June 11, 2004

The Oracle of Bacon.

To give us all a chance against shawnj...

posted by dng 20 years ago
  • What # do you recive if you & Bacon shopped in the same store?
  • Ah, one of the all-time classics (at least in internet terms.) Fass graduated with a degree in history and is now a cook? That shows you what this sort of tomfoolerie will lead to.
  • Could someone who can be arsed pretty please post a link to the story of how the mathematician who invented the field of maths that spawned the whole Bacon# thing would have had a Bacon# himself if only documentaries were allowed (because he was pictured getting an honorary degree at the same time as, I believe, Alec Guiness), but they weren't so he doesn't? Could ya? Please? Myself, when playing this game, always find that Bacon (Tremors) --> Arianna Richards (Tremors, Jurassic Park) --> Dickie Attenborough (Jurassic Park) is a very useful link back into the olden days. Was pleased to discover that Bela Lugosi has a Bacon# of only 3. The same as Benny Hill.
  • I'm confused, flashboy- I was trying to think up someone to get a higher number than "3" and when I tried "Louise Brooks" it scored her a "2"- based on her "appearance" in a documentary about her that came out in 1998, thirteen years after she died. That just seems wrong.
  • Maybe these dudes allow docs. I'm sure under strict Kevinbacon rules, docs aren't allowed, but then I guess they're scraping their information from some IMDb-type site, which doesn't make such distinctions. In which case, all it takes is someone else to remember the name of the mathematician I was banging on about, and we're away! I'll be checking up tomorrow morning, and I want to see ANSWERS, godammit. *yawns, night night*
  • i found a bunch that have bacon numbers of infinity. just use actors/actresses from small-market foreign films. original kevin bacon oracle website here (linked to in above article, i think it actually uses it to submit answers). used to have this bookmarked, years ago. it's still fun, and i've still yet to hit higher than 3 just guessing at names.
  • I don't know the casts of obscure foreign films, but I discoveredhat: Cleo Moore is a 3 (Blonde, lowsy, bimbo-ish, directed in a number of really bad films by hur husband Hugo Haas in the 1940/50s is a 3. William Boyd (otherwise known as Hopalong Cassidy), mostly a 1940/50s tv series western star, and whose picture is still on Producers milk in my neck of the woods, is a 2. Lash Larue( '40s/50s Saturday serial performer who took the villains out using his whip) is a 3. Gorgeous George (1950s wrestling icon) is a 3. That's about the depth of my obscure actor knowledge.
  • I found lance henrikson, and in the end, thats really all that matters.
  • flashboy: I think you are talking about erdos numbers...but I am not actually familiar with the story you are referring to. I suppose I cant be ?aresed?
  • I have been trying to break this with my knowledge of blaxploitation and martial arts films, and I'm still getting twos and threes. Even Rudy Ray Moore is a two.
  • Erdos. That's the bugger. Well done. Still can't be arsed to find the story, though.