h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I love playing Degrees of Separation (aka the Bacon Game). It's astonishing how easy it can be to get some major historical figures. I have a Bacon number of four, for instance, to Adolf Hitler, FDR and Queen Victoria.

I've tried a few variations on the game. If I had met some who, when I was four years old, was 90, they'd have been born in 1870. That gives me a Bacon number of two to the 19th century. If they had met someone, when they were five, who was also 90, that takes us back to 1785, and if we continue the process back to the maximum allowed number of six degrees, I guess I could possibly have a Bacon number of six to 1530 - the the 16th century.

But, and taking it to another level, I realised today that, because I walked across New London Bridge before it was demolished in the early 70s and sent to Arizona (the current bridge being the one that replaced it), and because New London Bridge was the one that replaced Old London Bridge - the one with all the buildings on it - which was begun in 1176, I could (at a stretch) say that I have a Bacon number of two to the 12th century*

That's my story and I'm sticking to it

*Mind you, having been inside the White Tower and also several Gothic cathedrals, I might just as easily have a Bacon number of one to the 11th century too

Either way, I definitely have two degrees of separation to this http://www.cgarchitect.com/content/portfolioitems/2013/03/74726/1500pix_large.jpg

Yep... That's a game where you will definitely have an edge over us here in the States. "Some of the buildings in my town are over half a century old."