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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-03 09:04 AM
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If you had a dinner party and could invite any one, living or dead..
From history. Whom would you select?

I'm sure this question has been asked before on here. But I've only been here a short while, so I'd like to know whom you'd choose. Plus, on a purely selfish note, I see that I'm at 888 posts, and this one would get me one post closer to the magical 1000 posts. :-)

My choices for dinner guests:

Oscar Wilde. Of course.

Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas (I'd have to invite both of them)

Karl Marx

Adam Smith (the lively discussion between Smith and Marx would be interesting for sure)

Benjamin Franklin
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-03 09:07 AM
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1. Okie doke; I'll play!
Sir Isaac Newton
Albert Einstein
Mark Twain
Thomas Jefferson
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-03 09:08 AM
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2. Myrna Loy and William Powell... Norma Shearer, Judy Garland...
Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Truman Capote.


-- Allen
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-03 09:47 AM
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16. CAT FIGHT!
My money's on Crawford.
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Loonman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-03 09:09 AM
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3. Sir Ernest Shackleton
Also Thomas Paine

Thomas Jefferon

Sitting Bull

Crazy Horse

Geronimo

and

Sid Vicious
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Robb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-03 09:10 AM
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4. This is tough, because
...dead people obviously will eat less, but living people might bring a bottle of wine. :shrug:
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Drifter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-03 09:11 AM
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5. I got a job because of this question ...
The guy who interviewed (and later hired) me said I was that only guy that did not name at least 1 super model type.

I chose
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Frank Zappa

Cheers
Drifter
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La_Serpiente Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-03 09:11 AM
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6. well
Harvey Milk, W.E.B. DuBois, Malcom X post-Mecca trip, Nat King Cole, Gabriela Garcia Marquez (he is alive, but I still would like to meet him) Isabel Allende (her as well).
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Wetzelbill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-03 09:24 AM
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10. yes, another Marquez devotee!
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Brucey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-03 09:12 AM
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7. Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Dorothy Parker, Ernie Kovacs, Franz Kafka, and Richard Feynman.
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-03 03:39 PM
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33. Would you make him speak Latin? nt.
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Padraig18 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-03 09:12 AM
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8. Alexander the Great, ...
St. Brendan, Ghandi, Jesus, Elizabeth I of England, Marie Curie, Voltaire, Ben franklin and FDR. How's that for an eclectic group? :P
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Wetzelbill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-03 09:23 AM
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9. just on the fly -25 people because I would do it big
Arundhati Roy

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Bill and Hillary Clinton

Noam Chomsky

Gore Vidal

Bono

Sherman Alexie

James Welch

JFK and Jackie

Paul and Sheila Wellstone

Jesus

Martin Scorsese

Oliver Stone

Clint Eastwood

Ernest Hemingway (wow, he and I would just get sloshed)

Katherine Hepburn

Marilyn Monroe

Eleanor Roosevelt

my friend, Sara (because she laughs a lot)

Molly Ivins!!!!

Bill Murray

and my date would be Jessica Alba
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Rainbowreflect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-03 09:24 AM
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11. Jesus & bush.
That would be a fun dinner.
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chefgirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-03 09:27 AM
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12. Jesus
I would love to have the opportunity to ask him what exactly his true message was to the people of his time, and really decide for myself if I believe in his teachings or if I've spent my life believing in some adulterated version of what he had to say.
He would, of course, be my only guest, as I have a feeling it would be a long conversation.

-chef-
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MiddleRiverRefugee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-03 09:32 AM
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13. I did this already. Frank Zappa and Aaron Copland.
n/t
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nuxvomica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-03 09:45 AM
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14. That's an excellent guest list
Oscar Wilde or Ben Franklin alone would make things interesting even if all the other guests were stodgy Republicans. Make sure Alice B. Toklis brings the dessert.
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-03 09:58 AM
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18. Oh, I'd insist that Alice bring some of her brownies. :-) eom
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Cheswick2.0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-03 09:47 AM
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15. Jesus Christ and Madelyn Murray O'Hair
that should be fun.

Martin Luther King to say grace
Beethoven to give an after dinner concert
Lots of theater folk because they play Sherades better than anyone
Carl Sagan
Freddie Prinze to tell jokes at the dinner table
Abe Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson to tell us what they would do to get out of our current governmental mess

My friend and lost soul mate Michael to plan the event and direct the participants.... and because he would love it!
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Rowdyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-03 09:50 AM
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17. Talullah Bankhead, Dorothy Parker, Alice Roosevelt Longworth,
Amelia Bloomer, Emily Dickenson, Mary Todd Lincoln, Eleanor Roosevelt, Whoopi Goldberg and Margaret Cho. Doubt I'd get a word in edgewise. Throw in Joan of Arc, Lucretia Borgia, Lizzie Borden and Mary Queen of Scots to make an baker's dozen
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11 Bravo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-03 11:03 AM
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19. George W. Bush
I'd get the sonofabitch drunk, videotape him, and send copies to every network on the planet.
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everythingsxen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-03 11:16 AM
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20. Just to say I did it...
I would invite:

(Guests invited are no reflection on anything, other than it's a bunch of crazy ass people who would no doubt have a lot to say)

H.P. Lovecraft

Alister Crowley

Adolf Hitler

Josef Stalin

Gilgamesh

Jesus of Nazareth (I'm not a religious person, however I feel there was a real Jesus, I'd like to ask him a few questions..)

Mohammed the Prophet (same reasons as Jesus)

Buddha

Sun-Tzu

Machiavelli

Musashi

Attila the Hun

Vlad Tepes

Ok.. I think that's enough guests! The food will be a tough choice and having enough translators will be a real chore too!
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Bombero1956 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-03 12:06 PM
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21. my choices
Groucho Marx

Red Skelton

Ben Franklin

George Washington

Winston Churchill

FDR

Marilyn Monroe

Emelia Earheart

Katherine Hepburn

John Lennon

Louis Armstrong

Pablo Picasso
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AlienGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-03 01:39 PM
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27. Oh, don't invite that Vlad Tepes guy!
He'd insist on shish kebab...

And you can't invite Hitler without his bunker pals. At least, Goebbels and Eva would have to come.

You forgot to invite some rock stars...

Tucker
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everythingsxen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-03 03:17 PM
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28. Hehe..
Well, we will see... :evilgrin:

Maybe we could have a double dinner eh? You invite all the guests you like and I'll ivite mine...it'll be a blast. ;-)
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Character Assassin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-03 12:07 PM
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22. D.T. Suzuki. Well, either him, or GWAR
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jus_the_facts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-03 12:45 PM
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23. I'd have to have 2 parties....one political and one musical.......
Edited on Wed Dec-17-03 12:53 PM by jus_the_facts
....I'm gonna have a couple dinner parties...for the first one I'd like to invite...Jesus...Thomas Jefferson...FDR...JFK...MLK...and Ghandi...Eleanor Roosevelt...Catherine The Great...and Mother Theresa.

...for the second...John Lennon...Jimi Hendrix..Jim Morrison...Elvis...Janis Joplin...
Billy Holiday....Beethoven...Mozart...Chopin...and Bach.

:toast: :toast: :toast:
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VermontDem2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-03 12:46 PM
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24. My older brother and sister
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ronnykmarshall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-03 01:16 PM
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25. JFK, Jackie, RFK
The Supremes (of course), Judy Garland, Liza (so her mother tell her what a fool she's being), Elvis & Priscilla & Lisa Marie, The Beatles and Bill & Hillary.
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TheMightyFavog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-03 01:27 PM
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26. Lets see
Justin Wilson (he'd do the cooking)

George Washington

Bill Clinton

Paul Wellstone

Thomas Jefferson

Wesley Clark

Queen Elizabeth II

Winston Churchill

FDR

Mikahil Grobechev

Frank Zappa

Lon Cheney

J.R.R. Tolkein

Patrick O'Brian (he and Churchill would get along famously, I reckon)

Lord Nelson

Hank Aaron

Lew Burdette

Warren Spahn

JFK

Jaques Chirac

John Glenn
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Faygo Kid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-03 03:31 PM
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29. Lincoln, John Marshall, MLKing, and more
Gotta think more about it; good question. John Marshall was well known as a wonderful guest and raconteur, by the way. The other two are obvious. Gotta get a woman in there; so many to choose from that I will return to this.
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gobblemy Donating Member (26 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-03 03:33 PM
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30. I wouldn't think that much
I would invite Dave Matthews, Sammy Hagar, and Mr. Rogers
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shanti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-03 03:36 PM
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31. bob marley, man!
a tasty meal that would be ;-)
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-03 03:38 PM
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32. Helen Keller, Jimmy Carter,George Washington, MLK, and NSMA
Hey, Shocks!
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ZenLefty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-03 03:41 PM
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34. I would never invite anyone who was dead!
They stink, and it grosses me out when they eat spaghetti. :puke:
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Snow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-17-03 03:46 PM
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35. Oh, this could be fun: Confucius and Lao Tzu - and add in
Julian of Norwich to sit between the two of them and keep Confucius from letting Lao Tzu get his goat.

For songs & story telling, Homer (word has it the Iliad and Odysiad were originally sung).

To provide impromptu last-minute musical improvisations, the master...JS Bach.

For talking about the current state of politics, Cicero & Machiavelli.

For thought on what will happen to us if Bush wins in 2004, Dante.
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