The movie Six Degrees of Seperation suggests that there are only six people between us and the one we would like to know. Here, let's play that game:
Between me and Harry Truman? Too easy. Tom Sucher - Richard J. Daley - Harry S. Truman
Between me and Barack Obama? Way too simple. Natalie Jean C- - - - - : Natalie's Cousin : Natalie's Cousin's Husband = Obama's brother-in-law
Me and Jack Nicholson: Me - Harry Dean Stanton - Jack, or
Me - my cousin Jimmie Ganzer - Jack Nicholson (Jack bought an artist loft that Jimmy had converted from a ware house)
Me and Dan Rostankowski? Me - Will Burgess, the actuary who hired me at Bankers' Life & Casualty on that fateful day in May, 1073 - Dan Rostankowski.
You can see how quickly this exercise devolves into trivia.
Wonder how far removed from each other we really ever are?
