Who Would You Invite?

[rubymontana]

If you could have 6 people, dead or alive, to dinner tonight, who would you invite?.....Okay, I'll start off....Betty Friedan, Friedrich Nietzsche, John Lennon,Maya Angelou, Jack Kerouac, and to make this really fun...Groucho Marx. Peace, Ruby

[teepi]

I would love to sit down and have a meal of cuban food with my mom....she died when I was 7 and at the time I wouldn't eat but about 3-4 things and no cuban food.

I would also love to talk with Edgar Cayce, about myself and how we play into the future as a whole. Also more talk about Atlantis.

Then I want to have a good talk and walk with Euell Gibbons...to learn more about eating from the wild plants....you never know when you'll need this info...

After all this seriousness....throw in the 3 stooges...'cause I truely do love to sit back and just laugh my ass off.

[rubymontana]

Teepi...Thats cool with the three stooges, I mean I would love to sit and have enlighted conversations with my choices, but a little humor really makes life! Hence my adding Groucho....This is really going to tell where my head is!!!! Peace, Ruby

[~Sam~]

Kewl Topic...Ken and I were just talking about this the other night.

The first guy would be Brian Greene, author of The Fabric of the Cosmos. This guy's way of writing and how he explains the latest theories in theoretical physics is just my cup of tea. Not only that but he watches the X Files and listens to Click & Clack on PB radio. I like him from afar, so why not invite him to dinner.

Next would be Joao Magueijo, another theoretical physicist and author of; Faster Than The Speed Of Light. I really think that he's an alien being. His mind is just so far out there.

My Mother's Parents, dead a long time now, from Hungary. They never did talk to me much when I was a child, but I'd like to have them here to maybe teach me a few words in Hungarian. And to try my Kapustash Tasta (Cabbage Noodles), of course.

Last, but not least, would be Leo Szilard. I admire him for the following, and he has visited me in spirit a few times while I was communing with my Hungarian ancestors. Seems the Hunkies like to stick together on the otherside too...

Near the beginning of World War II, Otto Hahn, a German chemist, discovered the fission (splitting) of the uranium atom, by bombarding uranium with neutrons. He published his findings in Jan., 1939. Soon, many physicists became aware of the possibility of a nuclear chain reaction. This thought led to the idea of an atomic bomb. Leo Szilard, a Hungarian physicist who had moved to the United States, sent letters to scientists around the world, asking them to not publish their experiments on uranium fission. The fear was that Hitler would get the atomic bomb before the allies did. That fear resulted in the Manhattan Project, which produced the atomic bomb. The allies were in a race against Germany, to produce the bomb.

The U.S. went on to build a few bombs. And they blew up two Japanese cities, Hiroshim on Aug. 6, 1945, and Nagasaki on Aug. 9, in order to encourage Japan to surrender. This made WWII our first, and only, nuclear war.

So, what happened to the Germans? To the surprise of the allies, the Germans never got close to producing a bomb. Werner Heisenberg, a very respected physicist, led Hitler's atomic bomb project. Apparently, Hitler was sure that the war wouldn't last long. And, this atomic bomb was going to take many years to produce, if it could be done at all. And so, the project was not supported.

[squawkers7]

There's another messege thread here where ya can only invite 4 people.

so all 4 Beatles again, and not sure about the other 2 people.
Ghandi
Pres. Kennedy
Timothy Leary
Princess Diana
and a few from hipforums....wizarddrew77 and a couple others but can't remember everyone's name at the moment

[MushroomDreams]

- Ghandi
- Martin Luther King Jr.
They were the greatest revolutionary leaders of all time

An artist and creative thinker
- Leonardo De Vinci

- Helen of Troy
I just want to know why she was worth going to war over

- Tim Leary
He was a brilliant thinker

- Mata Hari
For fun

[mosaicthreads]

What a fun thread! I love to think about who I would have to dinner if I could choose anyone. Everytime I think I choose differently.

Today I'm thinking I'd also like to have my mom, who died when I was 12, so we could know each other as adults and share our stories and joys of motherhood together.

I'd love to have John Holt to dinner also. He was an author, teacher, and original thinker of the 60's and 70's. Among other books he wrote "How Children Fail", "How Children Learn" and "Teach Your Own." I'd love to pick his amazing brain over dinner.

Along those lines I'd invite Jean Liedloff, anthropologist and author of the "Continum Comcept". Again to pick her brain about primitive tribal life.

For my husband I'd have to invite John Lennon and probably Phil Keggey or Kieth Green. ;)

Last but not least, I think I might like to visit with James Herriot and gleen frome his tales of a simpler way of life in the Yorkshire hill of an earlier era. :D

[scratcho]

Ruby--I'm afraid I'd have to have Harpo and Chico in addition to Groucho.Insane comic anarchy!And as somone mentioned,Leonardo Da Vinci,to see what amazing ideas he could come up with in this era,Ayn Rand ,to see what she thinks about her ideas now and Otis Redding to sing to me for a while.

[candy]

hmmm,interesting!
hmm,let's see...
to make it fun:janis joplin
for the psychedelic factor:jimi hendrix
for the intelectual factor : dr.freud
for the peace : joan baez
(ok I'm gonna make it 7...it's real important!;) )
and for some peace spreading...Bushie,sharon and sadam

comon' 4 hippies 1 intelectual against well...one pretzel choking president :confused: is already hard on us so...take that by 3...yeah...!!!:p
it's all for the peace man!

[DragonLady]

Only six people? Okay....

William Shatner (ripped shirt in tow)
Leonard Nimoy (to be straight man to Bill's jokes)
Eddie Murphy (to make jokes about everyone)
Robin Williams (see Eddie's explaination)
Angelina Jolie (cause I'd love to get a piece of that!)
Madonna (see Angelina's explaination)

[GOB1029]

John Lennon, Aristotle, Plato, Jesus, my girlfriend, George Bush, Hitler

[misc]

Joan Lennon, George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Cat Stevens, Joan Baez, Jimmy Page, and Hitler

We would make beautiful music and Hitler would sit in the corner and clap like an idiot. I could totally see Bob Dylan and Cat Stevens getting into a fight over Joan...

Cat: How can I tell you that I love you?
Bob: But lately I see your ribbons and your bows


Oh... nevermind!

[daysye]

i think i have always said different people everytime.....

janis joplin--'cause she rocks

jerry garcia--gotta have my jerry fix

my grandmothers--they both died before i could really tell them how much they meant to me

emily dickenson--her poetry is awesome

drew barrymore--she's hot

[SvgGrdnBeauty]

George Harrison, John Lennon, Eric Idle, Anne Rice, Darren Hayes, and Gandhi (these are all people I would love to meet!)

[FreakyJoeMan]

Nelson Mandella, Jimmy Carter, Frank Zappa, Brad Nowell and Stephen J. Gould. We would have a big fuckin pepperoni pizza, some beer, and a big ol' spliff afterwards.

[MattInVegas]

Friedrich Nietzsche, John Denver,Sigmund Frueid, Steven Hawking, Art Bell, And Ellis D Tripp.
That would be one HELLA Conversation!
All are Smot Pokers. Some wine, a Chess Game in progress. I can see it!

[givepeaceachance]

O.k a strange little mix here

Stephen King (Love the man)

Ringo Starr

Michael Palin (or Terry Jones...It's a very difficult choice)

The guy from Insomniac

What fun that would be!!!

[riversong]

Six people? That's tough.

Jerry Garcia
Jack Kerouac
Katherine Hepburn
John Lennon
Janis Joplin
My sister, Nancy - she died 34 years ago
sorry, can't stop here -
Edward Abbey
Georgie White of the Colorado River
STP John (because I love him still and he was Christ Consciousness and he left his body 33 years ago . . . :-(

[grendel 44]

I would have a hard time only having six, but today I would love to sit and eat with:

Elizabeth I of England (supposed virgin and the original liberated woman)
Richard the 111 of England (gotta ask if he did the little princes in or was is Buckinham's idea)
Issac Newton so he can argue with,
Stephen Hawkins
Gallileo, so he can be told about the feather in the vacuum thing that the astronaut did on the moon.
Eddie Izzard, because he's really smart as well as funny.

Another good group, guaranteed to start a good debate would be:
Malcom X, Stalin, Hitler, Lenin, Martin Luther King Jr and Abbie Hoffman.

Wanna attend, there's room for more.

[Weepingoak]

Jerry Garcia -Cause he died way to early and I miss seeing hime dearly.

Emma Goldman- she is a amazing women,

Al and Rob from moe.

My sister Kayla's whole family would stop over to see the next person...

Vickii- she's My sisters Mom and she died way to early in life and still had a family to raise.

George Clinton just for shits and giggles

[MoonjavaSeed]

1. My dad- to break the awkward silences and because he seems to know everything

2. A Pirate-any pirate. we could hang out on his ship

3. Bob Dylan- Do I really need to say anything?

4. Robin Williams-Someone already said this but he is hilarious and my favourite actor anyways and he'd keep us going with strange impressions

5. Alfred Hitchcock-He could tell stories and we'd all get scared silly.

6. Roseanne Barr-Because there's no women here yet and the men might need some funny, motherly nagging.

[lespaulman83]

i would have to invite.....

john lennon
jimi hendrix
jim morrison
robin trower
tony iommi
& paul McCartney
yep that'd be it.