OceanLake:
To have a defined Erdős–Bacon number, it is necessary to have both appeared in a film and co-authored an academic paper, though it is not sufficient.
So...anybody have a Gary number? If you talked with him, your number is 1; if you talked to somebody who talked to him, your number is 2; etc.
Well... everybody. I mean, to have a Gary Number, you'd just have to have talked to anybody ever, and then it's just a matter of finding a line to anyone who ever talked to him, and it's probably less than seven. Given that we know anyone here is in the same sub-culture, everyone on RPoL can probably claim a 3 or 4, tops. Or, like...
Hi, Horus.
Woot! Gary Number: 2!
Don't feel bad, Mick. It took me a minute too. Gygax turns out to be the third Gary I think of
*, after Larson and Trudeau, so I only would have gotten it because they're both still alive.
*- Well... fourth, actually, but it feels disrespectful to admit that Spongebob's snail came to mind sooner.