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Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Babe Ruth is 3 degrees away from Kevin Bacon

So is Jackie Robinson, incidentally.

Gamingboy Posted: February 04, 2009 at 02:42 PM | 18 comment(s) | Login to Bookmark
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   1. Bob Dernier Cri Posted: February 04, 2009 at 04:12 PM (#3067390)
Hard to believe that Kevin Bacon hasn't worked with Ruby Dee at some point. Someone should cast them together just to reduce Robinson's Bacon Number.
   2. Crispix Attacks Posted: February 04, 2009 at 04:19 PM (#3067400)
But what's his Erd?s number?
   3. The Good Face Posted: February 04, 2009 at 04:26 PM (#3067412)
I'm pretty sure the Babe was never more than 1 degree away from bacon. Mmmmm.... bacon.
   4. Guapo Posted: February 04, 2009 at 04:26 PM (#3067413)
"Eggs" Benedict has a Bacon Number of 3. Mmmmmmmmm.... bacon and eggs
   5. Mike Green Posted: February 04, 2009 at 04:27 PM (#3067414)
Lou Gehrig and Joe D also have Bacon numbers of 3. Mickey Mantle and Derek Jeter are closer to Bacon, footloose and maybe not kosher.
   6. Designated Sitter (GGC) Posted: February 04, 2009 at 04:51 PM (#3067454)
Whenever Bacon is mentioned, I'm contractually obligated to mention the start of my Primer career.
   7. Dock Ellis on Acid Posted: February 04, 2009 at 05:25 PM (#3067495)
I thought it'd be fun to post Reggie Jackson's Bacon Number but when I went to IMDB to look up the cast of The Naked Gun I just kept clicking links and finding new movies I wanted to see and going to Netflix and adding them to my queue and seeing how my friends rated those movies and I totally forgot to send the work e-mail I was supposed to send and now I'm in trouble so thanks, Kevin Bacon.
   8. Dock Ellis on Acid Posted: February 04, 2009 at 05:25 PM (#3067496)
EDIT: double post.
   9. Designated Sitter (GGC) Posted: February 04, 2009 at 05:32 PM (#3067498)
I went to IMDB to look up the cast of The Naked Gun I just kept clicking links and finding new movies I wanted to see


Capricorn One? The Blue Knight? The Wrath of Khan?
   10. Quiet Flows the Don Taussig Avenger (Edmundo) Posted: February 04, 2009 at 05:36 PM (#3067503)
Whenever Bacon is mentioned, I'm contractually obligated to mention the start of my Primer career.
With what we know today, you could lower ballplayers of the 60s Bacon numbers by using Doris Day as a link.
   11. Designated Sitter (GGC) Posted: February 04, 2009 at 05:46 PM (#3067508)
Heh, Edmundo. Also it turns out that the baseball universe is more Early Wynn or Warren Spahncentric. I forgot to account for how long baseball history is back in '01.
   12. McCoy Posted: February 04, 2009 at 05:48 PM (#3067512)
Ron Jeremy has a bacon number of 2. Which means virtually every porn actor of the last 30 odd years has a bacon number of 3.
   13. McCoy Posted: February 04, 2009 at 05:50 PM (#3067516)
Apparently every actor in the world worked on New York, I love you since that appears to be the main connection for a ton of people.
   14. Jolly Old St. Neck Wound, Moral Idiot Posted: February 04, 2009 at 05:52 PM (#3067519)
With what we know today, you could lower ballplayers of the 60s Bacon numbers by using Doris Day as a link.

Yeah, Doris was a veritable mother figure to every motherf*ck*r in the Majors.
   15. Dock Ellis on Acid Posted: February 04, 2009 at 06:17 PM (#3067541)
Capricorn One? The Blue Knight? The Wrath of Khan?


No, but that's three more I have to add. Thanks.
   16. Crispix Attacks Posted: February 04, 2009 at 06:29 PM (#3067560)
With what we know today, you could lower ballplayers of the 60s Bacon numbers by using Doris Day as a link.

Also Laraine Day.
   17. Designated Sitter (GGC) Posted: February 04, 2009 at 06:36 PM (#3067572)
Marilyn Monroe was in the Misfits with Eli Wallach who was in New York, I Love You with Kevin Bacon who was in JFK. JFK was in Marilyn Monroe.
   18. Dock Ellis on Acid Posted: February 04, 2009 at 06:50 PM (#3067590)
Or Marilyn Monroe was in Some Like it Hot with Jack Lemmon, who was in JFK with Kevin Bacon.

But yours is funnier.
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