|
|
Joined: Jul 2000
Posts: 1,094
old hand
|
OP
old hand
Joined: Jul 2000
Posts: 1,094 |
It's late, I know, but I'm working on a paper and not very good at concentrating.  So I was thinking, connecting lyrics is fun, but honestly folks, it doesn't really take much creativity. So let's connect people. History is a tangled web of interconnected events and human interactions. In this "game", you're given two seemingly unrelated people and the task is to come up with some path of connection, six steps, more or less. When you come up with an answer, provide another pair for someone to try. It doesn't matter if more than one person responds to a certain post, that'll just make it more fun. Extra points for creative and far-fetched (but real) connections. The first pair is: Kermit the Frog and the Dalai Lama
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 13,803
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 13,803 |
Kermit and Bert (of Bert and Ernie)
Bert and Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Laden and George Bush
George Bush and Pope John-Paul
Pope John-Paul and the Dalai Lama
Is that only five links? Does it matter if it's only five links? Six degrees is usually played at most six links.
Opie and Pol Pot
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2000
Posts: 1,094
old hand
|
|
OP
old hand
Joined: Jul 2000
Posts: 1,094 |
Ok, wait a sec Faldage. You're going to have to write that out in longhand. That went right over my head. Bert and Osama bin Laden?
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 6,511
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 6,511 |
Apparently Faldage saw some photos/footage of pro-bin Ladin folks in Afghanistan wielding posters with Bert's likeness on them. Go figger. I'm sure he'll report further when he gets back from the Rochester-Syracuse baseball game.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2001
Posts: 872
old hand
|
|
old hand
Joined: Sep 2001
Posts: 872 |
Extra points for creative and far-fetched (but real) connections. -the rules.
I vote we give Faldage extra credit for Bin Laden and Bert, and then take the credits away for giving us for Opie and Pol Pot.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 10,542
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 10,542 |
Pol Pot > John Malkovich [Killing Fields]
John Malkovich > Keanu Reeves (Dangerous Liaisons :)
Keanu Reeves > Ron Howard (Parenthood)
Ron Howard is Opie
-joe (three links!) friday
edit: now I have to think of a new pair...
Bertrand Russell and Scrooge McDuck
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2001
Posts: 508
addict
|
|
addict
Joined: Mar 2001
Posts: 508 |
May I humbly request that the posters who are clever enough to come up with these various pairings include a word or two explaining the linkage? Some are fairly obvious, but not all. At least not to me  . Thank you!
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 13,858
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 13,858 |
A couple years ago Scientific American carried a series of articles by James Burke with fascinating linkages. Don't know if Sciam online has them in archives, probably not. I was sorry when seires ended. I found them in www.sciam.com . Called Connections. Here is URL to a sample There are lots of them. http://www.sciam.com/0997issue/0997connections.html
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2000
Posts: 3,409
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Aug 2000
Posts: 3,409 |
|
|
|
|
Forums16
Topics13,913
Posts229,322
Members9,182
| |
Most Online3,341
Dec 9th, 2011
|
|
|
0 members (),
405
guests, and
6
robots. |
|
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
|
|
