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  • fginzbur

    Ten Dinner Guests

    After reading a few of these biographies, there are some people in history I have come to truly admire, even feel like I know them . So if I had an opportunity to invite ten people from history to dinner that I have read about they would be:

    George Washington
    W.A. Mozart
    Shakespeare
    Elizabeth I
    Catherine the Great
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Ben Jonson (because at least one person has to call others on their crap)
    Eleanor of Aquitane
    Joseph Brodsky
    Mary Queen of Scots (only because it might be fun to see her in the same room as Elizabeth I).

    Who would you break bread with?
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  • jnance

    jnance 

    I would love to break bread with Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, Benjamin Franklin, Queen Victoria, Edward and Wallace--The Duke of Windsor, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams Bess and Harry Truman--as well as Margaret, , Jimmy and Roslyn Carter. jnance
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  • belljargirl

    belljargirl 

    Audrey Hepburn because I believe that she personified grace, elegance, and kindness throughout her life. All of her movies capture my heart in different ways. She is timeless!
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  • Loweyes

    Loweyes 

    It would be:
    Shakespeare
    Leonardo da Vinci
    Dalai Lama
    Leonora Christine (Danish princess from 17th century)
    Mark Twain
    Elizabeth I
    Jesus (let's presume he actually lived)
    Cary Grant
    Katherine Hepburn (she rocks!)
    Groucho Marx (for the laughs)
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    • Loweyes

      Loweyes 

      Wait - I want to exchange Cary Grant with Socrates! He'd be a fun dinnercompanion - fun and exasperating!
      posted 1 year ago. ( reply )
    • mossflower

      mossflower 

      like your style of dinner party
      posted 1 year ago. ( reply )
    • rainlily

      rainlily 

      Well, I'm going to invite Jesus Christ, because I know He lived.
      posted 2 months ago. ( reply )
  • Yuki

    Yuki 

    Errol Flynn (fun to look at)
    Marco Polo - travel info
    Katherine Hepburn
    Dante
    Van Gogh
    Marie Curie
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  • cleveje

    cleveje 

    anne of cleves (besides being an ancestor, i would like to know what REALLY happend when she met king henry VIII)
    and of course, anne boleyn
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  • mossflower

    mossflower 

    i would like you share a reposte with Elizabeth 1, Shakespeare, Eleanor of Acquitaine, Catherine the Great, Churchill, Charlemagne, offa of Mercia, Canute, Emily Dickinson, chaucer. others would be coleridge and keats virginia woolf and afew others. who would you invite among people still living, top of my list would be seamus heaney.
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    • amberglass

      amberglass 

      The breaking of the bread would be bewteen Shakespeare and Chaucer.

      I would have at my lovely dinner party:

      William and Catherine Blake - due to their strange relationship
      Dorothy Wordsworth (not William)
      Joan Arc
      Virginia Woolf - although she wouldn't eat anything.
      Anne Boleyn - for her firey temper
      Elizabeth 1 -
      John keats - as William wordsworth is not going to be there.


      The list could go on and on, but then i would be too tired to cook for all these people, so i'll just leave it at that. A lot of the Romantic poets have been invited, which looks as though i've done 'an immortal dinner'

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    • amberglass

      amberglass 

      oops, a few late ones that came just in time for port.

      Tennyson and Jane Austen, although i can't see her knocking back the old port.
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  • Campeche

    Campeche 

    I wish I could break bread with Jesus and the twelve apostles. That must have been quite a supper.

    I sound flippant but I'm very serious.
    posted 1 year ago. ( reply )
  • NighEve

    NighEve 

    Martin Luther King, Jr.
    Mahatma Ganhdi
    Isodora Ducan
    The Buddha
    Jesus
    The Prophet Mohamad
    Andre Breton
    Harriet Tubman
    Edna St. Vicent Milay
    Langston Hughes



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  • In Like Flynn

    In Like Flynn 

    Errol Flynn (It wouldn't be a party without the Flynn...)
    Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer (To find out what he was thinking...)
    Alexander the Great (In case the need arises to conquer the known world...)
    Joan of Arc (A saint among sinners...)
    Helen of Troy (The world most stunning "historical" hottie, I can have that right?)
    Jesus (In case we run out of wine...various party tricks etc.)
    Oliver Reed (So we do run out of wine...)
    Ernest Hemingway (In case Olly dies...)
    Leonardo da Vinci (To laugh at Dan Brown and his crazy tales...)
    Ludwig van Beethoven (Background ambience once the festivities have died down...)

    I think it is looking like more of a pub crawl than dinner!
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    • NighEve

      NighEve 

      In Like Flynn,
      I hope I get an invite to your pub crawl! LOL!

      I'd also like to sit down with:
      Mowlana Jalaluddin Rumi and Jimi Hendrix, but probably not at the same party. LOL!
      posted 1 year ago. ( reply )
    • deactivated member 

      Just found this site but had to mention you list a nazi sympathizer, a megalomaniac, make that two, a witch, a boy toy responsible for probably thousands of deaths, Jesus is ok, a great actor a drunk, a suicide, a supposed homosexual, and a deaf person. What does that say about you? (check out my list I just posted and what does it say about me). :-)
      posted 8 months ago. ( reply )
    • In Like Flynn

      In Like Flynn 

      Flynn wasn't a Nazi sympathizer, this allegation is often based on the fact that he didn't fight in WWII, he applied for all branches of the US AND British Armed forces but was rejected on medical grounds! His politics are well documented as "left wing", as he supported the Republican forces in Spain and the Revolutionary forces in Cuba!

      I don't know what it says about me, how you describe the people I have listed, I am inclined to believe tells us much more about you!
      posted 8 months ago. ( reply )
  • saguaro

    saguaro 

    Couldn't we invite three or four of our favorites instead of ten? Otherwise, how could we possibly hope to track the various competing conversations?

    My four preferences would be Mark Twain, James Audubon, Henry Walter Bates and Charles Darwin.
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  • AthenasDaughter

    AthenasDaughter 

    What a great question...I'd have to break my guests down into 1) "Girls Night Out", 2) "Coming Out" and3) "Couples" So, without further ado...

    1) Oprah Winfrey, Eleanor Roosevelt, Maya Angelou, Elizabeth I, Princess Diana

    2) Oscar Wilde, Nathan Lane, Rosie O'Donnell, Ellen DeGeneres, Truman Capote

    3) Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Bill and Hilary Clinton, Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, James and Dolly Madison

    Boy, would I love to plan the menus for these groups!! :D
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  • dickensfan

    dickensfan 

    Only ten? How about:
    Charles Dickens
    Edgar Allan Poe
    Anne of Cleves
    Joan of Arc
    The Roanoke Colonists (come on -- this is imaginary so I can count them as one person!)
    Jack the Ripper
    Emily Bronte
    Abraham Lincoln
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    Lizzie Borden
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    • AthenasDaughter

      AthenasDaughter 

      Just out of curiosity...would you let Jack the Ripper have a dinner knife...?
      posted 1 year ago. ( reply )
    • dickensfan

      dickensfan 

      LOL! I'd probably seat him next to Lizzie Borden.;)
      posted 1 year ago. ( reply )
    • Rowan sees children eager to learn, not colors

      Rowan sees children eager to learn, not colors 

      Now this sounds like more of a pub crawl.
      I would only switch a couple
      Henry VIII - to see who the man hits on
      Elizabeth I - to watch her interact with Henry VIII
      Anne Boeyln - so she can see her daughter in action
      The Donner Party - to see who they would eat first
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  • Rowan sees children eager to learn, not colors

    Rowan sees children eager to learn, not colors 

    Elizabeth I
    Catherine the Great - to be able to yell when someone mentions a horse
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Shakespeare
    Hunter S. Thompson - biting comentary and the drugs
    Jim Morrison - drugs, words and music
    Nietzche - the combinations here would kill each other
    Patton - he was a funny guy who loved sports cars and I need one gear head
    Jack the Ripper - no whores no problem
    John Lennon/George Harrison
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  • MissDaisyAnne

    MissDaisyAnne 

    Love the question and great answers so far,I would invite;
    1. Henry VIII
    2. Sigmund Freud
    3. Anne Boleyn
    4. Shakespeare
    5. Queen Elizabeth I
    6. Einstein
    7. Jane Austen
    8. John Adams
    9. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    10. Johann Sabastian Bach
    This is also how they would be seated, notice who is sitting between Henry and Anne, the father of pshycoanalysis.
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    • LonesomeGods

      LonesomeGods 

      My first post initially had 11 guests. So, after thinking about this question, I realized that most of the biographies I have read are about people from the 20th century (except for my last 2 dinner guests).

      Harpo Marx, Robert Kennedy, Louis L'Amour, Ernie Pyle, Ingrid Bergman, Che Guevara, James Cagney, Roberto Clemente, Alexander Hamilton & Aaron Burr
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    • PurpleZebra

      PurpleZebra 

      Well i am only just getting into this genre, but couldn't help notice, with amusement that not one of you has included such people as Jordan, or Jade Goody, or Chantel, or other similar 'celebs'. (Sorry, these are UK examples, but I am sure there are plenty others from all over the globe!).
      Now I wonder why that might be? Could be there wouldn't be much dinner conversation perhaps?

      This is such a difficult list to compile.
      Chaucer...he would be very funny after a drink or two.
      Coleridge,
      Elizabeth Gaskell
      Mary Seacole
      Brunel
      Martin Luther
      Martin Luther King
      Maya Anjelou
      Whoopi Goldburg
      Germain Greer
      Charles Dickens and
      Michael Wood (historian/presenter)

      Thats a reasonable mix, although I haven't got any medics. I wouldn't seat them as listed either. I would have Mozart and shostakovich as standbys along with Terry Pratchett...just in case folks couldn't make it, and who cares If the table has to be extended!

      Good thread!
      posted 1 year ago. ( reply )
  • deactivated member 

    Hmm...

    1. Empress Elizabeth of Austria
    2. Vincent van Gogh
    3. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
    4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    5. William Shakespeare
    6. Audrey Hepburn
    7. Dalai Lama
    8. Cary Grant
    9. Grace Kelly
    10. Martin Luther King Jr.

    Of course, there are many others but at the moment those would be first choices.
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    • MissDaisyAnne

      MissDaisyAnne 

      very good picks for dinner guests, I think Shakespeare would like sitting next to Ms Hepburn.
      posted 1 year ago. ( reply )
    • deactivated member 

      MissDaisyAnne

      I wasn't really thinking the places where they would sit but now that you said it it looks good. Also Vincent and Henri were good friends so they should sit side by side.
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  • gracij

    gracij 

    What a fun question!
    Mark Twain
    Elizabeth I
    Benjamin Franklin
    Eleanor of Acquitaine
    Joshua Chamberlain
    Emily Dickenson
    Shakespeare
    Anne Boylyn
    Abraham Lincoln
    Dolly Madison
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  • Elfphan7

    Elfphan7 

    Eleanor of Aquitaine
    Alexander the Great
    Elizabeth I
    Catherine the Great
    Jane Austen
    William Shakespeare
    Mary Shelley
    Anton Chechov
    Queen Victoria
    Edward VI

    Hmm, this seems interesting...would be fun to watch Anton flirt with Mary though....and it would also be interesting to see if Edward will fight with his sister Elizabeth over the salt.....
    (I couldn't help myself - had to make another group)

    Marie Corelli (Victorian literature author)
    Mrs Henry Wood (another victorian literature author)
    Theodore Roosevelt
    Errol Flynn
    Mark Twain
    Leonardo da Vinci
    Dante
    Chaucer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Eleanor Roosevelt
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    • Elfphan7

      Elfphan7 

      i would also add Benjamin Franklin....although i don't know to which party....maybe the first one....
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    • rubink1

      rubink1 

      Yes, adding Ben Franklin is a good idea. He would surely be on my list. DGC
      posted 1 year ago. ( reply )
  • deactivated member 

    Jim Morrison (on drugs for coverstion purposes)
    Andy Warhol
    Goya (after he went deaf so everybody better learn to sign)
    Frida Khalo
    Bob Ross (W/ afro)
    Marie Laveau
    Jesus
    St Dyphna
    Anne Frank
    Jimi Hendrix

    Wouldn't that be a great party!
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  • Maggie

    Maggie 

    oh my! the thought is so exciting i wish it could happen. my top three would definitely be...
    1) Christ
    2) Joseph Smith
    3) Brigham Young
    because i just have so many questions for them, so many things i'd like to clear up one on one. followed by the people i'd like to just sit back and listen to speak because i simply admire them...
    4) Thomas Jefferson
    5) Victor Hugo
    6) Elizabeth I
    7) Shakespeare
    8) JRR Tolkien
    and then the last two are for the laughs...
    9) John Cleese
    10) Eric Idle

    that was so rough!
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  • Karen

    Karen 

    Fginzbur,
    I'm following your rule of only inviting 10 guests, but I've decided to invite them in three different groups so that I can listen better. Plus, I have grouped them so that, hopefully, the kind of conversing that I might want to develop will. (The only bad thing about this arrangement is that I'll have to clean house three times! I hate cleaning house. In real life, I invite friends over to enjoy their company but also to force myself to clean!)

    My 1st Dinner Guests
    Oprah
    Lady Diana
    Audrey Hepburn
    I would love to hear their views on how women are treated, what should change and how. Then, I'd like the converstation to change to humanitarian efforts with an emphasis on how a person with little money and/or influence can most help humankind.

    My 2nd Dinner Guests
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Martin Luther King, Jr.
    Jesus
    Nelson Mandella
    Adolph Hitler
    I would like to hear how these men would handle dealing with Hitler's ideas and what reactions he would have.

    My 3rd Dinner Guests
    Benjamin Franklin
    Albert Einstein
    I would sit back and let them talk about inventions, science, etc. I would gently interrupt when I would need something explained.

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    • Elfphan7

      Elfphan7 

      for the second party.....um, wouldn't Hitler just kill all of them again? I mean, they're all pacifists, and i'm sure that Hitler would be armed....and for all intents and purposes i think we know what their reactions would be.....
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    • MissDaisyAnne

      MissDaisyAnne 

      I don't think Hitler would have RSVP, he would not like others taking away from his ability to control the conversation.
      posted 1 year ago. ( reply )
    • Sue L

      Sue L 

      Okay, this is fantasy, right, so along with that I have enough money to either have a chef and a maid OR I can rent out a restaurant and not worry about cooking or cleaning.

      My list: Thomas Jefferson, Abigail Adams, Bernard Bailyn, Sam Adams, Sir Francis Drake, Magellan, Columbus, Samuel Eliot Morrison, Tecumseh, Daniel Boone.
      posted 8 months ago. ( reply )
  • deactivated member 

    I don't want to admire anyone or discuss philosophy. I want to find out "the rest of the stories". History is always written by the winner. I want to hear out the losers.

    Any person who died of the Black Plague in England.
    Anyone who stormed the Bastile
    Any witch tortured and burned at the stake
    Judas Iscariat
    Robert Ripley
    King Charles I of England
    Anyone in America during the revolutionary war who supported the british
    Sitting Bull, Rain in the Face, Geronomo or anyone in charge of immigration for the indian during the 1400-1900s
    Any promenent slave owner
    Any angel or heavenly personage not mentioned in any book or other writing
    Charles Forte
    Any common dead person not mentioned above.
    Arterus Rex
    Edgar Allen Poe
    Mr Ed (just kidding)
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    • fginzbur

      fginzbur 

      Ok, so to comment on the fact that I didn't comment on your list earlier... First, you've listed more than ten, even without Mr. Ed. But I do like your approach to talk about the so called "losers" of history, and by talking to people who are faceless and nameless too. Going by that here would be my list:

      1. Someone who died in the blast of Mt. Vesuvius in Pompeii.
      2. A colonist of Roanoke Island where all the people disappeared to tell us what the heck happened!
      3. Girolamo Savonarola - because of his famous bonfire of the vanities and what exactly was he thinking???
      4. Anna Akhmatova - the russian poet
      5. Gustave Klimt - so someone can commemorate the evening with a portrait of all the diners.
      6. Henry VIII's chef - to make the dinner and because I've heard that the meals were extravagant and even had a theatrical quality.
      7. One of the boy actors in Shakespeare's troupe who had to play all the female parts.
      8. Pope Leo X's Muslim executioner - I want to know why he agreed to do the job.
      9. Candace of Meroe - Queen of Nubia who met Alexander the Great in battle on top of an elephant.
      10. Hatshepsut- and what she thought of her nephew trying to erase her name from history.
      posted 8 months ago. ( reply )
    • SouthWestZippy

      SouthWestZippy 

      Very Interesting list Larry
      Crazy Horse would be another one for you list, IMHO.
      posted 6 months ago. ( reply )
  • deactivated member 

    After reviewing all these lists, I have come to the conclusion that I wouldn't enjoy any one of them. In most of them I would probably be outcast and ignored.
    posted 8 months ago. ( reply )
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    • fginzbur

      fginzbur 

      Well, the question was who would YOU invite, not whether or not you like what others have listed. Secondly, as the host it would be very difficult for you to be ignored. Thirdly, most people listed here are dead and have been for centuries so why not use a bit of imagination and envision that its not only possible for Shakespeare and Einstein to be in the same room together but that you might actually have a good time. Not too hard I would think!
      posted 8 months ago. ( reply )
  • deactivated member 

    Hi Fginzbur,
    Don't know how to post an answer to your answer so I'll do it this way:

    1. I didn't say I liked or disliked whomever you invited or your lists. Everyone makes their own choices. I just made a statement.

    2. Most of these people listed I have read, discussed, researched etc. I have a dozen copies of Shakespeare, a half-dozen biographies, and have read multitudes of articles etc. The only thing Will might answer for me is "You or Bacon or Who?" You might say I have some admiration for most of them, though.

    I apologize for assuming I could say anything I wanted at this post as long as it matches the subject. I only hoped to sponsor some thought and comment rather than just a sterile list..

    3rd. Why would it be difficult to ignore the host? I've seen heads of state ignored, dying people ignored, very intellegent and concerned people ignored, squalid, poverty-stricken peons ignored. What makes a host special?

    4th. I had no problem imagining all these in the same room together. Can you imagine the seating arrangement.

    And I am having fun. May even have gotten a little rise out of you :-).

    5. I think most of mine are dead, too. Manners might have been a little rougher but I'm sure the conversation would have been just as interesting.

    4th. OK, 6th. Just checking. You only made mention of my approach to the question and the board, you haven't said a thing about my choices. I can read what Catherine or Vince or Ben said, who wrote for my poor dogs? Wouldn't you like to know how they felt about their world? I had thought you would have had fun with that. I'm having fun.

    By the way, I'd love to see 'Liz and Mary in the same room. That should be a whole even's entertainment.
    posted 8 months ago. ( reply )
  • islandhopper

    islandhopper 

    I have not read the biographies of some of these people in my dinner guest list, and that is good because meeting will give me an even better way of getting to know them. I do imagine though, that we won't spend the whole evening talking, though that would make for some heavy discussions. I'd like to imagine us playing Pictionary or some inane game just to see them relaxed, how they could have been when they were alive and they weren't being "famous." Here's the list in no particular order:
    1) CS Lewis
    2) John F. Kennedy, Jr.
    3) Jesus
    4) the Apostle Paul
    5) Mother Teresa
    6) Jean Michel-Basquiat
    7) Kurt Cobain
    8) Leonardo Da Vinci
    9) Marco Polo
    10) Ansel Adams

    Looks like my invite list reflect my interests: travel, photography, art, music, journaling, and my faith. Well, except for JFK. I just want to know about what he was thinking and what was happening in his last few minutes in the plane.
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    • fginzbur

      fginzbur 

      I like your addition of a board game like Pictionary. May I also suggest Clue or how about Twister? I think Jesus would have to exempt himself though since having supernatural powers really gives him an unfair advantage.
      posted 6 months ago. ( reply )
    • Kate MacDonald

      Kate MacDonald 

      Leonardo Da Vinci and Ansel Adams would have a significant advantage in Pictionary.
      posted 6 months ago. ( reply )
    • islandhopper

      islandhopper 

      Twister would be fun! Just imagining Jesus (who will be politely asked not to use his powers in the game) entangled with Leonardo and JFK Jr. is making me laugh. And cringe a little bit.

      KateMD, I would hope Leo would be in my Pictionary team.
      posted 6 months ago. ( reply )
  • Bennnc63

    Bennnc63 (edited)

    Great Thought: How about opposites,

    Adams / Jefferson
    Elizabeth II / Princess Diana / or Elizabeth I
    Michael Angelo / DaVinchi
    The Duke of Wellington / Napoleon
    Churchill / Stalin
    posted 6 months ago. ( reply )
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    • Bennnc63

      Bennnc63 

      I might would switch a pair to Adam and Eve. Would it not be great to know if it was the apple or if Eve was just that hot :)
      posted 6 months ago. ( reply )
    • Bennnc63

      Bennnc63 

      Come on now, I can not believe that there are no ladies that would like to hear Eve's side of the story :)
      posted 4 months ago. ( reply )
  • SouthWestZippy

    SouthWestZippy (edited)

    I have two list. One party :0)
    Have past on.
    Rasputin
    Joan of Arc
    Sacajawea
    Edger Allan Poe
    Billy The Kid
    WolfMan Jack
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Abe Lincoln
    Annie Oakley
    Elizabeth I

    Living
    Gene Simmons
    Trace Adkins
    Gordon Ramsay
    Anderson Cooper
    Ellen DeGeneres
    Bette Midler
    Whoopi Goldburg
    Barbra Bush
    Bill Richardson
    Simon Cowell
    Ok lets get this party started :0)
    posted 6 months ago. ( reply )
  • Adian M

    Adian M 

    I had so many people pop into my head that it was hard to narrow the guest list down!

    Elizabeth I
    Anne Boleyn
    Eleanor of Aquitane
    Jane Austen
    Cleopatra
    Hatshepsut
    Dean Martin
    Winston Churchill
    Leonardo da Vinci
    Christopher Marlowe

    These are all people who no matter how many books I've read on them still mystify me in some way.
    posted 6 months ago. ( reply )
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    • SouthWestZippy

      SouthWestZippy 

      AH MAN! I did not even think of Cleopatra, would it be ok if she slip over to my dinner just far a little while.
      posted 6 months ago. ( reply )
    • Adian M

      Adian M 

      Only if I can borrow Van Gogh for a while!
      posted 6 months ago. ( reply )
    • SouthWestZippy

      SouthWestZippy 

      You got a Deal Adian! LOL
      posted 6 months ago. ( reply )
  • deactivated member 

    Hmm...very hard to limit it to ten, but here are ten off the top of my head:
    Thomas Jefferson - to see if he really was such a great conversationalist.
    Abraham Lincoln - how could you not want to?
    Bruce Springsteen - duh
    Sandy Koufax - one of the most decent people to ever play the game.
    Adolf Hitler - creepy, I know, but it would be fascinating.
    Jesus of Nazareth - to see what he really was: social revolutionary? religious radical? messiah?
    George B. McClellan - to taunt him for being an incompetent choker on the battlefield and an arrogant sob in general.
    Steve Jobs - I'll buy dinner if he'll give me an iPhone.
    Catherine the Great - when she was young, to see what all the fuss was about.
    Robert F. Kennedy - the last, best hope.

    posted 6 months ago. ( reply )
  • Fran

    Fran 

    Here's my ten:
    1. Jesus
    2. Mozart
    3. Abraham Lincoln
    4. John F. Kennedy
    5. Jackie Kennedy
    6. Elizabeth I
    7. Princess Diana
    8. FDR
    9. Ghandi
    10 Pablo Picasso
    posted 6 months ago. ( reply )
  • Rowan sees children eager to learn, not colors

    Rowan sees children eager to learn, not colors 

    After a year, may I change my mind? Growing in ways of thinking is always good.
    1. Peter O'Toole
    2.John Lennon and maybe George Harrison if he promises not to mess with any wives
    3. Al Capone - he would know where to find a good Cannoli in Iowa
    4. Hunter S. - I miss is wit
    5. Thomas Jefferson
    6. Janis Joplin - Oh lord won't you buy me a mercedes benz - I have a BMW ;)
    7. Dannica Patrick - I love that a woman does so well. She is a hero to me
    8. Stalin - to ask him why? Why he drove us from Russia to East Germany
    9. Mikhail Bulgakov - so many questions about the book
    10. Tsar Nicholas and his family - this is another why they can only stay for dessert

    Coffee - I would invite Elizabeth and Mary Queen of Scots - damn good fight
    The Donner party as well - tell them to please eat prior to coming and planning on Dessert with us
    I would also have all the pets I have lost over the 30 years of having pets - cats lots of cats, a couple Columbian Boa Constricters, Green Tree Snake etc and the mice and rats to feed them all - Cricket the cat that was my best buddy for 15 years

    Does that make a crazy dinner party or what?
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    • Bennnc63

      Bennnc63 

      Wild , wicked, and veeeerrrrry intresting!
      posted 3 months ago. ( reply )
  • rainlily

    rainlily 

    Jesus Christ
    Marie Antoinette
    Rosa Parks
    Cleopatra
    Queen Elizabeth I
    Charlotte Bronte
    Marilyn Monroe
    Bette Davis
    posted 2 months ago. ( reply )
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