OT Discussion for a slow Monday. Who would you spend a day with?

Submitted by theytookourjobs on

Just to pass the time.  So you can spend a day with any one person on earth.  Who would it be and why?  Let me throw in a few rules to eliminate the obvious.  Keep it to 3 options, you do not get to have any form of adult situations with them.  No religous figures, and to keep it interesting, if you choose someone from history, your day would be spent in their era. I'll start;

 

Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock - Would have loved to have been at Woodstock and who better to be there with then one of the greatest musicians ever

Jesse James - Love the old west, and would have loved the outlaw lifestyle

Anybody that was at the Roswell crash site that night - I need to know man

 

 

 

 

WestSider

July 11th, 2016 at 1:05 PM ^

Colonel Corso who was there and was a high ranking military official. He told of saucer craft and deceased extraterrestrial bodies. I would like to have been with him through his observations, and the government's reversal of their initial announcement. Fascinating.

Wolfman

July 11th, 2016 at 2:13 PM ^

My son's first job when he hit L.A. was as an extra in many t.v. movies. One of the reasons was learning the city. The other, of course, is because it was kind of cool. You can catch a glimpse of him in the movie Dodgeball when Stiller is doing an ad for his gym. My son is behind him on the bench press.

But he phoned one night to tell me he had been on stage with Catherine Zeta Jones. I asked if he had a chance to talk to her, all the interesting stuff to which the answers were all no.  I just cut to the chase and asked him what he thought. His answer, "She is phucking HOT!!!"

Yeah, I guess that's a thing you would want to share with the old man. 

Perkis-Size Me

July 11th, 2016 at 2:21 PM ^

To laugh with - Chris Farley. This man was my childhood. 

To learn from - Alexander the Great. Not sure if his success was largely due to himself or his generals, but if he himself wasn't great, he knew how to surround himself with the greatest. 

To know what he/she knows - Whoever runs the show at Area 51. Come on, who can honestly sit there and tell me they don't want to know all the mysterious shit going on over there?

To be inspired by - Winston Churchill. Any man that can take on the Third Reich on his own and push them to a stalemate is someone I want to meet. Even just re-reading his "We shall never surrender" speech gives me the chills. The man had balls to defiantly stand up to who he did, and history will remember him for it forever. That, and considering how often he drank/smoked cigars, he sounds like he'd be a fun guy to sit around the fireplace with a bottle of scotch and just shoot the shit. 

Trobdcso

July 11th, 2016 at 2:33 PM ^

Benedict Arnold - so I could watch his traitor ass hung.

Benjamin Franklin - when he got his ass lit up with lightning.

Slash - St. Louis riot.

Crime Reporter

July 11th, 2016 at 3:33 PM ^

He died when I was in sixth grade. I don't think I ever recovered from it for some reason. 

My younger self. I'd like to find out why I was so angry despite having a loving family. 

Gen. Patton. I like his style. 

ca_prophet

July 11th, 2016 at 4:22 PM ^

To see who really killed the Princes in the Tower. Amelia Earhart and Jimmy Hoffa if I can survive the experience. If I get to change things ... whoof. Maybe with the President, trying to convince him not to commit to fighting a jungle war halfway around the world, with crippling military restrictions, with no defined objective and no end in sight?(1) It's never been clear to me that WWII could be prevented by killing Hitler - there never seems to be a shortage of insane charismatic men who will use the angry and downtrodden and pervert their just grievances into violence and oppression. (WWI for similar reasons - the interlocking web of alliances and grievances was going to explode sooner or later.) It's possible that my visit might be best spent influencing Chairman Mao(!) - that would be quite the trick. What historical inflection points turn on a single person I could influence for the better?

Terrible Ted

July 11th, 2016 at 4:29 PM ^

It would have been fascinating to be part of President Kennedy's cabinet during the Cuban Missle Crisis. Talk about high stakes poker.

Also would have been awesome to be with Seal Team Six the day they got Bin Laden.

I know someone mentioned this already, but being with Bo's crew in 1969 when they crushed Ohio State would have been great. What a week of practice that must have been!

oriental andrew

July 11th, 2016 at 7:43 PM ^

She passed away after several years with Lou Gehrig's disease exactly one month before my daughter, who would have been her first grandchild, was born. 

I'd introduce my girls to their grandmother. She would love them so much.