Dining With The Dead

[ThistleDown]

What three famous people, either living or dead, would you most like to have dinner with? And why?

James VI -- to experience at first hand his extreme eccentricity, his understanding of his role in society and his view of the future
Alfred Adler -- just to bask (?) in what he never put on paper but others have attributed to him
Adam Smith -- acknowledging his philosophy and those of his generation, to query our path over the past 200 years.

Oh, I would so like this to have been more than three, but what a suprb question, Rathdown.

[Scotus]

1. John "the Red" Comyn; so I could interview him and get a first hand account of what really happened in that church in Dumfries with the ambitious Robert Bruce.

2. Mary, Queen of Scots; I would tell her not to run to her cousin in England for help.

3. St. Leo I; anyone who can get Attila the Hun to turn back from the gates of Rome is a man I'd want to meet.

[Malcolm MacWilliam]

Why don't you all invite another person to dine with you, not famous....ME! That way I can enjoy dining with all the folks you have suggested! What great lists.

Or, how about 20 people!! That way I can really throw one hell of a party!

OR, do they have to be famous? I would like to dine with my ggggg grandfather who came over on the boat in 1737; and my gggg grandfather who was a Sjt. serving at Valley Forge; and my gg grandmother from Scotland!

Ok, I'll obey the rules....but VERY difficult! Today's list.....(will change by tomorrow depending on my mood....): Mark Twain, Groucho Marx and Bennett Cerf (I enjoy reruns of What's My Line?...maybe Dorothy Kilgallen can serve us gin and tonics?).

Malcolm

[starbkjrus]

Thomas Jefferson
Pete Townsend
Mel Brooks

Ummmm, Mel Brooks might be surprised to be on this list since he's still kicking around Hollywood.

[TexasMcGregor]

Ummmm, Mel Brooks might be surprised to be on this list since he's still kicking around Hollywood.

Not at all, the original query was what three famous people LIVING or dead...

As for me,

Twain,
Poe,
Sir Walter Scott.

A few years ago, a buddy posed the question, 'If you were going to have a last supper, and you could invite anyone, who would be there?" All I had to do to answer the question of this thread was cull that list a bit.

[highlander_Daz]

James Marshall Hendrix

Gordon Duncan

Patrick Mcgoohan

[Rogerson785]

Benjamin Franklin: A great inventor and lover of good beer.

Omar Bradley: Five Star General of the Army, World War II.

Tom Mix: U.S. Marshal turned actor. Stared in over 400 western films.

BONUS Question: What do these three men all have in common?

[Phogfan86]

BONUS Question: What do these three men all have in common?

None of these three men are standing in my kitchen?

[macwilkin]

Benjamin Franklin: A great inventor and lover of good beer.

Omar Bradley: Five Star General of the Army, World War II.

Tom Mix: U.S. Marshal turned actor. Stared in over 400 western films.

BONUS Question: What do these three men all have in common?

They've all been in the East.

T.