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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Jan 20, 2013 17:09:42 GMT
This is quite easy really,* all you have to do is to connect Edward White Benson (Archbishop of Canterbury) to Johnny Depp (Actor). The tricky bit is getting from Canterbury to Oxford and then on to Wonderland. You may like to try working backwards but either way works.
* The use of the word easy in this sentence may not be completely conventional.
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Post by Moose on Jan 20, 2013 19:05:24 GMT
I don't know who Edward White Benson is  But i am sure that they have both met the Queen or something |
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Jan 20, 2013 19:35:48 GMT
Yes, but a different one ... EWB met Queen Victoria quite a lot and, happen, young Depp has bumped into QE2.
OK first clue: step one is from E.W. Benson to his son, A.C. Benson, a noted academic and author in his day and Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. The next step will get you to Oxford from Cambridge if you can work it out ...
... Engage Wikipower!
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Post by Moose on Jan 20, 2013 19:48:36 GMT
Well getting from Oxford to Cambridge is not that difficult surely but there are lots ofroutes.
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Post by ceptimus on Jan 20, 2013 20:19:36 GMT
Benson presumably used scissors occasionally and to use them he would have to hold them in one of his hands: hence, Edward Scissorhands who was famously played by Johnny Depp. That was too easy!  |
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Jan 20, 2013 21:32:45 GMT
Ingenious ... but it still does not get you beyond Arthur Benson ... Well getting from Oxford to Cambridge is not that difficult surely but there are lots ofroutes. Apparently Network Rail want to reinstate the railway line between the two university towns ... still does not help you beyond Arthur Benson though ... ... is anyone going to take up the Wonderland part of the clue? |
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Post by Moose on Jan 20, 2013 23:13:00 GMT
I suppose that it can only be Lewis Caroll, and Depp was in Alice recently
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Post by Alvamiga on Jan 21, 2013 8:03:25 GMT
...all you have to do is to connect Edward White Benson (Archbishop of Canterbury) to Johnny Depp (Actor)... Let me see...Chloroform... Big Bag... Plane ticket... Gaffer Tape! ;D |
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Jan 21, 2013 8:36:43 GMT
I suppose that it can only be Lewis Caroll, and Depp was in Alice recently Excellent ... that's step seven: Depp played the Mad Hatter in the 2010 film and the Mad Hatter did, indeed, meet an Alice (which is step six). Working out which Alice will give you step five. |
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Post by Moose on Jan 22, 2013 0:57:36 GMT
Cooper? *looks vaguely defeated*
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Post by Shake on Jan 22, 2013 5:35:02 GMT
Tangentially related: I learned that you can go to Google and type in <celebrity name> bacon number, and it will give you the degrees of separation between that person and Kevin Bacon. Likewise, you can also get their Erdös number. Article here. Depp's Bacon number is 2, btw. Though I couldn't find a number for Benson. |
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Post by Alvamiga on Jan 22, 2013 9:01:56 GMT
"Kevin Bacon's Bacon number is 0" ;D
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Jan 22, 2013 10:40:21 GMT
Cooper? *looks vaguely defeated* *collapses in giggles* Though I couldn't find a number for Benson. It's alright I am better now ... well Benson was alive 'Hollywood' was an ares of underdeveloped scrubland going cheap to anyone who wanted to start up a new industry ... What a shame Karen is not around, never mind: I will post the solution this evening. Eight hours to go. |
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Post by jayme on Jan 22, 2013 12:11:12 GMT
My friend Carolyn is from Springfield. She met Brad Pitt at a party in high school. He was in a movie with Kevin Bacon. So my Bacon number is 3.
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Jan 22, 2013 13:55:18 GMT
I had some bacon for breakfast the other day but I suppose that does not really count does it ...
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Post by Moose on Jan 22, 2013 18:29:33 GMT
Johnny Depp DID do a duet with Alice Cooper you know  |
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Post by Alvamiga on Jan 22, 2013 19:25:02 GMT
I live on the same planet as Kevin Bacon... does that count?  |
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Jan 22, 2013 20:59:20 GMT
Johnny Depp DID do a duet with Alice Cooper you know I didn't know that ... so he has a Bacon whotsit of one ... but he still have a Benson thingy of seven.  |
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Jan 22, 2013 21:08:04 GMT
SO here we are - the Answer.
Edward White Benson was ABC 1883-1897.
One of his sons was Arthur Benson who was part of a circle of gay Anglican academics which is how he came to meet:
Henry Liddell ... they were more than friends *coughs*
Henry had a little sister called Alice who had a story made up for her by Charles Dodgson.
Alice in Wonderland
2010 Film included Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter.
There is a question about how many steps this really is - it depends on whether you think that Alice Liddell was the Alice who went to Wonderland, Dodgson says she wasn't but some argue that he was being evasive in his answer. Dodgson photographed all sorts of people at a very good standard, the photo of AC Benson is remarkably intense, and the protrait of Arthur Liddell makes his 'manly beauty' very apparent indeed ...
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Post by Shake on Jan 23, 2013 3:01:03 GMT
My friend Carolyn is from Springfield. She met Brad Pitt at a party in high school. He was in a movie with Kevin Bacon. So my Bacon number is 3. Thus, any of us who might have met you then would have a Bacon number of 4 (at worst). Mine is already 4 as a friend met Anthony Hopkins at an acting clinic. Hopkins number is also 2 as he worked with Brad Pitt in Meet Joe Black, and Pitt and Bacon were in Sleepers together. |
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Post by Moose on Jan 23, 2013 18:09:18 GMT
My brother was in the NYT with Kate Winslet's sister - and actually met Kate herself whilst here - so I guess he has only a small step to get to most Hollywood peeps
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Post by Alvamiga on Jan 23, 2013 19:33:21 GMT
Kate Winslet's Bacon number is 2 Kate Winslet and Michael Shannon appeared in Revolutionary Road. Michael Shannon and Kevin Bacon appeared in The Woodsman. That means we must all be low numbers just by knowing the Moose! Me->Moose->Brother->Sister->Shannon->Winslet->Bacon=6. (Or 5 if you don't count the sister. Don't think "met" is a valid link though. ) |
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Post by Moose on Jan 23, 2013 21:16:22 GMT
Of course met is a valid link! Why wouldn't it be?
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Post by Alvamiga on Jan 23, 2013 23:33:24 GMT
Just seemed a bit tenuous. I have seen some of his films... does that count? How about "stalked"? |
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Post by Moose on Jan 24, 2013 3:16:21 GMT
you have stalked Johnny Depp?
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Post by jayme on Jan 24, 2013 3:27:18 GMT
Haven't you?
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Post by Shake on Jan 24, 2013 4:16:39 GMT
"Met" is of course a valid link! It's probably hard to do a movie without meeting at least some of your co-stars.
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Post by Alvamiga on Jan 24, 2013 8:16:37 GMT
So, if you were to pass him in the street and say "Hello" you'd be a 1?
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Jan 24, 2013 10:11:47 GMT
No, just sad ...
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Post by Alvamiga on Jan 24, 2013 19:13:44 GMT
Well, if he walks past you in the street and your refuse to greet him, that's just rude! |
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But i am sure that they have both met the Queen or something
