Okay, when pressed for blog material, I have used random association at times. My favorite form of this is to find "order" to the randomness in the game of Six Degrees of Separation.
I started with a living celebrity that I recognized whose birthday is today, January 4, 2017. I chose Dyan Cannon, an actress who turned 80 today. Looking at her filmography, I chose "Heaven Can Wait (1978)," in which she stared as Julia Farnsworth, murderous wife of millionaire Leo Farnsworth. Mr. Farnsworth had been drugged and drowned, but the mistaken death of "Joe Pendleton" is rectified by angelic agents by resuscitating the victim.
As Mr. Farnsworth, Joe buys the Los Angeles Rams, and as just after Farnsworth is killed for good, Joe enters the quarterback who had just been accidently killed on the field. Anyway, I looked for an LA Rams team from around the time I was born, finding the 1951 NFL champs but choosing the 1955 season in which they failed to reclaim that title. I wanted a connection closer to my birth (for some reason).
Though loosing badly, the quarterback for the Rams was the legendary Norm Van Brocklin. Van Brocklin was a distant cousin of my wife. Another "link" to Van Brocklin: he died in my "home state" of Georgia. This information is trivial, and doesn't exactly link me to the famous quarterback and coach. However, it does show the verity of the "Six Degrees" theory.
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