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What historical figure would you want for a dinner guest?

PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 6:37 pm
by rocklobster
Like it says in the topic.
This was a question posed to me in the latest podcast. I answered with Osamu Tezuka (creator of Astroboy) and Mark Twain. What about the rest of you?

PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 6:54 pm
by Warrior 4 Jesus
Do they have to be dead yet?

Hayao Miyazaki, Herge, C.S. Lewis, and Job

PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 7:26 pm
by goldenspines
Hmmm....I think either Marquis de La Fayette or Isaiah. Of course, I would love to meet Jesus in person too.

PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 8:22 pm
by jon_jinn
Paul
Solomon
Naoki Urasawa
J.R.R. Tolkien
C.S. Lewis
Leonardo Da Vinci
Vincent van Gogh

PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 8:24 pm
by Fish and Chips
Nikola Tesla or Teddy Roosevelt.

PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 8:25 pm
by Mr. SmartyPants
My great great great great great great grandparents.

PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 9:07 pm
by Azier the Swordsman
Solomon. I bet it would be mindblowing being able to converse with the wisest man who ever lived.

PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 9:19 pm
by Warrior 4 Jesus
Oh yeah, that would be a real treat. Brain exhaustion would follow quickly though. You'd have to do it in small doses, light suppers or something, not a full blown feast.

PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 9:25 pm
by Azier the Swordsman
Monday: Learn the secret of life.

Tuesday: Have the Trinity explained.

Wednesday: Explain how God has no beginning.

PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 9:26 pm
by Joshua Christopher
Lincoln. Big guy, big reach. Skinny guys fight 'til they're burger.

PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 9:27 pm
by Ashley
C.S. Lewis, Tanemura Arina, Sandro Botticelli, Amy Carmichael.

PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 10:10 pm
by Mi-Ru-Me
Gangus Kahn Probably a good eatewr.
Sultan Marod(Murat) II of the outamans
Abe lincoln
Harison Ford

oh and Stalin and Hitler so I could poison there food.

PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 10:32 pm
by Warrior 4 Jesus
Ghangus Kahn would probably eat you. Didn't he murder lots of people?
I guess it's your funeral. lol

PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 10:53 pm
by K. Ayato
Pocahontas

PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 11:50 pm
by crossalchemist
There are so many! If it were over the course of a week:

Sunday: C.S. Lewis, Niechtze face off.
Monday: Tolkien will explain to me the symbolism (if any) behind LOTR.
Tuesday: Ralph De La Haie (my furthest anscestor)
Wednesday: Saladin and Richard the Lionheart
Thursday: Sigurd (from the Sword of the Volsungs), assuming the poor guy actually existed and if that's not valid because he might not exist then I would choose Nikolae Tesla and he can give me the plans for his infamous 'death ray' and elecromagnetic airship.
Friday: Musashi and Sun Tzu, a discussion on tactics and the art of war.
Saturday: Jesus Christ.

PostPosted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 12:08 am
by Stephen
Joshua Christopher wrote:Lincoln. Big guy, big reach. Skinny guys fight 'til they're burger.


Dang it! I was gonna make the Ghandi joke from that movie. Beat me to it.

Seriously though...I have a few I would love to talk to.

1. Mark Twain. I cannot help but thinking I would probably get into a fight with him though.

2. Andrew Jackson. If half the stuff I have read about this president is true, he was a pretty hardcore guy.

3. Elvis. I know, it sounds lame. But I would like to talk to the guy.

4. David Gilmore and Roger Waters. At the same time. *laughs* Any Floyd fans will see the humor there.

And I am sure there are a ton more I am forgetting. Good thread though.

PostPosted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 1:15 am
by Joshua Christopher
oh yeah johnny cash

lol

hes awesome

also i really like jack kirby

PostPosted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 1:48 am
by bigsleepj
Johnny Cash, CS Lewis, Nikola Tesla, Charles Dickens, Dostoevsky, Vincent van Gogh, Napoleon Bonoparte, Paul Kruger, Rasputin the Mad Monk, Karl Marx. I'm sure all of these would make good, interesting conversation together. :)

PostPosted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 3:52 am
by Eaglestrike
Do they even have to be real people?

Hyuuga Hinata please.

PostPosted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 6:20 am
by termyt
If I only get to pick one, and assume the language barrier would not be a barrier, I would choose Hannibal (the Carthaginian general). I’ve always wanted to meet him.

George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and Ronald Regan would make a fantastic dinner party for an evening as well. I’d love to spend an evening discussing democracy and the role of government with four of the men who have had the greatest impact in that area. Teddy’s famous cousin can come, too, but only if he promises to answer truthfully the question “what’s up with the whole social security thing?â€

PostPosted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 11:22 am
by mitsuki lover
Voice Actors:Moneca Stori,Kelly Sheridan,Hunter Mackenzie Austin,Colleen Clickenbeard,Rachel Lillis,Caitlin Glass,Kari Wahlgren and Lara Jill Miller
Politicians:Theodore Roosevelt,Abraham Lincoln,Jefferson Davis,U.S.Grant,
Condolezza Rice,Daniel Webster,Henry Clay,John Adams,Thomas Jefferson,John
Quincy Adams,Charles de Gaulle,Adolf Hitler,Joseph Stalin,Emperor Hirohito,
Saladin,Charlemagne,Julius Caesar
Military:Robert Edward Lee,Jonathan 'Stonewall'Jackson,J.E.B.'Jeb'Stuart,George
Patton,Erwin Rommel,Admiral Yamamoto,Richard I 'The Lion Heart',Louis IX(St.Louis),George Washington,Benedict Arnold,George Winfield Scott,George
McClellan,Baron Von Richthofen(The Red Baron),Alexander The Great,Queen
Boudica,Joshua,Finn McCool,Mars,Athena,Odysseus
Writers:Robert Frost,Mark Twain,O.Henry,C.S.Lewis,Karl Marx,Thomas Paine,
Charles Dickens,Carl Sandburg,Homer,the author of Beowulf,Longfellow,
Rev.G.A.Studdert-Kennedy,Kierkegaard,Voltaire,Dante,Luke,Philip Pullman,
J.R.R.Tolkien,Margaret Ball,Diane Duane
Theologians:John Calvin,Jacob Arminius,Servetus,St.Augustine,St.Paul,
Henry VIII,Martin Luther,St.Anselm,Origen,Buddha,Mohammed,Moses Maimoides(sp?)
Philosophers:Rene Descartes,Plato,Socrates,Aristotle,Pierre Abelard,St.Thomas
Aquinas
Musicians:Ludwig Van Beethoven,Johann Sebastian Bach,Johannes Brahms,John Lennon,Ringo Starr,Barry Manilow,Frederic Chopin,George Gershwin,Sir Arthur
Sullivan,Tom Jones,Palestrina,Victor Borge

PostPosted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 3:31 pm
by jon_jinn
bigsleepj wrote:Charles Dickens and Napoleon Bonoparte


oh! i forgot to mention these two.

PostPosted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 3:54 pm
by San_Hayashi
Hmm, that's an intersting question. I keep trying to narrow it down to one in my mind. Probably Mark Twain or Aristotle because these guys have great quotes!

PostPosted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 4:18 pm
by Raiden no Kishi
Jesus. And no, I'm not answering that because it's the "Christian-sounding" answer. Seriously. Think about it.

.rai//

PostPosted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 4:37 pm
by Puritan
Well, I would like to meet Anselm of Canterbury, Brother Lawrence, Edward Teller, Teddy Roosevelt, Otto von Bismark, Queen Victoria, Winston Churchill, Mark Twain, Martin Luther, and Huges de Payens. Though not all at once, of course. I can't imagine what these people would do if put at the same table with each other.

PostPosted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 7:36 pm
by Abassi
Hmmm….<.< >.>

King Nebuchadnezzar
Joseph (the one from the Bible of course)
C.S. Lewis
St. Patrick
Herodotus

O.O

PostPosted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 12:39 am
by Stephen
How could I forget Johnny Cash. I am ashamed.

PostPosted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 1:06 am
by Eaglestrike
Raiden no Kishi wrote:Jesus. And no, I'm not answering that because it's the "Christian-sounding" answer. Seriously. Think about it.

.rai//


I have thought about it, but I'm going to talk to Him anyway in a few days/years/decades. I don't think it's 100% I'll be able to talk to past people as well, especially seeing how not everyone is getting into Heaven (and uhh, my person isn't real >.>;;)

PostPosted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 1:19 am
by bigsleepj
ShatterheartArk wrote:How could I forget Johnny Cash. I am ashamed.


Indeed. For shame. Go stand in the corner for the next few on-line sessions.

PostPosted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 1:29 am
by CreatureArt
I'd pick Jesus. ^^

But if that's not what you're going for I'd love to meet Martin Luther King Jr. Or the man he was named for. Any of the apostles from the New Testament. Or a German citizen from pre-world war II Germany. Oh the questions I would ask. :)