A famous historical figure you'd like to get thrown in the drunk tank with

[HEyHEY]

????

For me, I'd say an evening talking to a drunk and sleepy T.E. Lawrence would be interesting.

[FarmerOak]

1. You know he'd bugger you as soon as look at you, don't you?

eom

[HEyHEY]

5. Well, that's what they say

But...whatever

[ewagner]

2. Edna St. Vincent Millay n/t

[Bertha Venation]

27. ewagner?

Wow. A view into an acquaintance's mind.... dig it.

(I was born on her birthday, and have a biography of her that I've been meaning to read for two years.)

[ewagner]

35. A college English Professor

turned me on to her works when I was a Freshman.(yes, the printing press HAD been invented when I was a college freshman!!!!)...I've read all her works and a few biographies......

It's almost scary. For me, I could almost read her mind and felt, at times, she was speaking for me as well as herself............

I have her complete works in the bookcase of the Headboard on my bed...I still pull them out and thumb through them....

[Bertha Venation]

38. Dude.

Cool. Very cool. :hi:

[ewagner]

74. Just rmembered

this little bit

My candle burns at both ends
it cannot last the night
but ah my enemies, and
oh my friends,
what a lovely light.

[terrya]

3. Oscar Wilde.

Even drunk, a conversation with Oscar would be stimulating.

[HEyHEY]

7. oooooo...why didn't I pick that one

dang!

[wryter2000]

4. Thomas Jefferson

How I'd love to be able to pick that brain for several hours.

[FarmerOak]

8. That's my choice, too.

His mind was first-rate, and his life was appalling. I'd love to ask him about those inconsistencies.

[northzax]

17. except he wouldn't want to talk about that

he was very sensitive to his personal failings.

[northzax]

6. Jesus, definately

and the younger jesus, before he got all sanctimonious and all.

[DustMolecule]

16. That's a good answer!

I'm gonna get struck by lightning now cause that wasn't MY first thought. And besides all the wonderful, beautiful things about Jesus, he has the ability to change plain ole 'cell' water into WINE! ;-)

[northzax]

20. and, since I am having a lifelong crisis of faith

ok, lack of faith, it's be great to give himself a couple of hours to convince me. I don't want to hear this crap from scketchy money-grubbing preachers, give it to me straight J-man, sell me on this stuff.


uh oh, is that a thunderhead I see coming in?

[ohiosmith]

9. What a great question. Edgar Allan Poe

[HEyHEY]

10. Well, we all know there has been many people who've lived that

experience.

[Mrs. Venation]

63. Me, Too!

I have loved the works of Edgar Allan Poe since I was a child. I think I first read his short stories when I was about 12 years old.

I think he had a magnificent mind, and I'd love to be able to sit down with him and just talk about where the stories and poetry came from.

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. Hemingway or Winston Churchill or FDR

Probably Churchill would be the top of the list.

[HEyHEY]

14. Provided you could understand a drunk Winston

huveel elle....hummonifobuar

[Rabrrrrrr]

19. hehheh

Well, I'd probably be drunk, too, so we'd understand each other perfectly. :-)

[DustMolecule]

12. W. Somerset Maugham

Would be interesting....well traveled, good story-teller, - imo, a good observer of humanity.

[dolo amber]

57. I second this one

I adore Maugham...as you said, well traveled, his wit, his experiences...totally worth being in the slammer for an evening.

Good choice. ;) :toast:

[jobycom]

13. Dorothy Parker.

I'd like that very much.

[Richardo]

15. Robert Benchley

Since you took Dorothy... :D

[Don_G]

18. Mark Twain

There was a character!

[Rabrrrrrr]

21. I'd never heard of Twain being a drunkard

was he?

[FarmerOak]

24. Well, neither was Jesus.

We're just spitballing.

[Don_G]

25. I'm Certain He Liked His Nip

And he would be tossed in the clink for speaking his mind nowdays.

[Bertha Venation]

32. i hope we weren't supposed to pick known drunkards

I just think of a drunk tank as a place to get to know someone. :shrug: (And Emma Goldman wasn't a drunkard.)

[HEyHEY]

33. No, not known drunks - just anyone

[Rabrrrrrr]

37. Since you said "drunk tank", I assumed you were looking for drinkers only

Hence my questioning of Twain.

If we're actually allowed to pick anyone, drunkard or teatotaller or somewhere in between, then Twain would be in my top list indeed.

[northzax]

52. and yet you didn't question Jesus?

I don't get it.

[Rabrrrrrr]

62. Didn't even notice it

though he was certainly known to drink wine. :-)

Probably not a drunkard, though.

[thestatusquo]

64. Noah was

I dont know about Twain, but Noah became a big drunk after the flood. I think seeing all of humanity's dead, bloated bodies floating around would lead anyone to drink.

[Rabrrrrrr]

70. Quite true! he was indeed

[jobycom]

23. Who else ALMOST picked Twain? Great choice. nt

[FarmerOak]

28. I wouldn't pick Twain.

What are you going to learn about him drunk that you don't already know?

[Richardo]

44. Twain WAS my first choice, but he was not much of a drinker.

Cigars were his vice. Cheap cigars. Even when he was wealthy. Up to 40 per DAY.

I picked Benchley 'cause I'd want to be in the pokey with someone as toasted as I was. :D

[SaveElmer]

22. Bob Woodward

See if I could get him to spill the beans on Deep Throat

[Bertha Venation]

26. Emma Goldman

I'd fall in love, and she'd start a riot. We'd all escape in the confusion, and I could learn the ways of anarchism & Russian women. ;)

[terrya]

29. Somehow, I don't think I'll be seeing the name "George W. Bush"

on here. Is there anyone who likes to listen to him while he's SOBER?? :-)

[FarmerOak]

30. He's SOBER?

We're in bigger trouble than I thought.

[Richardo]

51. Bwahahahahaha!

Good one, FarmerOak :D

[HEyHEY]

31. Look at it this way, in the tank....

He may get his ass kicked

[meatloaf]

34. How about a group...

Walt Whitman, Thomas Jefferson, Mahatma Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, Joshua Lawerence Chamberlain, Elanore Roosevelt, and this Jesus fella if he actually existed should round things out for an interesting conversation.

[FarmerOak]

36. Eleanor would have every single cigarette within 15 minutes.

eom

[meatloaf]

41. Fine by me. I hate cigarettes, I have a diminished lung capacity anyways.

[FarmerOak]

45. Yes, but with all the cigarettes, she gets to run the cell.

That's the way it works. Eleanor would mop the floor with them guys.

[meatloaf]

48. Also fine by me. Imagine a cell witha woman's touch,

especially hers?

ROFL

[TN al]

39. F. Scott Fitzgerald...

...I would rather have a man of letters in there because he would be eloquent and Fitzgerald would be used to being drunk so it would probably not hinder him too much.

[jobycom]

42. Same thoughts with me and Dorothy Parker

Well, with one or two extra thoughts thrown in.

[MikeG]

40. Mae West

[MisterP]

84. we can ask her what the Ediacaran was like!

[LosinIt]

43. Susan B.

my hero, but she wouldn't have been drunk. A Quaker ya know, and a Temperance Lady.

[Loonman]

46. Tom Waits

Cliche, I know.

[Fenris]

54. I'd like to be stuck betwixt Tom Waits and Shane MacGowan, myself.

Although Shane's stench would be overpowering at that distance.

[LibertyLover]

47. Drunk tank encounters

If I could speak the language rather than just read some of it, I'd pick Nefertiti to find out all the details of the Amarna period, like was she really Smenkhare, who were Tutankhamon's parents and did Meketaten really die in childbirth. Otherwise Elizabeth I. She knew how to party.

There is a book by Wilhelm Hendrick van Loon, called Van Loon's Lives, that does something like this. For a year, Van Loon is given the ability to invite guests from history to his home for dinner. Each chapter is a different dinner. He goes into the details of the menu and the wines he's serving, which are interesting. If I recall correctly, at one of the dinners he invites Napoleon and his own great grandfather who was a veteran of the Grand Armee. It's been years since I read it. I believe that the copyright is pre-World War II. I'll have to see if my mom's copy is still around.

[Merrick]

49. Dostoevsky

[7th_Sephiroth]

50. Miyamoto Musashi

actually i'd rather be his student

[solinvictus]

66. Musashi

I'm actually reading "Book of Five Rings" right now. Fascinating man, on the level of Sun Tzu.

[7th_Sephiroth]

82. a verry skilled

atrist as well, an artist, teacher, swordsman, and i bet going out drinking with him would be an experience

[blindpig]

53. not fair

T.E. Lawrence would have been my 1st choice too. Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of my all time favorite reads and super background for understanding the ME.
H.L. Mencken would be a very lively conversation. And he would be drunk too.

[0007]

55. Mark Twain

[Tom_Foolery]

56. Errol Flynn n/t

[curse10]

58. John Adams

that dude would be a kick

[Angelus]

59. Edgar Allan Poe or Jesus.

[southpaw]

60. William Faulkner!

I'd finally find out if he just forgot that Quentin Compson killed himself at Yale when he sat down to write "A Rose For Emily"

[Atlanticist]

61. The great Dr Johnson

my hero - a self-made man, who was simply the wittiest conversationalist who ever lived. Read an abridged version of Boswells life of Johnson if you get a chance. What a great man. Here's a quote of his about *

"Why Sir, * is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity Sir, it is not in Nature."

In addition, he was a truly honourable man, who fought against slavery and imperialism abroad, and poverty at home. Harold Bloom described him simply "as good as he was great". That's a pretty cool epitaph.

[Kenneth ken]

65. blechhh

I wouldn't like to get thrown in the drunk tank with ANYONE!
(been there, done that, didn't enjoy it.) :)

[democracyindanger]

67. Ben Franklin

A partier, and I'd probably learn something to boot.

[TheMightyFavog]

71. Same here...

I'd love to hear his stories from when he was in France and about his prowess with women.

[DemoTex]

68. Lee Harvey Oswald.

I have some questions.

[Myrina]

69. Alfred Hitchcock

I'm in a very macabre mood at the moment.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

72. Charles Bukowski, Eugene Debs, Woody Guthrie, and Jerry Garcia

would be quite an evening.

[KamaAina]

73. Dylan Thomas

I actually went to the White Horse once or twice in my NYC days, but settled for a couple of microbrew ales, rather than eighteen straight whiskeys...

[DemoTex]

75. 18 whiskeys could kill a man

eh, Dylan?

[Politicub]

76. Emily Dickinson

And most of the other writers/artists folks have listed.

[Politicub]

77. Oh, and Judy Garland

Can you imagine the dish?

[northofdenali]

78. Machiavelli. I also wouldn't mind Jack London.

And Dorothy Parker.

[DS1]

79. John Belushi

[robertpaulsen]

80. Jack Kerouac

I'm sure he'd have a great story to tell. Or three or four.

[Donkeyboy75]

81. Charles Bukowski

I'm not a poetry fan, but I like his work. I'd also like to go out and drink with him.

[NMDemDist2]

83. Samuel Clemens would be a hoot eom

[jpgray]

85. Laozi would be near the top of that list, along with Siddhartha Gautama

Basically all the big guys in religion and philosophy, from Moses on to Philip K Dick. I'd want a good long four hour chat with each of them. :D

[TrogL]

86. Oscar Wilde

I hear he was a bottom.