left-handed either.
8. We face each other as God intended. Sportsmanlike. No tricks, no weapons, skill against skill alone.
9. As you wish.
10. Your strength, my brains, and his steel. Against sixty men? And you think a little head jiggle’s going to make me happy? Hmmmm???
11. You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles.
12. Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says different is trying to sell you something.
13. Murdered by pirates is good.
Next up: TV families where the mother is dead or otherwise absent
1. Bonanza
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### Author:  [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2013, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/15868 "2013-04-22T13:26:03Z")
Next up: TV families where the mother is dead or otherwise absent
1. Bonanza
2. Valerie’s Family/The Hogan Family (after season 1)
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2013, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/15869 "2013-04-22T13:26:52Z")
Next up: TV families where the mother is dead or otherwise absent
1. Bonanza
2. Valerie’s Family/The Hogan Family (after season 1)
3. Bachelor Father
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### Author:  [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2013, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/15870 "2013-04-22T13:41:32Z")
TV families where the mother is dead or otherwise absent
1. Bonanza
2. Valerie’s Family/The Hogan Family (after season 1)
3. Bachelor Father
4. Diff’rent Strokes
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2013, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/15871 "2013-04-22T14:00:39Z")
TV families where the mother is dead or otherwise absent
1. Bonanza
2. Valerie’s Family/The Hogan Family (after season 1)
3. Bachelor Father
4. Diff’rent Strokes
5. The Courtship of Eddie’s Father
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2013, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/15872 "2013-04-22T14:06:17Z")
TV families where the mother is dead or otherwise absent
1. Bonanza
2. Valerie’s Family/The Hogan Family (after season 1)
3. Bachelor Father
4. Diff’rent Strokes
5. The Courtship of Eddie’s Father
6. Blossom
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2013, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/15873 "2013-04-22T14:16:01Z")
TV families where the mother is dead or otherwise absent
1. Bonanza
2. Valerie’s Family/The Hogan Family (after season 1)
3. Bachelor Father
4. Diff’rent Strokes
5. The Courtship of Eddie’s Father
6. Blossom
7. The Andy Griffith Show
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### Author:  [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2013, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/15874 "2013-04-22T15:02:06Z")
TV families where the mother is dead or otherwise absent
1. Bonanza
2. Valerie’s Family/The Hogan Family (after season 1)
3. Bachelor Father
4. Diff’rent Strokes
5. The Courtship of Eddie’s Father
6. Blossom
7. The Andy Griffith Show
8. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (after season 5)
The final episode is approaching its 10-year anniversary (5-20-2003), so I don’t consider this in “spoiler” territory any more.
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2013, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/15875 "2013-04-22T15:08:45Z")
TV families where the mother is dead or otherwise absent
1. Bonanza
2. Valerie’s Family/The Hogan Family (after season 1)
3. Bachelor Father
4. Diff’rent Strokes
5. The Courtship of Eddie’s Father
6. Blossom
7. The Andy Griffith Show
8. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (after season 5)
9. Family Affair
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### Author:  [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2013, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/15876 "2013-04-22T15:12:36Z")
TV families where the mother is dead or otherwise absent
1. Bonanza
2. Valerie’s Family/The Hogan Family (after season 1)
3. Bachelor Father
4. Diff’rent Strokes
5. The Courtship of Eddie’s Father
6. Blossom
7. The Andy Griffith Show
8. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (after season 5)
9. Family Affair
10. My Three Sons
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2013, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/15877 "2013-04-22T15:33:34Z")
TV families where the mother is dead or otherwise absent
1. Bonanza
2. Valerie’s Family/The Hogan Family (after season 1)
3. Bachelor Father
4. Diff’rent Strokes
5. The Courtship of Eddie’s Father
6. Blossom
7. The Andy Griffith Show
8. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (after season 5)
9. Family Affair
10. My Three Sons
11. Eight Is Enough
Due to the real life death of Diana Hyland
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### Author:  [@Srsly\_Dad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Srsly_Dad)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2013, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/15878 "2013-04-22T15:55:40Z")
TV families where the mother is dead or otherwise absent
1. Bonanza
2. Valerie’s Family/The Hogan Family (after season 1)
3. Bachelor Father
4. Diff’rent Strokes
5. The Courtship of Eddie’s Father
6. Blossom
7. The Andy Griffith Show
8. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (after season 5)
9. Family Affair
10. My Three Sons
11. Eight Is Enough
12. iCarly
(Dad is off serving in the military also) - I blame my kids for me even knowing this
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2013, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/15879 "2013-04-22T16:01:00Z")
TV families where the mother is dead or otherwise absent
1. Bonanza
2. Valerie’s Family/The Hogan Family (after season 1)
3. Bachelor Father
4. Diff’rent Strokes
5. The Courtship of Eddie’s Father
6. Blossom
7. The Andy Griffith Show
8. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (after season 5)
9. Family Affair
10. My Three Sons
11. Eight Is Enough
12. iCarly
13. Full House
13 Ways To Wipe Out Humanity (Hey, Happy Earth Day!)
1. Biotechnologically Designed Plague
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### Author:  [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2013, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/15880 "2013-04-22T16:03:56Z")
13 Ways To Wipe Out Humanity (Hey, Happy Earth Day!)
1. Biotechnologically Designed Plague
2. A really big meteor
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### Author:  [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2013, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/15881 "2013-04-22T16:08:41Z")
13 Ways To Wipe Out Humanity (Hey, Happy Earth Day!)
1. Biotechnologically Designed Plague
2. A really big meteor
1. I’ll go for the boring answer- nuclear war
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