Sunday, November 7, 2010

Six degrees of seperation

Just how far away are we from being introduced to anyone one earth?

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 Michael Jordan?  Me - Greg Kunkel (my uncle Kunkel) - Golf Operations Director, Sunset Ridge Country Club - Northbrook, Illinois - MJ

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?