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MiddleFingerMom

(25,163 posts)
Sat Dec 31, 2011, 09:23 AM Dec 2011

I'm definitely not a sports fan, so never been into fantasy teams...but THIS has had me thinking.

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Choose up to 6 people, dead or alive and famous within the last 20 years,
who you would like to hang out in a dive bar with, doing shots-and-beers
(or Shirley Temples, etc.), shooting pool and/or throwing darts and just
generally talking shit - and eventually keeping half-an-eye on the clock
over the bar so you don't miss last call.
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What's your dive-bar fantasy team?
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Mine:
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I'm definitely not a sports fan, so never been into fantasy teams...but THIS has had me thinking. (Original Post) MiddleFingerMom Dec 2011 OP
Bill Hicks, Amy Adams, Paul Wellstone, Syd Straw, Pappy Boyington, Dennis Hopper taterguy Dec 2011 #1
Bill Hicks has me reconsidering my list. MiddleFingerMom Dec 2011 #7
Sigourney Weaver, Groucho Marx, Steve Martin, Robin Williams, Gilda Radner, and John Holmes. HopeHoops Dec 2011 #2
There's at least two people on your list who know about hosting alien life forms. Gidney N Cloyd Dec 2011 #4
"Be free!!" HopeHoops Dec 2011 #5
Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Mike Tyson, Roberto Duran, Joe Louis and Mitt Romney. Scuba Dec 2011 #3
Questions running through my mind on that last one Angry Dragon Dec 2011 #6
I looked at it 4-5 times and didn't manage to get it 'til the last one. LOL n/t MiddleFingerMom Dec 2011 #8
I just think it'd be fun to watch Mittens squirm. n/t Scuba Dec 2011 #9
Bill Clinton, Molly Ivers, Carl Sagan, Helen Mirren, Nelson Mandela, Jeff Bridges n/t sarge43 Dec 2011 #10
Zac Brown, Jorge Rodriguez, Kate Middleton, Christopher Reeves, Chelsea Clinton, Johnny Carson mainstreetonce Dec 2011 #11
Feynman, Sagan, Carlin, Delany, Goodall, Griffin pokerfan Dec 2011 #12
carlin, colbert,franklin,,cheech,thompson,joplin annabanana Dec 2011 #13
Charles Barkley, Hunter S. Thompson, Charles Bukowsky, Alison Krausse, Rachel Maddow, Jon Stewart bluedigger Dec 2011 #14
George Carlin, Terence McKenna, Louis CK, Jon Stewart and Malcolm Gladwell Duer 157099 Dec 2011 #15
Paul Newman, Wayne Dyer, Robert Thurmond, Dalai Lama, Julia Child, Chuck Jones kentauros Dec 2011 #16

taterguy

(29,582 posts)
1. Bill Hicks, Amy Adams, Paul Wellstone, Syd Straw, Pappy Boyington, Dennis Hopper
Sat Dec 31, 2011, 09:30 AM
Dec 2011

I realize that Syd Straw doesn't quite qualify as famous, but she should be.

MiddleFingerMom

(25,163 posts)
7. Bill Hicks has me reconsidering my list.
Sat Dec 31, 2011, 02:25 PM
Dec 2011

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But Susan is staying.
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Oh yes. Susan is STAYING!!!
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Gidney N Cloyd

(19,833 posts)
4. There's at least two people on your list who know about hosting alien life forms.
Sat Dec 31, 2011, 01:38 PM
Dec 2011

Three if you count Mork.

mainstreetonce

(4,178 posts)
11. Zac Brown, Jorge Rodriguez, Kate Middleton, Christopher Reeves, Chelsea Clinton, Johnny Carson
Sat Dec 31, 2011, 06:44 PM
Dec 2011

I was tempted to name someone like Barbara Walters or Katie Couric because I could ask them about all the people they have interviewed.

pokerfan

(27,677 posts)
12. Feynman, Sagan, Carlin, Delany, Goodall, Griffin
Sat Dec 31, 2011, 07:20 PM
Dec 2011

Choose up to 6 people, dead or alive and famous within the last 20 years,

Richard Feynman


Carl Sagan


George Carlin


Dana Delany


Jane Goodall


Kathy Griffin

bluedigger

(17,086 posts)
14. Charles Barkley, Hunter S. Thompson, Charles Bukowsky, Alison Krausse, Rachel Maddow, Jon Stewart
Sat Dec 31, 2011, 07:44 PM
Dec 2011

Sarandon is always welcome.

Duer 157099

(17,742 posts)
15. George Carlin, Terence McKenna, Louis CK, Jon Stewart and Malcolm Gladwell
Sat Dec 31, 2011, 07:53 PM
Dec 2011

Do they have to all get along?

I'll be either laughing or having my mind blown.

kentauros

(29,414 posts)
16. Paul Newman, Wayne Dyer, Robert Thurmond, Dalai Lama, Julia Child, Chuck Jones
Sat Dec 31, 2011, 08:00 PM
Dec 2011

Paul Newman

(partly because I knew his daughter, Melissa, in kindergarten and 1st grade.)


Dr. Wayne Dyer



Robert Thurmond

(father of Uma)


Dalai Lama



Julia Child



Chuck Jones



Cool thread, MFM!

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