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Post by Ronv69 on Nov 25, 2021 21:43:47 GMT -5
Marx Lenin Pol Pot Mao Tse Tung Hitler I would serve them all something that would leave them in a hellish, paralytic state. Thinking Inglorious Bastards? |
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Post by zambini on Nov 26, 2021 10:01:22 GMT -5
If you're going for laughs I'd choose:
Will Rogers
Mark Twain
Dorothy Parker
Groucho Marx
Alice Roosevelt
They're all known to be great dinner guests, from around the same time period with the exception of Twain (which in in of itself would be a great conversation starter), speak the same language and have different enough backgrounds to make things interesting.
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Post by Legend Lover on Nov 26, 2021 10:40:25 GMT -5
If you're going for laughs I'd choose: Will Rogers Mark Twain Dorothy Parker Groucho Marx Alice Roosevelt They're all known to be great dinner guests, from around the same time period with the exception of Twain (which in in of itself would be a great conversation starter), speak the same language and have different enough backgrounds to make things interesting. Ahh Groucho Marx!! Of course...I should have added him. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Nov 26, 2021 10:56:01 GMT -5
If you're going for laughs I'd choose: Will Rogers Mark Twain Dorothy Parker Groucho Marx Alice Roosevelt They're all known to be great dinner guests, from around the same time period with the exception of Twain (which in in of itself would be a great conversation starter), speak the same language and have different enough backgrounds to make things interesting. Ahh Groucho Marx!! Of course...I should have added him. To paraphrase Groucho, "I wouldn't want to go to a dinner where I was invited". 😉😁🤠 |
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Post by toshtego on Nov 26, 2021 11:13:07 GMT -5
I like the Dorothy Parker suggestion. However she needs someone to compete with. So I invited Tallulah Bankhead. Then there has to be Robert Benchley to give Dorothy moral support.
Zoltan and Alexander Korda are invited so we can talk movies and personalities. Alex would be bringing Merle Oberon, his spouse. She brightens any dinner party more than a vase of flowers.
At a second table are Mark Twain, H.L. Mencken, Ben Bradlee, Herb Caen, Edward Murro.
Third table are Clarence Darrow, Horace Rumpole, Daniel Webster, Abe Lincoln, Melvin Belli.
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Post by Plainsman on Nov 26, 2021 12:15:37 GMT -5
I like the Dorothy Parker suggestion. However she needs someone to compete with. So I invited Tallulah Bankhead. Then there has to be Robert Benchley to give Dorothy moral support. Zoltan and Alexander Korda are invited so we can talk movies and personalities. Alex would be bringing Merle Oberon, his spouse. She brightens any dinner party more than a vase of flowers. At a second table are Mark Twain, H.L. Mencken, Ben Bradlee, Herb Caen, Edward Murro. Third table are Clarence Darrow, Horace Rumpole, Daniel Webster, Abe Lincoln, Melvin Belli. John is running a chow-hall. |
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Post by toshtego on Nov 26, 2021 12:23:51 GMT -5
I like the Dorothy Parker suggestion. However she needs someone to compete with. So I invited Tallulah Bankhead. Then there has to be Robert Benchley to give Dorothy moral support. Zoltan and Alexander Korda are invited so we can talk movies and personalities. Alex would be bringing Merle Oberon, his spouse. She brightens any dinner party more than a vase of flowers. At a second table are Mark Twain, H.L. Mencken, Ben Bradlee, Herb Caen, Edward Murro. Third table are Clarence Darrow, Horace Rumpole, Daniel Webster, Abe Lincoln, Melvin Belli. John is running a chow-hall. Used to be I ran a restaurant. I would love to go from table to table above. |
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Post by Plainsman on Nov 26, 2021 13:16:26 GMT -5
I won’t be inviting these, but…
Milton Berle
Don Rickles
Steve Martin
Mel Brooks
W.C. Fields
Phew!
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Post by toshtego on Nov 26, 2021 13:57:07 GMT -5
I won’t be inviting these, but… Milton Berle Don Rickles Steve Martin Mel Brooks W.C. Fields Phew! They may be entertaining somewhat but I prefer not. |
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Post by Plainsman on Nov 26, 2021 14:16:24 GMT -5
I won’t be inviting these, but… Milton Berle Don Rickles Steve Martin Mel Brooks W.C. Fields Phew! They may be entertaining somewhat but I prefer not. Agreed. Full of sound and fury but signifying nothing. Except maybe Martin. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Nov 26, 2021 16:27:23 GMT -5
I won’t be inviting these, but… Milton Berle Don Rickles Steve Martin Mel Brooks W.C. Fields Phew! My ribs hurt just thinking about it. |
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Post by Scott W on Nov 27, 2021 11:42:23 GMT -5
I would like to sit and have dinner with my grandmother and my cousin Rob one last time. Ones been gone 12 years and the other 7 months
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Post by trailboss on Nov 27, 2021 20:40:33 GMT -5
George Washington would be a good pick.
He was admired by friends and foes, Providence played a huge role in his life and he rightly acknowledged it. Greatness tempered by humility.
His farewell address really puts an exclamation point on his legacy, and should be required reading for every student.
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Post by Plainsman on Nov 27, 2021 21:08:06 GMT -5
George Washington would be a good pick. He was admired by friends and foes, Providence played a huge role in his life and he rightly acknowledged it. Greatness tempered by humility. His farewell address really puts an exclamation point on his legacy, and should be required reading for every student. I’ve read that he wasn’t much of a conversationalist. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Nov 27, 2021 21:11:35 GMT -5
George Washington would be a good pick. He was admired by friends and foes, Providence played a huge role in his life and he rightly acknowledged it. Greatness tempered by humility. His farewell address really puts an exclamation point on his legacy, and should be required reading for every student. I’ve read that he wasn’t much of a conversationalist. But when he did speak, he had something to say. And people listened. |
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Post by trailboss on Nov 27, 2021 21:13:34 GMT -5
Just being in his presence would be enough for me.
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Post by jeffd on Nov 28, 2021 13:14:58 GMT -5
I play music. Not for a living mind you, but as my strong avocation. And I hang with a bunch of musicians all the time. It is not irrelevant to consider that I have these long term associations and relationships with people that I don't spend a lot of time talking to, or with. We get together and jam, or play a gig, or a party, or an open mic, we talk about our instruments from time to time, or different tunes or pieces we are trying to learn, and that is it. I have had many musicians over to my house for string changing party. We all change our strings, while on the stove is a huge great pot of chili and in the oven is some great cornbread. After we have all finished we have a chili and cornbread feast, perhaps with some adult beverages, and then jam together, on new strings, late into the night. .. not once discussing the news, or politics, or sharing much of our lives. Half of them I probably would not be able to describe what the heck they do for a living, and get wrong how many kids they have, or may have.
I can name many musicians, alive and past, who i would love to invite to one of my jams, or meet at a party. But the reality of it may not be as much fun. Many of the greatest of the great, names we might all know, are much more competitive than me, or much less social than even me, or so business like in their profession they don't themselves enjoy "casual" musical encounters.
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Post by jeffd on Nov 28, 2021 13:15:12 GMT -5
Agreeing politically with someone is way way down the list of criteria I would use to chose a dinner companion. Famous or infamous folks with whom I disagree would make, all else being equal, fascinating fun conversation.
Heck, I don't agree with many of the folks I spend time with now.
I may not even agree with myself day to day.
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