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davywavyThere's an urban myth which may or may not be true that everyone in the world is connected to everyone else within a maximum of six steps. The game Six Steps to kevin Bacon is a somewhat satirical take on this, but as a game it's often more fun to play from your own perspective. Think of someone famous and see how quickly you can get to them from people you have met.
I was thinking about this last night in the light of the 'ten years on' episode of This Life, the 'neighbours with nudity' show which was so popular with late night masturbators in the mid-1990's. I once met Amy Jenkins, creator of This Life, and she obviously knows actor Jack Davenport, who is in Pirates of the Caribbean with Jonny Depp, getting me to Depp in three steps.
From there I started to think of less obvious people. I can get to Hitler (My dad, stationed in France after the war, once went for a drink with Josephine Baker, who in turn used her fame to know a number of senior Nazi officers during the occupation, and from there it's a short step to the moustached nutter himself) and Churchill (I went to the same school as William Hague, who was an MP at the same time as Winston Churchill's grandson). George Lucas is an easy one (Both from the Star Wars premiere I went to, and also in one step from my meeting Michael Sheard) and I can even get to Audrey Hepburn pretty quickly (from Dwight Schulz to George Peppard, who starred with her in Breakfast at Tiffany's).
The question is, who can you lot get to? What wierd and wonderful steps link you to the great, good, and not-so-good?
Bonus points can be earned by quick links to:
Neil Armstrong
Eva Peron
Fidel Castro
Carlos the Jackal
William Shakespeare
I was thinking about this last night in the light of the 'ten years on' episode of This Life, the 'neighbours with nudity' show which was so popular with late night masturbators in the mid-1990's. I once met Amy Jenkins, creator of This Life, and she obviously knows actor Jack Davenport, who is in Pirates of the Caribbean with Jonny Depp, getting me to Depp in three steps.
From there I started to think of less obvious people. I can get to Hitler (My dad, stationed in France after the war, once went for a drink with Josephine Baker, who in turn used her fame to know a number of senior Nazi officers during the occupation, and from there it's a short step to the moustached nutter himself) and Churchill (I went to the same school as William Hague, who was an MP at the same time as Winston Churchill's grandson). George Lucas is an easy one (Both from the Star Wars premiere I went to, and also in one step from my meeting Michael Sheard) and I can even get to Audrey Hepburn pretty quickly (from Dwight Schulz to George Peppard, who starred with her in Breakfast at Tiffany's).
The question is, who can you lot get to? What wierd and wonderful steps link you to the great, good, and not-so-good?
Bonus points can be earned by quick links to:
Neil Armstrong
Eva Peron
Fidel Castro
Carlos the Jackal
William Shakespeare
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Neil Armstrong in 3
Date: 2007-01-04 09:43 pm (UTC)She, quite obviously, know the Queen, who has met Neil Armstrong.
The Queen has met the following astronauts at Buckingham Palace (http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page4831.asp)
a. The first astronaut to go into space - Russian - Major Yuri Gagarin.
b. The first woman in space - Russian - Mrs Valentina Tereschkova.
c. The first man on the moon - American - Neil Armstrong - and the other American astronauts, Michael Collins and Edwin Aldrin.
:) This amuse me more than it should!