If you could bring any deceased famous person back to life, who would you choose?

[The Night Owl]

I'll start...

Albert Einstein

I'd love to see how Albert Einstein would build on advances made after his death.

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. Right now it would be Thomas Jefferson to go kick some ass in Washington.

I'm getting so fucking fed up with rightwing bullshit, I'd give up the chance to talk with Einstein, Bach, Mahler, Ben Franklin, or King David of biblical time.

I'd give it all up even to have Jefferson just for a week, to go tell the truth about how this country should be.

[Whoa_Nelly]

4. My first thought, too!

Have wished for him to be here in the Now so many times. If only he could be.

[Mad_Dem_X]

5. Jefferson, or John Lennon.

[Gato Moteado]

38. the right wing would suicide him for sure

the freepers would call him a communist, faux news would verbally assault him nightly, and the military industrial complex that pulls bush's puppet strings would make him disappear.

[Nicole]

2. Martin Luther King Jr.

There's so much work on Civil Rights yet to be done.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

3. christ & mohammed.

clean up your messes people.

on edit: i dont know which hindu god to pick..but one of those to settle the problems in india would be good too.

[NewJeffCT]

6. Good one

Jesus: "Sorry Mr. Phelps, God does not hate fags."

Or "When I said to help the poor, I didn't mean through Trickle Down economics."

Or...

[SKKY]

33. Brilliant!!!!!

Just what I was thinking...

[Gato Moteado]

40. christ came back to life by himself once (allegedly)...

...and decided not to stay anyway.

and besides, if you brought him back again, the right wingers and their fundy xtian followers would surely send him to gitmo and torture and kill him again.

on edit: and i imagine the fundy muslims would kill mohammed when they found out he doesn't approve of their crap either.

[Lost-in-FL]

46. LOL!!!!

:yourock:

[Little Wing]

7. Leonidas. Tell him there's Persians in that big white house

[Guava Jelly]

8. John Lennon

:)
Imagine that

[xchrom]

9. Socrates

the world really, really needs someone who can A) get people to think -- and -- B) can dissect language and get to the heart of what people are really saying.

he'd be a great addition to some other thinkers we have today.

[sniffa]

10. john hoLmes

[RetroLounge]

70. ...

:spray:

You bad...

RL

[Alexander]

11. Frank Zappa

[Love Bug]

12. Jeremy Brett

In a New York Minute! :loveya:

[sarge43]

16. I've been watching the Sherlock Holmes series

He was soooo good in those.

[lizziegrace]

13. JFK n/t

[ashling]

14. My mom

or my younger brother, Glenn.

[sarge43]

15. Carl Sagan, Molly Ivins, Martin Luther King Jr n/t

[crim son]

17. Mozart.

He died young and his music was still "immature" (if you can imagine!) Listening to what he composed as he grew older would be an incredible experience.

[stuntcat]

30. "would be an incredible experience"

right on. This is who I pick too then!

[ChickMagic]

18. Bill Hicks

He'd be a zombie, though. Bwains!

[carly denise pt deux]

19. John Lennon and Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys

Carly

[shrike]

20. LBJ. A Democrat who could properly take on Bush

He'd walk into the Oval Office uninvited, get Georgie's gonads in a twist and say, "Clean up this mess or I'll cut 'em off."

[NNadir]

21. Archimedes.

[Left Is Write]

22. Robert Kennedy.

[RetroLounge]

71. RFK was my choice too...

Oh how the world would be different today if only...

RL

[Jade Fox]

87. Yes, yes, yes!

[RedStateShame]

23. John Belushi, in the hopes that he'd devour the flesh of his talentless brother.

[Elidor]

24. Tallulah Bankhead

Oh, sure, she'd cuss me up and down for a bit, but she'd get over it and ask for some whiskey and cocaine. I'd probably have to fight off her advances, too.

[sarge43]

26. My favorite Tallulah snark

Upon meeting a former lover from a ways back, "I thought I told you to wait in the cab?!" :rofl:

[Elidor]

51. Hehe, I love that line

She probably had many opportunities to use it, too.

[sarge43]

53. Without a doubt

Another Tallalah: My father warned me about men and whiskey. He didn't say a thing about women and cocaine.

[SteppingRazor]

25. Jesus, without a doubt.

Shut down all these religio-crazies once and for all.

I can see it now: "You're doing WHAT in my name?!"

[The Night Owl]

36. If you were to bring Jesus back, the Bush administration would...

...bring back J. Edgar Hoover to dig up dirt on him and frame him.

[gbate]

52. Yes!

[Jamastiene]

75. On second thought, I should have said what you said too.

And I think you are exactly right.

[Arkham House]

27. George Orwell--

--if only to put a stop to all the damned "what would Orwell do if he were alive today" articles...

[Rabrrrrrr]

28. And to hear him say "See - I fucking told you it would happen.

I was off by a few years, but I fucking told you, and you wouldn't listen. Oh, no."

[terrya]

29. Abraham Lincoln

I'd be very curious to hear what he would think of America today. His views on how we've advanced as a nation since his time.

[The Night Owl]

31. Sun Tzu might be an interesting choice...

Sun Tzu might be an interesting choice to bring back to life, but he would probably die of laughter after being told about how the Bush administration is handling the war in Iraq.

[Shakespeare]

32. Richard Feynman.

I don't think he was done yet, and there are few people I'd love to sit down and chat with more than him.

[stuntcat]

34. Dorothy Parker

then we'd bitch at each other :headbang:

[Rabrrrrrr]

35. Prescott Bush, just to kick him in the balls for spawning his evil family.

[philosophie_en_rose]

37. How about a FrankenReagan?

Then again, Zombie Bush would probably be more satisfying to kick.

[fishnfla]

39. Thomas Jefferson

[Gato Moteado]

41. anna nicole smith....

....so we could find out once and for all who the baby's real father is!

[Qanisqineq]

50. that was going to be my answer

but so we didn't have to hear about her death anymore. Maybe men would quit coming out of the woodwork claiming they are the father.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

42. Jim Henson

[Goblinmonger]

68. Why not just

dig him up, stick your hand up his ass and do your own little "It's not easy being green" ballad with him?

:rofl:

Sorry, was that not funny?

[jane_pippin]

43. Bill Hicks

Except that might be a cruel choice because he'd probably have an aneurysm and die the instant he realizes he wouldn't have to change half his act one iota to still be relevant.

But on the plus side, Bill Hicks.

[Pacifist Patriot]

44. Eleanor of Aquitaine

She could teach women today a thing or two. ;)

[NashVegas]

55. Like How To Overplay Their Hand?

Eleanor's ultimate undoing.

[Pacifist Patriot]

67. Exactly. If we can't learn from the mistakes of the past...

oh wait, we do tend to ignore those, don't we?

[NashVegas]

76. Well, In All Fairness

We're talking about events of 900 years ago, and my understanding is there are no first-hand accounts laying around. At least, none of hers, first-hand.

[UrbScotty]

45. Just one? Then, Paul Wellstone. (nt)

[HERVEPA]

47. Ben Franklin

[Bzzzz]

48. John Lennon...

first choice. Gregory Peck, second.

[femmocrat]

49. Paul Wellstone.

We need him now, more than ever.

[Orsino]

54. Lincoln. For the fun of watching him...

...run screaming to the Democrats.

[femmedem]

56. Dick Cheney.

The world would be so much better off if the guy running this country had a heart, mind and soul.

[frogcycle]

57. Elvis!

oh, wait...

[u4ic]

77. Elvis is alive and well and impersonating ForrestGump

:silly:

[leftyladyfrommo]

58. Molly Ivins n/t

[fight4my3sons]

59. Abbie Hoffman

just to choose a different person than those that have been named already. I would love to see what he would stir up these days...

[REP]

60. George Bernard Shaw

Of course, he'd resent it greatly, but a man like him is needed now.

[fortyfeetunder]

61. The prophet Muhammed

So he can set things straight on Islam....

[AngryAmish]

62. Tamerlane

[Burma Jones]

63. Jerry Garcia

I really miss Dead Shows......

[NightWatcher]

64. it'd be worth it to hear Sugaree one more time

[Starry Messenger]

65. .

joe strummer or kirsty macColl

[chaska]

66. Tom Jefferson, Jimi Hendrix, Jaco Pastorius

[Goblinmonger]

69. Hunter S. Thompson and William S. Burroughs

Because they would both kick some major ass as zombies. And they could write some more incredible shit.

[Initech]

72. Two badly needed anti-war critics - Frank Zappa and Bill Hicks

[Jamastiene]

73. Kurt Cobain or Joey Ramone, although it might be more

humane not to wake them up to face this long national nightmare known as the Bush administration's total control over eveything post 9/11.

[Tektonik]

74. FDR

[datasuspect]

78. in their current state of decomposition

or fully intact prior to death?

elvis giving a concert as a zombie would be cool.

oh, i forgot, he did that in the late 70s.

[NYCGirl]

79. Lenny Bruce and Robert Mitchum, serving in the court of Lord Buckley. NT

[DainBramaged]

80. Katharine Hepburn, Johnny Cash, Christopher Reeve, Johnny Carson

You folks will remember all of the historically correct persons for me.

[Unvanguard]

81. Immanuel Kant.

I'd like to discuss with him a few points of his ethical theory, to see who's gotten them right and what exactly his line of reasoning was.

And even if I didn't get the chance, someone else undoubtedly would, and publish it.

[grannylib]

82. On the serious side, I'd bring back Jesus and Edison; on the lighter side,

I'd bring back Katharine Hepburn.

[BlackVelvet04]

83. Janis Joplin..

"freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose."

[ellisonz]

84. Another DUer for Jesus.

So we can kill him again}(

[wildhorses]

85. just one??

making.my.head.hurt

[RFKHumphreyObama]

86. Christopher and Dana Reeve

Two of the most enligbtened, wonderful people of our modern times.

Also Gandhi, MLK, Paul Wellstone and Nelson Rockefeller