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Re: Lee Iacocca's Kevin Bacon number
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Fri, 16 Jul 1999 15:52:27 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> Tom McDonald wrote:
> > 3 degrees for me:
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> No, not 3 degrees. Unless you have an actor credit in a movie, your
> distance is infinite. That's just the way it works... People are
> confusing the "six degrees of separation" thing (1) with the back to
> Bacon thing. The rules are different
Ah. Okay, that's important to know. I guess I'll just have to try and land a
part somewhere in a movie with someone famous then for the backbacon thing.
> > So you don't want to be quoted or termed as a source then?
> > You're hardly ever wrong you know..
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> True, kind of you to notice, but beside the point.
> 1 - this refers to the theory that if you absolutely HAD to get a
> message passed to anyone in the world it could be done in 6 hops or less
> using only personally known links.
That can make you think twice before posting something on the 'net.
And supposedly the farthest relation everyone has to one another is 64th
cousin.
So when's the family dinner?
-Tom McD.
when replying, "I suppose you gotta ask yourself one question: did he fire
five spamcakes or six?"
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| (...) No, not 3 degrees. Unless you have an actor credit in a movie, your distance is infinite. That's just the way it works... People are confusing the "six degrees of separation" thing (1) with the back to Bacon thing. The rules are different (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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