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December 04, 2008
> 4:38 PM
fun stuff > 6 degrees You know you've heard of this 6 degrees of separation thing. Allegedly, someone came up with this equation that we are all no more than 6 degrees separated from anyone in the world - something like that. For some weird reason I was thinking about this yesterday and a couple of names popped into my mind and I started counting back the degrees - aaagghh! It's crazy how close you can get to even historical figures! Now, I'm not sure what the official "rule" is but I'm counting even those who have met the people involved in the chain. It's easier that way. Here are two interesting ones for me - with photos...  >  >  >  >  That's me, of course, my old boss Bob Bridges from Asbury Seminary, who went on vacation one year and ended up sitting knee to knee with Julia Roberts, with whom he had a nice conversation, then Oprah, you know Julia knows Oprah, and you know who Oprah knows, that dude there, El Presidente, Barack Obama = Alan is 4 degrees away from the President Elect. >  >  >  >  >  Me, again, then a non-picture of another old boss of mine, Dick Broadbent (thoroughbred industry here in Lexington), who has met Queen Elizabeth because she actually came to their offices once when she was in town on horse bitniss, who knew her Father (ya think?), King George VI, who undoubtedly knew David Lloyd George, former (at that time) Prime Minister of England and still in politics, who sat face-to-face with none other than the Big Fella Himself, Michael Collins, as they were hashing out the 1921 Anglo-Irish agreement = Alan is 5 degrees away from Michael Collins! Fairly cool. AND - special addition: If you count having been in very close proximity to and seeing with their own eyes, here are two more Presidents... >  >  You know me already, who knows my own Dad pretty well (that's him as a scruffy kid in the 1940s, who lived for a year with his family in Baltimore, Maryland during WW II as my Grandfather worked in a shipyard (then back to the mountains and the coal mines). One day he and his brother were running around in a train station in Baltimore, some men came by and said to them both, "move out of the way boys and let the President of the United States through" - then Franklin Delano Roosevelt was rolled by in his wheel chair. I told my Dad he should have stopped him and let him know what his own middle name was: Harold D. Creech (you guess). :) All = Alan being only 2 degrees removed from FDR. Nice. >  >  OK, last one for today: Yours truly knows my Uncle Herman Nelson (Mother's older brother), who has retired from both the Army and the Air Force (really) - while in the latter, he was a part of SAC - the Strategic Air Command. They once had a troop review for the then President, Dwight D. Eisenhower, who shook all their hands as he passed = Alan is also only 2 degrees separated from Ike. Pretty funny. I wonder how many other Presidents I can come up with. I might even be closer than I think, and so might you. I'm going to try and figure out some other cool ones. I'm sure I'll get tired of this but for now, it's kinda fun. Peace. 0 Comments:| permalink | e-mail me | 
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