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12 Dec 03 - 12:11 AM (#1070739) Subject: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: nosluap57 A newspaper I used to read had a section in it's Sunday edition where a local celebrity was interviewed. One of the stndard questions asked was "What five guests would you invite to your fantasy dinner party?" My five are: 1. Brian Boru 2. Winston Churchill 3. A person brought to America as a slave in the late 1700's 4. Jesus Christ 5. Marco Polo |
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12 Dec 03 - 12:20 AM (#1070741) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: Little Hawk Jesus Christ Lao-Tse White Buffalo Calf Woman (the female Christ figure of the Plains Indians, she founded their nation, so it's said) Crazy Horse Mary Magdalene And believe me, it wasn't easy narrowing it down to those five...I'd also like to see Buddha and Krishna there. This is assuming they all had a chance to sort of get introduced properly to each other. - LH |
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12 Dec 03 - 12:52 AM (#1070752) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: mack/misophist Steve Allen (the American one) once had a program called Meeting of the Minds that asked and answered this question every week. If they brought it back, I'd buy a television to watch it. Since I like Japanese history, here's a Japanese set: Bodhidharma Admiral Sun - the Korean who commanded the fleet destroyed by the 'Divine Wind'. (I think that's the right name) Abbot Nichiren Tokugawa Ieyasu The man who founded the Black Dragon Society in the early 1930's. And I'd really like to have Emperor Meiji there, too; and maybe Oda Nobunaga. |
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12 Dec 03 - 12:54 AM (#1070755) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: Mickey191 Pope Pius - Simon Weisenthal - Madelyn Murray O'Hare- Oscar Wilde & Jesus |
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12 Dec 03 - 01:05 AM (#1070762) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: Mickey191 Then on Tuesday--Pot Luck supper with Steve Allen, Oscar Levant, Alexander King, Ulick O'Connor, Dick Cavett, and me in a corner-just listening. |
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12 Dec 03 - 01:52 AM (#1070770) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: Peter Kasin Marcel Marceau Buster Keaton Helen Keller Harpo Marx Alfred E. Neuman *BG* |
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12 Dec 03 - 04:25 AM (#1070798) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: Roger the Skiffler Leadbelly Fred McDowell Robert Johnson Bessie Smith Bukka White I might not understand much of the conversation but , hell, the after-dinner sing-song would be something else. Plus I could ask all those questions they left unanswered! "Tell me, Robert, how did you get to be so damn good on guitar so quickly...) RtS |
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12 Dec 03 - 05:04 AM (#1070828) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: Trevor Chris Bonnington Siddartha Eddie Izard Vianne Rocher (as long as she looked like Juliette Binoche) My friend, neighbour and hero, Harold Longstaff |
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12 Dec 03 - 05:27 AM (#1070833) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: GUEST Roger the Skiffler, please please please invite me to your dinner party. I'd bring Skip James along. |
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12 Dec 03 - 05:28 AM (#1070834) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: Partridge Kenneth Williams Joni Mitchell Shrek Benny Hill Dave Burland Pat x |
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12 Dec 03 - 05:29 AM (#1070835) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: fogie It must be the silly season again. Homer -not Simpson! Gallileo Wm. Shakespear Mozart Adolf Hitler Walt Disney Francis of Assisi I dont suppose they would invite me. |
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12 Dec 03 - 06:44 AM (#1070876) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: Micca Richard Feynman (The Physicist, and a very funny erudite man) Michael Faraday ( one of the best experimental Scientists EVER) Oscar Wilde (Playwright and wit) W A Mozart (Composer sublime) Lucia Popp ( Soprano and Beauty) and if they were not available or for a literary evening or even mixed with the above Robert A Heinlein ( SF Writer) Isaac Asimov (Writer and wit) Douglas Adams (Writer) Lewis Carrol Isaac Newton " The ideal number for a perfect dinner party is 2..... Myself and a dammed good Head waiter" Nubar Gulbenkian |
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12 Dec 03 - 06:44 AM (#1070877) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: ced2 Will you please welcome the Bolic-Steroids and their daughter Anna, Bolic-Steroids |
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12 Dec 03 - 08:17 AM (#1070917) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: GUEST Thomas Pynchon Marilyn Monroe Jesus Christ Frank Zappa Aristotle |
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12 Dec 03 - 11:10 AM (#1070936) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: GUEST Paw, Buford, Cletus, Reg, Reg and as an alternate, Reg. |
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12 Dec 03 - 11:23 AM (#1070941) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: Little Hawk For a musicians' dinner: Bob Dylan Joan Baez Buffy Sainte-Marie Joni Mitchell Leonard Cohen They already know each other anyway, so it would be a pretty relaxed gathering, I figure. For a great dictator's dinner: Adolf Hitler Joe Stalin Benito Mussolini Saddam Hussein Idi Amin Talk about fun! Wow! Imagine the one-upmanship and grandstanding...not to mention the mutual admiration. I believe Saddam's hero and role model is Joe Stalin, come to think of it. Idi would probably be sort of the odd man out in this group. - LH |
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12 Dec 03 - 11:50 AM (#1070969) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: Uncle_DaveO Utah Phillips Pete Seeger Peter Bellamy Ewan McColl Woody Guthrie |
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12 Dec 03 - 12:12 PM (#1070984) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: Bill D oh, Chantyranger! that list had me laughing...no cackling out loud! I'll muse on mine awhile! |
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12 Dec 03 - 12:21 PM (#1070989) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: Midchuck fogie: Homer? without Jethro? What's the point of that? Little Hawk: There wouldn't be much conversation at your dictators' dinner, after Idi ate the other guests... Musicians' dinner: Tom Russell Utah Ian Norman Jim Ringer, if he could be revived. Authors' dinner (living): Stephen Brust David Drake Peter Bowen Sharon Lee & Steve Miller (spouses and co-authors - I'm fudging by counting them as one) Joel Rosenberg Authors' dinner (all-time) RAH Poul Anderson Roger Zelazny Fritz Leiber HPL Peter. |
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12 Dec 03 - 12:40 PM (#1071003) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: GUEST,pdq Homer and Jethro would top of the list. Maybe add Oscar Lavant and have the three jam on "Tico Tico". After all, this is a dinner party and nobody wants to ruin it with Uncle Adolpf. |
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12 Dec 03 - 12:49 PM (#1071008) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: GUEST Wow! Excellent question, but if pressed: William Shakespeare Queen Elizabeth I Oscar Wilde Lewis Carroll Jane Austen Now *that would be an interesting evening! D. |
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12 Dec 03 - 03:49 PM (#1071113) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: Bill D Galileo, Steven J. Gould, Stephen Hawking, Copernicus and Charles Darwin would be an interesting batch.... Edwin Newman, Willard Espy, Samuel Johnson, Noah Webster and Robert Claiborne to debate the English language.. Immanuel Kant, G.W.F Hegel, Aristotle, A.N. Whitehead, and Edmund Husserl to see if ANY of them could make heads or tails of what the others were talking about...(boy I hate to stop at 5!) Pat Robertson, Ayatollah Kohmeni (sp?), Pope Pius IX, Martin Luther and Pharoah Tuthmosis II ...just because I am a wicked fellow who likes to watch. |
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12 Dec 03 - 04:06 PM (#1071128) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: Tinker Bill, in your last "table" I think I would substitute Mary Daley for Martin Luther. It was only lacking a feminist theologian. BG I bet I could hear the fire works this far north. But it would be fun video... |
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12 Dec 03 - 04:36 PM (#1071148) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: Rapparee One more try.... Just a nice dinner: Men: Abraham Lincoln (Lawyer) Thomas Jefferson (Farmer) Thurgood Marshall (Lawyer) Billy Shakespeare (Actor) Sam Clemens (ex-riverboat pilot) Women: Boudicca (Queen) Grace O'Malley (Queen) Elizabeth I (Queen) Maeve (Queen) My wife My mother Other folks I like to have: Ada Byron Lovelace (poet's daughter) Grace Hopper (sailor) Geoff Chaucer (tale teller) Archimedes (mathematician) Isaac Newton (mathematician) Chuck Dodgson (logician) Galileo Galilei (astronomer) Hans Guedarian (general) George Patton (general) Jan van Steenhyus (painter) Thomas Merton (thinker) O'Carolan (musician) Red Skelton (actor) and a whole raft of others.... |
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12 Dec 03 - 05:24 PM (#1071189) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: Little Hawk Vicious conquerors dinner: Attila the Hun Tamerlane Blackbeard the Pirate Eric the Red Richard the Lionheart (supply appropriate cutlery, and watch the action!) Nasty little men dinner: Woody Allen Gerry Lewis Rowan Atkinson (Mr Bean) Peter Lorre Groucho Marx Thorns in America's side dinner: Ho Chi Minh Fidel Castro Muammar Ghaddafi Saddam Hussein Mao Tse Tung Also-rans dinner: George McGovern Barry Goldwater Michael Dukakis Hubert Humphrey Harry Lee Wigley Women you've never thought of dating dinner: Twiggy Golda Meir Margaret Thatcher Tammy Faye Bakker Joan Rivers - LH |
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12 Dec 03 - 05:31 PM (#1071195) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: Rapparee Now, if you allow that a Fantasy Dinner Party can allow fantasy guests, who would you invite? |
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12 Dec 03 - 05:31 PM (#1071196) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: GUEST,Can't cook Won't cook Tinky Winky Dipsy La La Po Noo Noo Not much conversation but lots of tubby toast and custard. |
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12 Dec 03 - 05:49 PM (#1071203) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: Bee-dubya-ell I once dated a woman whose father, an Air Force colonel, asked the same question to junior officers when interviewing them for promotion. If anyone put his (Colonel Holman's) name on the list he was automatically turned down for promotion. Personally, I hate dinner parties. I absolutely suck at them. But I do dearly love pickin' parties so I would invite Stephan Grapelli Django Reinhardt Sam Bush Bela Fleck Jerry Douglas and apologize profusely if I misspelled any of their names. |
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12 Dec 03 - 05:53 PM (#1071205) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: wilco Abraham Jesus Christ Prophet Mohammed Buddha Confucius I'd ask them to work out their differences. I can hear old Abraham saying," That's not the way it happened at all." |
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12 Dec 03 - 05:57 PM (#1071209) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: Bill D |
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12 Dec 03 - 06:30 PM (#1071232) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: GUEST,guest at my own party Nicolai Copernicus Stephen Hawkings Abraham Lincoln Bill Clinton Natalie Wood |
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13 Dec 03 - 01:19 AM (#1071396) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: Peace Sir Isaac Newton (calculus, gold standard, math, masonic connection) Sir John A Macdonald (rogue, scoundrel, toper, Canadian PM) Sir Winston Churchill (for too many reasons to list) Jesus Christ Ghandi |
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13 Dec 03 - 02:29 AM (#1071403) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: Mickey191 Weird gathering of executed people for a Saturday Buffet. The point being to find the truthful circumstances of their deaths. Bruno Richard Hauptman Nicole Smith Pope John Paul Madalyn Murray O'Hare Jimmy Hoffa Sacco & Vanzetti |
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13 Dec 03 - 02:48 AM (#1071407) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: rangeroger Emmylou Harris rr |
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13 Dec 03 - 04:34 AM (#1071419) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: Peter Kasin Thanks, Bill D. I left out Calvin Coolidge! How about an all-Hank dinner: Hank Aaron Hank Williams Hank Snow Hank Ballard Hank Stram Hank Bauer Hank Fonda Hank Wadsworth Longfellow Hank Thoreau King Hank V Tom Hanks |
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13 Dec 03 - 09:16 AM (#1071484) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: GUEST My women guests: Isadora Duncan Dorothy Parker Maud Gonne Laura Nyro Sappho My male guests: Thomas Paine William Blake Walt Whitman Chief Red Cloud Steve Martin |
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13 Dec 03 - 12:56 PM (#1071594) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: C-flat Leonardo DaVinci..................maybe I could find out Mona Lisas' secret, Django Reinhardt..................for a couple of guitar-playing tips, Stephen Fry.......................the wittiest man on the planet, Billy Connolly....................the funniest man on the planet, Nigella Lawson....................hopefully she will cook dinner whilst being gorgeous, |
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13 Dec 03 - 04:13 PM (#1071697) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: Cluin Gandalf Merlin Dumbledore Wotan Prospero Well, it DID say fantasy... and I bet only one person would show up, because they are all the same entity. |
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13 Dec 03 - 05:32 PM (#1071727) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: GUEST,E.A. You forgot me! |
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13 Dec 03 - 07:04 PM (#1071766) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: Bobert Ahhhh, Guest: George Bush Jesus Albert Eisteinn Thorgood Marshall Howard Dean Observers from behind the one way glass/mirror: Amos Little Hawk Nicole C DougR Teribus Bobert |
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13 Dec 03 - 07:07 PM (#1071768) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: GUEST,An English Patriot I'm hung up on English history so I would invite my particular historical heroes. William Cobbett Thomas Paine Ernie Bevin King Alfred and EP Thompson |
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14 Dec 03 - 12:38 AM (#1071872) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: GUEST,"Red" Blooded Cheryl Ladd |
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14 Dec 03 - 11:35 AM (#1072033) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: GUEST For an amusing evening, I would invite Peter Cook (although I would have to keep him from having too much booze) Frankie Howard The bear from The Muppets (I can't remember his name) Mel Brooks Dorothy Parker |
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14 Dec 03 - 11:46 AM (#1072043) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: GUEST Fozzie Bear. A Muppet fantasy dinner party would probably be much more entertaininng than anything mentioned so far! |
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14 Dec 03 - 12:39 PM (#1072095) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: Matt_R Dougie MacLean J.R.R Tolkien John Dillinger Noel Gallagher Benjamin Franklin Robert the Bruce Peter the Great Will Rogers Mike Scott |
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14 Dec 03 - 12:46 PM (#1072108) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: Matt_R Oops...that's more than 5, isn't it? |
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14 Dec 03 - 12:48 PM (#1072110) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: GUEST Just you and the boyze, eh MattR? |
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14 Dec 03 - 01:16 PM (#1072140) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: Peace GUEST: I was gonna put your name down just to see if you had one. |
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15 Dec 03 - 03:28 AM (#1072615) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: fat B****rd Keith Richards, Gavin Bryars, George Melly, Spike Milligan and Linda Smith. |
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15 Dec 03 - 03:58 PM (#1073149) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: Melani Harry Flashman Queen Victoria Abraham Lincoln George Bush Al Franken |
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15 Dec 03 - 04:06 PM (#1073155) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: beadie Joseph R. McCarthy (former US Senator and the ultimate over-the-top conservative) Jesus Christ (the ultimate liberal) Ambrose Bierce (mysogynist par excellance) Gloria Stienem (feminist) Ed Hockuli (National Football League referee) |
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15 Dec 03 - 11:51 PM (#1073239) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: catspaw49 With respects to our late friend LR Mole, I will choose: Mike Tyson Vincent Van Gogh Jeffrey Dahmer Michael Jackson Josef Mengele Not only would the conversation be interesting but the meal might be as well......... Spaw |
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16 Dec 03 - 12:12 AM (#1073258) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: Amos Bobert Thanks for reserving a chair back there. I would LOVE to watch this one! A |
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16 Dec 03 - 06:44 AM (#1073391) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: Dave Hanson A deaf mute numphomaniac, who's father owns a distillery and five miles of salmon fishing on the River Tay. eric |
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16 Dec 03 - 06:46 AM (#1073392) Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests From: Dave Hanson that should read ' nymphomaniac ' and ' prime salmon fishing ' |