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pokerfan

(27,677 posts) Thu Jan 10, 2013, 10:56 PM Jan 2013

Dinner Party! Anyone living or not... List your top ten.

No personal family members. Those go without saying...

Ladies
Dorothy Parker
Eleanor Roosevelt
Margaret Atwood
Hedy Lamarr
Lise Meitner

Gentlemen
Oscar Wilde
Samuel Clemmens
John Locke
Richard Feynman
George Carlin

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Dinner Party! Anyone living or not... List your top ten. (Original Post) pokerfan Jan 2013 OP

Okey dokey! ohiosmith Jan 2013 #1

Good ones pokerfan Jan 2013 #5

Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, Donatien Alphonse François, Naomi Campbell siligut Jan 2013 #2

Publius Clodius and Cicero could be fun! Rowdyboy Jan 2013 #11

My dinner party list . . . In_The_Wind Jan 2013 #3

I think I'll just come to yours! pink-o Jan 2013 #4

Darwin would be fun pokerfan Jan 2013 #6

This message was self-deleted by its author Tuesday Afternoon Jan 2013 #7

Mine: Aristus Jan 2013 #8

I would like to be at this one. Tuesday Afternoon Jan 2013 #17

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Mark Twain, Ernest Shackleton, Charles Bukowski, mokawanis Jan 2013 #9

I'll agree with you on one.... Rowdyboy Jan 2013 #10

Bit of a sausage fest, isn't it pokerfan Jan 2013 #13

Duh, well, certainly. If I could have anyone at a dinner party I'd pick mostly men who were gay Rowdyboy Jan 2013 #14

LOL pokerfan Jan 2013 #21

This is a tough one Art_from_Ark Jan 2013 #12

these would be my choices Bombero1956 Jan 2013 #15

ok Tuesday Afternoon Jan 2013 #16

Here's my list ... Scuba Jan 2013 #18

And me! siligut Jan 2013 #26

Mine hobbit709 Jan 2013 #19

1-9 lions, 10. Carrot Top Dash87 Jan 2013 #20

That should prove to be a very entertaining evening indeed. In_The_Wind Jan 2013 #27

Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha, a priest, a lawyer, a hippie and a duck Arugula Latte Jan 2013 #22

OK, here's mine. geardaddy Jan 2013 #23

Wow, tall order ... Myrina Jan 2013 #24

Mine... GoCubsGo Jan 2013 #25

No mention of the current POTUS and FLOTUS? charlie and algernon Jan 2013 #28

OK.... Taverner Jan 2013 #29

Here goes. My dinner party av8rdave Jan 2013 #30

ohiosmith

(24,262 posts)

1. Okey dokey!

Reply to pokerfan (Original post)

Thu Jan 10, 2013, 11:08 PM

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Ladies:
Marilyn Monroe
Harper Lee
Etta James
Gilda Radner
Madam Curie

Gents:
Benjamin Franklin
Edgar Allen Poe
W.C. Fields
Robert Johnson
Mickey Mantle

pokerfan

(27,677 posts)

5. Good ones

Reply to ohiosmith (Reply #1)

Thu Jan 10, 2013, 11:54 PM

Jan 2013

I miss Gilda...

siligut

(12,272 posts)

2. Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, Donatien Alphonse François, Naomi Campbell

Reply to pokerfan (Original post)

Thu Jan 10, 2013, 11:25 PM

Jan 2013

Phryne, Su Xiaoxiao, Ben Franklin, Margaretha Geertruida Zelle, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Graywarrior.

Rowdyboy

(22,057 posts)

11. Publius Clodius and Cicero could be fun!

Reply to siligut (Reply #2)

Fri Jan 11, 2013, 01:36 AM

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I'll bet Marc Anthony would keep things interesting too!

In_The_Wind

(72,300 posts)

3. My dinner party list . . .

Reply to pokerfan (Original post)

Thu Jan 10, 2013, 11:42 PM

Jan 2013

Ladies
Joan Baez
Sheryl Crow
Angelica Huston
Marylin Monroe
Elizabeth Taylor

Men
Ben Affleck
Leonardo Dicaprio
Brad Pitt
Bruce Springsteen
Patrick Swazey

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pink-o

(4,056 posts)

4. I think I'll just come to yours!

Reply to pokerfan (Original post)

Thu Jan 10, 2013, 11:42 PM

Jan 2013

Oscar Wilde and Mark Twain would be on my list as well. I'd also invite Charles Darwin and Spencer Wells, just to watch them interact.

pokerfan

(27,677 posts)

6. Darwin would be fun

Reply to pink-o (Reply #4)

Thu Jan 10, 2013, 11:56 PM

Jan 2013

but I think I'd invite Feynman before him. He could bring his drums.

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Tuesday Afternoon This message was self-deleted by its author.

Aristus

(66,389 posts)

8. Mine:

Reply to pokerfan (Original post)

Fri Jan 11, 2013, 12:08 AM

Jan 2013

Ladies:

Cleopatra VII
Eleanor of Acquitaine
Joan of Arc
Gertrude Stein
Eleanor Roosevelt

Gentlemen:

Socrates
Marcus Aurelius
William Shakespeare
Benjamin Franklin
Oscar Wilde

Tuesday Afternoon

(56,912 posts)

17. I would like to be at this one.

Reply to Aristus (Reply #8)

Fri Jan 11, 2013, 07:54 AM

Jan 2013

Could I sit beside Marcus, please.

mokawanis

(4,443 posts)

9. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Mark Twain, Ernest Shackleton, Charles Bukowski,

Reply to pokerfan (Original post)

Fri Jan 11, 2013, 12:48 AM

Jan 2013

Salvador Dali, Margaret Atwood, Amy Goodman , Amelia Earheart, Mother Jones, Sojourner Truth.

Rowdyboy

(22,057 posts)

10. I'll agree with you on one....

Reply to pokerfan (Original post)

Fri Jan 11, 2013, 01:33 AM

Jan 2013

Men
1. Oscar Wilde
2. Julius Caesar
3. Thomas Jefferson
4. Walt Whitman
5. Leonardo Da Vinci
6. George Gordon, Lord Byron
7. Gore Vidal
8. George Takei

Women
9. Tallulah Bankhead

Uncertain
10. Unknown waitstaff who taped Romney's "47%" remarks

pokerfan

(27,677 posts)

13. Bit of a sausage fest, isn't it

Reply to Rowdyboy (Reply #10)

Fri Jan 11, 2013, 01:47 AM

Jan 2013

Takei is certainly worthy...

Rowdyboy

(22,057 posts)

14. Duh, well, certainly. If I could have anyone at a dinner party I'd pick mostly men who were gay

Reply to pokerfan (Reply #13)

Fri Jan 11, 2013, 02:08 AM

Jan 2013

or gay friendly (or at least not openly homophobic). I love Tallulah (and Dorothy Parker, Eleanor of Aquitaine etc) but MY dinner party would be predominantly (if not entirely) masculine. I had to leave off Montgomery Clift, Mad King Ludwig of Bavaria and Elton John just to get the list down to 10!

Bring on SausageFest 2013!

God I adore George Takei!

pokerfan

(27,677 posts)

21. LOL

Reply to Rowdyboy (Reply #14)

Fri Jan 11, 2013, 12:49 PM

Jan 2013

George Takei on The Big Bang Theory:

Art_from_Ark

(27,247 posts)

12. This is a tough one

Reply to pokerfan (Original post)

Fri Jan 11, 2013, 01:40 AM

Jan 2013

Men:
Mark Twain
George Frederick Handel
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
Raoul Wallenberg

Women:
Amelia Earhardt
Harriet Tubman
Eleanor Roosevelt
Dolly Madison
Martha Washington

Bombero1956

(3,539 posts)

15. these would be my choices

Reply to pokerfan (Original post)

Fri Jan 11, 2013, 02:27 AM

Jan 2013

Men:

1. Benjamin Franklin
2. Abraham Lincoln
3. Michelangelo
4. William Shakespeare
5. Robert Frost

Ladies:
1. Katherine Hepburn
2. Charlotte Brontë
3. Amelia Earhart
4. Sojourner Truth
5. Bette Davis

Tuesday Afternoon

(56,912 posts)

16. ok

Reply to pokerfan (Original post)

Fri Jan 11, 2013, 07:51 AM

Jan 2013

Ernest Hemmingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thomas Wolfe
Shakespeare
Mark Twain

Jane Austen
Sylvia Plath
Harper Lee
Margaret Mitchell
Sacajawea

Scuba

(53,475 posts)

18. Here's my list ...

Reply to pokerfan (Original post)

Fri Jan 11, 2013, 11:24 AM

Jan 2013

Samuel L. Jackson

Lawrence Fishburn

Muhammad Ali

Joe Frazier

Danny Trejo

Willie Horton

Reuben Carter

Ray Lewis

Charles Barkley

and...

Mitt Romney (just to watch him squirm)

siligut

(12,272 posts)

26. And me!

Reply to Scuba (Reply #18)

Fri Jan 11, 2013, 02:22 PM

Jan 2013

I want to see him squirm too

hobbit709

(41,694 posts)

19. Mine

Reply to pokerfan (Original post)

Fri Jan 11, 2013, 12:06 PM

Jan 2013

Women:
Grace Slick
Aspasia
Anne Bonney
Olympe de Gouges
Eleanor Roosevelt

Men:
Heron of Alexandria
Benjamin Franklin
Samuel Clemens
Goyaałé
Confucius

Dash87

(3,220 posts)

20. 1-9 lions, 10. Carrot Top

Reply to pokerfan (Original post)

Fri Jan 11, 2013, 12:47 PM

Jan 2013

In_The_Wind

(72,300 posts)

27. That should prove to be a very entertaining evening indeed.

Reply to Dash87 (Reply #20)

Fri Jan 11, 2013, 02:31 PM

Jan 2013

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Arugula Latte

(50,566 posts)

22. Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha, a priest, a lawyer, a hippie and a duck

Reply to pokerfan (Original post)

Fri Jan 11, 2013, 12:53 PM

Jan 2013

Sounds like a good set up for a joke, if nothing else ...

geardaddy

(24,931 posts)

23. OK, here's mine.

Reply to pokerfan (Original post)

Fri Jan 11, 2013, 01:30 PM

Jan 2013

Ladies
Elizabeth I
Gertrude Stein
Eleanor Roosevelt
Billie Holiday
Boudicca

men
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Sinclair Lewis
George Carlin
J.D. Salinger
Taliesen

Myrina

(12,296 posts)

24. Wow, tall order ...

Reply to pokerfan (Original post)

Fri Jan 11, 2013, 01:42 PM

Jan 2013

Thomas Jefferson
Howard Zinn
C Wright Mills
Matt Damon
Barbra Streisand
Howard Dean
Daniel Day-Lewis
Thurgood Marshall
Emma Goldman
Charlie Chaplin

GoCubsGo

(32,086 posts)

25. Mine...

Reply to pokerfan (Original post)

Fri Jan 11, 2013, 02:20 PM

Jan 2013

Bob Newhart
Richard Pryor
Aisha Tyler
George Carlin
Wanda Sykes
Gilda Radner
Carol Burnett
Stephen Colbert
Jonathan Winters
Tim Conway
Betty White

charlie and algernon

(13,447 posts)

28. No mention of the current POTUS and FLOTUS?

Reply to pokerfan (Original post)

Fri Jan 11, 2013, 04:05 PM

Jan 2013

My list:

Barack Obama
Michelle Obama
Abraham Lincoln
Franklin Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Ben Franklin
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Mark Twain
Dolly Madison

Taverner

(55,476 posts)

29. OK....

Reply to pokerfan (Original post)

Fri Jan 11, 2013, 04:07 PM

Jan 2013

Wimmen:

Emma Goldman
Zelda Fitzgerald
Angela Davis
Gloria Steinem

Mehn:

Ernest Hemmingway
Hunter S Thompson
Richard Nixon
John D Fitzgerald
Karl Marx

av8rdave

(10,573 posts)

30. Here goes. My dinner party

Reply to pokerfan (Original post)

Fri Jan 11, 2013, 06:08 PM

Jan 2013

Molly Ivins
Ann Richards
Kurt Vonnegut
Nelson Mandela
Hunter S. Thompson
Michelle Obama
George Carlin
Isaac Asimov
Toni Morrison
Al Franken

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