Title: Degrees of Separation Post by: BorntoBubble on January 29, 2015, 11:35:50 AM That old saying that with 6 degrees of separation you can get to anybody on the planet.
Am I right in thinking that if I know someone that is 1 degree of separation, and if they know someone that i don't know that person is 2 degrees of separation? If so I have 2 degrees of separation from Barack Obama. Which I thought was pretty cool. Therefore you lovely lot have maximum of 3 from Barack! If you could give me your "cool" I know someone who knows someone stories then I can add to my list! kinboshi - edited title to save Mere's sanity Title: Re: Degrees of Seperation Post by: DaveShoelace on January 29, 2015, 11:46:03 AM I love this concept. I used to play the 'six degrees of kevin bacon' game at work where you try and link two actors based on films they have worked on.
So for example someone would say 'Brad Pitt' and 'Steve Martin'. And you would say Brad Pitt was in Friends with Jennifer Aniston, who was also in Friends with Alec Baldwin, who was in 30 Rock with Steve Martin. This was a pre-internet/IMDB game. Christ I'm a nerd. Title: Re: Degrees of Seperation Post by: Nakor on January 29, 2015, 11:56:25 AM I am 1 step from Stephen Fry and thus two from Sir Tony Robinson.
The modern version in these parts seems to be 5 Steps from Jesus, a popular game in our office. You should be able to get from any Wiki page to the Jesus page within 5 links. Title: Re: Degrees of Seperation Post by: RED-DOG on January 29, 2015, 12:04:45 PM Has anyone played 3 clicks to Hitler?
Title: Re: Degrees of Separation Post by: MereNovice on January 29, 2015, 12:05:59 PM I used to work with someone whose mother taught Reg Dwight (Elton John) to play the piano.
Does that help? P.S. Can someone please correct the spelling in the title. I know that tikay spells it incorrectly every time but the rest of us shouldn't sink to those depths. :) Title: Re: Degrees of Seperation Post by: BorntoBubble on January 29, 2015, 12:16:59 PM Spelin ain't my strng poyent
Title: Re: Degrees of Separation Post by: kinboshi on January 29, 2015, 12:30:12 PM David Prowse, who was the actor who played Darth Vader, was a friend of my Dad's and I had my photo taken with him when I about 7 years old.
That means everyone here is only a maximum of 3 degrees of separation from Princess Leia. Title: Re: Degrees of Separation Post by: kinboshi on January 29, 2015, 12:31:42 PM Actually, pick any famous sports-person, and everyone on here is only separated by a maximum of two degrees of separation from them as Ian Gascoigne will have met them and had a photo taken with them.
Title: Re: Degrees of Separation Post by: AdamM on January 29, 2015, 05:31:47 PM I'm only 2 away from Billie Joe Armstrong from Green Day, which I suppose makes me 3 away from huge a huge selection of the alternative music world.
I'm friends with a young band from Grantham called Matt Grocott and the Shrives (well, the Shrives actually. I don't know Matt) and they recorded their debut EP in America, produced by Billie Joe and featuring his son, Joey Armstrong on drums. About 20 years too late for me to make use of a connection as good as that to get to be a famous rock star myself (plus of course, these lads were in nappies 20 years ago) Give them a listen https://www.facebook.com/mattgrocottmusic Title: Re: Degrees of Separation Post by: cambridgealex on January 29, 2015, 06:47:55 PM How do you get to remote tribesmen in africa who've never left the village their whole lives?
Title: Re: Degrees of Separation Post by: George2Loose on January 29, 2015, 07:37:15 PM How do you get to remote tribesmen in africa who've never left the village their whole lives? When they sign up to blonde Title: Re: Degrees of Separation Post by: bobAlike on January 29, 2015, 08:11:52 PM How do you get to remote tribesmen in africa who've never left the village their whole lives? You hire a Landrover? Title: Re: Degrees of Separation Post by: bobAlike on January 29, 2015, 08:13:51 PM I met Robert Plant a couple of time so that makes only 3 degrees separation for Blondes to Jimmy Page :)
Title: Re: Degrees of Separation Post by: teddybloat on January 29, 2015, 08:26:56 PM my dad did a lot of work with supplying various military equipment around the world. this used to be measured in handshakes and he has bush snr and saddam hussien in 2 handshakes
so i have them in 3, and prolly just about any world leader / statesman / woman / royal in 4. Title: Re: Degrees of Separation Post by: Claw75 on January 29, 2015, 08:49:58 PM I
Title: Re: Degrees of Separation Post by: MintTrav on January 29, 2015, 10:30:55 PM My (unwanted) Ace for wrongly guessing in tonight's quiz that Rupert Murdoch is the best-known Australian reminds me that my daughter met his mother about three years ago. So that makes me three degrees from Wendi!
Title: Re: Degrees of Separation Post by: MereNovice on January 29, 2015, 10:33:35 PM My (unwanted) Ace for wrongly guessing in tonight's quiz that Rupert Murdoch is the best-known Australian reminds me that my daughter met his mother about three years ago. So that makes me three degrees from Wendi! How old is his mother? Edit: Ooooooh, she died in 2012 aged 103. |