If you could have dinner with 5 people...

[~Shard~]

And of course, ~Shard~. But I'd be too busy drooling to eat.

Thanks man, what can I say, I'm flattered! You do know that I have a big enough ego as it is and don't need anymore encouragement though, don't you?

 

[macman2790]

Jesus
Maynard James Keenan
George Bush (So He can actually listen to Jesus and let him tell him what he's doin wrong, since he claims he's a christian. )
Steve Jobs
Kiefer Sutherland

This would be one very strange dinner, but fun.

 

[vendettabass]

the rolling stones

 

[iAlan]

[SNIP]

And, then dessert with:
Shania Twain
Ana Maria Conseco
Halle Berry
Marilyn Monroe
Heather Locklear or Meg Ryan...

[/SNIP]

Shouldn't that read "dessert off of"

 

[iSaint]

Desmond Tutu
Bono
George Bush
George H. W. Bush (in hopes that the previous three would be able to teach him about compassion and not killing)
Biff (Jesus' childhood pal)

 

[NeoMac]

That's hilarious. I also want to have dinner with ninjas. They don't even need to be of the turtle variety. [/QUOTE]

Wouldn't you be scared that the ninjas would flipp out and kill everyone and not even think twice about it, then wail on their guitars?

 

[dalvin200]

I know it's crazy but I bet it would be an interesting meal. Except Optimus wouldn't be able to eat anything.

The cutlery??

 

[Abstract]

Shouldn't that read "dessert off of"

If I had those people over, I'd be the dessert.

Wouldn't you be scared that the ninjas would flipp out and kill everyone and not even think twice about it, then wail on their guitars?

Kill reference = understood.

Guitar reference =


I guess it doesn't really matter. Even if a ninja did come over and eat with me, they'd probably do it very quietly while clinging to the ceiling, completely silent and out of sight. After the dinner is finished, I expect a smoke bomb diversion, my 4 other guests and I to cough from the smoke..........then a quick grope near my pants, my wallet to be missing.....and when the smoke clears, I expect the ninja to be gone forever.

 

[liketom]

My list is from TV Shows


1: Jonathan Archer(Enterprise)
2: Sir Edmund Blackadder(Blackadder)
3: Zippy (Rainbow)
4: Ferris Bueller (Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
5: Hannibal Smith(A-Team)

 

[devman]

Dinner:

The Dalai Lama
Richard Dawkins
Leonardo Da Vinci
Margaret Thatcher
Gerald Weinberg


Dessert:

Elle McPherson
Paulina Porizkova
Dianna Rigg
Monica Bellucci
Ludivine Sagnier

 

[NeoMac]

If I had those people over, I'd be the dessert.




Kill reference = understood.

Guitar reference =

There is this website called Real Ultimate Power and its a crazy site about ninjas. It's one of the dumbest things I have ever seen but it's hysterical. That's a common theme for nijas to kill people and and then wail on the guitar. Google it. The site was so popular they actually came out with a book and sold it on amazon.

 

[MSM Hobbes]

Shouldn't that read "dessert off of"

Dessert with, on, etc... 'tis all good

Besides, I don't want to be in the doghouse for being R or X rated in these posts...

 

[leekohler]

Thanks man, what can I say, I'm flattered! You do know that I have a big enough ego as it is and don't need anymore encouragement though, don't you?

I just think it would be fun to see just how inflated your ego can become before you explode with narcissism.

 

[Macintosh Sauce]

My five people are:

1. Jesus Christ
2. Sophie Scholl
3. George Washington
4. Thomas Jefferson
5. Sir John A. MacDonald

 

[~Shard~]

I just think it would be fun to see just how inflated your ego can become before you explode with narcissism.

So I'm an experiment now, am I? Alright, so be it... I'm kind of curious myself...

 

[XIII]

Jesus
Steve Jobs
Thierry Henry
Richard Branson
A friend

 

[saunders45]

Serious
1) Jesus
2) Winston Churchill
3) Abe Lincoln
4) Dwight Eisenhower
5) Maj. Richard Winters

Freakin Awsome
1) Chuck Norris
2) Mr. T
3) Kiefer Sutherland
4) John Wayne
5) Arnold Schwarzenegger

Could you imagine going to dinner with these guys? Who in their right mind would mess with you? The restaurant would explode from sheer awsomeness!!!

 

[MacBoobsPro]

Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Steve Jobs (for his business mind not free stuff)
Christopher Columbus (imagine what stories he must have)
Thomas Edison
Hulk Hogan

 

[fuzzwud]

Well, since have to eat three meals a day,,,

Plato
Einstein
Thomas Jefferson
Michelangelo
Le.....
Ana Maria Conseco
Halle Berry
Marilyn Monroe
Heather Locklear or Meg Ryan...

Your Bill: $750
8.25% Tax: 81.88
Total: $831.88

Tips: ____________

 

[Lord Blackadder]

There's no way I could pick...but just for fun the first five that leap to mind at this instant:

Jesus (religious/moral figure)
Machiavelli (politcian/patriot)
Belisarius (general)
Mao Zedong or de Sade (villain/libertine)
Leonardo Da Vinci or Galen of Pergamum (genius/visionary)

But there are so many other I'd like to include...

 

[skunk]

There seem to be an awful lot of "men only" dinner parties these days.

 

[Queso]

There seem to be an awful lot of "men only" dinner parties these days.

Well we wouldn't want the embarrassment of this, would we?

 

[Lord Blackadder]

Men have dominated history...from a numbers perspective women occupy a small proportion of the historical narrative, especially from the perspective of people writing about themslelves. It's an artifact of culture. And since I've dedicated my career to history, historical figures dominate my list, and thus men sort of muscle the women out a bit. But there are still a lot of women there; Off the top of my head:

Hildegard of Bingen - Medieval Christian mystic, author, and composer of absolutely stunning music.

The Empress Theodora - Byzantine Emperor Justinian's wife...a woman of incrediblly strong character, she had both positive and disatrous effects on her husband's empire. In a way, she both rescued and nearly destroyed the Byzantine empire during her life.

Catherine de Medici - French Royal matriarch and pretty darn important to French history and the wars of religion. She was both Richeliu's patron and enemy at different points.

Anne of Austria - one of my favorite historical personages; I was introduced to her though Dumas' writing. I have read several biographies of her life. If I could only meet one famous woman I think it would be her.

Elizabeth Pepys - Reading Samuel Pepys' diary gives an extremely personal and touching account of his wife - their mutual joy at marriage, their sadness at not being able to have children, their fights over Sam's infidelities, and her death at the young age of 29. It is a great tragedy of history that she did not leave a diary as well - but the reader really gets to know this woman across the space of 350 years. You learn so much about the couple you feel you know them.

There are so many others that have led intersting lives as well...I guess my background has me leaning towards western historical figures, but the last century especially has seen such an explosion of influential women...Margaret Mead, Elanore Roosevelt, Indira Ghandi, Golda Mier, Thatcher. It shows how much richer the historical record would be if more women had the opportunity, throughout western history, to contribute to the written record.

 

[leekohler]

There seem to be an awful lot of "men only" dinner parties these days.

Hmm, now that you mention it- I do tend to have mostly male friends. Interesting. It's not intentional, but it's true.

So I'm an experiment now, am I? Alright, so be it... I'm kind of curious myself...

Yes, but we need some sort of control. Can your wife measure your ego as gets larger? And what would be the indicators? How would we measure how large your ego is getting? Maybe some sort of behavioral standards?

 

[OwlsAndApples]

Hmm...

Syd Barrett (musician)
Graham Coxon (musician/artist)
Scarlet Johanson (actress)
Jonathan Ive (designer)
Karen O (musician (frontwoman of Yeah Yeah Yeahs)

Darn...I'll have to hide Stanley Kubrick, Che Guevara, Julian Opie, Harold Pinter, Charles Dickens and Vincent Van Gogh under the table (I've already had dinner with a few of my heroes though.. )