Six Degrees of Instanta

It started with a few college students devising a game to play at dinner parties. It was called Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon and the aim of the game was to link any actor with Kevin Bacon within six films eg Jack Nicholson was in "A Few Good Men" with Kevin Bacon. Michelle Pfeiffer was in "Wolf" (or "The Witches of Eastwick") with Jack Nicholson, who was in "A Few Good Men" with Kevin Bacon. And so on. The number of intervening movies is that actor or actresses' Bacon Number or degree number. Thus, in this example, Nicholson would have a Bacon Number of 1 and Michelle Pfeiffer a Bacon Number of 2.The game became a cult even spawning the hit tv series "Six Degrees" as the object of the six became anybody rather than just Kevin Bacon. Scientists have now decided that anyone in the world can be linked in six steps.

So how about Instanta. Well I reckon most people in the UK would have an Instanta score of just one or two.

Well she's got a 1500 at Windsor.


And he's got one at Highgrove. (Nice mug your Royal Highness)

The Emirates have loads



As have Old Trafford for the prawn sandwich brigade.



He's f***ing got one too.



Wasn't it a pity about poor little Yang Peiyi (above) whose songbird voice enthralled millions at the opening ceremony of the Olympics? It seems that the Director Zhang Yimou (below) deemed her not pretty enough to represent the Chinese race and substituted her with some miming little cutie pie. Well Zhang, the words pot kettle and black spring to mind.

The competition is still running. My son Paul solved it straight away although he thinks one of the time travellers is tenuous. However, he didn't buy a boiler so it's still running. Give it a go. Much as we all love ABC Direct, they have won every blog competition we have run so far.It's time for a new winner.