Dining With The Dead

**starbkjrus** · 1st March 09, 06:26 AM

Originally Posted by Phogfan86

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** · 1st March 09, 07:11 AM

Originally Posted by starbkjrus

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** · 1st March 09, 08:01 AM

James Marshall Hendrix

Gordon Duncan

Patrick Mcgoohan

**Rogerson785** · 1st March 09, 08:14 AM

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** · 1st March 09, 08:20 AM

Originally Posted by Rogerson785

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

None of these three men are standing in my kitchen?

**macwilkin** · 1st March 09, 06:48 PM

Originally Posted by 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?

They've all been in the East.

T.

**Rogerson785** · 1st March 09, 06:56 PM

Originally Posted by cajunscot

They've all been in the East.

T.

They are all on the level.

**thescot** · 3rd March 09, 08:52 AM

Originally Posted by Rogerson785

They are all on the level.

And they all acted by the plumb.

I failed to mention the why's of my choices:

Robert Burns--well, we need not elaborate.

Sir Walter Scott--I find him to be an incredibly complex person, and I would love to hear his version of the writing of the novels, George's visit to Scotland, his views for vanishing Scotland, etc. And I like his books.

C. S. Lewis--another complex man and a great thinker. Unlike most folks, his A Grief Observed is one of my favorites and quite a deep bit of writing.

But as I reflect, I think I might drop Scott and add my own grandfather, Albert Lee Killman who died about 12 years before I was born. Tales told about him indicate that he was a bona fide character who was well worth knowing.