Five Degrees of separation
So my husband started a new job yesterday at an enrivonmental policy organization, and his boss has worked with Leon Panetta for years, the current head of CIA who until recently lived and worked here. I said to him, whoa, that means you're three degrees from President Obama, and that makes me four! Then I held out my hand and said "Five. Everybody at the MLA is, at most, FIVE degrees of separation from President Obama!
Then I LOLed, then he LOLed. Praise Eris!
I saw Ricky Gervais on TV the other night saying how he had been to the whitehouse after finding out that Paris Hilton had just bought a house near him in London. He wrote a letter to Obama saying it was obviously retaliation for Victoria Beckham being in America and we should have a swap. He also said he turned up in his pyjamas which apparently looked a bit like tracksuit bottoms as his suit was at the dry cleaners and they had said no jeans. They also showed an outtake from Sesame Street where he was talking to Elmo about Necrophelia.
You couldn't get this postcard through to him on a first name basis, could you?
I'd like a word... :-)
"You mean my whole fallacy’s wrong?"
Marshall McLuhan