5 Degrees of Daniel Peterson

[_moksha]

What are the degrees of separation between Dr. Peterson and:

1. Frederick Barbarosa, Holy Roman Emperor
2. Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court Justice
3. Homer Simpson, Father of three from Springville

[_Lucretia MacEvil]

I don't think I even get this game, but I'll try it out.

1. I once had a terrifying encounter with a bear in the rugged mountains of Wyoming.
2. That bear ate a fish that was a catch and release victim of none other than my grandma.
3. My grandma walked the neighbor's dog back int he 50s.
4. That neighbor had a bear skin rug made of the great grandpops of the very bear that gave me such a scare.
5. I told Peterson that Kevin Graham once treated me nice and Kevin Graham has started another thread here whimpering and whining about Dr. Peterson, all whilst I was contemplating the life of the bear that gave his life to make a rug for my grandma's random neighbor (of course it would have worked, it seems, if I just said I met the guy once but I'm just following the directives of the other examples).

You don't get the game. Check out the movie, 6 Degrees of Separation, and try again.

And, yes, Dr. Scratch is correct, it's 6 degrees.

[Guest]

What are the degrees of separation between Dr. Peterson and:

...
3. Homer Simpson, Father of three from Springville

1. Homer Simpson is yellow
2. Dan Peterson has just been to Yellowstone
3. There are bulls in Yellowstone
4. Bull's produce lots of crap
5. Well, i think you get point 5.....

[_Corpsegrinder]

1. Danny Peterson, a studious but impressionable youth, sees Star Wars for the first time in 1977.

2. In Star Wars, the actor who plays Jek Porkins (the fat dude in the X-wing fighter) is William Hootkins.

3. In 1963, William Hootkins is investigated by the FBI in connection with the assassination of John F. Kennedy!

Oh God, it just never stops!

[_stemelbow]

Your "degrees of separation" are circular.

I can’t imagine for a second why you thought the game worked that way...

Didn't you just see Scratch's attempt above. Somehow instead of making the connection directly between Gee and Peterson he went on some round about course that ended up to Peterson. You fellas get so blinded, it seems, you don't realize the foolishness that I"m mocking apparent in your own party goers. Ah well...its complained about here that LDS people have blinders on...when its shown that the posters here who complain about LDS people also have blinders on, suddenly the LDS person is at fault. You guys...

[_Buffalo]

6 Degrees:

Nikita Khrushchev served under Stalin and assisted in the Great Purge
Mikhail Gorbachev met Khrushchev in October 1961
Reagan met with Gorbachev various times
Ezra Taft Benson met with Ronald Reagan in 1986
Boyd K Packer served under Benson.
Daniel Peterson has been to Boyd K Packer's house


5 degrees if DCP ever met Benson.

[_Some Schmo]

Your "degrees of separation" are circular.

I can’t imagine for a second why you thought the game worked that way...

Didn't you just see Scratch's attempt above. Somehow instead of making the connection directly between Gee and Peterson he went on some round about course that ended up to Peterson. You fellas get so blinded, it seems, you don't realize the foolishness that I"m mocking apparent in your own party goers. Ah well...its complained about here that LDS people have blinders on...when its shown that the posters here who complain about LDS people also have blinders on, suddenly the LDS person is at fault. You guys...

LOL

Dude, I have come to appreciate your persona on this board (I really mean that), but this is just wrong.

Scratch's "Gee to DCP" is exactly how the game works. A person knows a person this way, who knows a different person this way... etc. Each relationship is known as a degree of separation, and it's linear.

In your attempt, you were ok until you got to the fourth one because that related back to the first one, and the fifth had nothing to do with any of them. It wasn't anything remotely analogous to what Scratch did. Simplifying, yours was something like this:

1) Joe knows Dave
2) Dave knows Mary
3) Mary knows Frank
4) Frank knows Joe (from #1)
5) Herald knows Patty

I imagine you were trying to be funny (and it kind of was), but it didn't make sense in the game's context (part of what made it sort of funny). It certainly didn't mock what Scratch had done though, because Scratch did it right.

You keep harping on this idea that we critics only criticize people because of their affiliation, but it's just not true (for me, anyway). I criticize that which deserves criticism no matter who does it. You would rather just chalk it up to your religion because it saves you from having to actually consider the meat of the criticism.

[_stemelbow]

Scratch didn't do it right, according to what you're saying. Gee knows Peterson--Gee was a student of Peterson, as Peterson himself has pointed out. He added a bunch of stuff in between the clear connection thus providing a circle.

I mocked Scrach's foolishness here, and in so doing the critic, you, can't see the error of Scratch, even after having it pointed out to you.

[_Some Schmo]

1. Mike Reed was party to an attempted smear by John Gee.

2. John Gee is a friend and colleague of Matthew Roper.

3. Matthew Roper is a friend and colleague of Louis "Woody" Midgley.

4. Louis "Woody" Midgley is on the Skinny-L List with Gary Novak.

5. Gary Novak runs and operates the Skinny-L list, which includes Bill Hamblin.

6. Bill Hamblin is close friends with Daniel Peterson.

Look at it closely, stem.

1) Mike -> John.
2) John -> Matthew.
3) Matthew -> Louis.
4) Louis -> Gary.
5) Gary -> Bill.
6) Bill -> DCP.

Whether Gee knows Peterson or not is irrelevant if Scratch doesn't know that ahead of time (I don't know if he did, but regardless, there's not much to the game if the people you're trying to connect know each other somehow. I certainly didn't know they know each other); the point of the game is to see if one can piece together an indirect relationship based on relationships they know.

I mocked Scrach's foolishness here, and in so doing the critic, you, can't see the error of Scratch, even after having it pointed out to you.

The error of Scratch is that he's not aware of every person DCP knows? Really?

Essentially, you're mocking Scratch for not having identified the relationship in one degree of separation. You may see that as foolishness, but it doesn't speak well of your sportsmanship (or perhaps, more accurately, your opinion of Scratch, which it seems to me results in a demonstration of the exact thing you're criticizing).

[_stemelbow]

Well Schmoe, I see the whole issue sailed right over your head. It happens. Don't worry Scratch knows that Peterson and Gee know each otehr, whether you do or not. So, yes, the joke was directed at Scratch's inability to understand the game, moreso than anything else. But the game itself is pretty stupid, so I mocked.

I'm sorry you missed it.