As discussed previously, I have a pitiable Erdös number of 7 and a Bacon number of infinity. In comparison, here’s Geoff Nunberg’s coup:
I belong to the select group of people who can boast of having an Erdös-Bacon number — specifically, 8. Thanks to my co-authorship of papers with Ivan Sag, who wrote a paper with Mark Liberman, who wrote a paper with Joseph Kruskal, who wrote a paper with Alan Hoffman, who wrote a paper with Paul Erdös, I have an Erdös number of 5. Thanks to my appearance in the documentary F*ck, to be released in August, 2006, I have a Bacon number of 3 by various routes, the most gratifying of them:
Geoffrey Nunberg appears in F*ck with Pat Boone, who was in The Cross and the Switchblade (1970) with Erik Estrada, who was in We Married Margo (2000) with Kevin Bacon.
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