I'm sure everyone has had this or similar conversations about who they would like to invite to dinner to chat with. Whether respected or despised, dead or alive, who do you want to chat to over dinner (4 people)

1. MK Gandhi.
Incredible human spirit and amazing mind.

2. Adolf Hitler.
History’s most hated human. I would be fascinated to here what he had to say

3. Bob Dylan.
In my opinion the finest singer songwriter of all time.

4. Jesus.
I would love to see his reaction when he finds out people still idolise him and use his name in everyday life. It would also be interesting to see what he thinks about people wearing crosses. What will he think about the cross being used to symbolise him when his recollection of crosses is being nailed to them and slowly dieing.

id love 2 sit and chat with kurt cobain , ask him what was going thro is head when he ended is life. ideally id like 2 chat with my mom and dad cause i miss em.

1) Bill Hicks: a visionary who's only act was to speak the unfettered truth.

2) JRR Tolkien: to ask the question: "Just what the **** is Tom Bombadil? and what had you been smoking when you came up with the idea?"

3) Cervantes: author of the best insight into human nature ever penned.

4) George Dubyah Bush: to watch the cretin squirm under the gaze of the other guests.

5) If I could cheat and invite a fifth guest, I'd plump for HP Lovecraft, so that I could settle once and for all whether he was a retiring prig or a fascinating conversatinalist.

Originally posted by brooksy
ideally id like 2 chat with my mom and dad cause i miss em.

I would love to see my granddad again and meet my nan before she was ill (alziemiers).

I think I would also chose Elvis - to find out why he ended up so screwed up and what went wrong

the same with wacko jacko - find out how he started off black and then turned white, why he is the way he is really

plus someone from the caveman times to find out what life was like then with all the dinos and stuff

I assume that you're joking with the last choice there, bombshell?

Alive: Steven Fry

Dead: Jason McRoy

I'd find Spen King fascinating too.

Pardon my ignorance, but who are Jason McRoy and Spen King?

I only ask because I'm interested in why you'd choose them?

Prehaps once the cave men have meet Dino and the boys they can go riding on a unicorn, meet Nessie, cure aids.

Prehaps they can come back and build a settlement in the West Bank and not be surprised when they antagonise their neighbours.

Originally posted by brooksy
id love 2 sit and chat with kurt cobain , ask him what was going thro is head when he ended is life.

Seems how he blew his head off with a shot gun I thought the answer to that would have been obvious ;)

Sorry. Bad attempt at humour!!

Anyway, back to the topic. My guests would have to be:


George Orwell - to discuss '1984'.

Cliff Burton (late bassist for Metallica) - and discuss all things bass related. You would never guess what instrument I play ;)

My late grandad.

Eddie Izzard.

Originally posted by dylan_61
I'm sure everyone has had this or similar conversations about who they would like to invite to dinner to chat with. Whether respected or despised, dead or alive, who do you want to chat to over dinner (4 people)

1. MK Gandhi.
Incredible human spirit and amazing mind.

2. Adolf Hitler.
History’s most hated human. I would be fascinated to here what he had to say

3. Bob Dylan.
In my opinion the finest singer songwriter of all time.

4. Jesus.
I would love to see his reaction when he finds out people still idolise him and use his name in everyday life. It would also be interesting to see what he thinks about people wearing crosses. What will he think about the cross being used to symbolise him when his recollection of crosses is being nailed to them and slowly dieing.

It would certainly be an interesting and lively dinner party.

Well mine would have to be:

Oscar Wilde - Someone interesting to talk to.

Billy Conally - Someone to make me laugh.

Martin Luther King - someone to inspire and motivate me.

Joseph Finnes - Someone pretty to look at (plus he can recite Shakespeare if, god forbid, there was a lull in the conversation!)

Steven Fry.

Billy Connerlly.

Oscar Wilde.

Michael Palin.

Nomme

Originally posted by Carmine
Pardon my ignorance, but who are Jason McRoy and Spen King?

I only ask because I'm interested in why you'd choose them?

Spen King was the designer of the original Land Rover 100 inch Station Wagon (later to be named Range Rover) among other things. He was a big player in the British motor industry back when it was British.
Being a Land Rover geek, I'd love to talk to him about his life's work.


Jason McRoy is the closest I've ever had to a hero.
He was a Mountain Bike rider in the early days of the sport of Downhill. He'd also raced road and BMX.
He was a popular figure on the world circuit, and was exceptionally talented.

He was killed, in 1995, on his Harley Davidson on the Woodhead Pass.

He was an inspiration to so many riders, me included.
He still represents what it means to ride a bike on dirt.

Bill Gates
Lyn off Neighbours
Susan off Neighbours
David Blunkett (maybe)

Originally posted by Rich
Lyn off Neighbours
Susan off Neighbours


Do you mean the actresses or the actual characters?

1. Keith Richards from Rolling Stones
Because he looks cool and I bet he's got some tales to tell!

2. Germaine Greer
I like her, she talks sense - sometimes.

3. Hilary Clinton
I admire her, she's a strong woman.

4. Gordon Ramsey
He's yummy!

5. My great-grandma
Because I was really young when she died so I don't remember her. But apparently I am very much like her.


p.s I am inviting 5 because its bad luck to have an odd number at dinner - apparently!

Originally posted by beckb
p.s I am inviting 5 because its bad luck to have an odd number at dinner - apparently!

Isn't 5 an odd number?

Originally posted by jackthedog
Do you mean the actresses or the actual characters?

Same difference innit? The actresses and the characters are both the same people....

Originally posted by jackthedog
Isn't 5 an odd number?

yes but with me - as hostess - that would make 6 !

The reason why I put cavemen etc is its not real and as much as we'd love to meet whoever - its not going to happen

Originally posted by hotbombshell
The reason why I put cavemen etc is its not real and as much as we'd love to meet whoever - its not going to happen

I really don't think you get why people were taking the mick...

Originally posted by beckb
yes but with me - as hostess - that would make 6 !

Oh, erm... yeah.

*slowly reaches for coat and gently slides out of room hoping nobody noticed*

My perfect dinner party, 7 guests.

Richard Feynman - Nobel Laureate Physicist, Raconteur, Mean Bongo Player.

Robert Anton Wilson - One of the worlds greatest philosopher thinkers and a prolific writer of mind altering ideas.

Baroness Helena Kennedy QC - As if I need a reason to invite the most intelligent, compassionate and tireless champion of civil and human rights this country has ever seen.

Fred Hoyle - Bingley born Yorkshire cosmologist who coined the phrase 'big bang' (as a pejorative term) and made 60 years of enduring and important contributions to our understanding of the universe.

Susan Greenfield - Charming neuropharmacologist. Is she married?

Bertrand Russell - leading logician, philosopher and apologist for Logical atomism as well as leading member of CND and intellectual gadfly.

Audrey Hepburn - actress. world's most beautiful woman.

"He was killed, in 1995, on his Harley Davidson on the Woodhead Pass."

Interesting. I've often passed his "shrine" and wondered who he was. His parents must have loved him very much but I sometimes think that the place a person is killed is not the place to remember them.


Col

Originally posted by Cols
"He was killed, in 1995, on his Harley Davidson on the Woodhead Pass."

Interesting. I've often passed his "shrine" and wondered who he was. His parents must have loved him very much but I sometimes think that the place a person is killed is not the place to remember them.


Col

Its not just the parents that go there - the other pros from around the world leave there old racing licences there, along with bike parts and number boards etc.

See what you mean though, I'm not big on roadside memorials like that usually. It's just a special place. For riders who remember him, it's a special place.

The fact that the shrine remains to this day, 9 years on, shows how much he meant to so many.

If I could invite other guests as well as those I've already mentioned, they would be...

Wilma Flintstone
Betty Rubble

Well Fred and Barney never take them any place so why not?! And I begrudgingly admit to being in love with both, especially Betty, she's a BABE!

Ok I know it's not 4 but here go's:

Michael Jackson - What do you mean you knew that was coming?

Chrissy Waddle - The greatest footballer EVER!

Abraham Stoker - The original horror master.

George Lucas - To tell me whats in episode 3 of Star Wars!!

William Wallace - To break up any fights.

Laurel & Hardy - For the laughs.

four people for dinner eh?

Rick Stein - to cook for us

Dave Lee Roth - For the stories

Michael Palin - see above

Sheryl Crow - To sit next to, maybe sing a little

Could I also ressurect Peter Ustinov as after dinner speaker too?

Maybe Ozzy Osbourne could bring the liquid refreshments

Originally posted by Wavey
Dave Lee Roth - For the stories


Oooh, thats a good one! :thumbsup:

maybe hendrix get a few guitar lessons and have a chat.

There was a nice low budget film that featured Cameron Diaz about a bunch of liberals who invited people they didn't like to supper so they could murder them....cool.....;-) Called The Last Supper, I believe.

Anyway....the people for when we get the good china and best wine out at The Towers.....

My late mum and dad.
Richard Feynman, Physicist and Bongo player.
General George Patton, US Military genius and soldier slapper.
George Orwell
Alan Turing
Paul Allen - co-founder of Microsoft

I'd have Tori Amos on the piano playing her best stuff.
And as someone else said, Ustinov to provide the after dinner speech.

Of course, Turing and Feynman would get their heads together about something techie. Patton and Orwell would probably have a scrap.

I'd tell my mum and dad how much I miss 'em. Paul Allen could fix my buggered installation of Windows ME.....

Feynman would then probably try and chat up Tori Amos.

Ustinov would borrow Feynman's bongos.

Orwell and Patton would eventually find some booze and put the world right.

What a perfect evening!

Joe :-)

Mine would have to be:

Jim Morrison

Jimi Hendrix

Kurt Cobain

George Younge

... and a few girls to keep everyone entertained.

Originally posted by JoePritchard
Paul Allen could fix my buggered installation of Windows ME.....


I dont think even Paul Allen could fix the abysmalness that is Windows ME

Celeb wise:

Alan Turing, Jeff Buckley, Winston Churchill, Isambard Kingdom-Brunel and Bill Bryson. Thats 5 + me.

I think i'll have to get the carvers out!

I'd invite:

- Jeremy Clarkson (to humour the occasion with his motor mouth)

- An american (who Jeremy will hate)

- Anne Robinson (who will frighten everyone but also ensure table manners are upheld)

- A Welsh person (who will hate Anne)

my 5 guests would be
richard pryor.........just to wind up any pc guests
bill clinton ........for port and cigars after
madonna........got to have a lass around maybe she can tell the guests why her last album is crap
noddy out of slade............top bloke
the man from del monte .................for dessert


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Someone beat me to it ! Billy Connelly, the way his mind works fascinates me and I could do with good laugh. I need change from all the gloom and doom of today.

Originally posted by RPG


Celeb wise:

Jeff Buckley

I would love to have see Jeff live. I've been listening to the Myterious White Boy Album.

What would you say if saw his face, his face. I just can't take it anymore.

Milla Jovovich :thumbsup: