# Six Degrees of Osama bin Laden **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 7, 2003, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-osama-bin-laden/153599 "2003-02-07T23:44:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![milroyj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@milroyj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/milroyj)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-osama-bin-laden/153599/21 "2003-02-08T16:30:39Z")
So where would they expatriate an American to? What country would agree to accept them? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-osama-bin-laden/153599/22 "2003-02-08T16:41:21Z")
Texas? ---
**Author:** ![milroyj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@milroyj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/milroyj)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-osama-bin-laden/153599/23 "2003-02-08T16:58:10Z")
Maybe MN, even. Birds of a feather… ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-osama-bin-laden/153599/24 "2003-02-08T17:04:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by elucidator \* > \*\* > **milroyj** is it the word “expatriated” that confuses you? 'Cause that means “deported”. Kicked out. Sent elsewhere. Adios, muchacho. Glad to help. \*\* [hijack] Actually, in this context I believe it means “stripped of U.S. citizenship,” not “deported.” How this might be accomplished as a practical matter is another story. Ask the Mariel boatlift Cubans how well that’s worked out for them. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-osama-bin-laden/153599/25 "2003-02-08T19:48:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Scylla \* > \*\*I can’t seem to find a proposition to be debated here, so I’ll just assume this is elucidator’s traditional Friday night Bash-the-Bushistas-with-mindless-venom thread. \*\* For a guy who’s graced this board with classic threads like “Goat Porn” and “So I was changing my baby’s diaper”, you sure seem to have lost your sense of humor, **Scylla**. ---
**Author:** ![Robb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a183cd/32.png) [@Robb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robb)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-osama-bin-laden/153599/26 "2003-02-08T21:09:37Z")
> [@](#): > > Five or more means less connected than Nanook of the North. Get with the program, guy. I don’t understand the Kevin Bacon game either. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Cheatem_Undhow)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-osama-bin-laden/153599/27 "2003-02-08T21:12:27Z")
I think this thread is about the right degree of seriousness for me to post this and still be on topic: [Nude women protest war in Central Park](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030208/170/38124.html) (Picture is far enough away to be safe for work; [alternate link here](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030208/od_uk_nm/oukoe_life_protest_3)). The slogan chosen to spell out with their bodies: “NO BUSH” Insert your own joke. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-osama-bin-laden/153599/28 "2003-02-08T23:47:34Z")
\>Actually, John Paul II was shot by Mehmet Ali Agca. (John II died in \>bed in the 6th century) Damned suspicious. 5th degree would be anyone who listened to Yellow Snow. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-osama-bin-laden/153599/29 "2003-02-09T00:16:39Z")
SUV owners send money to Saudi, Osama is from Saudi, 2nd degree. Stephen Hawkings is the _N_th degree. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-osama-bin-laden/153599/30 "2003-02-09T00:48:32Z")
My ex-roommate’s mother work[s/ed] at the flight school that trained some of the hijackers who, I can only assume, met the Big Bad Guy himself. Four degrees. What do I win? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-osama-bin-laden/153599/31 "2003-02-09T01:20:29Z")
That would be two, in my estimation: direct contact with the hijackers who are in direct contact with Bin Laden. You win a sword previously owned by a brooding literary executioner. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-osama-bin-laden/153599/32 "2003-02-09T01:59:04Z")
Hey, I touched somebody who touched somebody who touched Adolph Hitler. Do I get a consolation prize? Extra credit? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-osama-bin-laden/153599/33 "2003-02-09T02:11:41Z")
Consolation prize: [Reverend Lovejoy] I am here to comfort you. There there. There there.[/RL] You are consoled. Extra credit will be awarded upon completion of a 5,000 word essay “ **elucidator** : More akin to Johnathon Swift or George Clooney”. Neatness counts, points deducted for sarcasm. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-osama-bin-laden/153599/34 "2003-02-09T02:33:43Z")
Couldn’t I wash Cecil’s car or something instead? ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-osama-bin-laden/153599/35 "2003-02-09T03:12:36Z")
I’ve smoked pot. One degree. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-osama-bin-laden/153599/36 "2003-02-09T03:27:09Z")
Smoke Osama. That would be one degree. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-osama-bin-laden/153599/37 "2003-02-09T03:29:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by carnivorousplant \* > \*\*Couldn’t I wash Cecil’s car or something instead? \*\* I presume he has a bicycle. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-osama-bin-laden/153599/38 "2003-02-09T03:33:36Z")
Dammit. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-osama-bin-laden/153599/39 "2003-02-09T03:36:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dewey Cheatem Undhow \* > \*\*The slogan chosen to spell out with their bodies: “NO BUSH” > \*\* "I went to the peace march; we had some great groups, my favourite was LABIA: Lesbians Against Boys Invading Anything… This was my favourite cheer; please use it: ‘WE LOVE BUSH! WE DON’T MEAN GEORGE!’ " - Kate Clinton ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-osama-bin-laden/153599/40 "2003-02-09T03:49:35Z")
I am forced by this insight to amend my position. Invasion of Iraq is acceptable if Iraq says “Harder! Faster! More!” Short of that, no dice. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-osama-bin-laden/153599.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-osama-bin-laden/153599.md?page=3)