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[–] 22 points 2 weeks ago* (2 children)

Title made me think this was just an article explaining the well known Kevin Bacon thing, but it’s so much more than that!

Very well put together, lots of fun data to sift through. Turns out Bacon is not the centre of Hollywood and never has been.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago

    All that data and they never mentioned that Kevin Bacon kind of rhymes with Separation and that made his name the best fit, given that six degrees of separation was already a phrase.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    My mother worked at a company that also employed the mother of Brendan Fraser, who was in The Air I Breathe (2007) with Keven Bacon.

    So my Bacon Number is 4 despite not being an actor.
    My

    spoilerSamuel L. Jackson
    number is actually 1 higher.

    The company in question was a cemetery. My mom did telemarketing, they called it the "pre-need" dept.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    I know that one, it starts with fear. It leads to anger. And so on.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    On the plus side, no advertisements.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Yeah, but how can you connect Kevin Bacon to Hitler?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    Man, fuck that site. It's got a draggy animation that punked my browser out hard enough the article wouldn't load.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    I play a similar game sometimes, inspired by this one.

    Any time I read the page of anything about media, I try to make my way back to Will Oldham. It's shockingly easy for an artist most people have never heard of

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (1 child)

    There does not seem to be anything more than an explanation of the 6 degrees game. What am I missing?

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