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TheEvilDog

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THE BACON NUMBER!
« on: 20 Nov 2012, 16:51 »

Alright. Seeing as how the WCDT is getting a little heated, I am blatantly throwing out a distraction for people.
If you go to google, type in a celebrity's name and add to it Bacon Number, google will tell you how many degrees separate that celebrity and Kevin Bacon.
For example, Adrian Brody Bacon Number, resulted in 2 degrees.
Adrian Brody and Mickey Rourke appeared in Bullet.
Mickey Rourke and Kevin Bacon appeared in Diner.


So how about a challenge?
The game is 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon. So how about people try to find more than 6 degrees separating their celebrity of choice and Mr. Bacon?
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Re: THE BACON NUMBER!
« Reply #1 on: 20 Nov 2012, 19:09 »

Sir Francis Bacon does not have a Bacon number. ;)
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Re: THE BACON NUMBER!
« Reply #2 on: 20 Nov 2012, 19:47 »

Neither does George Bush.
(Funnily enough, Sir Francis Bacon was the second person I tried)
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Re: THE BACON NUMBER!
« Reply #3 on: 20 Nov 2012, 21:04 »

Clint Eastwood's Bacon number is 2
Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep appeared in The Bridges of Madison County.
Meryl Streep and Kevin Bacon appeared in The River Wild.
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Re: THE BACON NUMBER!
« Reply #4 on: 20 Nov 2012, 23:24 »

Neither does George Bush.
(Funnily enough, Sir Francis Bacon was the second person I tried)

George Bush should have a Bacon Number of three because Michael Moore has a Bacon Number of 2 and Dubya and H Dubya both appear in Michael Moore films.

Of course the system fails because it only considers certain credited systems in things like documentaries and only really looks at acting roles.

A while back there were only 50 people with a Bacon number of 7 or higher although there was a demonstrable 9 on the grounds that someone could only be connected by an 8. However they don't get recognised because the production that they were in doesn't get picked up by the scan. I may be wrong but I suspect that all of those 50 people occupy minor or obscure roles in productions in Eastern Europe, Russia or Asia.
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« Reply #5 on: 21 Nov 2012, 04:16 »

This sounds like a bastard child of the Erdös number -game that got started among mathematicians a few decades ago. It uses coauthorship of scientific articles as a hop. Erdös is something like the modern era Chuck Norris of math. My own Erdös number is three, and that's all I care about  :-D
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Re: THE BACON NUMBER!
« Reply #6 on: 21 Nov 2012, 06:27 »

My Bacon Number is three.

I appeared in the background of Mr. 3000 with Bernie Mac.
Bernie Mac and Billy Bob Thornton appeared in Bad Santa.
Billy Bob Thornton and Kevin Bacon appeared in Jayne Mansfield's Car.
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Re: THE BACON NUMBER!
« Reply #7 on: 21 Nov 2012, 07:59 »

Miguel Ferrer has a Bacon Number of two, which surprises me considering the nature of the roles that connect them.

Ferrer was part of the voice cast for Justice League: New Frontier which has a LOT of big actors in it, Kyra Sedgwick among them, who was in an installment of PBS' American Playhouse series called "Lemon Sky" in 1988, which featured none other than Kevin Bacon.
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Re: THE BACON NUMBER!
« Reply #8 on: 21 Nov 2012, 09:42 »

I found this a while ago, and the highest I could get was Chris Jericho, who's a wrestler who has been in some shitty straight-to-DVD movies.
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Re: THE BACON NUMBER!
« Reply #9 on: 21 Nov 2012, 09:43 »

This sounds like a bastard child of the Erdös number -game that got started among mathematicians a few decades ago. It uses coauthorship of scientific articles as a hop. Erdös is something like the modern era Chuck Norris of math. My own Erdös number is three, and that's all I care about  :-D

Apparently there is the even rarer Erdös-Bacon number of people who can count out both ways.
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Re: THE BACON NUMBER!
« Reply #10 on: 21 Nov 2012, 09:55 »

That was an insanely amusing bit of trivia. Thanks!
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« Reply #11 on: 21 Nov 2012, 11:06 »

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Re: THE BACON NUMBER!
« Reply #12 on: 21 Nov 2012, 20:51 »


Joseph Stalin's Bacon number is 3
Joseph Stalin and John Thaw appeared in The Second World War in Colour.
John Thaw and Marisa Tomei appeared in Chaplin.
Marisa Tomei and Kevin Bacon appeared in Loverboy.
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Re: THE BACON NUMBER!
« Reply #13 on: 22 Nov 2012, 13:20 »

Kevin Bacon's Bacon number is 0.

Huh.
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Re: THE BACON NUMBER!
« Reply #14 on: 23 Nov 2012, 17:07 »

What's the Bacon number of bacon? 
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Re: THE BACON NUMBER!
« Reply #15 on: 23 Nov 2012, 18:56 »

I think calculating that would make you a bit rasher
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Re: THE BACON NUMBER!
« Reply #16 on: 24 Nov 2012, 00:58 »

Not really, you just need to determine Kevin's factor of the Screen Total Rasher Enumerable Appearance number or STREA key as I like to call it.
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Re: THE BACON NUMBER!
« Reply #17 on: 25 Nov 2012, 15:21 »

I don't eat bacon, but my taste for puns fits right in rind here.
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« Reply #18 on: 25 Nov 2012, 20:12 »

I don't eat bacon, but my taste for puns fits right in rind here.
There's a cure for that.
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Re: THE BACON NUMBER!
« Reply #19 on: 25 Nov 2012, 20:43 »

All these bacon puns are making me feel green.
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« Reply #20 on: 26 Nov 2012, 13:06 »

Well perhaps you can have some eggs and ham.
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« Reply #21 on: 26 Nov 2012, 13:15 »

My patience is starting to get fried
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Re: THE BACON NUMBER!
« Reply #22 on: 17 Dec 2012, 15:56 »

Ugh....I can't find a prominent celebrity or head of state with a bacon number higher than three...and now I'm hungry.


EDIT: FOUND IT.

William Rufus Shafter.

Case closed, class dismissed, good day to you sir.

EDIT AGAIN: Or rather, Google is trying to fuck with me, and calling William McKinley significant. He is not, I assure you.
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Re: THE BACON NUMBER!
« Reply #23 on: 17 Dec 2012, 16:02 »

He died in 1906!  How about George Washington?  That one's infinite! 
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« Reply #24 on: 17 Dec 2012, 17:59 »

He died in 1906!  How about George Washington?  That one's infinite! 

Doesn't matter, had Bacon. 8)
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Re: THE BACON NUMBER!
« Reply #25 on: 17 Dec 2012, 21:28 »


Tom Mix's Bacon number is 3

Tom Mix and John Wayne appeared in The Great K & A Train Robbery.

John Wayne and Wilford Brimley appeared in True Grit.

Wilford Brimley and Kevin Bacon appeared in End of the Line.
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Re: THE BACON NUMBER!
« Reply #26 on: 18 Dec 2012, 03:05 »

A bit off topic. But here's Kevin  Bacon made out of bacon.

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Re: THE BACON NUMBER!
« Reply #27 on: 18 Dec 2012, 07:14 »

So bacon's Bacon number is now 0?  Since it has appeared as Kevin Bacon...
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