Here’s a game. Take some person in the news. Then make 10 connections, from them to another person and so on, to end up with the person you began with. Here’s what I mean, starting with the late great Ivor Cutler.
1. Ivor Cutler played Buster Bloodvessel in Magical Mystery Tour. A different Buster Bloodvessel was lead singer with Bad Manners…
2….who had a big hit, Special Brew, with a song about a drink…
3…as did Thin Lizzy (Whiskey in the Jar), although lead singer Phil Lynott had a bigger hit with Yellow Pearl…
4…which was co-written with Midge Ure, who claims to have had an orgasm when he jammed with Eric Clapton…
5…who in the 1970s dated (and shared a heroin habit with) the daughter of Lord Harlech…
6…who was a pall-bearer at the funeral of Robert Kennedy…
7…whose assassination helped to trigger a nervous breakdown in his close friend Rosemary Clooney…
8…who is the aunt of George Clooney, who leapt to fame when he appeared in ER…
9…where he appeared alongside guest-star Rebecca de Mornay, who was a pupil at Summerhill school (where, incidentally, she first saw Leonard Cohen)…
10…where Ivor Cutler was a teacher.
That’s all. Feel free to do better. I might do a few more…
You have some WEIRD trivia at your command. You really ought to go and get some help.
(Actually I am just jealous. That is simply brilliant - 4 steps to get from Buster Bloodvessel to Robert Kennedy is just awesome.)
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Posted by: The Pedant-General | March 10, 2006 at 09:48 AM
If you ask me, the jump from 2 to 3 is cheating.
Posted by: ninme | March 10, 2006 at 07:12 PM