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[astri13]

You know something I read that cracked me up? How everyone that was in X-Men: First Class has now drastically reduded their degrees of Kevin Bacon. Tehee. So true.

Btw, does anyone know how that saying/game "six degrees of Kevin Bacon" came about? I mean, I've known it for quite a while but where and how did it start? Anyone? Bueller?

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[embroiderama]

There was a book in the mid 90's called Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon--I do believe I have it. I'm not certain that's where it started, but probably.

[ridicully]

The story I always heard was that someone applied the theory behind the Erdős number to the film industry and Kevin Bacon was a good reference point.

But wiki tells me it developed kind of independently on Usenet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon#History

For some reason the fact that there are people who have an Erdős-Bacon number is the thing I like most...

[katikat.livejournal.com]

I would mostly like to know what he personally thinks about it. LOL!