another test, thanks Paragon!

(this online tests are completely useless but so funny....)

Seems like few want to find out what robot they are :)

Oh well, on to the next link...

***January 3***

Nevy mentioned some time back in this thread the whole six-degrees-of-separation phenomenon, with regards to her knowing someone who knows someone who knows the Eric who Conveys Emotions (see December 31 for the message).

The Oracle of Bacon

It's finally working again (it goes down occasionally for no good reason that I can fathom), so here it is.  The most famous variant on the idea that everybody is only separated by six degrees of knows someone who knows someone who knows... is the idea that every actor and actress in the world can be linked to the actor Kevin Bacon by a series of was in this movie with X, who was in a movie with Kevin Bacons.  This site proves it.  Most can be linked with Bacon in two steps.  Examples:

Sean Connery was in Just Cause (1995) with Lynne Thigpen
Lynne Thigpen was in Novocaine (2001) with Kevin Bacon

Peter Jackson was in Frighteners, The (1996) with R. Lee Ermey
R. Lee Ermey was in Murder in the First (1995) with Kevin Bacon

Edward D. Wood Jr. was in Plan 9 from Outer Space (1958) with Bill Ash
Bill Ash was in Six Pack (1982) with Diane Lane
Diane Lane was in My Dog Skip (2000) with Kevin Bacon

I have so far found only one actor that cannot be linked to Bacon, and I challenge you to do the same :)

good point, Paragon

we have you, android!

The Oracle connects Laurence to Bacon in one step, but that takes all the fun out, doesn't it?  :)

I have seen perhaps two movies that Kevin Bacon is in, so I'd be hopeless at doing it manually.

Damn computers.  They'll be beating us at Chess next.

That's good to hear, Sam  :)

T2 can change shape and stab people with his arms.  But T3 (aka T-femme) is the female one.

Ooooh the temptation....its too much...

*finger hovers over the prohibited link*

*ROFL*
*tries to look innocent*
Who me? Click on that link? No...I'd never do something like that...no self-respecting person over 18 and under 60 would do such a thing...

now that was a link....ah, with endurance you get the goal, but for what? how do you find these pages, it is really funny

Sam wrote:

And Paragon, thanks for the warning.  You know, most times you can handily deal with websites like those by hitting ctrl alt delete and shutting down your browser.  Not that I would have any idea what kind of website that was, because I definitely didn't click on the link.  But if I *did* know...

*worried* you make it sound genuinely dirty :)

djf: Kevin Bacon is just this actor whose name happens to rhyme with 'separation'.  Don't ask me why he has become the hub of the acting community of the world; it certainly isn't because of his movies (which include Hollow Man, Wild Things, The River Wild, Apollo 13, JFK, Friday the 13th, A Few Good Men).

Hmm...maybe this is one trend I'll have to let pass...the FAQ's were very useful though, in case I ever change my mind (or should that be lose my mind?)...:-D