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Thursday, September 13, 2012

Celeb / Teh Internets Bacon Brings Us Together

Posted by Paul Constant on Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 3:53 PM

George Clooney's Bacon number is 2.
Charlie Chaplin's Bacon number is 2.
Greta Garbo's Bacon number is 3.
Ronald Reagan's Bacon number is 3.
Barack Obama's Bacon number is 2.

Goddamnit, Google. I know it's flawed, but I just lost an afternoon to this fucking thing.

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I think I figured mine was 3.

Posted by Drew2u on September 13, 2012 at 3:59 PM

Bacon will bring us together.
Think of Kevin Bacon whenever
You come around clicking that link
Cause Bacon will bring us together.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on September 13, 2012 at 4:01 PM

I will throw down 6DKB with anyone, anytime.

Posted by wisepunk on September 13, 2012 at 4:12 PM

Dan Savage's Bacon number is 3.
Charles Mudede... isn't listed. :-(

Posted by Andrew Cole on September 13, 2012 at 4:19 PM

I can't find anyone whose Bacon Number is higher than 3.

YET...

Posted by bleedingheartlibertarian on September 13, 2012 at 4:29 PM

Sadly, Obama apparently wasn't much interested in publishing signed work as a legal scholar, back when he was an academic, and so doesn't have an Erdos-Bacon number.

Posted by Warren Terra on September 13, 2012 at 4:41 PM

Florence Lawrence is a 4

Posted by yuiop on September 13, 2012 at 5:01 PM

This is the dumbest thing in the history of the last six seconds.

Posted by yelahneb

on September 13, 2012 at 5:04 PM

The highest Bacon number for an actor is 7. Some guy named William Rufus Shafter:

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/384101/2…

Posted by Urgutha Forka on September 13, 2012 at 5:05 PM

Turns out the thing isn't accurate. It gives Florence Lawrence a 4, but she appeared with Cary Grant in "Sinners in the Sun" and his number is 2, so hers should be 3.

Posted by yuiop on September 13, 2012 at 5:17 PM

@5 - Seriously, I can't find an actor from the last 50 years less closely connected either. I thought I really had one, but Jean-Pierre Léaud is a TWO ferchrissake.

Oh, noticed #9's comment. You probably just saved me a considerable amount of agony.

Posted by Dougsf on September 13, 2012 at 5:40 PM

I thought I was hot shit with a Bacon number of three. Then The Future Mrs. Dr. Awesome informed me her Bacon number is two.

Then she utterly demolished me by relating the story of meeting (and getting a hug from) Jesus. Aka Ted Neely.

Posted by Dr_Awesome on September 13, 2012 at 7:04 PM

@5 & @11

http://oracleofbacon.org

Charles Mudede's number is 3

Posted by pragmatic on September 13, 2012 at 10:21 PM

Statistical analysis on IMDB a few years back showed that the center of the movie universe is Christopher Lee. The shortest path between any two people is most likely through him.

Posted by eclexia on September 13, 2012 at 10:30 PM

@13 - Oh that's a good one, as more obscure actors (that are credited on IMDB) don't cull any Bacon Number results from Google. Via your link, there's actually some names on there that turn up "cannot be linked to Kevin Bacon." I wonder if the difference is in algorithms, or if that's truly the case?

Posted by Dougsf on September 14, 2012 at 12:41 PM