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The proverbial "six degrees of separation" was first proposed in 1967 by sociologist Stanley Milgram. Milgram asked 96 randomly selected people around the country to send a piece of mail to an acquaintance, who would send the mail along to another acquaintance, in an attempt to reach a designated "target" person in Boston. The messages that actually made it to their destination passed through an average of six people. But Milgram’s experiment was fairly small and has since been questioned by some sociologists. Peter Sheridan Dodds and his colleagues at Columbia University conducted a modern version of this study on the Internet, recruiting over 60,000 participants from 166 different countries for the experiment.

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a) This summer, my best friend housesat for a couple of friends in LA, who

b) the first night she arrived, were rushing off to a birthday party (attended by Geordi, Worf, etc) for

c) Brent's one-year-old!

Does this count?

Keanu and me:

a) I lived with a dear woman at the pinko penthouse who

b) had gone to highschool with Keanu Reeves!

Okay, that's kinda lame.

Uma and me:

a) I bought washable diapers at the yuppiest baby shop(pe) in Kits where

b) Uma had been the week before! Drool.

...This is pathetic.

Jackie Chan and me:

a) I met him. He talked to me. Swoon.

Norrie Frye and me:

a) The prof I fell in love with at university, who convinced me to leave pre-med and do literature / cultural theory instead, was

b) one of Norrie's prize students!

Chakravorty Spivak and me:

a) I met her, in an odd way.

a) you and I roomed together; and

b) while bartending in an Italian restaurant in Toronto, summer 1986, I mixed Bloody Caesars for Mr. Levy.