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General Discussion & Feedback => Just Chat! => Topic started by: DoctorBeaver on 24/05/2008 18:11:51
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A connections game. Post the name of a person and the connection (no matter how tenuous or contrived) to the person in the previous post.
e.g. Gandhi
Gandalf because they both wore long, white frocks. Get it?
OK, first name is...
Pocohontas
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And to make sure you all understand what this game is about...
David Beckham
Connection:-
Pocohontas had her name changed to Lady Rebecca Rolfe, David Beckham had an affair with Rebecca Loos. The connection is the name Rebecca.
Your turn.
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Neil ep
Samuel Peyps
Neil address we of the forum as peeps - "peeps" is one of the pronunciations often given for "Peyps"
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No no no. This is obviously too complicated for you. You have to post a name with a connection to the name in the previous post. In this instance that would be David Beckham.
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Neil ep
Samuel Peyps
Neil address we of the forum as peeps - "peeps" is one of the pronunciations often given for "Peyps"
In any case, it's Samual Pepys & yes, pronounced peeps.
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Huckleberry Finn.
connection: His adventure was written by Mark Twain, who's real name is samuel clemens, connection in the first name.
edit: yay! first correct post [:)]
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JimBob
Texas Geologist who is a moderator of this forum.
JimBob is the second cousin twice removed to Samuel Clemens.
My grandmother's maiden name was "Clemens"
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George Bush
JimBob is a resident of the United States of America. the connection is his president.
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ALAN Amos.
This ex-MP was arrested in 1992 for lurking nefariously in bushes behind a pub on London's Hampstead Heath - a well-known gay pick-up spot. He resigned as a result.
Connection is BUSH.
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Hugh Franklin was my great uncle also he was a Male Suffragist.
Also both of his 2 wifes first names were (1) Elsie Diederichs Duval who died from the Spanish Flu in 1st January 1919.
(2) Was Elsie Constance Tukes.
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Rosalind - what is the connection to Alan Amos?
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Uranus.
Connection...Rosalind is a satallite of Uranus.
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science_guy
connection: has an anus (he hopes)
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Margeret Thatcher
She gave permission to attack a retreating ship during the Faulklands war. The science guy has 'attack the unarmed' in his biography page. sort of similar.
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I wouldn't say the Belgrano was unarmed. It was a fekin battlecruiser!
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I wouldn't say the Belgrano was unarmed. It was a fekin battlecruiser!
BUT... William Shakespeare. He was married to Anne Hathaway, and Anne Hathaway's cottage in Stratford-upon-Avon is thatched.
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I wouldn't say the Belgrano was unarmed. It was a fekin battlecruiser!
The Belgrano was sailing back to Argentina and out of the 200 miles
zone as far as I remember.
Something that is really ironic, The Belgrano was formerly a USS ship which survived the Pearl Harbour attack.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARA_General_Belgrano
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It wasnt a 2 mile zone, more like a 200 mile zone -- link now
200 miles is the standard distance of the exclusive economic zone of maritime countries (including uk and the us).
(btw - the belgarano was not a battle cruiser but a heavy cruiser - not being picky or owt).
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It wasnt a 2 mile zone, more like a 200 mile zone -- link now
200 miles is the standard distance of the exclusive economic zone of maritime countries (including uk and the us).
Ok I remembered it wrongly and it is something that I've tried to sort/edit.
(btw - the belgarano was not a battle cruiser but a heavy cruiser - not being picky or owt).
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Freema Agyeman who plays Martha Jones in Dr Who. She met William Shakespeare when she did her stint as the assistant.
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It wasnt a 2 mile zone, more like a 200 mile zone -- link now
200 miles is the standard distance of the exclusive economic zone of maritime countries (including uk and the us).
(btw - the belgarano was not a battle cruiser but a heavy cruiser - not being picky or owt).
Battle bruisers are bloody heavy too. Could you lift 1?
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Nelson Mandela
Freema has the word free at the front of her name and Nelson is Free and had a song written about him. "Free, Nelson Mandela."
What, is no one playing the game anymore or did I open a can of worms that will crawl all over this thread until they all become thread worms and then it will be the end of the world as we know it??
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It wasnt a 2 mile zone, more like a 200 mile zone -- link now
200 miles is the standard distance of the exclusive economic zone of maritime countries (including uk and the us).
(btw - the belgarano was not a battle cruiser but a heavy cruiser - not being picky or owt).
Battle bruisers are bloody heavy too. Could you lift 1?
Send the bruiser around here, I'll deal with him.
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Nelson Mandela -> Nile Rodgers
Rear Admiral Horation Nelson commanded the British fleet at the battle of The Nile. Nile Rodgers was the guitarist with Chic & a record producer of great talent working with artistes such as Diana Ross, Sister Sledge & Duran Duran.
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I think you'll find he was a 'Vice Admiral'. I'm decended from his first wife you know.
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I think you'll find he was a 'Vice Admiral'. I'm decended from his first wife you know.
I think you'll find he was Rear Admiral Nelson at the time of the Battle of The Nile.
From Wiki...
The Battle of the Nile or Aboukir Bay (August 1-2, 1798) saw a British fleet under Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson defeat a French fleet, stranding Napoleon's army in Egypt. French losses have been estimated to have been as high as 1,700 dead (including Vice-Admiral Brueys) and 3,000 captured. British losses were 218 dead.
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Is the post of Rear Admiral something to do with sailors being gay.
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Not sure there but I think that a Rear Admiral is the least senior
post to the Admiral that Nelson died.
But Turnipsock was talking about being descended from Nelson as
we don't know his real life surname. Which is what matters.
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I ignore root vegetables, even if they are related to Nelson. He probably thinks that because he has one eye, he must be related to him. (Vegetables, eyes...get it.)
I will stop ignoring him if he either apologises or posts another picture of himself wearing the lycra.
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I ignore root vegetables, even if they are related to Nelson. He probably thinks that because he has one eye, he must be related to him. (Vegetables, eyes...get it.)
Oh dear. Nelson did not have only 1 eye.
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I ignore root vegetables, ...
Is that why you never supported Bjorn Borg? Because he's a Swede?
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I have stumbled into the Twilight Zone.
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I have stumbled into the Twilight Zone.
No, Jimbob, Because Sharon's thread started to see how many people could pair up well-known people in different coincidences to others.
But as Turnipsock told us all on TNS that he's descended from Nelson then we all started to take the mickey out of him.
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Whose thread? [:(!]
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Whose thread? [:(!]
oops sorry LOL
correction a TNS member's thread LOL LOL
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hmmmph!
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Nelson had a great send off.
He seems to have been soaked in alchol for weeks.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nelson/gallery8/ (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nelson/gallery8/)
That is the way I would like to go, along with the Bonaza theme tune.
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Nelson had a great send off.
He seems to have been soaked in alchol for weeks.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nelson/gallery8/ (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nelson/gallery8/)
That is the way I would like to go, along with the Bonaza theme tune.
Yes. He was pickled in a brandy barrel.
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I had always thought that Nelson had been "pickled" in rum. oh
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Did anyone sing the Nelson Musical at school? It had a song in it called Hip hip Horatio. It was around the time of Jonah Man Jazz and all those music festival type musicals for schools.
Did the sailors still keep drinking the alcohol on the way back even with a dead rear admiral in it?
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To preserve his body, it was submerged and pickled in a cask of Brandy. Nelson was much loved, and his courage, skill and gallantry so admired by his crew, that during the dark hours they would creep out and drink from the cask containing his body, praying they would inherit some of his traits.
what like loosing an eye, a leg and an arm?
wait a sec, I worked on the Mk 24 that sank the Belgrano, we used to write funny things on them like "Dear Juan"
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I worked on the Mk24 too! And the Stingray torpedo, and Rapier missle system.
I was at Marconi Underwater Systems (part of MSDS) for a while after leaving Lucas Defence Systems. We made the passive radar & guidance systems.
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war mongers
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I worked on the Mk24 too! And the Stingray torpedo, and Rapier missle system.
I was at Marconi Underwater Systems (part of MSDS) for a while after leaving Lucas Defence Systems. We made the passive radar & guidance systems.
Did you have to work underwater at Marconi? Did you develop Gills?
As for Turnipsock well he has been everywhere and done everything and he is related to everyone!!!!!
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I worked on the Mk24 too! And the Stingray torpedo, and Rapier missle system.
I was at Marconi Underwater Systems (part of MSDS) for a while after leaving Lucas Defence Systems. We made the passive radar & guidance systems.
Did you have to work underwater at Marconi?
No, but a couple of Navy divers had to submerge thanks to my efforts at Holy Loch lol
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Navy, such a dull colour. I prefer my divers electric blue.
Why did you make these divers swim in a holy loch? was it a baptism?
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No. The torpedo we were testing sank [:I]
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You should have employed the thorpedo, then the rescue would have been very speedy.
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Why?
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The Australian Olympic swimmer with the surname Thorpe is commonly known as the Thorpedo.
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There is a Torpedo called Stingray and a '60s puppet show too,
Also I think it was a stingray that speared Steve Irwin in the chest and killed him.
Anyone remember the Stingray show. (I don't).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_(TV_series)
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I remember Stingray. It was a Gerry Anderson ahow. Without looking, I think it was crewed by Steve Neptune & Phones. There was a dumb blonde who lived under the sea and her name was Marina.
Anyway, I'm not sure who the connection was with so let's start again from Steve Irwin.
EDIT. I was wrong. I just looked it up & it was Troy Tempest not Steve Neptune.
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crocodiles are the link between Irwin and Nelson (at the battle of the Nile)
So Brady Barr, National Geographic's answer to Steve Irwin. - a very poor answer but an answer none the less
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Robert Reed played Mike Brady in the TV series The Brady Bunch.
Brady Barr -> Brady Bunch -> Robert Reed
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clarinet is the bond for this
Robert Reed => Clarinet Cancerto in A major, K. 622 => W. A Mozart
the clarinet is a reed instrument
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Henry VIII
Mozart composed a lot of tunes for the harpsichord and Henry VIII composed "Green sleaves" for said instrument.
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Seymour Butts - porn producer.
Henry VIII was married to Jane Seymour
Henry VIII -> Jane Seymour -> Seymour Butts.
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Henry VIII
Mozart composed a lot of tunes for the harpsichord and Henry VIII composed "Green sleaves" for said instrument.
OBJECTION, YOUR HONOR! (M'LORD JUDGE - WHATEVER YOU BRITS SAY)
"Greensleeves" is a traditional English folk song and tune, a ground of the form called a romanesca.
A broadside ballad by this name was registered at the London Stationer's Company in 1580 as "A New Northern Dittye of the Lady Greene Sleeves". It then appears in the surviving A Handful of Pleasant Delights (1584) as "A New Courtly Sonnet of the Lady Green Sleeves. To the new tune of Green sleeves." It remains debatable whether this suggests that an 'old' tune of "Greensleeves" was in circulation, or which one our familiar tune is. Many surviving sets of lyrics were written to this tune. The tune is also found in several late 16th century and early 17th century sources, such as Ballet's MS Lute Book and Het Luitboek van Thysius, as well as various manuscripts preserved in the Cambridge University libraries.
A widely-believed (but completely unproven) legend is that it was composed by King Henry VIII (1491–1547) for his lover and future queen consort Anne Boleyn. Anne, the daughter of Thomas Boleyn, rejected Henry's attempts to seduce her. This rejection is apparently referred to in the song, when the writer's love "cast me off discourteously." However, it is most unlikely that King Henry VIII wrote it, as the song is written in a style which was not known in England until after Henry VIII died.[1]
It is widely acknowledged that Lady Green Sleeves was at the very least a promiscuous young woman and perhaps a prostitute.[2] At this time, the word "green" also had sexual connotations, most notably in the phrase "a green gown", a reference to the way that grass stains might be seen on a ladies' dress if she had made love outside.[3] An alternative explanation is that Lady Green Sleeves was, as a result of her attire, incorrectly assumed to be immoral. Her "discourteous" rejection of the singer's advances quite clearly makes the point that she is not.[3] On page 500 of Nevill Coghill's translation of The Canterbury Tales[4] Coghill explains that "green [for Chaucer’s age] was the color of lightness in love. This is echoed in "Greensleeves is my delight" and elsewhere."
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensleeves
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You had to look that up? I thought everyone knew already; that's why I didn't mention it. Plus it gave me a chance to get a link to Seymour Butts! [:D]
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As a filmorapher, Seymore's work lacks a certain "something" that separates it from great filmography.
HOWEVER, the subject matter does add greatly to the body of his work.
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THE MARLBORO MAN
Seymour Butts -> cigarette butts -> the Marlboro Man
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Winston Churchill
The first Duke of Marlborough (the correct spelling) in 1702 was John Churchill, an ancestor of Winston.
Marlboro Man -> John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough -> Winston Churchill
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David Wilkie
Winston Churchill -> Beat Alexander Wilkie in election -> Alexander Wilkie grandfather of David Wilkie, olympic swimmer.
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lend-lease
David Wilkie -> Wendel Wilkie, the Republican Party politician who lost to Roosevelt in 1940 -> thus allowing the Lend-Lease program to continue and saving you Brits bums, ya bums.
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I didn't realise there was a person called lend-lease. [???]
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PEDANTIC MONSTER !!!!!
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Does this please you, Officer Crabapple?
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Franklin Roosevelt
David Wilkie -> Wendell Wilkie, the Republican Party politician who lost to Roosevelt in 1940 ->
Franklin Roosevelt was allowed to continue the Lend-Lease program to save your WORTHLESS British ARSES!
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Get back in your pram, fool.
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Then post something sensible. Berating people is the pastime of the intellectually weak. Having nothing else they can use, such as wit, they stand on the streets yelling at passer-bys "get back in your pram"
That is something I would expect from toddlers in the schoolyard.
MORE CREATIVITY!
MORE INTELLECTUAL PUNCH!
MORE COMMON SENSE!
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Sorry, Jim. I was trying to talk Texan.
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perhaps you are forgetting that Texas rule the world. 4 of the world's major oil companies, including Exxon, are headquarter in and run by Texans. The international space station is controlled from Texas and the third best university, after Harvard and Yale, is in Texas - Rice University.
You know little about what is real about Texas. At least out here there are real people who don't need to dye a sheep purple for the tourism site.
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perhaps you are forgetting that Texas rule the world. 4 of the world's major oil companies, including Exxon, are headquarter in and run by Texans.
Only because that's where the oil is!
The international space station is controlled from Texas
So? All the really clever stuff is done at JPL.
At least out here there are real people who don't need to dye a sheep purple for the tourism site
[???]
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At least out here there are real people who don't need to dye a sheep purple for the tourism site
[???]
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check the Costwold sites. the logo for one is a purple sheep with a BLACK FACE
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polio
Franklin Roosevelt => polio => Jonus Salk
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Aids
Jonas Salk worked on the Aids vaccine and Elizabeth Taylor worked on fund raising for Aids.
PS. My mum looks like Liz Taylor!
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Elizabeth Taylor -> Zachary Taylor, 12th president of the US.
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Come on Doc, lets make this interesting - as below.
KEYWORD: amphibious
Zachary Taylor => Dwight D. Eisenhower
During the Mexican-American War, the first large scale amphibious landing in American history took place on the beaches outside the walls of Veracruz, where there then ensued the Siege (and surrender) of Veracruz, leading to the closing of Mexico's major port and the collapse of the Mexican Army - thus the victory over Mexico and the addition of what is now New Mexico, Arizona, California and parts of Colorado and Utah to the US territories.
Eisenhower, of course, had a "slight" involvement in thee Normandy Invasion and the subsequent defeat of Germany.
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More interesting, eh? OK - Sylvester Stallone.
Dwight D. Eisenhower was American. The American national emblem is the bald eagle. When the first moon landing took place, the phrase "The eagle has landed" was used. Neil Amstrong was the first man on the moon. Vic Armstrong was a stuntman who worked a lot with Rocky Taylor. The "Rocky" series of films starred Sylvester Stallone.
Dwight D. Eisenhower->America->bald eagle->eagle has landed->Neil Armstrong->Rocky Taylor->Rocky->Sylvester Stallone
How's that for convuluted! [^]
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More interesting, eh? OK - Sylvester Stallone.
Dwight D. Eisenhower was American. The American national emblem is the bald eagle. When the first moon landing took place, the phrase "The eagle has landed" was used. Neil Amstrong was the first man on the moon. Vic Armstrong was a stuntman who worked a lot with Rocky Taylor. The "Rocky" series of films starred Sylvester Stallone.
Dwight D. Eisenhower->America->bald eagle->eagle has landed->Neil Armstrong->Rocky Taylor->Rocky->Sylvester Stallone
How's that for convuluted! [^]
Very convuluted >>> Muddled Rosalind LOL LOL LOL
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More interesting, eh? OK - Sylvester Stallone.
Dwight D. Eisenhower was American. The American national emblem is the bald eagle. When the first moon landing took place, the phrase "The eagle has landed" was used. Neil Amstrong was the first man on the moon. Vic Armstrong was a stuntman who worked a lot with Rocky Taylor. The "Rocky" series of films starred Sylvester Stallone.
Dwight D. Eisenhower->America->bald eagle->eagle has landed->Neil Armstrong->Rocky Taylor->Rocky->Sylvester Stallone
How's that for convuluted! [^]
Actually, that is seven links. According to your rules only one link is to be used.
"convuluted" is correctly spelled "convoluted"
The intent was for obscure connections, not convoluted ones.
So, FOLLOWING THE RULES. I offer:
"Sex on-screen"
Sylvester Stallone (The Italian Stallion - http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1802815594/info) => Marlon Brando (Last Tango in Paris)
The Stallone movie was just a porn flick. Brando's movie was an "art" film.
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Native Americans
Marlon Brando was an active member of the American Indian Movement. I'm linking him with Chief Sitting Bull, who was a Native American.
Marlon Brando>>>>Chief Sitting Bull
Obscure enough Jim?
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YES! IT IS. JUST THE RIGHT TOUCH.
CONGRATULATIONS!
The Buffalo Bill Wild West Show
Sitting Bull => Queen Victoria
Sitting Bull went to England as part of The Buffalo Bill Wild West Show which was seen by Queen Victoria.