six degrees of separation

[bingsy]

I have a few (not all very famous), but I'll just share the one. (Maybe I'll share the others later)

I thought it might be fun to see who we are all connected to.

For instance, you are all connected to Gregory Peck God rest his soul by less than six degrees of separation.

1. You participate in nervousness with me, bingsy.
2. I grew up in El Paso, TX with Kim, my best friend for many many years.
3. Kim is Peggy's daughter.
4. Peggy worked as a nurse in a small family medical office in Northeast El Paso for Richard Peck, MD.
5. Richard Peck was Gregory Peck's brother.

See isn't this fun!

Please share!

[Christine_0701]

k, i'll share one...sorta lol

You are all connected to the Queen of England in 3 degrees!!!

1. you know me through Nness
2. i have a grandfather, nelson
3. nelson once cooked for the Queen, on the unveiling of the Yacht Britannica

[kittymao]

You are all Connected to Bruce Campbell of Evil Dead Fame!

1. You all know me ( maybe too much! :blink: )
2. I have my Rudy, BF of almost 6 years.
3. Rudy Met Bruce Campbell at E3 (video-game developer paradise)

You can replace Bruce Campbell with Mr. T and Tony Hawk, if you wish; he met them as well.

[Alpaca]

If I told you the people you all have 3 degree connections with, you'd get rounded up by the CIA :lol:

[bingsy]

and THAT is so cool!!!!!

[kittymao]

tell me! i want to know!

[gwensmom]

Al Gore in 2 degrees:

Ya'll know me.
As I mentioned in another thread a while ago, I met Al Gore when he was campaigning in my grocery store.

or another way:

I used to babysit for Charles B.'s kids
Charles worked for Al Gore when he was vice-president

one more:

I was Elizabeth G's camp counselor. Elizabeth's dad also worked for Al Gore.

And don't forget, if you are connected to Al you are connected to Bill too!

[Meika]

This is an icky one but you know me and I know one of the most famous I-5 serial killers ever. ( I can't say his name for obvious reasons but there are books about him. One is by Anne Rule) He used to live in my unit and I got to know him pretty well before I saw his file and found out what he was in for. He seems so nice and normal its astonishing.

[Alpaca]

Ay ay ay! OK but I'll keep the go-between to myself for some of them ;)

You all have 3 degree connections to Ben Laden, Arafat, Sharon, Saddam Hussein, Assad, the Chinese triads and Italian mafia in NY. Also some famous serial killers (non-US) whose names I really can't remember, because a close friend of mine works in penology and had to meet them wihtin his job. These are the "sensitive" ones.
But there's also Chirac (I met one of his ministers and my grandpa met him), Bush, and every politician Rafiq Hariri ever met with, as I've talked to the bastard while I was in school, God I hate him.

On a lighter note you also have 3 degrees to Rony Seikaly, Natalie Portman, Robin Williams (through two separate friends of mine), Shakira and Sean Connery (I know the tour guide who made them visit Lebanon) and half of Hollywood because I've met Fawaz Gruosi and he can be seen at the arm of all the hot stars, as he makes the jewelry for them ("king of the green diamond"). And the Pope, as I know two people who regularly have dinner with him... And to Jack George in case you know him, I heard recently he's big in the US but I didn't know that.

Also 3 degrees to Dalida as my grandfather knew her, and Maurice Béjart as my grandma was in school with him, Ornella Muti cuz my mom interviewed her...

You also have 2 degrees to Carlos Ghosn (CEO of Nissan), Robert Fisk, Sting, Philippe Starck...

I feel like such a show-off :unsure:

[sarahkate]

I think Alpaca wins the prize for being connected to the most famous people! :o


Hmm....famous people I'm connected to:

I've mentioned this one before on the forums..but I will say it again...

My dad is friends with Sam Whedon who is the brother of Joss Whedon (http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0923736/). Joss Whedon is the creator of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER. I have met Sam several times & he is a bit *famous* himself, he has composed the score on a lot of movies I am told. My dad & my sister have both met Joss in person when he was visiting Sam quite a few years ago.

My dad is also good friends with an actor, Boris McGiver (http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0569409/). While he isn't famous he has been in a few well known movies/tv shows. I have met Boris several times also, he lives right up the road from my dad.

Wow, my dad has lots of famous connections! He is also friends with Cherry Jones (http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0427728/). She has also been in some well known movies.

I think he might be connected in some ways to some other minor celebrities...but I won't bore you with the details :P

Oh...and another slight connection - there were some kids in my school (one girl a year older, one a year or two younger and a boy the same age as my sister) who's last name is Schwarzenegger. Yup, that's right - they are relatives of Arnold. I wasn't friends with any of those kids, so I don't know if that one counts.

[Christine_0701]

oh, i thought of two more. my friend went to school with Kevin Zeger's (http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0954225/) sister, who was into modeling, and met him too.

My other friend's brother has been in a few well known movies (Scary Movie and MVP to name 2) and she had Kevin at her house, playing pool. She's also met many bands....one of the guys from B2K talked to her friend on her cell phone :o

[sistasmell]

I just found out today I know someone whose grandfather was on Charles Manson's hitlist and another person whose sister was approached by Ted Bundy.

You have 3 degress of separation with the New Jersey Italian mafia through me.

I knew Frank Stella's (http://www.artnet.com/ag/artistdetails.asp?aid=16079) niece and John Updike's daughter.

I was friends with Gillian Welch (http://www.gillianwelch.com/) in college.

Hmmm. Can't think of any more right now. I have met a shitload of famous people, but that doesn't feel like it counts, because it was just for a minute.

[girl-who-loves-sharks]

OMG, I love Gillian Welch. She is playing in Baltimore in two weeks and I can't afford tickets. :(

[sistasmell]

^^^^^
Isn't she great? We were friends for awhile before I ever heard her play. She invited me to an open mic thing at a comedy club and good lord, the woman blew me away.

I used to help her fix up vintage dresses into her stage outfits. She is SO nice!

[bingsy]

I forgot - I guess it's just such a sensitive thing...well you'll see.

I have a couple of ways of being connected to GW Bush

1st one - you all are connected to him by less than 3 degrees.

1.You know me through nervousness.
2.I work with Deb, and Deb used to work for the state before the schools.
Dubya called her on several occasions to ensure that anti DWI legislation was being implemented. (which I find amazing, because I honestly didn't know that he did ANYTHING as a governor)

12nd one

1. You know me.
2. I work with Michelle - an instructional specialist.
3. She taught one of the Bush girls at, I believe, Austin High. (I think this daughter was a less than stellar student - mostly C's)

3rd.

1You know me.
2. I saw George P. Bush walking through my apartment complex (came to find out that he lived there briefly whilst attending UT Law School)
3. For those that don't know, George P is Dubya's nephew.

Strange. I should probably not be as blind with opposition to the man with all these connections to me. If he should not be re-elected, I really do think I could get to that point...as long as they keep the George W. Bush Presidential library AWAY from Austin. It obviously should go in Midland or Arlington.

[avataurus6]

2 degrees thru me, for the Nature Boy, Rick Flair.............i am not a Wrestling fan, just had a picture made with him, to say, nah, nah na nah Nahhhhhhh, to my brother. had thanksgiving dinner almost with him, in the same dining room where my entire family decided to do the family thing for one year, in Atlanta.

theres a few more but i cant remember names, a country singer, and an actor turned politician in Tennessee, will have to ask mom about that one and get back.........

cool thread bytheway!

[nymphette]

i shook prince phillip's hand when i was in grade eight- he came to saskatchewan for operation burrowing owl and our class went to the presentation, so you all are a degree away through me....

hm... and colin james as well, he was friends with my friend's dad and we met him at a party, but this was the year before his first album made it!!!

oh, and jack palance, he filmed a movie in regina in about 92 or 93 (can't rememebr what it was called....) and it was a block away from our house and my best friend introduced herself... so two degrees away for that/?? (if i am doing it right....)

more, but am talking about mass murderers with my mom and it's kind of distracting... heh...

robyn

[Christine_0701]

oh yea!! my grandmother talked to prince charles...(or one of the princes lol)

[gwensmom]

Originally posted by avataurus6@Oct 29 2003, 08:57 PM
an actor turned politician in Tennessee
Was it Fred Thompson?

3 degrees from Tom Hanks and Helen Hunt.

You know me
I know my mom
My mom met them when they were filming Castaway. They used a house on my mother's street for the scene when Tom comes to Helen's house after he gets off the island. The scene called for rain and they brought in these huge machines to make it rain.

The Firm was also filmed here. Lots of people I know were extras in that movie so I'm sure we are all connected to Tom Cruise that way.

[hammerquill]

Four fun steps to Hillary Clinton. My aunt's mother (whom I used to visit when I stayed at my grandparents' house) was the college roommate of Hillary Rodham Clinton's mother. And they kept in touch over fifty years, so my aunt and her mother went to the Clinton inaugural ball.

You're three steps from George H. W. Bush, and from Dick Cheney, and everyone else who was important in Defence Department circles in the 70s and 80s, through the next door neighbor and lifetime friend of my other grandparents, Charles Corddry (I met him many times and still know his widow - he was the military affairs correspondent for the Baltimore Sun, and the longest-running guest reporter on Washington Week in Review.)

You're three steps from a lot of the fiscal and economic world of 50s, 60s, and 70s Washington DC, and late-40s London, through my grandfather, who was Secretary of the International Monetary Fund after being something important at the U.S. Treasury, and liaising with the British government on the Marshall Plan. I should ask my grandmother who all they met at diplomatic receptions over the years.

Our former next-door neighbor went on to be the director or manager of Lucasfilm's Droidworks. That gets you three steps to George Lucas, among others.

Three steps to Tom Wolfe and Carl Sagan: my mother met them (at separate times).

Three steps to Steve Wozniak: we sold a wallpiece to his mother.

Three steps to Fidel Castro: my ex's father met him. He also argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in about 1977 (Thurgood Marshall, William Brennan, Harry Blackmun, etc.)

Glenn Miller played at a dance my grandmother went to, before he got famous. Three steps.

I helped make an award that was given to Tim Robbins - but it went through at least two steps between me and him.

I went to high school with Tami Stronach (who played the Childlike Empress in The Neverending Story - so three steps to Wolfgang Petersen, among others), and with the great-granddaughter of Henry J. Kaiser, and the grandson of Richard Diebenkorn. I went to elementary school with the grandson of Peter Voulkos and the son of Elmer Bischoff (and I met Bischoff once, briefly).

I met Wavy Gravy, through whom you're three steps to just about anyone who was anyone in the 60s counterculture.

[Christine_0701]

ok, so this is a little bit beyond 6 steps....

but my 11th great grandfather (or my 10th great grandfather...we're unsure which) was the first white man to be hung in the New World lol

[Alpaca]

ROFL!! It's like one of my friends who descends from Gilles de Rais... eek!

[kestra1111]

You are two degrees removed from Billy Bob Thornton (of Slingblade fame)

1. You know me
2. I photographed Billy Bob this summer for our local newspaper during a movie shoot

[kittymao]

I feel like I may be opening myself up to the "wtf" queries with these two.

Both Greg Proops ( whose line is it anyway) and one of them goofy chums from MythBusters ( on the discovery channel... one without the hat, canna' rememebr his name!) I have seen in the City.
I didn't say anything to greg becuase he was on his cellphone- but I loudly announced to my friend that Soandso was the guy from Mythbusters. A shame she didn't know what I was talking about.

[girl-who-loves-sharks]

You are four degrees from Larry David, creator of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm.

1. You know me.
2. My Uncle Allan was in a fraternity at the University of Maryland.
3. Larry David was the president of that fraternity while he was there.

[hainlam]

how fun..

2 degrees: Jerry Garcia

1. you know me
2. we shared a pizza in Atlanta in the 90's

[girl-who-loves-sharks]

2 degrees: Jerry Garcia

1. you know me
2. we shared a pizza in Atlanta in the 90's

You simply must elaborate on this story, Aimee.

[Christine_0701]

i thought of a couple more

3 Degrees to Kurt Browning....my Dad did business with his dad, and had the opportunity to meet Kurt, but turned it down, because Kurt wasn't famous yet, and he was way out back on his practice pond

2 degrees of seperation to a speed skater who was once world champ (i don't remember his name right now)...my Dad used to speed skate against him when they were teens, and my Dad always won

2 degrees of seperation to some NBA star...my Dad used to catch rattle snakes with him...theyd de-rattle the snakes, and keep the rattle

[hainlam]

ok, back from lunch to tell the tale of the day I ate pizza with Jerry Garcia.

It really was just a strange coincedental type thing. I was there for the concert with a friend. She had an interview with the band for our college paper.. not really the band so much as the roadies.. kind of a behind the scenes kind of thing. Anyway, I stopped at a stand on the way to the hotel (the interview was being held at) and got a small cheese pizza. We got to the hotel and I sat in the hallway and she went in.

This guy comes out of a room across the hall and knocks on the door of the room the interview was in (confused yet, sorry).. another guy answers and they said something (I don't recall because at the time I was very unconcerned). The door shuts and the guy (the one from across the hall) leans up against the wall murmmering somethng about having to wait or something. He wasn't really talking to me, but I felt a need to respond so I offered him a slice of pizza.

He sat down on the floor and I'll be damned if it wasn't Jerry Garcia. I was kind of beside myself, and felt really stupid for not caring to notice before.. I was so concerned about my pizza and the fact that I had to sit by myself in the hallway to eat it (I was pissed about that actually).. that I hadn't really been paying attention.

Anyway, he took a piece of pizza and said thanks, and that was about it. We sat on the floor and ate, and then a few minutes (more like seconds) my friend emerged from the room. I got up and said something stupid, like.. nice to meet you.. and he said thanks..

and that was it.

it was admittedly, quite awesome.

[girl-who-loves-sharks]

You win, Aimee, for the best story.
WOW!

[Laurasia]

Okay you are all two degrees from Virgina Mayo (http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0562920/), my best friend's grandma. She was an actress in Hollywood, mostly in the 40's and 50's. For there you can be connected to lots of old dead famous people... She's still around though. I sit with her sometimes when I'm back home and watch her old movies with her.

[cindi1023]

I've been watching this thread, depressing myself horribly that I don't know anyone who knows anyone, when I realized I have met a celebrity, of sorts.

I met the woman who, as a child, was chosen to be the Sunbeam Bread girl. Let's see... she was my friend's mother's friend....

I had figured out at one point how I was seven degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon, but I've forgotten the degrees... when I remember (and/or narrow it down to six degrees) I'll post again....

[bingsy]

I love that Sunbeam icon.

I didn't know if it was just regional or anything though, so I don't really share it.

It is so nostalgic to me. My mom was faithful to Sunbeam bread.

:rolleyes: Yay childhood memories!

[Ishba]

you are 4 degrees (I think that's right :huh:) from Uma Thurman...
One of my teacher's daughters used to go to parties at Uma's house when they were in middleschool (Uma went to the same middleschool I did), so I think that makes 4 degrees... let me know if I'm off ;)