dead or alive

Well folks, it's time to dig into the archives and see what you can dust off for this question. Being a history major I am a bit biased with my answers, so forgive me in advance. You'll see what I mean--

If you could invite 4 people, dead or alive, to dinner with you, who would they be?

My four are-- Benjamin Franklin, Leif Erikson, Harriet Tubman, and King Tut.

I'm loooking forward to all of your responses. I'm sure we'll come up with very interesting ones. Believe me, it's hard to narrow it down to 4, but for brevity's sake. Thanks for your thoughts and cheers to all.

I would invite Eva Peron, Tecumseh,Joan of Arc, and Osceola. Julie

timothy leary...

einstein....

ben franklin....

jesus christ... :)

i've got a few questions for each of those fellows. ;)

j

Osama Bin Laden

Saddam Hussain

And Green Berets!!!!!!!

Marilyn Monroe

Ansell Adams

Steve Erwin (Crikey!)

and Kelly Preston :p

peachy-- great call on the invitations. need any witnesses??

let's see.....Eddy Vedder of Pearl Jam,because he's so deep and moody and just so damn coooool:cool: :cool:

John Kennedy Jr.....I LOVED him,he was such a beautiful human being...I was so sad when he died:(

Bridget Bardot....A great example of a woman to me...a hollywood sex symbol,who turned her back on her career, moved back to France and devoted her life to animal rights...

Mel Gibson...because he's got such a GREAT sense of humor and because ,I mean,come on,he did play Braveheart....umm.I mean William Walace(yea,he could come too)

if i have to explain it to you,you wouldn't understand it anyway...That goes for any of my post's:confused:

Here are my favorite people to bring to dinner: Andrew Carnegie, John Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan and Tony Robbins.

Mary Mother of Jesus, Golda Mier, Cher & my Great Grandma Fisher who raised 1 daughter and 5 sons & lost all her sight at 19 and was widowed at 28.

Hmmmmm...Maya Angelou would be one, I have to think on the rest for a bit. Some of these groups sound like an episode of Politically Incorrect...lol. *smiles*
And Yellowrose, I think I might like to share dinner with your grandmother too...what an inspiration.

my 4 would be:

!) Geoffrey Chaucer ............ It would be so good to actually converse in Middle English :)

2) King Charles II .......... He has always been my favorite monarch and I would love to find out if he really was as 'sexy' as historians say he was :)

3) Kurt Cobain .......... Got to have some eye candy at a dinner party :D

4) My Father ........ I have never met him an have no idea who he was. I would like to thank him for the good genes he gave me, and also I am just plain curious to know what he is/was like etc.


there r loads more ppl I would love to invite but u said only 4 :(

i'd have to say mary magdalene, mohandas gandhi, groucho marx, and queen elizabeth I.

jaye: i met timothy leary back in the '70s and i can say from personal experience, you wouldn't want him at a dinner party.

..without having to worry about giving bad advice! Since I am a history/literature lover, coming up with only four people is HARD!
However, like many I would pick Ben Franklin, but then move onto Thomas Jefferson, Leonardo DaVinci, and Shakespeare. BUT it should not stop here Upperv, for after all the answers are in, what you need to do, is to do what I use to do for a comprehensive final exam; for really the inviting part was somewhat easy. What comes next is to take everyone of those people and decide who would be the HOST and HOSTESS of the dinner party and then arrange the seating for the rest. This can get tricky, for you would not want to put enemies together or those that have absolutely nothing in common; thus you would try to have some sort of balance so the table conversation would be lively and flow between seatmates, for that is what a successful host and hostess does (and my students also had to tell me WHY they put the people together like they did). So can I count on you to take on the challenge? :D

PS We are also under the assumption that they all speak the same language!

1. Thomas Jefferson

2. Thomas Szasz

3. Robert A. Heinlein

4. John Stuart Mill

Wow .... too many choices. I'll have to limit myself to one category. Since I love to read, mine are all women writers.

Isak Dinesen
Colette
Emily Dickinson
Flannery O'Connor

Moe
Larry
Curly
Shemp

Since I'm a singer/musician into rock music, mine would all be musicians:

1. Robert Plant from Led Zeppelin

2. Ann Wilson from Heart

3. Stevie Nicks

4. Ozzy Osbourne (just to try to decipher his utterings! :D)

I would serve Chateaubriand, medium rare, with steamed green beans and seasoned red potatoes, freshly baked bread and butter. The wine would be Rodney Strong cabernet sauvignon. Dessert would be chocolate cheesecake and champagne, Dom Perignon.

I would sit at the head of the table with Robert Plant to my right and Ann Wilson to my left. She loves Robert Plant too, so the three of us would have a great time. Next to Ann would be Ozzy and next to Robert would be Stevie (I'm sure he'd flirt with her).

The four people I would invite would be

Dr. Steven Hawkins (famous scientist)
Earvin "Magic" Johnson
Louis Armstrong
Jose Sanchez (My Grandpa)

suicideblonde---
a fantatstic idea. i'm a huge fan of your suggestion and will put it before the review board. based on the answers so far, that is going to be one hell of a party, don't you think? and heck, the language barrier might even be part of the fun, who knows. any other suggestions, please do tell. i'm all about making things fun and interesting. thanks again.

Jimmy Hendrix

Elvis

Jesus

Devil

And why u may wonder? Well just think great music of all times....and sheesh we would need a referee for jesus and the devil...............................some LIVE ENTERTAINMENT.

My list? Easy.


Mrs. Cranford, my senior English teacher back in high school, who made me work harder for, and be prouder of, a "C" than I ever had before in my life.

Dr. Schucany, who taught statistics and livened up a dull class by climbing on top of a desk in the lecture hall, and walking - desk to desk- across the room to swat a wasp hovering around the ceiling.

Dr. Boss, a geology professor who turned what I thought was "just a bunch of rocks" into a fascination with the way the entire Earth works.

Dr. Crisp, who teaches writing; who always has an encouraging thought for the person who's struggling to find the right words; and who somehow gets an entire class to give its best, both to themselves and each other -- all without losing her smile or raising her voice above a conversational tone.


Yeah, I know. The idea was (is) to tell about the famous people whom we'd want to meet. I have one of those lists, too.

But the people who matter? I already know them, or have known them at some point in my life. And if I could, I'd gather them all together at a quiet table in a good restaurant, just to see what ideas got stirred up.

That's just me, I guess.

Douglas Adams
George Carlin
Howie Day (singer/songwriter.... will be the next big thing.. mark my words)
And I'll go with Ghengis Khan for number four, because conquering Asia sounds like a fun thing to do sometime. He might be able to give me a few pointers.

Mid...technically the Devil is not a real person!

and Red... being a teacher, I thought that was very moving; and if you have never told them that, you need to! Those are the reasons why we teach; plus the fact it is job that one hardly ever sees immediate results, but always hope we have made a difference down the line.

The four i would invite:

Simon Bolivar, The Liberator.

John Lennon

Frida Khalo

Evita Peron


So interesting to me......

The four I would invite are

Michaelangelo - because I want to meet the one human I am really in awe of.

John Lennon - because he gave me the best years of my life.

Agatha Christi - because no one does the classic "who done its?" like she did.

And,

One of the guys on Ageless - because I'd love to meet some of these great guys here and, well, I need a date for the dinner party!!!

Well this is not technical, but according to the Bible, Lucifer/devil is a "fallen angel". So he could be present, although I sure would not want to be there.

Here are some people I would like to invite to dinner.


1. Marx Brothers

2. Laurel and Hardy

3. Charlie Chaplin

4. Abbot and Castello

1) Jackie Chan (I've been in love with Jackie since 1984.) He MUST sit at my right. hehe

2) Sammo Hung (Or Yuen Biao, I keep going back and forth. Biao, because I love his acrobatics and Sammo because I love his directing. Plus, both these guys grew up with Jackie Chan in the same Chinese Opera School and the three of them acted in some of my all time favorite movies together.)

3) Chow Yun Fat (Sensitive and cool, and SOOO sexy!)

4) John Woo (His stylized direction took Hong Kong Cinema to new heights.)

All of the above are my favorites in Hong Kong Cinema. Since I had to pick a genre for my dinner party (Er, well, dim sum) I decided to go with these guys who I admire so much.

I thought about inviting all those legendary guys who I've had a life long fascination with, like Robin Hood and King Arthur... just to see how many people really showed up. (Most historians agree there are grains of truth in the legends about them, but that they are likely compilations of people.)

~Val

I did not know you like kung fu movies! I want to have dinner with Jet Li, Bruce Lee, Steven Segal, Michael Dudikoff, Sho Kusugi, Jackie Chan and Jean Claude Van Dam. I want to let you know I met Chow Yun Fat and John Woo in person before when I used to work for the airport.

Yes, the Devil was a fallen angel, Yellowrose, but was THAT original angel ever flesh and blood? I am not a theologian or even a church-goer any more, so I really do not know.

I promised so here it is ... In my spiritual mode ... my four guests would be ....

Jesus
Budda
Lao Tse
Socrates

That would be just for starters of course ;) ...

Princessdy ;)

Yellowrose took the words right out of my mouth.

even if the devil is not real to you, he is to me, yup a fallen angel.

Soul, spirit, blood, or flesh, it is to me, is it not he can even transform himself into any creature or other? being human form would be 1.......so even if he doesnt have what is the norm for a real human. he's still real enough...............

BB, I am glad that you liked the idea of a seating arrangement, but it has to be for ALL the threads! With only four people, no one is really next to each other and all can talk "across table" with no problems. AND GOD??? He is not flesh as far as I know...and Midnite, I am sticking to my guns about the devil too (and whom I doubt can change shapes...heck this reminds me of the Salem withcraft trials all over again with the superstitious and fundamentalist Puritans thinking the Devil was a blackman who lived in the forest and had a book for them to sign! And because of this "belief" {which we found out NOT to be true}, 19 innocent people lost their lives. I would think and hope we have moved beyond this.) There was an article in Time magazine a few years back asking if we need a "Satan" to keep us straight? Or do we need a scapegoat when WE as rational and thinking human beings, no longer are... OR can humans personify him, such as Hitler and Stalin ..... just some thoughts.

:) Were all intitialed to our own opinion.

Midnight (sd have said Suicide Blond...sorry Midnight), I think you misunderstood and maybe over-reacting OR maybe I misunderstood.

What is it that is reminding you of the Salem Witch trials? All I did was give a Biblical reference of what Lucifer is. I am confused. :confused:

Gotta go with Mel, for f@ck's sake!!! :D

My dad has a Master's in Theology, I think he's somewhat qualified to shed some light on this.

Inviting God and/or the "Devil" to your dinner table would be like inviting the tooth fairy or the Easter bunny.

God is an essence, something so big, so indefinite, that the finite, human mind can't understand it. You can BE God, you can BE A PART of God, you can FEEL God and KNOW God, but you can't pack God down into a little human form (like George Burns) to sit at your dinner table. God IS your dinner table, and your dinner, and you, and your guests...yada yada yada.

The "Devil" exists in men's minds. There is no Hell, no Devil, just the dark side of people. It's called, "free will".

Just my humble little pea-brained opinion! (Watch this thread turn into a religious debate!) :D

That last post was not for you *confused*:)


Moving right along now shall we. I see the lasts few posts have turned out to be some religious debate...which I'm taking no part of......As said we were intitialed to our openion on whom we would invite for dinner ...and that was mine.....ya ya ok so we misunderstood the question.........besides like i said there real to me...........................................nuff said on my part...sheesh it seems what I said for my 4 ppl 2 were made a big deal about.
Won't post on this topic anymore...sorry for screwing up the origal question.........................(mistakes happen, yup on even missunderstanding things) perfection comes in where?


uhhhh i see .

Look if you guys can invite DEAD people, one can invite the devil, lucifer or the tooth fairy. It is sad when one can not even share their fantasy dinner guests and just make POLITE conversation.

I love you guys but you can go so overboard. Polly, I respect you and your fathers believes but just because he believes it or even studied it does not make it a scientific fact. And just because Mel read it in a book does not make it fact. Besides that, one can get the letter of the law but not the spirit of the law. Which is lacking here. When we get into trying to prove each other wrong over something like this... I mean, give me a break. :mad:

PS I know (or think) no one was directing anything at me but it just irked me. Now someone give me a chocolate covered cherry and I will shut up.

Sounds good to me Mel. I am going to sleep on it.

Just give me some of those chocolate covered cherries too!
YUM!
Dessert for my dim sum with cute Chinese guys.

~Val

Fae, I wanted to let you know that I knew Stevie Ray V. in Dallas, where I used to live. He was a wonderful person. My friends and I were devastated when he died. So sad.

i would have to say i would invite

1. Bob Dylan

2.George Harrison

3.Timothy Leary

4.Dave Katz ( of ekoostik hookah )

When you asked me this question, who did I say I would invite?....I cannot remember other than Jesus Christ. Keep studying and pass that TEST! In fact, you are not supposed to be here, you are supposed to be studying!

Just wondering.
Jayne












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thanks for the warning and head's up. does it appear that i spend that much time on here? are you stalking me? HAHAHA
anywho---test is take home, so if i hae any problems, i know who to come to. catch ya soon and try to answer the question fully. my next one will be easier for you, i promise. HAHAHA :p

YEAH WHATEVER J. Mollo, upperV:

Who wants dead people at their party anyway! :D

Jayne

*Polly hands Yellowrose a Godiva chocolate covered cherry* Sorry I went overboard, it's one of my MANY faults! :(

Yellowrose, are you familiar with one of Stevie Ray's early singers, Lou Ann Barton? She was in the original Double Trouble. I absolutely LOVE HER! She has one of the ballsiest, sexiest blues voices I've ever heard.

As far as Stevie Ray Vaughn, I can't get enough of him. I didn't put him on my dinner guest list though, because he doesn't party anymore, and we'd all be drinking. ;)

I SEE DEAD PEOPLE.:)

Jayne

for fixing the seating arrangement and making things MUCH CLEARER (at the very least) as well as making it much more interesting (at the very best!)

YT
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