Throbbing Gristle to Gary Lineker (A Wikipedia connection challenge)

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Just using the links on Wikipedia what's the fastest you can get from civilisation threatening post-punk industrial act Throbbing Gristle to squeaky clean footballing pundit Gary Lineker?

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 15 May 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

I did it in 11 clicks fwiw.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 15 May 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

Throbbing Gristle
London
Tottenham Hotspur
Gary Lineker

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 15 May 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

Throbbing Gristle - 2002 in music - decades 1980s - Gary Lineker

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 15 May 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

I did it Dom's way.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 15 May 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

OK, let's try another one...

Shit stirring Sheffield United gaffer Neil Warnock to...
Assasinated Italian socialist essayist and director Pier Paolo Pasolini.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 15 May 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

Both big Coil fans, I hear.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 May 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

OK now

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism
to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurn_und_Taxis

in five

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 15 May 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

Neil Warnock
Graham Poll
FIFA World Cup
Italy national football team
Italy
Dante Alighieri
List of Italian writers
Pier Paolo Pasolini

I can get it in seven.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 15 May 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

I got Pasolini in 7 :(

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 15 May 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

I can get Gnosticism to Thurn und Taxis is 6... hm.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Monday, 15 May 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

Gnosticism
Spain
Germany
Communications in Germany
Thurn und Taxis

Did it in four.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 15 May 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

wiki/Gnosticism
wiki/Talk:Gnosticism
wiki/User:Nixdorf
wiki/The_Crying_of_Lot_49
wiki/Thurn_und_Taxis

from talk to nixdorf ends up being a cheap and completely random shortcut I found. Anyway.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 15 May 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

I like Dom's broad approach.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 15 May 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

Same only with Italy not Spain
xpost

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 15 May 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think I meant 7 for Pasolini, I think it was more. Not that anyone cares.

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 15 May 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

same as dom but i used china > postal history of china > philately by country instead

― and what (ooo), Monday, 15 May 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

Quatloos to Thomas Merton, then. I did it first time through in ten but there's got to be a much quicker way.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 May 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmm...

Popular rhetorical device of the classical period "Adynaton"
to
Truck Records, home of MC Lars and Meanwhile Back In Communist Russia...

(x-post, let's have two at once then)

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 15 May 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

Quatloo
Star Trek
Star Trek: First Contact
1968
Thomas Merton

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 15 May 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_Mob

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Perpetua

in 5 or less

― and what (ooo), Monday, 15 May 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

Nice job, Dom. But do you even need First Contact?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 May 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

Warnock to Pasolini in 5

Sheffield Wednesday
Paolo Di Canio
Italy
Cinema of Italy
Pier Paolo Pasolini

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 15 May 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

Could be more fun (but harder) if lists, years and meta pages (talk, user etc) are disallowed...

― ledge (ledge), Monday, 15 May 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

Adynaton
Random article
Truck Records

Whaddayaknow!
Ok I have to get back to work

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 15 May 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

best i can do is crime mob > reprise records > wilco > the gourds > napster > mp3 blog > fluxblog > matthew perpetua

― and what (ooo), Monday, 15 May 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

Also:
Crime Mob->Single>Single (Music)-->Mp3 Player-->Mp3--->Mp3 Blog-->Fluxblog-->Matthew Perpetua

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Monday, 15 May 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

mine is funnier for containing wilco and the gourds

― and what (ooo), Monday, 15 May 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

I wrote a long wikipedia article on my home town and some douchebag erased it all saying it was too personal. I would like to make him clean my dirty everyday

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Monday, 15 May 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

You could post the article here.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 May 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

And we could link it to Giuseppe "Joe Bananas" Bonnano.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 15 May 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

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