On your own initiative or at the urging of others, if you know what I mean. . . .
My deepest sympathy.
Anyway. I know this wasn’t the intent of the OP, but I rather like the direction the thread actually took.
I can claim a Bacon of 3, having crossed paths with Susan Dey in my TV days (she was talent; I was audio; did not get to shove a lavalier mike up her blouse).
I can also claim a 4, having dated someone who dated someone who dated Stephanie Zimbalist (though not in that order).
I have a Bacon number of 2.
I was a neighbor and friends with Walter Matthau, who was in JFK with Kevin Bacon.
I’m friends with Kevin and Trudie who have worked with John Moore who was in Sleep Room with Gabrielle Rose who was in Where the Truth Lies with Kevin Bacon, giving me a 4.
I worked on a book with Jim Hill . Jim Hill was a writer for John Candy. John Candy was in JFK with Kevin Bacon.
I have a Bacon Number of 2.
I was an extra in Truman with Gary Sinise who was in Apollo 13 with Kevin Bacon.
Bacon jumped in front of me in line at a Starbucks in Manhattan.
Bacon Number of 1! I win the thread!
That’s premature. If Kevin Bacon stops in to play, he will have a Bacon number of 0.
Has anyone ever heard of Kevin Bacon commenting on this game? Is he known to be aware of it?
Oh, never mind… Wiki says he has parodied it.
My Dad has a Bacon number of 3. He was roommates with Ric Flair at Wayland Academy. Yes, Ric Flair went to prep school.
Ric Flair was in The Wrestler with Edward Asner
Edward Asner was in JFK with Kevin Bacon
I have a Bacon number of two. I (literally) bumped into Tim Robbins on a film set, and apolgoized profusely for crashing into him. He was in Mystic River with Kevin Bacon.
I also said “Hello.” to Don McKellar, and on a separate occasion I said “Hi.” to the entire Egoyan Clan (all dressed in black creepily enough): Atom Egoyan, his wife Arsinee Khanjian, and their kid. They all (not the kid) worked with Kevin Bacon on Where the Truth Lies. I’ve actually seen Khanijan at my local hardware store a couple of times, they must have some digs nearby.
If I have TWO Kevin Bacon indexes of 2, does that make it 2[sup]2[/sup] or anything?
If I count the McKellar event and Egoyan and Khanijan events separately (even though they were all in one movie together), does that give me a Bacon factor of 2[sup]4[/sup]?
Aha! I have a two.
John Goodman wandered into a restaurant while I was there with my friends.
John Goodman was in Death Sentence with Kevin Bacon.
It occurs to me that I can also probably claim a Bacon of 2. Then-congressman Dan Glickmen was a regular visitor to our station; I even had a couple of friendly chats with him (great guy; his father was a certifiable character, but I digress). Now that Dan has Jack Valenti’s old job in Hollywood, it seems likely that he has crossed paths with Bacon; if so (or if when), I can claim Bacons of 2, 3, and 4.
(Conspiracy-minded folks who see something sinister in the fact that A knew B knew C should study this thread carefully.)
I was in the St. Francis Prep 1974 production of “Pippin”. John Turturro (who attended Delahanty HS but was in our show anyway) and I became pretty good friends for that time.
John appeared in “Do The Right Thing” with Spike Lee.
Spike Lee appeared in “School Daze” with Laurence Fishburn.
Laurence Fishburn appeared in Mystic River with Kevin Bacon.
I have a Bacon number of 3 in several ways. (Aren’t I lucky?) The first is the closest connection, though:
I was married to my former husband, who
went to high school with Tom Cruise.
Tom was in A Few Good Men with Kevin Bacon.
I met Rosie Perez while she was filming “Poof!” in Kentucky.
Rosie was in King of the Jungle (2000) with Marisa Tomei
Marisa Tomei was in Loverboy (2005) with Kevin Bacon
I wrote a script for a documentary Tommy Smothers narrated.
Tommy was in Pandemonium (1982) with Marc McClure (I)
Marc McClure (I) was in Apollo 13 (1995) with Kevin Bacon
I met Ashley Judd while she was in Kentucky filming “The Ryan Interview.”
Ashley was in Double Jeopardy (1999) with Gabrielle Rose
Gabrielle Rose was in Where the Truth Lies (2005) with Kevin Bacon
I interviewed and photographed Cheryl Ladd when she was in Kentucky filming “Bluegrass” (1988)
Cheryl was in Millennium (1989) with Maury Chaykin
Maury Chaykin was in Where the Truth Lies (2005) with Kevin Bacon
My Bacon number is two, as I grew up in the same Philadelphia neighborhood as him. If I had to go through movies it would be much higher. 
I think that means your Bacon Number is 1, Mr. Miskatonic!
My Bacon number is 3, one of my best friends is dating a well-known actor that has appeared in at least one movie with Kevin Bacon.
I hope to meet him in October - thus making my number 2
Well, technically, no. I knew his dad from neighborhood meetings (held at my parents house a lot), but I don’t think I ever met Kevin himself. Unless he was one of the bigger kids who would death spiral the nerf football at smaller kids on Van Pelt street.
We should do this in a more unusual way instead of actors. For example, “How many degrees are you from the Pope?” or “How many degrees from Bill Gates?”
I keep reading the thread title as:
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon Salt.
I haven’t been in any movies, so I can’t have a true Bacon number. But, as I’ve stated before, I have a quasi-Bacon number of 3.
1.) I’ve been onstage in two different productions (in college – 1776 and A Man of la Mancha) with Erland van Lidthe de Jeude (The big bald guy in The Warriors and Stir Crazy, except he isn’t bald. He got tired of shaving his head to play big bald geeks, so he gave it up).
2.) Erland was in The Wanderers with Karen Allen
3.) Karen Allen was in Animal House with Kevin Bacon
I didn’t even use the Oracle to do this.