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05 Mar 2008, 12:18 am

Will you come to my tea party part two topic

Anton Chekhov
Dr Martin Luther King
Pierre Elliot Trudeau
Lester B Pearson
Irving Layton
Virginia Woolf (Aspie traits)
Anna Freud
Margaret Meade
Rosalind Franklin
Waldo

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05 Mar 2008, 12:24 am

The man who originated tea.

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05 Mar 2008, 2:59 am

Aristotle
Rene Descartes
John Locke
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Paine
Fredrick Nietzsche
Karl Marx
Isaac Newton
Albert Einstein
Niels Bohr
Charles Darwin
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Bertrand Russell
Kurt Godel
Abraham Lincoln
Elvis Presley
John Lennon
Kurt Cobain
Martin Luther King Jr.
George Orwell
Leonardo De Vinci
Vincent Van Gogh
Lewis Caroll
Alexander the Great
Genghis Kahn
Attila the Hun
Napoleon Bonaparte
Muhammad
Jesus (the real historical man if he existed)
Paul (from the bible)
Emperor Constantine
Martin Luther
John Calvin
Buddha (the real historical man if he existed)
Adolf Hitler
Joseph Stalin
…
and others I must be forgetting

Okay… that’s just a big list of interesting people. I doubt I’d actually have a clue what to say to any of them. If I had to pick one I’d probably go with Einstein.

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05 Mar 2008, 3:23 am

SargentGrumbles! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: What a marvelous comic!! !

I have to go with soda water and wheat-free cookies. My list:

Jesus bar Joseph
George Washington Carver
C.S. Lewis

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06 Mar 2008, 11:28 am

C.S. Lewis would be fascinating, might as well include J.R.R. ! !!

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06 Mar 2008, 12:00 pm

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Scott Joplin, the "King of Ragtime", definitely.

Meeting Mozart would be cool, too, but his laugh might get on my nerves.

I think they were both Aspies.

That would rock.

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06 Mar 2008, 2:20 pm

How about J.S. Bach ?? He could chat about how he came up with those marvelously complex arrangements.

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06 Mar 2008, 2:31 pm

That also would rock as music's one of my big interests.

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07 Mar 2008, 11:08 am

MissConstrue wrote:

That also would rock as music's one of my big interests.

Well then, we mustn't leave out Ludwig Von Beethoven ! !
He'd probably be a bit on the cranky side, but fascinating ....

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08 Mar 2008, 3:53 pm

I'd take a cup of tea with Musashi Miyamoto.

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08 Mar 2008, 6:46 pm

Probably someone who's obscure to most of you, but George Melies would be fun. He was a French magician who made silent movies of great imagination. He's credited with inventing the seven basic mechanical film effects.

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08 Mar 2008, 10:10 pm

Robert A Heinlien
Harry Turtledove
Belesarius (the Byzantine general)
Isaac Asimov
Keith Emerson
Rick Wakeman
John Cleese, and the cast of Monty Python
Samuel Clemens (not sure where he wound up. He wanted 'Heaven for the climate, and Hell for the company'...
Napoleon
Yeshua Bar Joseph
Muhammed Al-Quraish (sp?)
Bohddisava (I think that's right)
Genghis Khan's burial party...

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09 Mar 2008, 11:32 pm

Jules Verne.

We could sip some Absinthe while he told me about where he got the idea for the Nautilus.

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10 Mar 2008, 6:10 am

Isaac Newton
John Harrison
Joseph Clement
Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin
Wernher von Braun
Tommy Flowers
Alan Turing

To name but a few

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10 Mar 2008, 1:16 pm

Immanuel Kant

Leo Tolstoy
Don Isaac Abrabanel
T. E. Lawrence
John Locke

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
Napoléon Bonaparte
Plato

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12 Mar 2008, 12:24 am

No one has suggested this chap, yet...

J. Robert Oppenheimer.
We could sip a bit of Kentucky Bourbon while he told me how sorry he was to be the leader of The Manhatton Project.

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