Your dream dinner guest...

[elfwitch]

If you could have dinner with ANYONE in history, who would you like to break bread with?

Some of the people on my list: Jon Stewart, Mel Brooks, Chuck Jones, Eddie Izzard, Ellen DeGeneres, Lenny Bruce, Gilda Radner, Sid Ceasar, Jack Kirby, Gil Kane, Stephen Colbert, Bill Clinton, Greg Behrendt, Dave Chappelle, Albert Einstein, Neil Postman, Douglas Adams, Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Stoppard, Neil Simon, William Shakespeare

[piece sine]

1. Joni Mitchell

she's just gotta be be a fascinating dinner guest.

[7th_Sephiroth]

29. Clinton

cause after we could enjot a big fattie and watch MST3k

[La_Serpiente]

2. I would want to meet with

Mohammed simply to understand what he would want for his people.

[wryter2000]

3. Bill Clinton

But I'd want to get a few beers in him so I could hear the real stories.

[GOPisEvil]

4. Hmmm...interesting thoughts...

Deceased - Albert Einstein
Living - Janeane Garofalo (smart, sexy and liberal - grrwoof!)

[underpants]

5. Hank Aaron, Jimmy Carter, Abe Lincoln, Jefferson, and Ghandi

Off the top of my head.

[Catfish]

15. Yes to Hank Aaron

and Babe Ruth and Ring Lardner and Bill Veeck (sp?) and Jackie Robinson and Satchell Paige.

[TrogL]

6. Noam Chomsky or John Maynard Keynes

(learn how to paste)

[Brucey]

7. Richard Feynman,

Franz Kafka, Neils Bohr, B. F. Skinner, Michael Moore, Kurt Vonnegut, Sylvia Plath, Joseph Heller, and most of all, Ludwig Wittgenstein.

[Wolfman 11]

23. I'd say Heller too

probably wouldn't need silverware. He was a notoriously slovenly eater from what I hear. I'd take him to get bbq ribs or something. Also on my list would be Cormac McCarthy, Heinrich Boll, Jim Morrisson, JFK, and Shannon Hoon. For dessert I would like to have Sheryl Crow.

[Whitacre D_WI]

31. Good call on Wittgenstein and Kafka.

My list would also include:

-James Beard, to cook for me and my guests.
-Yoko Ono, to create wonderful centerpieces and just because she's way cool.
-Jesus of Nazareth, to settle a few debates. Plus, according to King Missile, he was also way cool.
-Charles Michael Kitteridge Thompson IV, because he sings my favorite songs.
-Maude Gonne -- anyone who could wreck Yeats' life for so many years must be something special.
-Sylvester Stewart can sing like a mofo...
-...and Trane can play along.
-Joss Whedon, because I really like "Buffy."
-Eliza Dushku -- Ibid. Also, she's very pretty.
-Serge Gainsbourg, to hit on Eliza.
-Socrates can mix drinks.
-Dorothy Parker, because a dinner party is not a dinner party without Dorothy Parker.
-Tenskwatawa, for prophecy.
-David Lynch -- he could help Yoko with the centerpiece.
-Abraham Lincoln, so I could show him what the Republican party has become.
-Lady Godiva, as every real party needs a little nudity.
-Salvador Dali, to preserve the evening for posterity.
-Skip James. 'nuff said.

[Brucey]

44. Great choices!

I forgot to include on my list: John Lennon, Salvador Dali, David Lynch, Dorothy Parker, Picasso, and for comedic relief, George Carlin and Steven Wright.

[wysimdnwyg]

8. Hmmm

Living: the Dalai Lama
Deceased: Ghandi

[DuctapeFatwa]

9. Can't pick just one, here's my dream dinner PART-TAY!

Andy Kaufman, Gandhiji, Emiliano Zapata, Louisa May Alcott, The Prophet Mohammed, Lillian Gish, Nelson Mandela, Sun Tzu, Abraham, Patrice Lumumba, John Lennon, Albert Einstein, Mozart, St Teresa de Avila, Edgar Allan Poe, Ram Chandra, Janis Joplin, Chief Seattle, Arundhati Roy, Voltaire, Jesus, Chris Farley, Giuseppe Verdi, Uri Avnery, Luisa Tetrazzini, Che Guevara, Sojourner Truth, Li Po

[BigMcLargehuge]

10. Roger Ebert, Will Pitt, Jello Biafra, Stan Lee, Nicole Kidman... and

Cyndi Lauper, Dennis Kucinich, Al Sharpton, Howard Dean, John Edwards (the candidate not the confidence trickster), Carol Mosely Braun, Yassir Arafat, Queen Noor, Kamel Attaturk, Ghengis Khan (flatware not required), Miamoto Musashi, Akira Kurosawa, Toshiro Mifune, Ishiro Honda, that chick who played Miss Namikawa in Godzilla vs. Monster Zero, William Shatner, George Takei, Robert Heinlein

on edit, shamelessly added Will Pitt to the subject line.

[WilliamPitt]

20. As long as it is a big mclargehuge dinner

I'm in. :)

[BigMcLargehuge]

21. I never cook small

even my omelletes need ten dozen eggs!

[hel]

48. It's Kemal Ataturk

not "Kamel".. Sorry, couldn't keep myself from correcting! :D

[felonious thunk]

11. John Belushi

If it's dinner, I want to have some fun. Lots of others I'd like to have a talk with, but I'd think a night out with John Belushi would just about the most fun you could have.

[grannylib]

12. Katharine Hepburn, Sojourner Truth, Jimmy Carter, Noam Chomsky

Mary, Mary Magdalene, Anne Frank, Steve Earle

[Sinistrous]

13. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

After their rapprochement, of course. What an amazing conversation they would have.

[Catfish]

14. First people I think of :

John Maynard Keynes, Iris Murdoch, FDR, Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Hubert Humphrey, Huey Long, Sinclair Lewis, Lillian Hellman, Dashiell Hammett, Agatha Christie, Bill Clinton, Paul Krugman, Gene Lyons, James Carville, Etta James, my Grandmother.

[stanwyck]

38. I want Etta to sing at my funereal

I want her to sing "At Last". Followed by Louis Armstrong's "What A Wonderful World" and John Lennon's "Imagine".

[Catfish]

45. At last

is one of my favorites. I think she'd be quite interesting to talk with.

[Catfish]

46. Jonathan Winters for some laughs n/t

[4_Legs_Good]

16. Jimmy Carter

or maybe Peter Gabriel...

david

[YellowRubberDuckie]

17. JFK

If I could pick that man's brain, that would be the ultimate.
Duckie

[mndemocrat_29]

18. My Ten Dinner Guests

1. Katharine Hepburn
2. Emily Bronte
3. Queen Elizabeth I
4. J. K. Rowling (my apologies, but I am a huge HP fan)
5. Edith Wilson
6. Christopher Wren
7. Charles Dickens
8. Robert E. Lee
9. Walt Disney
10. James Madison

[grannylib]

19. Excellent list - I love HP as well!

[marzipanni]

22. I've often thought Robin Williams, but on 2nd thought...

my stomach muscles would be in spasm, and someone nearby would have to know the Heimlich maneuver because I'd probably be gasping food into my trachea laughing so hard!
I'd go for a walk with him somewhere where he could make social commentary and interact with lots of people.

[Snow]

24. Lao-Tzu - the 'old man'

somewhere there's a story of his encounter with Confucius, and it's pretty funny.

[sweetheart]

25. the last supper

My 12 guests:

1. Lao Tzu - enlightened chinese guru of long ago
2. Ramana Maharshi - jnana yoga guru of south india
3. Jesus of Nazareth - christ
4. Gautama Siddhartha - buddha
5. Ramakrishna of 1850's calcutta - holy guru brahmin in india
6. Adida / franklin jones - living enlightened guru
7. Rama / Frederick P. Lenz - root guru of american tantra
8. Bodhidharma - founder of japanese zen
9. HWL poonjaji - recent enlightened guru in north india
10. Lahiri Mahasaya (heavyweight guru of north india 100 years ago)
11. Padma Sambhava (guru rimpoche -founder of tibetan buddhism)
12. Yeshe Tsogyal - divine female guru of tibet

A golden table were i am not worthy to sit, but that was the question was it not. I don't know if we'd say anything at dinner. I would surely be so profoundly moved by the company, likely i would be in ecstatic tears... and likely laughing joyously at the jokes.

Buddha: "christ comes to a hotel, gives the caretaker 3 nails and says: 'can you put me up for the night'"

The jokes would be killer given the audience. :-)

[Drifter]

26. Frank Zappa ...

Well, you know, if he was alive. I don't think he would be very entertaining after being dead for nearly 10 years.

Cheers
Drifter

"Stupidity has a certain charm ... Ignorance does not" - Frank Zappa

[DS1]

27. Careena Collins

oh. yeah.

[kyrasdad]

28. hmmmm...

Alive:

Bill and Hill (of course)
Ann Richards
Celine Dion
Maxine Waters
Al Franken
Paul Begala
Joe Lockhart
Kathy Bates
Al Sharpton
Bob Novak (no boos... I have my reasons)

Dead:

My Father (just once more)
Jesus (to get the real scoop)
MLK
FDR
Ben Franklin

[Kolesar]

30. Dennis Kucinich

I could learn so much from him--did you know he was an energy consultant during his hiatus from politics?

[SOteric]

32. William Butler Yeats. I could make him forget Maude Gonne,

I just know I could.

[mac56]

33. Thomas Jefferson, Franklin Roosevelt, or Lyndon Johnson.

I'd really enjoy their insights.

[TEXASYANKEE]

34. Joseph Campbell

Al and/or Tipper
David Duval
Anne Rice
Will Pitt
David Sibley

[4323Lopez]

35. Jack Black

He'd be funny, milk would come out my nostils. In imaginary time, it'd be Frida Kahlo.

[Leftist78]

36. I got a few

Emma Goldman, Mother Jones, Eugene Debs, Big Bill Haywood, Howard Zinn, FDR, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, MLK, Ghandi, Henry David Thoreau, JD Salenger, Bob Dylan, Jay Farrar, Neil Young, Page Hamilton, Rivers Cuomo, Che Guevara, Michael Moore, Crazy Horse, Leonard Peltier, Malcolm X, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Tom Morello, Albert Einstein, Muddy Waters, Warren Haynes, Stephen Hawking, Frederick Nietzsche, Lao Tzu

These are a few. There would be many many more if I could have anybody

[WindRavenX]

37. Derek Jeter, Bill/Hillary Clinton, Lance Armstrong, Jon Stewart

And maybe John Kerry, just for good measure :)

[dolo amber]

39. Douglas Adams

All of Monty Python, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, Steve Coogan (would have to come as Alan Partridge, however!), Chris Morris...Jon Stewart, Richard Pryor, Bill Hicks, Bob Newhart. I don't think I could laugh any more than that. :)

[ChemEng]

40. Winston Churchill & FDR (n/t)

[toddzilla]

41. bush or cheney

they wouldn't be allowed to leave until they were quivering, whining, crying piles of humanity who had seen the light. Indefensible positions are no match for facts and compassion.

[populistmom]

42. Tim Robbins

Again, it's Tim Robbins tonight, but he's my perfect guy (for the past 15 years I've had this crush, since Bull Durham)- smart, liberal, 40ish, graying, tall, sexy. We could converse and then utilize the table for other purposes (note: I didn't say what those purposes are, so it's not necessarily about anything it shouldn't be ;) )

[tjdee]

43. Bono...Jon Stewart...Alby Gore...Edge/Larry/Adam....Adrien....Cillian...

Would there be any women at this dinner?

Hmm!

I am sure I like some famous women....hmmm....Whoopi Goldberg, Julia Roberts...Oprah maybe...oh, and Tipper Gore as well...the Edwardses too...eh, that's off the top of my head.

But if I had one person to pick, it'd be Bono Vox, for sure.

[Spider Jerusalem]

47. William S. Burroughs, Aleister Crowley, James Joyce...

Richard Feynman, Thomas Pynchon, Vonnegut, Isaac Newton, the Marquis de Sade, Wilhelm Reich, Thomas Jefferson, to name a few...

[guitar man]

49. Joe Walsh

.

[grasswire]

50. good topic

Dead

Harriet Beecher Stowe
Samuel Clemens
Sir Arthur Sullivan
John Philip Sousa
Duke Ellington
Louis Armstrong
William Lloyd Garrison
Eleanor Roosevelt
Lily Langtree
Ella Fitzgerald
Joseph Lamb
Paul Wellstone

Live

Lewis Lapham
Cornel West
Bill Cosby
William Arkin
Andrea Koppel
Garrison Keillor
Alec Baldwin
Martin Sheen

[elfwitch]

51. kick

n/t

[shanti]

52. whoopie goldberg

dinner with her would be such a hoot!

[BlueJazz]

53. Paul Desmond

[corarose]

54. William the Bruce

Freedom!

[Dr Fate]

55. You like "King Kirby" too- neat-o. I'll pick Alan Moore

Kirby-What a genius- psychedelic w/o the acid!!!


Moore- psychedelic with it!!! I'd love to have some bangers & mash and a pint with him...