fantasy dinner party

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I'm planning to have a dinner party.

Who would you invite? 10 people - dead or alive.

I'm going to get to chat to them, one-on-one whilst drinking fine wine and eating fine food.

Mark Twain,Will Rodgers,J.R.R.Tolkien,Thomas Hart Benton,Hal Borland,Laura Ingalls Wilder,Einstein,Andy Griffith,Bill Monroe,Willa Cather

No matter how fascinating the guests were,I probably would not talk to anyone, I would be very uncomfortable and trying to think of an excuse to leave.

Sylkat

Interesting mix of people. Bill Monroe was probably a better banjo picker than conversationalist.

Mark Twain would also head my list, with George Bernard Shaw, and Oscar Wilde following closely behind. Einstein seemed like a pretty cool dude (ive started that recent bio that came out a couple years ago).Clarence Darrow, and HL Mencken perhaps.

In the fifies Mort Sahl quipped that "everyone says I'm 'the first standup comic to go on stage with a newspaper', but Will Rogers did that a generation before I did. Will Rodgers pretended to be hayseed, and made fun of the sophisticates running the country. I pretend to be sophisticate, and I make fun of the hayseeds running the country!"

So you'd have to the Mort Sahl to go with Will Rodgers (yin and yang).

All four of the original Kinks lineup, all four of The Beatles and Chas & Dave.

Tim Burton, Helena Bonham Carter, Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska, Winona Ryder, Crispin Glover, the band Creature Feature (2 members, forget their names), Andrew De Leon, and Prince Poppycock (both former contestants of America's Got Talent, and opera singers at that!)

Aristotle, Kant, Darwin, Stephen Jay Gould, Tolkien, Sagan, Bill Bryson, Stephen King, Quentin Tarantino, Jim Henson

Well if I *had* to invite ten people, they'd all be corpses. Corpses don't talk back. Or at all, really.

I don't know 10 people I could be comfortable with, your not seriously suggesting strangers are you?

Tony Pond, Art' Arfons, Craig Breedlove, Daley Thompson, Chevy Chase, Stan Laurel & Buzz Lightyear.

I was going to include Neil Armstrong, but then I realised that once he started talking about Appollo, etc', that would end all other conversation at the table.

So Neil will have to come alone at a later date.

Tamora Pierce, Descartes, Jesus (I'm not religious btw, I'm just very curious as to how he managed to create the most successful religion of all time), my granny, , stephen hawking, Amy Lee, Nelson Mandella, Max Wertheimer, Charles Darwin, Vincent Van Gogh.

Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Bill Watterson, Martin Luther King, John Lennon, Bill Hicks, J. R. R. Tolkien, Diana Wynne Jones, Hayao Miyazaki and C. S. Lewis.