Six Degrees of Separation

So, just yesterday, I was thinking "Can it possibly be true that we know everyone in the world through just six degrees of separation?" I thought of the fact that I knew Mother Theresa through less than six degrees, and various other celebrities, and naturally, my thoughts wandered to the Whose Line boys (Wayne, Colin, Ryan, etc.). And, in spite of the fact that Colin and Ryan had grown up in Vancouver, I couldn't think of any possibly way I knew them.

Well, today, whilst driving home from high school with my neighbour Carly and her mother Laura, we were talking about a boy in a few of my classes called Tora, who Laura and Carly had met yesterday. Now Tora's a nice kid.... when you first meet him. But try filming a school project with him. He's a pain in the ass.

So anyway, I said "Yeah, Tora's nice when you first meet him. After that he's EVIL." Then added, for Anna's sake, "But he likes Whose Line, so it's okay."

"He likes what, love?" Laura asked.

"Whose Line - oh. You don't know this yet, but I'm obsessed with the show Whose Line."

"What's that?" Laura asks hesitantly.

"Whose Line is it Anyway?"

"Oh! I remember that show. The improv one, right?"

"Yeah," I said, getting excited.

"It's true. She rants on and on," Anna added. "Ask me anything about Whose Line or Colin Mochrie, she tells me everything." Then added, just in case, "Colin Mochrie's the bald canadian one."

"Oh, I know," Laura said. "He's hilarious."

"He is, right?!" I said it loudly but I wasn't trying to be loud. I was just minorly fangirling again.

"Isn't he hilarious?" Laura said. "You know, I used to work with his cousin."

My mouth dropped open. "NO WAY."

"Way."

"NO WAY."

"Way!"

"NO WAY." I sounded so stupid, but it was the only thing I could manage to say without squealing like a little girl. I started to have a seizure - which in this context means that I flapped my hands around like a retard and giggled loudly and obnoxiously like a four year old.

Soon after that conversation returned to normal topics, and it was gone from my mind for the time being. And now, after a little thought and an episode of Improv-a-Ganza and an episode of Whose Line to clear my head, I realized that I actually DO know Colin Mochrie - through just three degrees of separation now. Which means I know everyone in the Whose Line universe through four degrees of separation. I realized that while Wayne and Colin were reading the credits, and I had to suppress manic giggling and fangirl flapping as I realized it.

Three degrees.

Just three.

NO WAY.