BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests

Subject: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: nosluap57
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 12:11 AM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: Little Hawk
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 12:20 AM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: mack/misophist
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 12:52 AM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: Mickey191
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 12:54 AM

Pope Pius - Simon Weisenthal - Madelyn Murray O'Hare-
Oscar Wilde & Jesus

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: Mickey191
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 01:05 AM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 01:52 AM

Marcel Marceau
Buster Keaton
Helen Keller
Harpo Marx
Alfred E. Neuman

*BG*

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 04:25 AM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: Trevor
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 05:04 AM

Chris Bonnington
Siddartha
Eddie Izard
Vianne Rocher (as long as she looked like Juliette Binoche)
My friend, neighbour and hero, Harold Longstaff

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 05:27 AM

Roger the Skiffler, please please please invite me to your dinner party. I'd bring Skip James along.

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: Partridge
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 05:28 AM

Kenneth Williams
Joni Mitchell
Shrek
Benny Hill
Dave Burland

Pat x

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: fogie
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 05:29 AM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: Micca
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 06:44 AM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: ced2
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 06:44 AM

Will you please welcome the Bolic-Steroids and their daughter Anna, Bolic-Steroids

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 08:17 AM

Thomas Pynchon
Marilyn Monroe
Jesus Christ
Frank Zappa
Aristotle

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 11:10 AM

Paw, Buford, Cletus, Reg, Reg and as an alternate, Reg.

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: Little Hawk
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 11:23 AM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 11:50 AM

Utah Phillips

Pete Seeger

Peter Bellamy

Ewan McColl

Woody Guthrie

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 12:12 PM

oh, Chantyranger! that list had me laughing...no cackling out loud!

I'll muse on mine awhile!

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: Midchuck
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 12:21 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: GUEST,pdq
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 12:40 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 12:49 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 03:49 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: Tinker
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 04:06 PM

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...

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 04:36 PM

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....

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: Little Hawk
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 05:24 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 05:31 PM

Now, if you allow that a Fantasy Dinner Party can allow fantasy guests, who would you invite?

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: GUEST,Can't cook Won't cook
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 05:31 PM

Tinky Winky
Dipsy
La La
Po
Noo Noo

Not much conversation but lots of tubby toast and custard.

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 05:49 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: wilco
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 05:53 PM

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."

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 05:57 PM

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: GUEST,guest at my own party
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 06:30 PM

Nicolai Copernicus
Stephen Hawkings
Abraham Lincoln
Bill Clinton
Natalie Wood

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: Peace
Date: 13 Dec 03 - 01:19 AM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: Mickey191
Date: 13 Dec 03 - 02:29 AM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: rangeroger
Date: 13 Dec 03 - 02:48 AM

Emmylou Harris

rr

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 13 Dec 03 - 04:34 AM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Dec 03 - 09:16 AM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: C-flat
Date: 13 Dec 03 - 12:56 PM

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,

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: Cluin
Date: 13 Dec 03 - 04:13 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: GUEST,E.A.
Date: 13 Dec 03 - 05:32 PM

You forgot me!

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: Bobert
Date: 13 Dec 03 - 07:04 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: GUEST,An English Patriot
Date: 13 Dec 03 - 07:07 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: GUEST,"Red" Blooded
Date: 14 Dec 03 - 12:38 AM

Cheryl Ladd

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Dec 03 - 11:35 AM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Dec 03 - 11:46 AM

Fozzie Bear. A Muppet fantasy dinner party would probably be much more entertaininng than anything mentioned so far!

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: Matt_R
Date: 14 Dec 03 - 12:39 PM

Dougie MacLean
J.R.R Tolkien
John Dillinger
Noel Gallagher
Benjamin Franklin
Robert the Bruce
Peter the Great
Will Rogers
Mike Scott

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: Matt_R
Date: 14 Dec 03 - 12:46 PM

Oops...that's more than 5, isn't it?

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Dec 03 - 12:48 PM

Just you and the boyze, eh MattR?

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: Peace
Date: 14 Dec 03 - 01:16 PM

GUEST: I was gonna put your name down just to see if you had one.

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: fat B****rd
Date: 15 Dec 03 - 03:28 AM

Keith Richards, Gavin Bryars, George Melly, Spike Milligan and Linda Smith.

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: Melani
Date: 15 Dec 03 - 03:58 PM

Harry Flashman
Queen Victoria
Abraham Lincoln
George Bush
Al Franken

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: beadie
Date: 15 Dec 03 - 04:06 PM

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)

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: catspaw49
Date: 15 Dec 03 - 11:51 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: Amos
Date: 16 Dec 03 - 12:12 AM

Bobert

Thanks for reserving a chair back there. I would LOVE to watch this one!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 16 Dec 03 - 06:44 AM

A deaf mute numphomaniac, who's father owns a distillery and five miles of salmon fishing on the River Tay.
eric

Subject: RE: BS: Fantasy Dinner Party Guests
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 16 Dec 03 - 06:46 AM

that should read ' nymphomaniac ' and ' prime salmon fishing '