You get to throw a party for any 9 people past or present.

[chknltl]

They don't have to be terribly famous or deceased...your choice. So who would you invite?
Here is my list:

Carl Sagan
Jacques Cousteau
Kathryn Hepburn
Martin Luther King Jr
Ben Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
Jesus
Leuren Moret
Progmom (yep that one AND she gets to pick the music)

If this thread has any success then there will be a second party thrown but you can only choose folks not on your first list but off of everyone else's list.


Spelling edit

[LanternWaste]

1. The only question remaining is

C.S. Lewis
Henry V
Thurgood Marshall
Winston Churchill

Lucy Deakins
Irenne Dunne

Ben Franklin
The Apostle Peter

Victor Hugo

The only question remaining is: Catered or do we go to Bennigan's?

[chknltl]

2. The fact that you are the only one to respond to this post means:

your choice, and let's just combine our parties.... your guests would go well with mine. A chat with Ben Franklin would be enlightening....that is if we could tear him away from all those wonderful women.

[dback]

3. Nine folks, huh? OK, without thinking about it...

Jesus
Buddha
Plato
Shakespeare
Thomas Jefferson
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Katharine Hepburn
Barbra Streisand
Frank Sinatra

I think we have a good mixture of conversation, philosophy, religion, and talent there. The menu would include:

Wine
Dates and figs baked in phylo with honey and nuts
Honey mead
Beet salad with creme fraiche
Warm carrot-ginger soup OR Yankee bean soup
Lamb ragout
Risotto
3-cheese tortellini in chilled pesto
Cornish game hen halves
Southern pecan pie
Devil's food cake
Coffee ice cream

[chknltl]

6. Coffee ice cream

Oh My God does that sound good right now.
I was thinking that this thread was going nowhere fast but here is another great list. Eleanor of Aquitaine and Charlemagne were two that almost made my list.

[LynneSin]

4. Here's my list

1. Jesus - just so he can see first hand what the idiots are doing in his name and to talk more about his practice of non-violence & civil disobedience
   
2. Queen Elizabeth I - because that woman sucessful ruled a nation for 40 years back in the 1600's. Maybe she has some good advice to today's crop of women
   
3. Da Vinci - the man was way ahead of his time and I really want to know 3 things from him: First, what gives with that odd hand holding the knife in "The Last Supper". Second, did he actually create the Shroud of Turin. And finally just why was Mona Lisa smiling
   
4. Charlie Chaplin - he was one of the best guests to have at a party during the early Hollywood years.
   
5. Margaret Sanger - maybe she can give us some guidance for fighting the government in order to give women basic right to plan a family
   
6. FDR - we could use some help planning the next New Deal. It's what we need to get us out of the mess that Bush Created
   
7. JS Bach - because we'll need some excellent dinner music
   
8. Robert Plant - because I'll need a date
   
9. George Clooney - because I'm not letting Robert get me that easily!
   

[chknltl]

9. Da Vinci...

He will most assuredly top my 2nd dinner list. As to the Roosevelt's I had Elanor on my short list, I thought about Jacki Kennedy, not because of her accomplishments but because she earned the right to be there. Princess Di was another who deserved to be there but Ben Franklin would have been all over her. BTW I know the singer in a Led Zeppelin cover band.. He looks and sings like Robert Plant, he is single lately too.... (He would not be much competition for George Clooney though)

[LynneSin]

10. Well I'm an East Coaster so oh well

But who knows - if I'm ever out west

:P

[spindrifter]

92. How about these:

Dalai Lama
Mao Tse Tung
Kamal Ataturk
Bobby Kennedy
Koffe Anan
Elizabeth I
Benjamin Franklin
Winston Churchill
Mary Magdalen

We'd send out for pizzas and have a huge salad. Fruit for dessert.

[bicentennial_baby]

5. Ok...fun!

Heloise & Abelard
Robespierre
Victor Hugo
Albert Camus
Howard Zinn
Noam Chomsky
Samantha Power
Kathleen Hanna

[chknltl]

13. I did not recognize many of these names but...

...I checked out the ones I did not know. I am glad I did. I now want to find Mr. Zinn's History of America, (the '03 update). I also may have seen Kathleen Hanna although I likely did not know who she was. I was working in the local music industry here in the Pacific Northwest at the same time she was. (Same clubs too). I am willing to bet we know mutual people. Kathleen Hanna would likely have a grand time at that party.

[Wetzelbill]

72. dude, can I be your date?

I promise I won't get drunk and try to fight anybody. :)

[bicentennial_baby]

87. don't mess with Robespierre

or Kathleen Hanna, for that matter :D

[Wetzelbill]

94. I will be on my semi-best behavior

:)

[TallahasseeGrannie]

7. I would choose nine

apostles, and Judas would be one.

I want to get the real scoop on what happened.

[chknltl]

14. Sort of a reinactment...

Well at least they would know each other well enough. That would be a party you would have to keep VERY secret. (Lest your home be turned into a Holy place with thousands of daily visitors after the party was over.) You would get the skinny on what really happened over 2000 years ago that's for sure.
c

[yellowdogintexas]

8. OK here is mine:

1. Jesus for the same reasons mentioned earlier.
2. FDR
3. my grandfather, so he could have dinner with FDR
4. Will Rogers, for humor and wisdom
5. Elizabeth I
6. Benjamin Franklin
7. Thomas Jefferson
8. George Gershwin
9. Mark Twain


I think I might cater it from the local Mex joint because their food is really good, but if I cooked the meal I would have an excellent prime rib of roast beef, roasted potatoes and carrots, asparagus, a salad of mixed greens with an excellent dressing, good fresh crusty bread or home made hot rolls, iced tea with the meal and coffee afterwards. Dessert would be most likely a great home made cake of some sort;

[mdmc]

11. ok

My grammie
buddha
dali lama

jesus

bob dylan
jerry garcia

my sister
my mom

gary Trudeau

[chknltl]

43. Gary Tredeau

The comic genius, creator of Doonesberry(sp?) I love that guy. I used to have his early works prior to and durring the Nixon impeachment era.... He would have great insights to offer up at your party for you and your family.

[mdmc]

63. I also think that he would like to chat up Dylan

[chknltl]

15. Samuel Langhorne Clemens

I absolutely must have him for that second party, Will Rogers might be cool too. That is nice that you thought of your grandfather like that...It made me think of my own father. It would be nice to have another dinner with him. I would have to pick a few of his fave country western vocalists to add to that party. Marty Robbins and Katterina Valente would have made my father profoundly happy, I for one am thankful that my father turned me on to them years and years ago.

[pokerfan]

12. In no particular order...

Oscar Wilde
Dorothy Parker
Mark Twain
Groucho Marx
Carl Sagan
Bertrand Russell
Winston Churchill
Teddy Roosevelt
Thomas Paine

[chknltl]

17. Dorothy Parker (Dot)

I was unfamiliar with the name so I looked her up. There is a stunning photo of her over in wikepedia. I listened to her short poem "Men" (in her actual voice!), some things never change. What a beautiful woman, she even donated her estate to the MLK foundation. She will be in VERY good company at your party.
c

[UrbScotty]

16. Jesus and...

Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt
Jefferson
JFK
RFK
Jimmy Carter
Bill Clinton
Al Gore
Jenifer Granholm

[chknltl]

18. Do you think Al Gore would appreciate a photo of himself next to FDR?

"That's right I am not President Roosevelt, as a matter of fact I just happen to have a photo of him standing right next to me.", replies Al as he removes that photo from his inner jacket pocket, "See we are two completely different people."*

President Carter in the same room with Thomas Jefferson what a conversation THAT would be, both are my heroes. Jimmy Carter is having a more productive life than any 2 other ex-presidents combined.
:patriot:
c


* (this is in reference to to the debates between Vice President Gore and Governor bush, if memory serves the shrub informed Al that he was no FDR.)

[HEyHEY]

19. hard..but this is it

Buddy Holly
Oscar Wilde
Pierre Trudeau
Martin Luther King Jr.
Bill Clinton
Muhamed Ali
Jack Benny
Edward R. Murrow
Leonardo Da Vinci

[chknltl]

22. Might I suggest that you have President Clinton bring his Sax.

Him and Buddy Holly performing on the same stage!!! I seem to remember Jack Benny had a violin or some-such but I do not recall ever hearing him play it. I would also suggest handing a digital camcorder to Edward R. Murrow, he would likely put it to good use.
chknltl

[Jamastiene]

20. Ghandi, Dr. Martin Luther King, and Jesus Christ would

be my picks for some serious spiritual conversation.

Joey Ramone, Kurt Cobain, and Chris Stein would be my picks for my secondary soulful, spiritual conversation.

Deborah Harry, Joan Jett, and Courtney Love would be my picks for the wild partying after the others start talking way over my head and I can no longer understand them any more, which would probably be about an hour into the evening.

Considering that most of my favorite musicians would already be busy partying, I would get Green Day to play the music, if possible. If not, I would close my eyes and pick 6 cds out of my collection for the cd changer and hit random play on the cd player and slowly inch the volume up as the night progresses.

[chknltl]

24. Courtney Love and Gandhi in the same room???

You wouldn't.....:rofl:

I just can not stop laughing at that image...I can actually visualize Kurt Cobain saying to his wife, "Seriously Courtney, I REALLY don't think Gandhi needs a pot brownie"

[Jamastiene]

27. LOL. I would.

If you knew me, you'd know. I would do anything. I like all sorts of people. I try to get them in the same room a lot of the time just to see if they'll get along. I don't think it has ever worked, but in the case of Courtney Love and Ghandi, his pacifism would make it work. I do think that would be a combination that would finally work.

A band I was in once needed a new drummer. I got a guy I knew to sit in. Ended up breaking up the whole band. I felt so bad about that. I was happy to have ALL of the people I liked together, but they hated each other. I finally said, let's just let him go form his own band and get another drummer. Unfortunately, that ship had sailed. He did want to start his own band and I did want to make right on my mistake, but it was too late. I'll never do that again.

I'd love to see Kurt Cobain and Ghandi together stoned. That would be a lot of fun. It might work, maybe. You think?

[ashling]

21. So I guess that would include only slightly deceased

They don't have to be terribly famous or deceased.

and we'll serve a nice BLM with the mutton sliced nice and thin.


BTW, do you remember that TV show in which Steve Allen oderated a discussion between historical figures (one of which was usually played by Audrey Meadows)?

[chknltl]

26. I was not old enough to appreciate Steve Allen when he was in his prime.

That moderated discussion notion might be fun considering todays technology.

I suppose technically we are all slightly deceased and most of us are not terribly famous either.
(In my estimation this is a far better state of being as opposed to the alternative where one might be famous yet terribly deceased)

[ashling]

29. My "slightly dead" crack was in honor

of
The Princess Bride
:hi:

[chknltl]

36. Oh damn... I knew that sounded familiar.

I swear I kept thinking that the phrase "slightly deceased" sounded familiar... I have watched Princess bride a few times too....just did not make the connection. :hi:

[yellowdogintexas]

55. damn, I forgot to invite Steve Allen to my party!!nt

[bettyellen]

23. Elvis Presley, my Dad, Rasputin, Lenny Bruce,

Gregory Peck, 3 other family members and a nice date for me, maybe sniffa or progmom, someone fun like that who will be around 6 months later to talk about it with.

[chknltl]

30. Rasputin???

http://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry/Rasputin :that guy rasputin?
Huh... I always thought of him as the Karl Rove of his era... guess I need to learn more about that character. One of my heroes is from that area albeit a century or so earlier: Stepan P Krasheninnikov. Think Lewis and Clark meets Dances with Wolves embodied into one young scientist exploring the Kamchatka Peninsula. Someday a movie will be made about his true tale.

Like many of the other ladies here in DU, progmom would be fun to have at a party and she could provide some VERY classy music too.
c

[bettyellen]

40. my Dad was always obsessed with the story of Rasputin...

and how he came to hold some much sway with the russian royal family. in particular, the end, where it supposedly took about 6 asassination attempts the same day to off him. i think he was poisoned stabbed shot and maybe left out on the ice too... i know my Dad would just love hearing how it really went down after reading so much on the subject.
Progmom would also be a great guest. I would really want a smart funny person who i could talk about it with later, to let me know what i missed while i'm playing footsie with gregory peck.

[chknltl]

61. Ah nt

[sniffa]

69. i'm fLattered

:loveya:

[bettyellen]

70. i know it's not a mega fun party list....

but you'd like my family- and keep them distracted for me, i hope!
:loveya:

[Oeditpus Rex]

25. Easy

Graham Chapman
John Cleese
Terry Gilliam
Eric Idle
Terry Jones
Michael Palin

Sandy Koufax
Jim Bouton
Willie Mays

On edit: Disinvite Bouton (he was an American Leaguer anyway) and put Carol Cleveland in his place.

[chknltl]

32. Only one lady at your party?

The one and only lady from Monty Python I think. Those two baseball guys are sure in for a fun ride... I suspect you could answer a question about the name "Monty Python" who or what is it...or was it...or...well you know what I mean...where did that name originate?

[Oeditpus Rex]

35. It's kind of a weird story

When the series was in development, they hadn't named it, and the BBC were getting a little anxious because they needed a name for the advance publicity. The BBC's head of comedy had told Barry Took, the show's first producer, that he ran things "as if it was a flying circus," and "flying circus" began to show up in memos about the show.

The Pythons kicked around some names — among them "A Horse, a Bucket and a Spoon," "Bunn, Wacket, Buzzard, Stubble and Boot," "Owl Stretching Time" and "The Toad Elevating Moment." (The latter two were later used as titles of an episode and a sketch, respectively.) But the BBC insisted "flying circus" be in the title, and the lads came up with "Monty Python" because "Monty" reminded them of some strange person and "Python" was just a funny word.

Now aren't you sorry you asked? :silly:

[chknltl]

37. Nope... I actually wanted to know.

...and now I do. I think it is a perfect name. Red Dwarf always made me think, "Magazine about fantasy creatures", as opposed to a series about the interstellor antics of a human, an overevolved cat, and a hologram lost in space. For me the name Red Dwarf is less than perfect. I like the series ok though. Thanks for the info.

[KitchenWitch]

28. Mine

Paul Wellstone
Marvin Gaye
Nat King Cole
Walter Payton
Susan B Anthony
Amelia Earhart
Marie Curie
Alice Walker
The Dalai Lama

[chknltl]

34. Paul Wellstone...

wow... He would go so perfect as a guest with sooooo many people, these names immediately come to my mind: Al Franken, George Washington, Martin Luther King jr., Jon Conyers, Jimmy Carter,....the Dalai Lama could learn from him. I wish I would have thought of him and quite frankly I am surprised we got this far without anyone else bringing his name up yet.

btw: I have always had a crush on Amilia Earhart, she was so "tomboyishly" hot. She must have worn a dress at some point in her life yet I can only visualize her in leather flying gear or coveralls. She would have made a great older sister.

[Lone_Wolf_Moderate]

31. OK, I'll keep it famous..

The Lord Jesus
John Milton
MLK
Plato
Shakespeare
William Faulkner
Bill Clinton (I couldn't resist)
St. Paul
Abe Lincoln

[chknltl]

38. There is a republican on that list

Seeing as how neither of us voted for him and he actually did some important things in our history I suppose it is OK to have Abe Lincoln on your dinner list. Actually I hear he is fun at parties, a very smart and common sense kind of guy. I would recommend not letting him know how bad off his party is these days.

[Lone_Wolf_Moderate]

44. He knows. He's rolling over in his grave.

BTW, Lincoln was a different kind of Republican, one no high-profile Republican would even allow into the Party today. I'm not saying he'd be a Democrat, but you get the idea.

This of course assumes that Lincoln wasn't assassinated, and managed to achieve immortality.

[leftofthedial]

33. well...

Miss November
Miss October
Miss September
Miss August
Miss July
Miss June
Miss May
Miss April
Miss March

but this is one of those lists that would be different next time you ask

[chknltl]

39. Playboy or Penthouse? nt

[leftofthedial]

52. es macht nichts

maybe I should mix and match

[taterguy]

45. Troubling

You do know they don't write their own quotes right? That was one of David Mamet's first writing jobs. And who still buys Playboy when there's so much free stuff on the Internet?

[leftofthedial]

51. hey! Everyone! Look! Lack of irony alert!

you mean Miss August isn't really turned on by long romantic walks on the beach?

Shit!

No wonder I like David Mamet's screenplays so much.

I keep meaning to find some "stuff" on the Internet, but I keep ending up in the DU Lounge.

[Shell Beau]

46. Such variety. I bet there will be lots of

intelligent discussion too! :o
:silly: :P

[leftofthedial]

53. no time for talking!

:-)

[Shell Beau]

41. Let's see...

This is w/o thinking deeply about it...

Benjamin Franklin (he deserves some kind of party)
Matthew McConaughey (b/c he is the eye candy)
Martin Luther King, Jr. (he REALLY deserves a party)
George Carlin (he'd keep the party going)
Oprah (I don't care what you say, I love her)
Jesus (b/c what kind of party is it w/o Him)
JFK (got to throw a president in there somewhere)
Marilyn Monroe (I want to know the "real" truth)
Babe Ruth (he's the bambino, come on)

[chknltl]

48. Those folks will get along fine

Oprah would likely take over the party...not such a bad thing IMO. Putting her in the same room with Jesus AND Martin Luther King jr. is WAY cool, she would be perfect for both interviews. George Carlin and Ben Franklin would be fun to see together, I suspect that they would actually become quick friends. JFK had a reputation with the ladies, as did "the bambino" and Ben Franklin....there might be some competition going on between them and Miss Monroe. I suspect you will want to keep Mr. McConaughey occupied yourself.

[Shell Beau]

49. Of course, that is the idea! Matthew will be all mine!

:P

[ET Awful]

42. The Grateful Dead

all members living or dead. That would be, let's see,

Jerry
Bob
Phil
Mickey
Bill
Pigpen
Keith(remove)
Donna(remove)
Brent
(oh crap, I'm out of slots and still have more to go, so let's get rid of Keith and Donna)
Vince
Bruce (Hornsby, yes he played keys for them after Brents death but before Vince joined the band).
I'm still short a space or two for folks like Tom Constanten and Robert Hunter

Why these instead of some political or philosophical type person? Cause these guys knew how to freakin' party :P

[chknltl]

50. Yes indeed they did

That party should be opened to the world....It is how each one of them would like it...From what I can tell they did bring their party to all who wished to attend, many did...often. (alas I only saw the Grateful Dead once back in '79 or'80 but at least I can say I saw them.)
I have to stick to the 9 people list sadly because it would not be fair to all the other great parties going on in this thread. Yours would be a hoot though, a private stage, catering and a killer sound system could be included here. I know of a warehouse down in Portland Oregon that would be perfect for that party, it has a bar, a nice stage, with a killer sound set up, plenty of soft comfy couches and lots of cool little rooms and everything one would need to throw a party for 1000 or so folks, we'll just sneak in the other 990 folks...(oh yeah, I just invited myself too)

[taterguy]

47. only nine?

Syd Straw: fell in love with her when I saw her a couple times in the mid-80s with the Golden Palominos
Bill Hicks: A funny man with a social conscience
IF Stone: Best investigative reporter ever
Janis Joplin
George Clinton
Abbie Hoffman
Mojo Nixon
Woman from a Sinclair Institute instructional video whose name I don't know
Friend from college that was last seen marching topless down Pennsylvania Avenue

[chknltl]

62. Um any details about "DC Streaker"?

:popcorn:

[taterguy]

64. not really

She's one of the coolest people I ever met. I lost touch with her but I don't feel like violating her privacy by posting details about her on the Internet

[chknltl]

68. Ah... I'm cool with that...

Still, knowing that someone felt the need to exercise their freedom of speech in that way gets a big thumbs up from me!

[hyphenate]

54. Okay

I'm going to "cheat!" Two lists, one dead and the other alive!

Nine people (all deceased):

Thomas Jefferson
Ben Franklin
John Adams
Marie Curie
my friend Marje
Robert Oppenheimer
Edward R Murrow
Jules Verne or HG Wells
Elizabeth I


Alive people:

Rod Taylor
my friend Barb
George Clooney
Al Franken
Jon Stewart
Bill Maher
John Kerry
Bill and Hillary Clinton

[chknltl]

58. I loved both lists...

Robert Oppenheimer huh... wasn't he the bomb guy? I could go look but I am off to bed soon. I seem to recall, (if this is the same guy that I am thinking of), that he was in charge of the Manhattan Project. I knew someone once who was also picked to be on that project, Dr. Herbert Taylor. He had PHDs in Physics, Anthropology and Archeology from the University of Chicago. Plus he had a photographic memory. He was one of my profs long ago. His conscious was all that kept him off the Manhattan Project, he said that many of those who did work on it felt the same way and even worse afterwords.

[hyphenate]

65. Yes

Oppenheimer is considered the father of the atomic bomb. He grew increasingly agitated when the bombs were dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, though, and resigned from the project. He had a very interesting life.

[datasuspect]

56. gg allin

hank williams sr.
dylan thomas
freddie mercury
jimi hendrix
adolf hitler
john lennon
malcolm x
abbie hoffman

[chknltl]

59. OK I gotta know:

Everyone else I can understand..but why Adolf Hitler???
:popcorn:

[datasuspect]

66. god the answer to that is kinda complicated

it comes from my ability to contemplate (and not outright be scared or emotionally frothy about) things i abhor.

in a sense, being at the same table with THE MOST HATED MAN IN MODERN HISTORY would make for some interesting discomfort.

[chknltl]

67. Ah....

I do not hate him or anyone else for that matter. I can accept that we each have our "roles" to play out. My role is diametrically opposed to many. bush and hitler are in that category for me. Could I sit and chat with either? No, because I would automatically assume that every word spoken by either of these two to be lies. I see both roles as dedicated to pain and suffering for a great many people in order to bring about change. I see that change as an ongoing process, one I feel optimistic about but I am saddened by the horrific costs.

[MiniMandaRuth]

57. Ours:

John Lennon
June Carter and Johnny Cash
Bob Dylan
George Harrison
Ben Franklin
Thomas Edison
Bill and Hillary Clinton

Mine:

God
Buddha
J.R.R. Tolkien and Edith Bratt
Bob Dylan
John Lennon
Plato
Da Vinci
Vincent van Gough

[chknltl]

60. You have three couples

That is thoughtful of you. Mr. Tolkien would be plenty pleased at your party, especially so with his wife there as well.

[Wetzelbill]

71. 9 is not nearly enough

Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Bill Clinton
JFK
RFK
Leslie Silko
Arundhati Roy
Kurt Angle
Scarlett Johanssen (my date)
Pablo Neruda

[chknltl]

73. Nope 9 is NOT nearly enough.

Terry Bradshaw, (ex NFL QB, TV football annalist), asks for just 3 in his interviews. That is where I got this notion from. I felt DUers would need more than 3, I started out thinking 6 but I had a tough time with that number too so I settled on 9. I am pleased with the results so far, folks have had fun with this thread.
btw: Kurt Angle...isn't that the pro wrestler?

[Wetzelbill]

74. yup, and former Olympic Gold Medalist

Been a great admirer of his long before he was a pro wrestler.:)

[chknltl]

75. Oh yeah...I forgot about that. nt

[Wetzelbill]

79. that and

I used to be a serious wrestler myself. I figure it would add to the excitement as well. Maybe he could make me tap out or Angle Slam me on the table, for entertainment. :)

[ellisonz]

76. My 9:

Jack Kerouac
Bill Clinton
Johnny Cash
Mark Twain
Bob Dylan
William Shakespeare
Francois Rabelais
Adam
Eve

[chknltl]

82. Adam and Eve!!!

So far there have been a few Bill Clintons, a couple of Mark Twains (He is on my next list) and Bill Shakespears but NOBODY thought to invite Adam and Eve! They would of course, have some catching up to do.

[Rabrrrrrr]

77. Jesus; and Pat Robertson, Falwell, Phelps, Dobson, Tilton,

Swaggart, Tim Lehaye, Reagan, and Fuckstick McAWOL, our incompetent in the white house.

And why that grouping?

Just to witness the dressing down, that's why.

[Wetzelbill]

78. serious beatin's would be handed out

:)

[chknltl]

81. But would they listen or would they:

call security and have the "hippy" thrown out, or worse yet the shrub might have Jesus locked up in Gitmo for his "Al-Quida(sp?) connections"

[Rabrrrrrr]

85. Probably have him thrown out.

But I'd want to set up in a way that they knew it was the REAL Jesus... and I think that by the power of Jesus, that could be done.

:-)

[SofaKingLiberal]

80. Hugh Heffner's 7 girlfriends, Katherine Zeta Jones and Halle Berry

[chknltl]

83. Bring a camera.

Hugh has 7???... I didn't know that. I met him decades ago with his then girlfriend Barbi Benton. She was drop dead gorgeous, a killer smile and she was a warm friendly person to chat with.

[CanuckAmok]

84. Hmm.... after "Aquaman", I'm grasping at straws.

Okay....let me see....

Jesus Christ (if only to provide the wine), JFK, Napoleon, Oliver Cromwell, Susan Anton, Kurt Vonnegut, my dad, and Ghandi (that way I only have to shop for eight guests).

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

86. (without putting too much thought into it because I'm cooking)

William S Burroughs
Samuel Beckett
Johnny Cash
Marcel DuChamp
Jackson Pollock
Lenny Bruce
Woody Allen
Martin Scorcese
Lloyd Kaufman

I'm sure that would work.

[Rabrrrrrr]

88. Interesting you picked all men, and men who lived recently

or are still living.

A conversation around the dinner table with those guys would be quite amazing.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

93. Yeah, I noticed that looking back at it

As I probably won't be around for a 2nd thread, here's my next dinner party - keeping the 20th century theme and picking only women.

Arundhati Roy
Patti Smith
Catherine Breillat
Marina de Van
Georgia O'Keeffe
Virginia Woolf
Cindy Sherman
Betty Friedan
Susan Sontag

[khashka]

89. Mine:

1)Thomas Jefferson
2) Colette
3) Clive Barker
4) Sam Delaney
5) Kate Bush
6) Susie Bright
7) Ninon De Lenclos
8) H.P Lovecraft
9) Tori Amos or Anais Nin - whoever RSVPs first.


Khash.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

90. angelina jolie

kurt vonnegut
shakespeare
rabindranath tagore
tori amos
ani difranco

[Spider Jerusalem]

91. My list:

Albert Einstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Friedrich Nietzsche
Thomas Pynchon
Isaac Newton
Charles Darwin
JD Salinger
Winston Churchill
Franklin Roosevelt

All of these people save Roosevelt and Churchillwere essentially introverted loners, as am I (and at least four of them were ALSO probably autistic, which is something else we'd have in common)...a dinner party would be excruciatingly hellish for me if all of the other guests were extroverts. I'd spend it sitting in a corner and not talking to anyone. But it doesn't hurt to have a couple there for conversational stimulus.

[charlie and algernon]

95. Lennon, McCartney, Starr, Harrison for our listening pleasure

then Jesus, my parents, and their parents

[abandoned]

96. Hmm...

Bertrand Russell
Blaise Pascal
Rene Descarte
St Thomas Aquinas
Socrates
Anton LeVay
Friedrich Nietzsche
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Aristotle

For food, I would choose something throwable.

[maveric]

97. My list: Bill Hicks, Ernest Hemingway, Frank Zappa, Helen Thomas...

Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Tip O'Neil, Richard Pryor and Richard Nixon, just to fuck with him when I get him shitfaced.

[Magrittes Pipe]

98. Hm.

Walter Johnson
Johnny Bench
Lou Gehrig
Joe Morgan
Mike Schmidt
Honus Wagner
Ted Williams
Willie Mays
Babe Ruth

My team would beat your team.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

99. No way. Sagan is going to MY party.

He and

Hypatia of Alexandria
Thomas Paine
Isaac Asimov
Nicola Tesla
Larry Flynt
John Lennon
Barry White
Bill Clinton