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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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[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...

[astri13.livejournal.com]

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

I did randomely try a couple of actors yesterday and noone had a Bacon-degree higher than 2. At some point, he might have been in a movie with anyone. Hee.