If you could have dinner with 4-6 people from history, who would you invite?

My list:

1) Jesus Christ
2) Teddy Roosevelt
3) Thomas Jefferson
4) Adolph Hitler
5) Buddha
6) Mohammed

Hitler
Micheal Wittman
Erich Hartmann
Ho Chi Minh
Kurt Cobain
Stalin

Both of my grandpas
Waylon
Lincoln

1. Thomas Jefferson
2. Ben Franklin
3. Winston Churchill
4. Wyatt Earp
5. Teddy Roosevelt
6. Lee Harvey Oswald-I really would like to know.

I've come across this exercise in a number of classes for recertification of my teaching certificate. It provides for some very interesting and thought-provoking discussion. My list constantly changes, depending on my concerns and interests of the moment. Right now, I would go with the following list.

Jesus Christ - I'd like to know how what "religion" is currently doing compares with what he had in mind.
Lee Harvey Oswald - I would like to know exactly what led him to do what he did as well as the details of the act, including whether he acted alone.
Anyone else involved in the Kennedy assasination should he not have acted alone.
Whoever it was that built the Oak Island money pit - How it was built and what it contains have always fascinated me.

1. Vince Lombardi
2. R. Reagan
3. Cheryl Burke (DROOL)

Um, never mind on #3.. You said 'from history'..

3. G. Washington
4. T. Jefferson
5. John Wayne

Jesus of Nazareth for reasons previously stated - would like to hear it from the original source. Plus, it would be fun to ask the waiter to bring more water.

My biological mother and father - never met them, it would be nice to get acquainted.

I'm not very sociable, those would be enough.

I dined with Adolf Galland. Is that close enough to Hartmann and Hitler?

Can I shoot the guest w/o repercussions?

For me, it would be (in no particular order):

Ronald Reagan
Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
Robert E. Lee

Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer
Captain Meriwether Lewis
Captain John C. Fremont
Jim Bridger
John Browning
General Jimmy Doolittle

Jesus Christ
Both of my Grandfathers
Just one more chance to be with my folks.

I just don't see how anyone else could matter.

Thomas Jefferson
Mike Ditka (still living of course)
General Patton
Lewis
Clark
Teddy Roosevelt


Travis

The Monkeys

1. The Lord Jesus Christ - but I have a date for supper with him at the marriage supper of the Lamb.

2-3. Moses and Elijah (at the same time)

4. Ezekiel - just to ask him what the heck the deal with the wheels is all aut.

5. My Dad and grandson at the same time. He'd be proud, I'm sure.

Winston Churchill
Chesty Puller
George Washington
Atilla the Hun
Both my Grandfathers

I'll start way back:

Adam and Eve.... or the missing link
Jesus
Moses
King Tut
Washington
Jefferson

I'd also like to run a few of my ideas past Einstein.

Mike Naismith
Mickey Dolenz
Peter Tork
Davy Jones

(Just had to see if I could still remember.)

Teddy Roosevelt
Simon Kenton
Davy Crockett
Jim Bridger
my Dad

maddog

You are a lucky man.Galland was top notch in every respect.I hold Adolf Galland in the HIGHEST Reguards.

Alexander the Great
Genghis Khan
Stalin
Albert Einstein
Thucydides
Socrates

Teddy Roosevelt
My grandpa
My grandma
My great uncle
My father (never saw him)

Red Skelton
Milton Berle
Bob Hope
Jonathan Winters
Johnny Carson
Carol Burnett

I like to laugh.

Just looking over everybody's lists, I think that about a third of the folks on them would lie to you and some of the others would dominate the conversation talking about themselves.

Some would be very interesting. I could probably just sit and listen to Thomas Jefferson go on for hours..

Of course, if you got Hitler at the same table as Stalin the resulting food fight would be of historical proportions. Add Jesus and they'd never run out of ammo...

Jesus and Mohammed together would get boring.
Jesus: "Yes, I am".
Mohammed: "No, you aren't."
Jesus: "Am too"
Mohammed: "Are not..."
ad infinitum

Would really like to have dinner with Nero or Caligula. Not so much for the conversation but the dinner party would probabably be pretty wild.

Literally...

Good catch!

Just Jesus. If He was there I wouldn't be listening to anyone else anyway.

Tim Walz D MN
Keith Ellison D MN
Betty McCollum D MN
James Oberstar D MN
Earl Pomeroy D ND

That covers my immediate area... and as a special guest (since I get 6)

Bart Stupak D MI



I'll make steak on the grill and saute some mushrooms. Hand picked wild mushrooms.

Forget about that, "every knee shall bow and every tongue confess" thing? I bet Ol' Mo remembers and remembers well.

Excellent thread. Here are my choices, in random order:

1. Alexander
2. Joseph Smith
3. Arthur Rimbaud
4. Leonidas

James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee.

It would be fun to pass a note under the table to Lee.

"Gettysburg. Get there on June 29th..."

If we were to be able to meet with them and kill them, would it change the course of history? If so I would like to meet with a few of the world leaders who instigated some of the darker moments in human history so I could zap them. Otherwise I would like to meet a few ancestors and also some scientists whose work has changed history. It would be a hoot to sit down with Darwin and fill him in on how genetics really works and otherwise get him up to date on the state of Biology at this time. Can you imagine telling Newton about relativity. I would have to brush up on my Latin but would also enjoy having a nice meal with Cicero.

Jesus Christ
Thomas Jefferson
Robert E. Lee
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Barry Goldwater
Everett McKinley Dirkson

1. Nessie
2. Bigfoot
3. Jersey Devil
4. Chupacabra
5. ET
6. A likeable Packer fan.

If none show up for dinner, I understand...

hand picked mushrooms don't necessarily mean deadly.....

And if that didn't work, there's always the 'vest'..

Jesus
Dick Winters
Joshua Chamberlain
George Washington
Alexander the Great

RH

Big Stick
lhonda
Nancy Pelousi
Ted Nuggent
Wildswalker
Jeff_O

Yep, and position your canons on the high ground.

I don,t think there would be much eating at that table, but one heck of a good time!!

lots of great suggestions for dinner, many of which I agree with.

I'm thinking more of dessert
Marilyn Monroe
Natalie Wood
Farrah Fawcett
Inger Stevens
Lana Turner
Grace Kelly
et al

Interesting group of people STW. I'd love to hear this conversation between Hitler and Stalin after Hitler broke the non-aggression pact.

Here are mine in no particular order...

1. Alexander the Great (Arguably the greatest military leader in history)
2. Thomas Jefferson
3. Winston Churchill
4. Lenin (Just so I can ask "did you really think it would work?") I've seen his body in his mausoleum in Moscow...creepy
5. Andrew Jackson
6. Johnny Carson

teddy roosevelt
my grandparents never got to meet any of them
wild bill Hickok
lious la'mour
adolf hitler
lee harvey oswald i would also like to know what really happened

If you want to know "what really happened," I highly recommend Vincent Bugliosi's exhaustive "Reclaiming History."

Marilyn Monroe,Greta Garbo,Teddy Roosevelt and Winston Churchill
Good lookin women,great stories,fine wine and good smokes....

Tamerlane

Shaka

Genghis Khan

Attila the Hun

Arminius

Hannibal

Dinner would be one porterhouse steak and one mug of beer, winner take all.

Guests would provide their own cutlery, of course.

George Washington
Robert E. Lee
George Patton
Red Skelton

Adolph Coors - so I could ask him what possesed him to invent such a piss water beer


Lord Cardigan who led the Charge of the Light Brigade - just to see what kind of man could inspire others to follow him into certain death


Wonder Woman - I need to be lassoed and tell the truth


John Paul Jones - Just to see if he really had that much piss and vinegar

goes with the old joke what does sex in a canoe have in common with coors beer????












awefull close to water

1) Jesus
2) Washington
3) Franklin
4) Genghis Kahn
5) Gandhi
6) Hitler

1. Jesus in the physical presence
2,3,4,5. My Grand parents
6. My mom

1. My 1st girlgriend.
2. My 2nd girlfriend.
3. My 3rd girlfriend.
4. My 4th girlfriend.
5. My 5th girlfriend.

6. The "new girl" at work. WOW!

1. Robert E. Lee...To listen to the Virgina southern accent that
has died out
2. Lee Harvey Oswald....To find out how he was set up.

3. Jonnie Johnson....Supermarine spitfire fighter pilot

4. Chief Crazy horse.....thru a translator of course

5. George Armstrong Custer....Waht were you thinking.

Doc

Alexander of Macedon.
Eric Hartmann.
Benjamin Franklin.
Aristotle.
Glenn Seaborg.

Earnest Hemingway
Joe Foss
Art Donovan
Babe Ruth
Ben Franklin
Marlyn Chambers

a great conversationalist....

My Cherokee ancestors.

Your right about Erich Hartmann.

Jesus
Stonewall Jackson
Genghis Khan
Joseph (Genesis)
Patton
StanV (just for [bleep] and giggles)

1) My grandfather (Dad's side)
2) George Washington
3) Ronald Reagan
4) King Tut
5) Steve Largent

1. George Washington
2. Thomas Jefferson
3. Ronald Reagan
4. George Patton
5. Jesus Christ
6. Osama Bin Ladin

After dinner, we kill Osama Bin Laden and ask Jesus to forgive us.

many of us sure think alike!

It would be hard to limit it to just 6 with all the good suggestions..

I'd follow those who would like to be face to face with Jesus

and also those that would want to speak to fellow southern Heroes of Stonewall Jackson, Robert E Lee, and fellow Virginians George Washington and Thomas Jefferson..

I'd like to know John Adams better...

then of course Erick Hartman, and a host of other German Aces, along with those of the Commonwealth and the Army Air Force.

But top ace I would love to talk with Eino Juutilainen, of Finland. He scored 94 victories flying obsolete aircraft, and during the entire war never had ONE BULLET HOLE in any aircraft he flew by enemy fire!

http://www.acesofww2.com/finland/aces/Juutilainen.htm

I'd love to sit down over a dinner table with George S Patton and Teddy Roosevelt and discuss the presidency of Barack Obama...

Lots of thought provoking choices above.

I think mine would be

1. My Dad. He died 20 years ago - I'd like to tell him he called it on the country going to hell in a hand basket

2. Jesus - I'd like to ask him if this is really the way it was supposed to turn out, and if there is a God where the hell is he?

3. Vlad the Impaler - that's one sick SOB.

4. Martin Luther King -

5. Robert E. Lee -

6. George Washington -

Jim Bowie- is there really a mine and what did your knife look like?
Pizzaro- What did Atahualpa really look like and what was the Inca empire really like?
Jesus for obvious reasons.
Who ever was the last king of Chichen Itza- what the hell happened?
Ramsees II what about the exodus from your side?
John Wilkes Booth
The head Neanderthal- who ever it was and how different are you?


BCR

1. Enoch the 7th from Adam
2. Julius Ceasar
3. Issac Newton
4. Thomas Jefferson
5-6. Dick and Marge Bong

Adam
Eve
Jesus
Julius Caesar
Augustine
Martin Luther
Genghis Khan
Spartacus
each and every posthumous Medal of Honor winner

Lee Harvey Oslwald- What really happened?

Mothman

Bigfoot

Ronald Reagan
Daniel Boone
Edward Maynard
Lewis Hepburn

Me too. A man of very high character.

Richard O'Kane
Teddy Roosevelt
Thomas Jefferson
Magellen

Oh, and John Wesley Powell....

Thomas Jefferson
Hitler
Benjamin Franklin
John Plute
Jefferson Davis
Jack O'Connor

just one. whoever invented the idea of the two party system. kick him in the nuts and finish dinner alone.

lol


I'll add the dumbazz who invented property taxes.

I'd really like to have a long talk with that fella.

Not sure I'd be just talkin'... Steel-toed boots might be my 'voice'..

SU,

The Enoch choice is a great one. Hadn't even considered him, but definitely a good choice and the most original choice I've seen on here.

Bimmer

Frank and Jesse James
Sitting Bull
Marlyn Monroe


My mom's dad whom I never met. He was a war veteran and the Army Heavyweight Champ.

sgt217, Would that be Richard O'Kane of the submarine Tang during WWII?

4-6 from the Donner Party should be enough for dinner.

1) Jesus Christ...would ask him to confirm that Oral Roberts, Jerry Falwell, etc., are on special spits in Hell as I assume;

2)Thomas Moore;

3) Winston Churchill;

4) Benjamin Franklin;

5) Ghandi

I've been trying since I saw this thread yesterday to come up with a list. I think it'd be my Grandfather, his father, his father and on and on until I get to a table of six or so. And the Irish whiskey would flow like wine

wow lots of great ideas here.

I don't think these folks have already been mentioned:

Elmer Keith
Jim Corbett
Sun Tzu
Princess Diana

Mark Twain
General Lee
Geronimo
Lewis and Clark
Clarence Darrow

George Washington
Teddy Roooooooosevelt
Robin Olds (I knew him, but never sat him down for a fighter doctrine talk)
George S. Patton
Thomas Jefferson
Winston Churchill

wildswalker, crossfireoops, JeffO, Vanimrod, Issac, and Barak

no pictures allowed

wild movie

Here goes, in no particular order...

1) Alfred Russel Wallace

2) Charles Darwin

3) Theodore Roosevelt

4) Captain James Cook

5) Cleopatra (An insight into politics and lifestyle of an ancient civilization. Also,was she really that Beautiful?)

6) Helen of Troy (same reason as Cleopatra)

Yes...I would have enjoyed hearing his stories...

My dad's step father
Malcolm X
John Lennon
Roberto Clemente
George Washington
Ben Franklin

My grandfather and grandmothers, John Moses Browning, Patton, Amadeus Mozart...

Jesus
My mother
My son
Wallace
Jeronimo
Franklin

Winston Churchill
Adam Smith
Thomas Jefferson
Fredrick Hayek
George Patton
Col. Jeff Cooper

And, Clint Smith (Cheated and invited seven)

Thomas Jefferson
Ben Franklin
George Washington
General Patton
General Wainwright
General Lee

With Raquel Welch as our waitress.

I actually had the honor of talking to Richard O'Kane and politely eavesdropping on him and various members of his crew.

No, it hasn't. You just need to be in the right part of the Commonwealth.

Three of that list at one time, is EASY to arrange.

I love it!

Bob Hagel
Elmer Keith
Christy Canyon
Lisa Lipps
Jenna Jameson
Wendy Whoppers

I wouldn't want an intense, cerebral kind of dinner so I'd go the The Rat Pack and a half case of fine single malt.

Frank Sinatra
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Dean Martin
Joey Bishop
Peter Lawford

I'd love to hear some of the chit they did...

Jesus Christ
Kamerad Les
and a bunch of the Fox News babes.

On second thought, scratch Les.

T Jefferson

T Roosevelt

Alan Shepard

Chesty Puller

Jim Bridger

Daniel Boone

No no... Keep Les... He's a top notch whipping boy...

Sam Houston
Chesty Puller
David Farragut
J.E.B. Stuart
Bill Mauldin

Jesus
Paul
Peter
Abraham
Moses
Mohammed

I thow Mohammed in there just because I think with the rest of the company, we could probably clear the air on a few issues. That would be a dinner I would hope would never end.

Will they be staying over?

Raquel
Salma
Angie
Margret
Marilyn

If they will be leaving after dinner I have a different list.

Not counting my dear departed relatives - I'd go with:

Jesus
Buddha
Charles Darwin
Albert Einstein
Socrates
Leonardo da Vinci

I'd "stoke the fire" as I so enjoy doing, and I'd sit back and take it all in. Jesus would supply all the wine, bread and fish (smoked salmon - I'd request). It would be a night to remember for sure.

My Dad
My little brother
Grandfather
Grandmother
I miss them

Don't seat them next to each other.

- Tom

I wouldn't want to have dinner with a bunch of dead people , they would smell bad & ruin my appetite.


Mike

Jesus
Alvin York-Most Decorated American Soldier WWI
Audie Murphy-Most Decorated American Soldier WWII
David Hackworth-Most Decorated American Soldier Korea
Robert Howard-Most Decorated American Soldier Vietnam

The Three Stooges (Obama, Pelosi, Reid)


What the hell are you doing to "Our Country"?

Col. Townsend Whelen
Teddy Roosevelt
Ben Franklin
Al Capone
D.B. Cooper
John Browning
Elmer Keith
Jimmy Hoffa

Hey, I can't count......

my grandfather who died right before i was born don Garlets Tracy lords for more than dinner Steven F Austin crazy horse Geranamo

Thomas Jefferson
Teddy Roosevelt
Nathan Bedford Forest
Thomas Edison
Ernest Shackleton
William Clark (the better half of Lewis & Clark)

KC

Jesus
My Father
My Grandmother
My Grandfather
Bob Hope
Lucille Ball

Just thinkin'. Am I the only one who has 3 criminals on their list?

H.L. Mencken, Mark Twain, the Messiah, Wild Bill Hickok, Little Enis

Mark Twain was the other I was thinking of and forgot.........

Woodrow Wilson
Abe Lincoln
Karl Marx
Mohamed

I'd serve poison shrooms.

More than six. But, These guys are special.

My Step Dad, my number 1 hero
Jesus
Saint Peter
Socrates
Galileo
Albert Einstein
Werner Von Braun
Beethoven
Rachmaninoff
Tchaikovsky
Puccini
Luciano Pavarotti
Beverly Sills

Ernest Shackelton is a great choice.

Teddy Roosevelt
Zane Grey
John Wayne
Wild Bill Donovan
Claire Chennault
Jacques Cousteau

From this group, I'd get a dinner packed with amazing stories.

+1 to that.