This Old Dog Is Friends With Kevin Bacon
Published on January 11, 2016
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If you look at the theory of "Six Degrees of Separation" in all likelihood, Keven Bacon and I are friends. I've never met him but he HAS TO BE my friend through the application of this theory. The theory states that "everyone and everything is six or fewer steps away, by way of introduction, from any other person in the world."
So a 'friend of a friend' can be made to connect any two people in the world via a maximum of six steps. So I must be a friend of Kevin Bacon. I am so happy. I love Kevin Bacon and wish that I could attend one or more of his wonderful Hollywood parties in the near future. Problem is, someone has to let him know that we are friends!
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The theory of "Six Degrees of Separation" was originally set out by a fellow by the name of Frigyes Karinthy in 1929. Somehow, through the decades, the theory was used to link actors in Hollywood in a sort of a game to see what each actor's relationship in the business was with Kevin Bacon (Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon). BUT WHY Kevin Bacon?
In 2005, the National Geographic Society and IBM produced a television program call the Genographic Project which resulted in multiple episodes as the project was implemented and the results tallied. The program reviewed, in the Genographic Project, a multi-year genetic anthropology study that intended to map historical human migration patterns by collecting and analyzing DNA samples from hundreds of thousands of people from around the world. As completed, is was analyzed and reported upon. Yep! Kevin Bacon was the narrator of this National Geographic Society TV program.
So who cares??? ME!
My dear Ruthie rails on me regularly about all the time I spend emailing my WA friends from around the world (literally) and talking to them about a myriad of WA topics. She asks, "why are you doing this?" Which I reply, with a certain amount of indignation, "because they are my friends!" Then she laughs and says, "your friends...you have never even met them and they are your friends?" I reply with kind of a smirky smile, "yes they are within at least six degrees of separation." This old dog loves his WA friends. DAN
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