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Chronicargonaut Posted Jun 19, 2003
Also, I once met Tom Baker, who also once met Laurence Olivier, who starred in Marathon Man with William Devane, who also appeared in Hollow Man alongside......
Kevin Bacon!
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J Posted Jun 19, 2003
Lets see if I can get mine below 3...
I once met a cuban, who come from the first name of Cuba Gooding Jr, who appeared in A Few Good Men with 
Kevin Bacon
Damn, three...
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Chronicargonaut Posted Jun 19, 2003
You see, I do have a tentative connection to Kevin Bacon!
I was just setting the bait and reeling you all in!
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!
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DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) Posted Jun 20, 2003
I thought it was an Index, if you've been on stage with the guy it's 0 and so on...
-- DoctorMO --
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J Posted Jun 20, 2003
As far as I know, the great Bacon himself is the only to have a bacon number of 0
There's an edited entry about this somewhere
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DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) Posted Jun 20, 2003
I thought he would have a Bacon index of -i
-- DoctorMO --
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J Posted Jun 20, 2003
You can't have a negative number
Unless you're his mom
*ponders*
pondering
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NMcCoy (attempting to standardize my username across the Internet. Formerly known as Twinkle.) Posted Jun 20, 2003
I am a (very) distant cousin of Patrick Swayze.
Patrick Swayze was in Three Wishes (1995) with Colleen Camp.
Colleen Camp was in Trapped (2002) with Kevin Bacon.
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J Posted Jun 20, 2003
Neato. Have you met the Swayzester? (Only I call him that) Or are you too distant?
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DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) Posted Jun 20, 2003
Nah your alowed infinetly small. it's like an invese function of the pro, close to bacon, well he is bacon, wops minus infinity.
-- DoctorMO --
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Ek* this space intentionally left blank *ki Posted Jun 20, 2003
I am Kevin Bacon ...
... no I'm not ...
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Mu Beta Posted Jun 20, 2003
Chronicargonaut - I once met Tom Baker too! I wonder if he makes a habit of it.
I am currently eating a bag of Frazzles. Ergo, I have a Bacon number of 2.
B
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Just Bob aka Robert Thompson, plugging my film blog cinemainferno-blog.blogspot.co.uk Posted May 13, 2008
Mine is 1: Kevin Bacon was in Sleepers and I have, on occasion, slept.
Seriously though, I thought the 'Six Degrees From Kevin Bacon' game had stricter rules: you had to have a credit in some acting production (not necessarily acting yourself) and then it was all "appeared in [movie] with [actor]."
Actually, I was thinking about this recently because I found out the details of the 'Erdos number' (should have an umlaut in there, but never mind) which is the same thing but for scientific papers, the mathematician Erdos having collaborated with an astonishing variety of academics. Reportedly, there was a real mathematician who acted a bit-part in 'A Beautiful Mind', meaning that you can get a combined 'Erdos-Bacon number'. Having said that, didn't Grace Kelly do some important work on radar during WW2? Wouldn't she have published papers, in that case?
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Mu Beta Posted May 13, 2008
I know it's terribly bad form to laugh at one's own quotes, but I did enjoy Post 35.
Don't remember writing it.
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Orcus Posted May 13, 2008
I have a bacon number of 453, but really it's all terribly complicated and wouldn't want to bore you all with it.
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Spaceechik, Typomancer Posted May 13, 2008
" Having said that, didn't Grace Kelly do some important work on radar during WW2? Wouldn't she have published papers, in that case? "
I thought it was Hedy LaMarr, and her idea had to do with a strategy for defeating radar, that she'd written with composer George Antheil during WW2, and which led to cell-phone routing technology later on.
I'd love to see how you could connect Hedy with Kevin -- it'd be an interesting chain, considering the time differential! 
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted May 13, 2008
B, are you *really* bored or something? You seem to be going around excavating really ancient threads...
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- 21: J (Jun 19, 2003)
- 22: Chronicargonaut (Jun 19, 2003)
- 23: J (Jun 19, 2003)
- 24: Chronicargonaut (Jun 19, 2003)
- 25: J (Jun 19, 2003)
- 26: Chronicargonaut (Jun 19, 2003)
- 27: DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) (Jun 20, 2003)
- 28: J (Jun 20, 2003)
- 29: DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) (Jun 20, 2003)
- 30: J (Jun 20, 2003)
- 31: NMcCoy (attempting to standardize my username across the Internet. Formerly known as Twinkle.) (Jun 20, 2003)
- 32: J (Jun 20, 2003)
- 33: DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) (Jun 20, 2003)
- 34: Ek* this space intentionally left blank *ki (Jun 20, 2003)
- 35: Mu Beta (Jun 20, 2003)
- 36: Just Bob aka Robert Thompson, plugging my film blog cinemainferno-blog.blogspot.co.uk (May 13, 2008)
- 37: Mu Beta (May 13, 2008)
- 38: Orcus (May 13, 2008)
- 39: Spaceechik, Typomancer (May 13, 2008)
- 40: Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences (May 13, 2008)
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