OT-Dream dinner conversation with five people?
*Alive or dead on an individual basis.
*Assume that there are no communication issues, no language barriers, everybody can understand each other. Confucius could speak with Shakespeare who could speak with a 2017 English speaker living in the Midwest.
*Assume that you are meeting people in their physical and mental primes, be they dead or elderly or disabled. Stephen Hawking is not necessarily wheelchair-bound or beholden to a computer for speech assistance.
*The individuals can discuss their entire history/body of work/life. Albert Einstein could reflect on his entire body of work, with the benefits of hindsight and contemporary wisdom.
*You can establish the tone of discourse-all can be mannered and polite and honest and friendly if you choose, or it can be an argumentative and volatile shitshow.* If there's a certain political figure you think is an imbecile, you could stage an intervention for him with the founding fathers.
Now that the technicalities are laid out...
Which five people throughout history would you like to have dinner with, and why?
Florida.
your 4 sisters. They will all take turns sitting on my lap and we will talk about the first thing that pops up.
1) Me 2) Bon Scott 3) Jimmi Hendrix 4) John Bonham 5) Jim Morroson 6) Sid Vicious. We would skip dinner and go straight to drinking.
I still remember exactly what I was doing when I heard on the radio Kurt Cobain died. Same thing about Randi Rhodes. I don't know if the young people realize how big all of the hair bands of the 80s were. And Nirvana came out of nowhere and totally changed music for about 10 years.
William Shakespeare
Robert E. Lee
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ernest Hemingway
Woody Allen
Some Texans are mingling at a bar when a Oxford graduate walks in. "Howdy, stranger," one Texan says. "Where are you from?"
The Oxford graduate answers, "I come from a place where we do not end our sentences in prepositions."
"Oh, I'm sorry,"replies the Texan. "Where are you from, jackass?"
1. Martin Luther King Jr.
2. Ghandi
3. Abe Lincoln
4. Nietzsche
5. Adam Sandler
...but what the hell.
David Letterman
Larry David
David the Giant Slayer
David Bowie
Dave(id) Chappelle
Nora Ephron, Zach Galifianakis, Louis CK, Blake Edwards, and Eddie Murphy for a weird comedy experiment.
Dinner for five, consumed by one.
Along with the pediatrician who performed your lobotomy.
2. LSAClassOf2000
3. Wolverine Devotee
4. Stephenrjking
5. Magnus
You should definitely pick someone more interesting than me.
1. LongliveBo
2. Magnus
3. Space Coyote
4. Billy Ray Valentine
5. Bodogblog
For medical research purposes only.
Top five:
John Belushi
Abe Lincoln
Bo Schembechler
Jesus
Raquel Welch
Bottom five:
Michael Eric Dyson
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Sean Hannity
Rush Limbaugh
Hitler
Absolutely. Jack the Ripper is a solid one. Getting to the root of Shakespeare's identity would be worthwhile as well. I'd devote a dinner to solving mysteries and clearing up some misconceptions about identity and pseudonyms,
the opportunity is to great to indulge my football obsession. In no particular order.
George S. Patton; Possibly the greatest general in the modern era, although Hap Arnold really make this a tough choice.
Neil Armstrong: The first man to walk on the moon.
Nikola Tesla: Perhaps the most creative mind before technology started to become more science than art.
Edward Teller: The father of the hydrogen bomb.
George Washington: The father of our country, although Ben Franklin made this another tough choice.
The Georges could talk about war, battle, honor and country. Ed and Nik could talk about technologies. Neil and I could listen and from time to time talk about space and how and why we've screwed the pooch for more than four decades. The cocktails would come early, wine with dinner to keep tongues lubricated, then cigars and cognacs far into the night.
Helen of Troy, Nefertiti, Mata Hari, Lucrezia Borgia, and Cleopatra.
- Jennifer Lawrence
- Scarlett Johansson
- Keira Knightley
- Katie Holmes
- Ms. Upton
It is impossible to discern a type from the girls you just listed. From a twiggy British brunette to a ~curvy~ blonde American.
I'd like to hear what he thinks of our modern world and it's technology. and what would come next.
Hell yes. I'd love to hear what the ancient inventors would think about how far things have come. Like, tell the Wright Brothers about spacecraft, or have Marconi/Bell listen to a Steve Jobs presentation about smart phones.
Da Vinci and Elon Musk and Tesla and Archimedes and Ben Franklin, something like that, would be well-rounded.
Fuck Edison. Guy would just talk about himself and start shit with my boy Nikola, though.
Theodore Roosevelt is a good one. Man's man.
I had a couple themes, and people that were assassinated was one. I'd want to sit around with Lincoln and MLK and the like and just listen to them reflect on the outcomes of their movements that they prematurely missed out on.
and something must have shaken up a lot of dust.
Yeah I'd drop someone and put dad on the list.
I'd make it a Civil War dinner party: US Grant and William Sherman for the Union, Robert E. Lee and James Longstreet for the Confederates, and my Dad, who would sit there and tell them all, "Here's what you should have done ..."
Mark Twain, Robin Williams, Groucho Marx, George Carlin, Matt Groenig.
If I went the intellectually stimulating route off the board: Al'Khwarizmi, Galileo, Confucius, Archimedes, Ben Franklin
1. Jesus
2. Bo
3. Harbaugh
4. Kirk Cameron
5. Vince Vaughn
I'd like to have dinner with just WD and 4 different superguides.