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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsDinner Party! Anyone living or not... List your top ten.
No personal family members. Those go without saying...
Ladies
Dorothy Parker
Eleanor Roosevelt
Margaret Atwood
Hedy Lamarr
Lise Meitner
Gentlemen
Oscar Wilde
Samuel Clemmens
John Locke
Richard Feynman
George Carlin
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)Last edited Fri Jan 11, 2013, 12:12 PM - Edit history (1)
Ladies:
Marilyn Monroe
Harper Lee
Etta James
Gilda Radner
Madam Curie
Gents:
Benjamin Franklin
Edgar Allen Poe
W.C. Fields
Robert Johnson
Mickey Mantle
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)I miss Gilda...
siligut
(12,272 posts)Phryne, Su Xiaoxiao, Ben Franklin, Margaretha Geertruida Zelle, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Graywarrior.
Rowdyboy
(22,057 posts)Last edited Fri Jan 11, 2013, 02:11 AM - Edit history (1)
I'll bet Marc Anthony would keep things interesting too!
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Joan Baez
Sheryl Crow
Angelica Huston
Marylin Monroe
Elizabeth Taylor
Men
Ben Affleck
Leonardo Dicaprio
Brad Pitt
Bruce Springsteen
Patrick Swazey
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pink-o
(4,056 posts)Oscar Wilde and Mark Twain would be on my list as well. I'd also invite Charles Darwin and Spencer Wells, just to watch them interact.
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)but I think I'd invite Feynman before him. He could bring his drums.
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Aristus
(66,388 posts)Ladies:
Cleopatra VII
Eleanor of Acquitaine
Joan of Arc
Gertrude Stein
Eleanor Roosevelt
Gentlemen:
Socrates
Marcus Aurelius
William Shakespeare
Benjamin Franklin
Oscar Wilde
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)Could I sit beside Marcus, please.
mokawanis
(4,442 posts)Salvador Dali, Margaret Atwood, Amy Goodman , Amelia Earheart, Mother Jones, Sojourner Truth.
Rowdyboy
(22,057 posts)Men
1. Oscar Wilde
2. Julius Caesar
3. Thomas Jefferson
4. Walt Whitman
5. Leonardo Da Vinci
6. George Gordon, Lord Byron
7. Gore Vidal
8. George Takei
Women
9. Tallulah Bankhead
Uncertain
10. Unknown waitstaff who taped Romney's "47%" remarks
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)Takei is certainly worthy...
Rowdyboy
(22,057 posts)or gay friendly (or at least not openly homophobic). I love Tallulah (and Dorothy Parker, Eleanor of Aquitaine etc) but MY dinner party would be predominantly (if not entirely) masculine. I had to leave off Montgomery Clift, Mad King Ludwig of Bavaria and Elton John just to get the list down to 10!
Bring on SausageFest 2013!
God I adore George Takei!
George Takei on The Big Bang Theory:
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)Men:
Mark Twain
George Frederick Handel
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
Raoul Wallenberg
Women:
Amelia Earhardt
Harriet Tubman
Eleanor Roosevelt
Dolly Madison
Martha Washington
Bombero1956
(3,539 posts)Men:
1. Benjamin Franklin
2. Abraham Lincoln
3. Michelangelo
4. William Shakespeare
5. Robert Frost
Ladies:
1. Katherine Hepburn
2. Charlotte Brontë
3. Amelia Earhart
4. Sojourner Truth
5. Bette Davis
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)Ernest Hemmingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thomas Wolfe
Shakespeare
Mark Twain
Jane Austen
Sylvia Plath
Harper Lee
Margaret Mitchell
Sacajawea
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Samuel L. Jackson
Lawrence Fishburn
Muhammad Ali
Joe Frazier
Danny Trejo
Willie Horton
Reuben Carter
Ray Lewis
Charles Barkley
and...
Mitt Romney (just to watch him squirm)
I want to see him squirm too
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Women:
Grace Slick
Aspasia
Anne Bonney
Olympe de Gouges
Eleanor Roosevelt
Men:
Heron of Alexandria
Benjamin Franklin
Samuel Clemens
Goyaałé
Confucius
Dash87
(3,220 posts)In_The_Wind
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Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Sounds like a good set up for a joke, if nothing else ...
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)Elizabeth I
Gertrude Stein
Eleanor Roosevelt
Billie Holiday
Boudicca
men
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Sinclair Lewis
George Carlin
J.D. Salinger
Taliesen
Myrina
(12,296 posts)Thomas Jefferson
Howard Zinn
C Wright Mills
Matt Damon
Barbra Streisand
Howard Dean
Daniel Day-Lewis
Thurgood Marshall
Emma Goldman
Charlie Chaplin
GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)Bob Newhart
Richard Pryor
Aisha Tyler
George Carlin
Wanda Sykes
Gilda Radner
Carol Burnett
Stephen Colbert
Jonathan Winters
Tim Conway
Betty White
charlie and algernon
(13,447 posts)My list:
Barack Obama
Michelle Obama
Abraham Lincoln
Franklin Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Ben Franklin
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Mark Twain
Dolly Madison
Taverner
(55,476 posts)Wimmen:
Emma Goldman
Zelda Fitzgerald
Angela Davis
Gloria Steinem
Mehn:
Ernest Hemmingway
Hunter S Thompson
Richard Nixon
John D Fitzgerald
Karl Marx
av8rdave
(10,573 posts)Molly Ivins
Ann Richards
Kurt Vonnegut
Nelson Mandela
Hunter S. Thompson
Michelle Obama
George Carlin
Isaac Asimov
Toni Morrison
Al Franken