Re: Re: [Nolug] Ron's sig

Well, my cousin was an extra on "Touched by an Angel" and got to know
Roma Downey. Since we know who is the boss of all the angels (except
Charlies'), am I 3 degrees from Him?
Dave Prentice
prentice@instruction.com
http://www.originsresource.org
-----Original Message-----
From: jdtiede@bellsouth.net <jdtiede@bellsouth.net>
To: nolug@joeykelly.net <nolug@joeykelly.net>
Date: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 10:57 AM
Subject: Re: Re: [Nolug] Ron's sig

>I'm two degrees removed from Harry S. Truman (have met his Secretary
of State long after his retirement, and his grandson) and three from
LBJ (my mother was librarian in the school where the Johnson girls
went in DC).
>============================================================
>From: Michael Flora <michaelrflora@yahoo.com>
>Date: 2003/07/16 Wed AM 10:47:35 EDT
>To: nolug@joeykelly.net
>Subject: Re: [Nolug] Ron's sig
>
>
>--- Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 19:48, Michael Flora wrote:
>> > --- Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>> > > On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 19:03, Dave Prentice
>> wrote:
>> > > > OK, Ron, I'll bite: How are you 4 degrees from
>> > > Vlad Putin?
>> > >
>> > > I've met Norm Manetta (former Congressman,
>> employee
>> > > of Lockheed-
>> > > Martin [where he was ~5 levels above me] and
>> > > Transportation Secretary).
>> > > NM knows W, and W knows Putin.
>> > >
>> > Wow!
>> >
>> > I met Dr. Georg von Spakovsky when I worked at
>> > Marshall Space Flight Center. He was a member of
>> the
>> > von Braun team and had met Adolf Hitler. So, by
>> this
>> > reasoning, I'm 2 degrees from the Bad Boy himself.
>>
>> Have we met before? That would be a *great*
>> .signature!
>>
>I have been to a few (maybe 1/2 dozen) NOLUG meetings
>but I don't think we've met.
>
>This reminds me of an old, OLD song (out of the 1920's
>I think), "I Danced with a Man Who'd Danced with a
>Girl who'd Danced with the Prince of Wales".
>
>The idea of 6 degrees of separation comes from an
>experiment done in the 1960's, IIRC. A scientist
>recruited several people as "targets". He then
>recruited some other people who were total strangers
>to the targets, and asked them to get a message to the
>targets NOT by mailing the message directly to them
>but by giving it to an acquaintance whom they thought
>MIGHT have some knowledge of the targets. The same
>instructions applied to the acquaintances. Turned out
>that for messages that actually reached the targets,
>an average of six steps were required. This does have
>some relevance to computer networks and email
>forwarding, according to a recent article in Science
>News.
>
>Regards,
>M.R.F.
>
>"As you struggle to save humanity be sure to avoid
>electrodes in your path" -- Robotron 2084
>
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