BDCT: TOPICS, Bakers Dozen Category Topics, a grouping of BDCs
While doing this work I also thought it’d be a good idea to group the BDCs. This is unfinished work, a draft of what I did so far. Again, recovered from my old iPad2 system crash.
- BDCT: Art / Culture / Society (incl. games, jokes)
- BDCT: Celebrities / Famous People
- BDCT: Clothing
- BDCT: Death & Dying / Crime & Violence / Fear
- BDCT: Duplicated (or Almost Duplicated) BDCs
- BDCT: Entertainment (Films / TV / Books / Music / Concerts)
- BDCT: Fiction, Science Fiction, Fictional Characters
- BDCT: Food & Drink
- BDCT: Geography / Travel / Locations
- BDCT: History
- BDCT: Holidays & Honorable Mentions (In Memorium / Event-Driven)
- BDCT: Love and Sex and Sexuality
- BDCT: Military / Weaponry
- BDCT: Nature / Weather / Wildlife / Anatomy
- BDCT: Politics & Law
- BDCT: Religion
- BDCT: Science & Technology
- BDCT: SDMB - The Straight Dope, Dopers, or Bakers Dozen
- BDCT: Sports
- BDCT: Transportation
- BDCT: Words / Languages / Quotes
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- BDCT: Art / Culture / Society (incl. games, jokes)
Natural Laws You Have Discovered
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16545416#post16545416
Items you take in your beach bag while on vacation
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16524355#post16524355
Nominees for “Shortest Book of the Year”
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16520078#post16520078
Ridiculous arguments against legal same sex marriage
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16508004#post16508004
Creative duos; one gay, one straight
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16499986#post16499986
Your Favorite Album Covers (Never Mind WHether You Liked the Music)
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16487016#post16487016
Funniest Mel Brooks gags
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16468859#post16468859
Things You Personally Find Disturbing That Aren’t Meant To Be
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16452744#post16452744
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2) BDCT: Celebrities / Famous People
Characters from French literature
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16546462#post16546462
Standup Comedians Who Are Known for Lewdness and/or Four-Letter Words
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16550201#post16550201
Authors Whose Novels or Stories Were Adapted into Best Picture-winning Movies
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16534691#post16534691
Trumpeters
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16533795#post16533795
13 Famous Georges
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16523430#post16523430
13 movie superheroes and the actors who played them (no duplicates, please)
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16521855#post16521855
Actors or actresses who have played British monarchs (no repeats)
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16519388#post16519388
Real or Fictional Messianic Figures
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16517098#post16517098
Movie Roles Played By an Actor of the Opposite Gender
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16516106#post16516106
Animals that vaguely resemble celebrities
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16509776#post16509776
Standup Comedians Who Are Known for Lewdness and/or Four-Letter Words
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16550201#post16550201
Creative duos; one gay, one straight
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16499986#post16499986
Overheard around Buckingham Palace as Kate goes into labor
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16498934#post16498934
Name Will and Kate’s baby
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16491764#post16491764
Fascinating if untrue trivia about the impending royal birth
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16483787#post16483787
Funniest Mel Brooks gags
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16468859#post16468859
Oscar bait: actors who were nominated for an Academy Award for playing a handicapped character
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16448303#post16448303
Alliterative names, AA through MM
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16444260#post16444260
the first athlete you ever got an autograph from
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16439282#post16439282
Movie stars you always get mixed up (even though you should know better)
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16426277#post16426277
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- BDCT: Clothing
Specific things that people wear over their hands
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16540109#post16540109
Styles of shoes
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16537735#post16537735
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- BDCT: Death & Dying / Crime & Violence / Fear
13 Phobias
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16544296#post16544296
Famous vampires!
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16514369#post16514369
13 Spider-Man Villains
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16501547#post16501547
In Memorium to the 06 July Airplane Crash at SFO, Commercial Airline Crashes Resulting in Loss of Life (not fictional; give flight and from/to cities)
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16458882#post16458882
Mythological people/creatures and who killed them
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16428092#post16428092
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- BDCT: Duplicated (or Almost Duplicated) BDCs
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- BDCT: Entertainment (Films / TV / Books / Music / Concerts)
Songs that are mistaken for a different artist (Song - Sounds like ? - Actual Artist)Include, links if possible
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16550922#post16550922
Characters from French literature
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16546462#post16546462
In honor of the Twelfth Doctor: Who should be the Doctor’s next companion (with or without Clara still there)
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16540692#post16540692
Examples of nepotism or other favoritism in movie casting (including relationship)
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16539055#post16539055
Worst overhyped movies
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16538280#post16538280
Apt Double-Features at the Movies
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16536176#post16536176
Authors Whose Novels or Stories Were Adapted into Best Picture-winning Movies
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16534691#post16534691
Trumpeters
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16533795#post16533795
13 movie superheroes and the actors who played them (no duplicates, please)
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16521855#post16521855
Misleading Band Names
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16521309#post16521309
Nominees for “Shortest Book of the Year”
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16520078#post16520078
Movie Roles Played By an Actor of the Opposite Gender
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16516106#post16516106
Completely ridiculous picks for the next Doctor
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16507138#post16507138
Possible Titles for New Harry Potter Installments as the Series Moves Into the 21st Century
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16506489#post16506489
13 Spider-Man Villains
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16501547#post16501547
Creative Works with much longer than average titles
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16501175#post16501175
Standup Comedians Who Are Known for Lewdness and/or Four-Letter Words
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16550201#post16550201
Songs about cars
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16492436#post16492436
Your Favorite Album Covers (Never Mind WHether You Liked the Music)
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16487016#post16487016
Things Tony Soprano never said
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16485239#post16485239
The Best and Worst Concerts You’ve ever Attended
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16474928#post16474928
For fans of NCIS: Gibbs’ Rules
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16471686#post16471686
Funniest Mel Brooks gags
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16468859#post16468859
Fictional TV characters who wear eyeglasses
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16466637#post16466637
A movie you’ve seen in the past three months and really liked
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16454197#post16454197
Oscar bait: actors who were nominated for an Academy Award for playing a handicapped character
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16448303#post16448303
Major events in comic book continuity
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16424722#post16424722
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- BDCT: Fiction, Science Fiction, Fictional Characters
Fictional cooks/chefs
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16543342#post16543342
Fictional Librarians
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16522762#post16522762
13 movie superheroes and the actors who played them (no duplicates, please)
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16521855#post16521855
Nominees for “Shortest Book of the Year”
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16520078#post16520078
Real or Fictional Messianic Figures
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16517098#post16517098
Fictional Farmers/Farm Workers
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16515139#post16515139
Famous vampires!
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16514369#post16514369
Things Tony Soprano never said
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16485239#post16485239
Fictional Invertebrates
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16482583#post16482583
Fictional TV characters who wear eyeglasses
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16466637#post16466637
Fictional Female Athletes and a Sport They Played
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16457357#post16457357
Adventure Time characters
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16432594#post16432594
Mythological people/creatures and who killed them
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16428092#post16428092
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8) BDCT: Food & Drink
Fictional cooks/chefs
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16543342#post16543342
Colors named after foods
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16504432#post16504432
Diner slang
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16488648#post16488648
13 Types of Cookie
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16447497#post16447497
Foods that many-many people eat voluntarily and like but that you would have to be at the point of starvation to even consider trying
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16436399#post16436399
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9) BDCT: Geography / Travel / Locations
Highest altitude you have personally driven at
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16525826#post16525826
Items you take in your beach bag while on vacation
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16524355#post16524355
Countries that Touch the Atlantic Ocean
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16465895#post16465895
13 capitals of Asian nations
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16397822#post16397822
13 Cities You’ve Flown/Connected Through, But Have Never Actually Visited
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16318935#post16318935
3-Syllable Country Names
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16461449#post16461449
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10) BDCT: History
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11) BDCT: Holidays & Honorable Mentions (In Memorium / Event-Driven)
In honor of the Twelfth Doctor: Who should be the Doctor’s next companion (with or without Clara still there)
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16540692#post16540692
13 Items for Back-to-School
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16540101#post16540101
Overheard around Buckingham Palace as Kate goes into labor
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16498934#post16498934
Name Will and Kate’s baby
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16491764#post16491764
Fascinating if untrue trivia about the impending royal birth
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16483787#post16483787
In honor of today being the 209th anniversary of the Burr-Hamilton Duel, next up is Famous Duels: Real or Fictional (other than Burr-Hamilton)
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16462471#post16462471
In Memorium to the 06 July Airplane Crash at SFO, Commercial Airline Crashes Resulting in Loss of Life (not fictional; give flight and from/to cities)
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16458882#post16458882
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12) BDCT: Love and Sex and Sexuality
Movie Roles Played By an Actor of the Opposite Gender
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16516106#post16516106
Ridiculous arguments against legal same sex marriage
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16508004#post16508004
Inappropriate remarks by the clergyperson at a wedding
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16503179#post16503179
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13) BDCT: Military / Weaponry
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14) BDCT: Nature / Weather / Wildlife / Anatomy
Animals that vaguely resemble celebrities
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16509776#post16509776
Euphemisms for vomiting
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16490635#post16490635
13 Extinct Species
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16483229#post16483229
Fictional Invertebrates
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16482583#post16482583
Worst place/time for it to rain
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16467412#post16467412
Maladies you might have that make you glad HIPAA rules exist (because you do not want gossipy co-workers to know about them)
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16463690#post16463690
Famous Pigs (in fact or fiction)
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16462986#post16462986
Stray or wild animals that you ended up adopting as pets, personality quirk or anecdote optional
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16449322#post16449322
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15) BDCT: Politics & Law
Actors or actresses who have played British monarchs (no repeats)
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16519388#post16519388
Overheard around Buckingham Palace as Kate goes into labor
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16498934#post16498934
Name Will and Kate’s baby
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16491764#post16491764
Fascinating if untrue trivia about the impending royal birth
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16483787#post16483787
Maladies you might have that make you glad HIPAA rules exist (because you do not want gossipy co-workers to know about them)
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16463690#post16463690
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16) BDCT: Religion
Real or Fictional Messianic Figures
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16517098#post16517098
Inappropriate remarks by the clergyperson at a wedding
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16503179#post16503179
What the next Thirteen Commandments ought to be
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16473947#post16473947
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- BDCT: Science & Technology
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18) BDCT: SDMB - The Straight Dope, Dopers, or Bakers Dozen
13 Reasons astorian should be the new Doctor’s companion
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16542197#post16542197
Highest altitude you have personally driven at
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16525826#post16525826
Cars (etc.) You’ve Had, Loved, or Lost
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16492801#post16492801
The Best and Worst Concerts You’ve ever Attended
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16474928#post16474928
13 Cities You’ve Flown/Connected Through, But Have Never Actually Visited
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16318935#post16318935
Stray or wild animals that you ended up adopting as pets, personality quirk or anecdote optional
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16449322#post16449322
the first athlete you ever got an autograph from
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16439282#post16439282
13 Reasons to Celebrate Annie-Xmas in July
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16434839#post16434839
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19) BDCT: Sports
Baseball Teams and their Long Championship Droughts (incl Last Championship Year)
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16547530#post16547530
Sports teams with a colorful nickname
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16460332#post16460332
Fictional Female Athletes and a Sport They Played
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16457357#post16457357
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20) BDCT: Transportation
Cars (etc.) You’ve Had, Loved, or Lost
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16492801#post16492801
Songs about cars
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16492436#post16492436
In Memorium to the 06 July Airplane Crash at SFO, Commercial Airline Crashes Resulting in Loss of Life (not fictional; give flight and from/to cities)
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16458882#post16458882
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21) BDCT: Words / Languages / Quotes
Standup Comedians Who Are Known for Lewdness and/or Four-Letter Words
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16550201#post16550201
Misleading Band Names
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16521309#post16521309
Standup Comedians Who Are Known for Lewdness and/or Four-Letter Words
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16550201#post16550201
Overheard around Buckingham Palace as Kate goes into labor
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16498934#post16498934
Euphemisms for vomiting
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16490635#post16490635
Diner slang
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16488648#post16488648
Things Tony Soprano never said
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16485239#post16485239
Funniest Mel Brooks gags
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16468859#post16468859
3-Syllable Country Names
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16461449#post16461449
Geographic Puns
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16319659#post16319659
Alliterative names, AA through MM
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16444260#post16444260
A hyphenate and its hypothetical origin
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16437221#post16437221
13 Meaningless Proverbs for All Occasions
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16427086#post16427086