Name 4 People With Whom You'd Like to Have Dinner

[northernsoul]

I'll go first, my current list is:
1) Anthony Bourdain
2) Stephen Colbert
3) Tina Fey
4) David Bowie

[Phillycat]

1. Alive or dead?

[northernsoul]

5. Either is fine with me

I'm going to hang with the living, myself.

[Phillycat]

11. Okay, then, my grandmother, JD Salinger, John Irving, and Brangelina.

They are almost one person as it is, so I'm counting them as one. :D

[jpgray]

2. Muhammad, Jesus, Moses, Buddha and Shiva

Just sort everything out right then and there.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

7. You forgot Joe Smith and (hehehe) Seaman. -nt

[jpgray]

13. Yeah--since I can't count, I might as well be inclusive

:P

[northernsoul]

8. What you're leaving Zeus and Athena out?

Thor and Odin are going to be pretty pissed off about the snub as well.

[jpgray]

9. Zeus can provide lighting and Odin can give everyone rides on his eight-legged horse

[wildhorses]

21. you mind if i come??--i'll bring a covered dish!!

this one i gotta see;)

[azmouse]

3. My list:

Keith Olbermann
Jimmy Carter
Bill Clinton
Janet Napolitano (Gov. of AZ)

[YDogg]

4. my parents and in-laws

any day

[jrandom421]

6. My List

1) Stephen Hawking
2) Melinda Gates
3) Elizebeth Edwards
4) John Stewart

[RedStateShame]

10. Chuck D., Bob Pollard, Bill Maher, and Elvis Costello

A perfect blend of social consciousness, music, politics, and enough various libations to keep me from standing for a few hours.

[Midlodemocrat]

12. Okay

All four are no longer with us

My mom and Dad
My SIL Lynn
My friend Mike

[BreweryYardRat]

14. Not all at the same time, but...

Einstein: Physics isn't my strong point, but a brief run-down over dinner from the master himself would be nice.

Washington or Jefferson: Talk about the country's problems, and get suggestions on how to fix them.

Erwin Rommel: My overall impression of him has always been of a basically good man on the worst possible side, who stayed out of misguided loyalty to his country. I'd like that confirmed or denied. Also, I'd like to get the straight story on whether or not he was setting up for a coup when Hitler forced him to commit suicide.

Elisabeth Rohm: She's pretty. And smart. And I'd like to hear what working on Law and Order was like.

[Sanity Claws]

15. Yuan Kin, Jesus, Buddha, and Abraham Lincoln

There are others I'd like to invite too.

[Hangingon]

16. My list

Ben Hogan, Tip O'Neill, Bill Ruger and Chuck Yaeger

[SteppingRazor]

17. Jerry Garcia, Hunter Thompson, Stephen Crane and Ben Franklin

Good thing they're all dead, or this night would probably kill'em :evilgrin:


On edit: If they have to be living people, I'd go with Philip Roth, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Tom Wolfe and Barack Obama. The first three for pointers, the fourth so I can grill him and make sure my support for him is justified.

[YankeyMCC]

18. That's good list

1) John Lennon
2) Abraham Lincoln
3) Issac Asimov
4) Anthony Bourdain - I don't know that I would've thought of that on my own. Alton Brown would probably be a good choice to as someone to talk about the food with.

On Edit: I'd like to put Howard Stern in there too but not sure I can justify knocking any of the others off the list to make room.

[MissMillie]

19. George Clooney

but only if I can be dessert

Jon Stewart
Bono
Jimmy Carter
John Irving

[xchrom]

20. oscar wilde, dorothy parker, picasso, shakespeare, and

virginia wolfe

[myrna minx]

26. Hey, our lists are quite similar.

:hi:

[stuntcat]

49. ohhh Dorothy!

She and Nina Simone are the two I most want to meet but they're both dead, so I only added living people.
My favorite Miz Parker quote - "They say of me and so they should, it's doubtful if I come to good." Which is wrong because she's my (for one's) idol, and when she died she left the rights to her stuff to the NAACP.

[cloudbase]

22. My four:

Archimedes
Leonardo da Vinci
Jesus
Lyndon Johnson

[Deep13]

23. 4 of the 12 jurors that found Bush guilty of war crimes.

[ThomCat]

24. And I'll host the next 4.

:7

I'm sure together we could keep all 12 of them in free dinners for years!

[myrna minx]

25. Umberto Eco, Oscar Wilde, Voltaire,

Dorothy Parker, Maya Angelou and Ann Magnuson. :hi: I'd be waaayyy out of my league, but it would be fun to attend.

[NewJeffCT]

27. My list

Lee Harvey Oswald (or whomever shot JFK)
Sirhan Sirhan (or whomever shot RFK)
James Earl Ray (or whomever shot MLK)
Adoph Hitler

I'd serve them all poison to kill them before they can commit their acts of evil.

[Richard Steele]

28. James "Diamond Jim" Brady, and 3 really good chefs.

"Dinner generally began with 2 to 3 dozen Lynnhaven oysters--
selected especially for Brady by Maryland dealers. Crabs followed--6 of them--
and then at least 2 bowls full of green turtle soup.

So much for appetizers. Jim's main courses included: 6 or 7 lobsters,
2 whole canvasback ducks, 2 portions of terrapin (turtle meat), a sirloin steak,
vegetables, and an entire platter of pastries for dessert. Additional
beakers of orange juice further tested Jim's capacity. As an afterdinner treat,
he customarily downed a 2-lb. box of candy."

[av8rdave]

29. Kurt Vonnegut

Jimmy Carter
Frank Zappa
Neil Young

[kwassa]

30. Manny, Moe, and Jack .... and Jill!

[JVS]

31. jpgray's mom, heyhey's mom, bullgooseloony's mom, and robb's mom

[belladonna]

32. Only 4, eh?

1. Bill Clinton. For all his faults, he still fascinates me and he's so damn intelligent.
2. Jon Stewart, for obvious reasons :loveya:
3. Stephen Colbert. Hilarious AND intelligent, just like Jon Stewart.
4. Nancy Pelosi. I'd love to hear her war stories.

Many more, but you said 4 :P

[NNadir]

33. Al Gore, Rush Holt (my congressman)...

...Paul Crutzen, Paul Krugman.

There are, of course, others.

My congressman is a physicist, but oddly enough, he's not on the House Science Committee.

[philosophie_en_rose]

34. Bill Clinton, Jon Stewart, Margaret Cho, & Paula Deen

We'd have a kosher, but fatty Southern dinner in Paula's kitchen. :9

[idgiehkt]

35. I can't.

Just for my own amusement.
I could post their myspace accounts, but I better not.
Inside joke.
:rofl:

[Celeborn Skywalker]

36. Here goes...

Thomas Jefferson, Karl Marx, Jesus Christ, and J.R.R. Tolkien.

[Burma Jones]

37. Franklin, Newton, Einstein, Beethoven - Dead - and for the living.....

The Dixie Chicks and Willie Nelson -

[cedahlia]

38. Courtney Love, Eddie Vedder, Edward Norton, and David Milch

I'm completely fascinated by all of them. However, I fear that I would just sit there and draw a blank and not have anything to say or to ask them. Courtney would probably save me, though, by just starting in on whatever she felt like talking about. :-)

[idgiehkt]

41. wow. Seeing as how Ed and Courtney dated, and she hates Eddie

that should make for an interesting evening. Brave woman, you are.

:rofl:

[Deja Q]

39. Hmmm...

1) Somebody who wants me
2) Somebody who wants me more
3) Somebody who wants me even more
4) Tina Fey

[Guava Jelly]

40. Any three "Naughty Girls" and

My dear friend buddhamama

[Bombero1956]

42. my choices

Ben Franklin
Will Rogers
Johnny Carson
Marilyn Monroe

[mcscajun]

43. Dealing only with live potential guests...

(the dead ones don't eat much, but are tougher to get to leave when dinner is over.)

1. Kevin Spacey
2. Wesley Clark
3. Bradley Whitford
4. Tom Lehrer (Yes, he's still alive)

And if I could have them all at the same table, so much the better!

[QMPMom]

44. Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, My Grandfather and Keith Olberman

[lizziegrace]

45. My four

Alton Brown
Abraham Lincoln
Viggo Mortensen
Anna Quindlan

[VOX]

46. Abe Lincoln, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Mohandas Gandhi...

All worked for the greater good, and all died by assassin's bullets.

We'd have a home-cooked meal (although Bapu will probably want something light :)), served in the backyard in mid-summer. We'd eat, drink a spot of brandy and tell stories until the sun came up.

Among the living, Al and Tipper Gore, and Elizabeth and John Edwards. Same dining scenario. I bet these 4 are real honest and silly when removed from the spotlight.

[carly denise pt deux]

47. here's mine

1. Jim Morrison
2. Janis Joplin
3. Jimi Hendrix
4. Carl Wilson

hard to do, they are all deceased.

[stuntcat]

48. 1.Prince, 2.Dolly Parton, 3.Willian Shatner, 4.David Sedaris?

4 is either God or David Sedaris :| I think I have a better chance with Sedaris.

[northernsoul]

53. Sedaris' existence does not appear to be subject to much debate

God, on the other hand, seems to have a spotty record of RSVPing to his invitations.

<edited for bone-headed spelling error>

[Sisaruus]

50. Bill Moyers, RFK, Jr., Jeanette Winterson and Paula Poundstone

[femmocrat]

51. Wes Clark, Howard Dean, Al Gore and Barack Obama, but.....

I would probably swoon!

[Catfight]

52. My grandma who passed away, my aunt who passed away, and

my living parents that I always love spending time with. I was too young to tell my grandma and aunt how much I loved them and the influence they had on my life. I miss them dearly and would love one more dinner with them to laugh and hear them laugh just once again. My folks would be there because I always tell them how much I love them, they are my heartbeat.

[chknltl]

54. T. Jefferson, A. Lincoln, G. Washington, george bush

How embarrassing would THAT dinner be for a certain miscreant...I would need to record EVERYTHING!

[raccoon]

55. (1) George Clooney, (2) H.G. Wells,

(3) Adolf Hitler (out of curiousity)
(4) John Lennon

[Tikki]

56. These.....

Pete Case
Henry Waxman
Betty White
Gwynne Garfinkle


We could all meet-up at the Original Tommy's World Famous on Roscoe in the Valley.



Tikki

[LibertyLover]

57. There are so many I can think of but

for the first 4, I'd invite T.E. Lawrence, Nefertiti, Michaelangelo and Lady Jane Grey. This thread reminds me a bit of the book Van Loon's Lives, by Hendrik Willem Van Loon.

[Laurab]

58. Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart

I don't want anyone else there - just me and them! If I have to have four, I guess I'd invite my oldest brother and my daughter, they'd appreciate it almost as much as me!

[Aristus]

59. Jesus, Ben Franklin, Mark Twain and Oscar Wilde.

What fun. B-)

[schmuls]

60. Jesus, Vincent Van Gogh, Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde

[Critters2]

61. Wow. I'd like to sit at a table nearby and eavesdrop. nt