Monday, August 13, 2007

6 Degrees of Namaile

"Grandpa, what is 6 degrees of
Kevin Bacon? That sounds mental."
"Well my curious little twinkie bar,
it kinda began in 1929 when this
Hungarian writer wrote a short
story called "Chains". He said that
anyone on the planet can be
connected to any other person on
the planet through a chain of
acquaintances that has no more
than 5 people in the middle. Then
in 1967 this guy named Milgram
called his theory "the small world
problem" where he had people
randomly selected in the midwest
send packages to people in Boston
who they didn't know. So they
would contact people who they
thought might know, and then
they contacted people who might
know, and eventually after 5 or
6 times they would get the
package to the person in Boston.
In 1990, John Guare wrote a play
called "6 degrees of separation"
and then somebody made a
board game called "6 degrees of
Kevin Bacon."
"Actually Grandpa, your answer
was too long."
"Anyway, I have my own theory
that's called '6 degrees of little
Namaile' and I'm gonna prove it.
Name anything."
"OK Grandpa....spaghetti."
"Allright, 1)Spaghetti
2)Lady and the tramp ate it.
3)Lady and the tramp were dogs.
4)Filipinos eat dogs
5)Filipinos eat pigs
6)Namaile eats pigs and she's
1/4 Filipino
...........Ba-BAM!"
"Grandpa...is that your space-
ship? I think you missed your
flight."

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