If you could've dinner

If you could have dinner with three famous persons, who would it be? Doesn't matter if they are alive today. Dinner, three persons.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.  
Jim Morrison  
Mary Magdalen

Iain Banks  
Jack Kerouac  
Charles Bukowski

I'd like to have dinner with your mom.   
  
BURNINATION   
You are the insult master!

Iain Banks  
  
And the other two?

If you could have dinner with three famous persons, who would it be? Doesn't matter if they are alive today. Dinner, three persons.  
  
Can I hijack this thread a little and suggest an additional rule that will inspire us boy geeks to think a little harder? And one we can all ignore?  
  
At least one person should be a woman.  
  
(I'm guessing you might all choose some hot celebrity or something, but give it a little thought before you go that route. This is less about dinner, and more about discussion, if I read poltahs original idea correctly)

Back on track:  
  
The next night I would invite:  
  
Jesus, so he could tell me for real if he was a rebel or a wimp.  
Mary Shelley so she could ask Jesus really cool questions about creating life.  
Alex Albrecht to say weird random sheet about what the rest of us were talking about.  
  
Oh, and Craig Christ would crash the party in time for dessert and to bang Ms. Shelley in my laundry room.

Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mills Lane to ref that m***a f***a!! The fight of the century. The Dual of the Dorks, The War of the Workspace. This SUNDAY, SUNDAY, SUNDAY!!! LIVE at Madison Square Garden!! Catch it on Pay-Per-View. It will format your hard drives!! We'll sell you the whole seat but you will only need the edge!

Because it had to be done...  
  
http://www.techneato.com/jobsvgates.jpg

Hunter S Thompson  
Asoka  
Emma Goldman

I'd like to have dinner with your mom.   
  
BURNINATION   
You are the insult master!  
  
is that trogdor under that magunwarrior costume?

Because it had to be done...  
  
http://www.techneato.com/jobsvgates.jpg  
  
I'm not sure how much of a grudge match it would be considering they hang out and talk now.

Jobs looks like the devil in that picture.

My three:  
Mark Twain  
Benjamin Franklin  
Douglas Adams  
  
Or, if any of them can't make it, then may I can do some good with:  
John Belushi  
Chris Farley  
Arty Lang  
  
It would sort of be an intervention for Arty.

Breakfast:  
John Irving  
Mitch Hedberg  
Zach Braff  
  
Lunch:  
Issac Brock  
Christopher Walken  
Will Ferrell  
  
Dinner:  
Kevin Smith  
Tim Heidecker (or Eric Wareheim, doesn't matter)  
Matt Stone  
  
Dessert:  
Maggie Gyllenhaal (Maggie... Just Maggie...)  
  
And somewhere in the span of this fantasy day I would have a one on one coffee with Shigeru Miyamoto.  
  
God, this is just making me sad how much this will never happen. Especially breakfast, as Mitch Hedberg is dead.

Mark Twain  
Benjamin Franklin  
Douglas Adams  
  
Damn, that would be a fun night.

Breakfast:  
John Irving  
Mitch Hedberg  
Zach Braff  
  
Lunch:  
Issac Brock  
Christopher Walken  
Will Ferrell  
  
Dinner:  
Kevin Smith  
Tim Heidecker (or Eric Wareheim, doesn't matter)  
Matt Stone  
  
Dessert:  
Maggie Gyllenhaal (Maggie... Just Maggie...)  
  
And somewhere in the span of this fantasy day I would have a one on one coffee with Shigeru Miyamoto.  
  
God, this is just making me sad how much this will never happen. Especially breakfast, as Mitch Hedberg is dead.  
  
Holy crap, I want this day too. Except with Jake instead of Maggie. But that's just me.:D

Oh, and John Irving... Wow. What a fun evening that would be with just him. Love that guy. And handsome as Hell too. And a wrestler. Meee-ow.

Kobe Bryant  
Shaquille O'Neal  
Phil Jackson  
  
or  
  
Roberto Baggio  
David Beckham  
Ronaldo de Asis Moreira (Rhonaldinho)  
  
last  
  
Stan Lee  
Toby Mguire  
Kirsten Dunst

My three:  
Mark Twain  
Benjamin Franklin  
Douglas Adams  
  
Swap out Ben Franklin with Jon Stewart, and I think it would be a killer dinner.

Swap out Ben Franklin with Jon Stewart, and I think it would be a killer dinner.  
  
Tough call. I would love to hang out with Mr. Stewart, but Ben Franklin wins for both the historical context and his wit. There are so many things I would want to ask him, and I know he would be just as funny as John Stewart. And I think Mr. Twain and Mr. Franklin would have a laugh riot together.  
  
Similarly, I have been writing a screenplay in my head where a very young (early twenty-ish) Thomas Jefferson is transported into our time...  
  
So Mister Jefferson would replace Mr Franklin, though with heavy heart.

Kobe Bryant  
Shaquille O'Neal  
Phil Jackson  
  
or  
  
Roberto Baggio  
David Beckham  
Ronaldo de Asis Moreira (Rhonaldinho)  
  
Oh hurray. You can talk about who does what with a ball all night. That will help you change the world...:rolleyes:   
  
Can't you just do that with your friends any night?   
  
"Whoopee. I like sports. Despite the thousands of intellectual thinkers that have ever existed on the planet I just wanna talk about adults playing children's games for a living."  
  
Don't mean to be an a-hole (actually, when it comes to sports, I do mean to be an a-hole) but you can do better than that.

Tough call. I would love to hang out with Mr. Stewart, but Ben Franklin wins for both the historical context and his wit. There are so many things I would want to ask him, and I know he would be just as funny as John Stewart. And I think Mr. Twain and Mr. Franklin would have a laugh riot together.  
  
Similarly, I have been writing a screenplay in my head where a very young (early twenty-ish) Thomas Jefferson is transported into our time...  
  
So Mister Jefferson would replace Mr Franklin, though with heavy heart.Jefferson is on my backup list for if Mister Franklin can't make it. Ben was just such a renaissance man. :)  
  
I liked the idea of spanning a fair amount of time. Jon Stewart is the man, and he might make my list if they all had to be living folk, however Douglas Adams had the contemporary seat at the table. heh.  
  
I don't get the sports choices either. I mean, I guess I could see it if it were like Jesse Owens or Babe Ruth or someone iconic like that... but um.. Shaq? (Oh, wait.. it's because of Kazaam or Steel, right? hehehe)

I liked the idea of spanning a fair amount of time. Jon Stewart is the man, and he might make my list if they all had to be living folk, however Douglas Adams had the contemporary seat at the table.   
  
How about this combo ...  
  
John Paul Getty - industrialist and one of the first oil barons.  
Douglas Adams - environmentalist and modern day pundit.  
Adolf Hitler - motivational speaker and economic reformist. Controversial choice and arguably a radical religious nutjob, but he turned the German economy around at a time when the rest of the world was in a depression. If he had been able to channel his effort through more peaceful means, Germany would be a superpower today.

How about this combo ...  
John Paul Getty - industrialist and one of the first oil barons.  
Douglas Adams - environmentalist and modern day pundit.  
Adolf Hitler - motivational speaker and economic reformist. Controversial choice and arguably a radical religious nutjob, but he turned the German economy around at a time when the rest of the world was in a depression. If he had been able to channel his effort through more peaceful means, Germany would be a superpower today.I made a distinct choice, at some point in my life, to never have dinner with people I hate. Now, to be fair, I've never met the man, however I think it's safe to say I hate Hitler. It would be interesting to get inside his head, of course, and see the workings... but I don't think I could manage not to attempt murder with the silverware.   
Getty just doesn't make the cut. No denying he'd be an interesting tablemate, but he's just not on the list. Too many people ahead of him. I'd be more interested in Howard Hughes... now that would be wacky.

I made a distinct choice, at some point in my life, to never have dinner with people I hate. Now, to be fair, I've never met the man, however I think it's safe to say I hate Hitler. It would be interesting to get inside his head, of course, and see the workings... but I don't think I could manage not to attempt murder with the silverware.   
  
Getty just doesn't make the cut. No denying he'd be an interesting tablemate, but he's just not on the list. Too many people ahead of him. I'd be more interested in Howard Hughes... now that would be wacky.Hughes would be a great person to have at the table as well ... just make sure that dinner was held in a private room, you kept everything sanitised, and served pistachio icecream for dessert.  
Hitler made my list because I think that in another time and place, he would have been a different person. I know the events of your time shape the person you become, but I honestly think he is one of the more interesting people from the 20th century.   
Getty made my list because he took a business his father had established, and turned it to the largest company of his time. He was educated in economics and politics at Oxford. This guy knew his stuff ... and would be a strong counterpoint to Hitlers nationalist/socialist views.  
The person I had a hard time leaving on the list was Douglas Adams. Arguably a great man, and an environmental crusader, the effects from his death are a lot weaker than if he had continued to live. I would almost swap Al Gore in instead. He could show Hitler and Getty his slide deck for An Inconvenient Truth, they could comment on his Oscar, ask how Bill is doing, and then move on to solving the worlds problems.  
Given that they would be at the table, I would probably excuse myself, and give my seat up to Jon Stewart to keep the conversation going. You need to give this guy some credit - he has a wealth of facts stored away, and is more than just a comedian.

What about people who might exist but don't really? If ok these would be my picks.  
  
God  
Satan  
Danzig

What about people who might exist but don't really? If ok these would be my picks.  
  
God  
Satan  
Danzig  
  
funny.  
  
Fictional characters:  
  
Garps Mom.  
Sisyphus.  
Holden Caulfield.

Adolf Hitler  
I could only deal with Hitler if Jesus was there too. Slap some sense into the antisemite, and "turn the tables' conversationally. And if I had to have Hitler for dinner the third person would be...  
My Mom. She would grab him by the earlobe, wash his mouth out with soap, send him to his room without dessert, and ground him until he changed his evil ways.

funny.  
Holden Caulfield.  
  
I think he may be turned off by your flitty demeanor badger ;)

Well, I won't ask him to sleep on my couch after dinner...

Well, I won't ask him to sleep on my couch after dinner...  
  
Right, you may feel the uncontrollable urge to stroke his hair whilst you drink highballs.

If I could've dinner I would've, but my stomach had already been removed.

Option 1:  
Marcel Duchamp  
Stanley Kubrick  
Ricky Gervais  
  
Option 2:  
Jim Halpert  
Kurt Vonnegut  
Vincent Van Gogh

Wow, if we're gonna necropost, I'll post three dead people I would want dinner with.  
  
John Lennon  
Janis Joplin  
Jim Morrison  
  
for a retro rockin ' eve of drunken philisophical madness.

Stan Lee  
Miles Davis  
Jesus  
Stan Lee could actually just narrate the entire dinner, and I'd be alright. he has the most awesome voice.

fun crew, but I've never heard Stan Lee talk that I remember...

Here's an interview kevin did with Stan, so you can hear his voice:  
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fun crew, but I've never heard Stan Lee talk that I remember...  
Have you seen the movie Mallrats?

Here's an interview kevin did with Stan, so you can hear his voice:  
...snip the vid...  
He is/was really cool. confirm though, not being a huge comic follower... Did he pass away recently?  
the vid is also confirmation that Kevin Rose is a very very very good interviewer, asked the right question, mentioned the right things, didn't interrupt answers, good control of the conversation... The real deal.  
Both of them were great. Stan was very funny and quick.

stan is still kicking

Stan is still alive and kickin' thank God. I'd be gone from the world for months weeping and eating ice cream if he died.  
  
Oh, and yeah, Kevin was great. It's weird I found that searching for stan lee on youtube.

didn't some other great from the comic world die recently?

didn't some other great from the comic world die recently?  
  
Drew Hayes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Hayes) recently pasted away but i would probable be the only you would meet that would call him great  
  
btw answer my pm fool

oops on my way. got distracted by meatspace. sorry.  
  
jeeze.

No new PM from you. sorry. Let me clear out some space. i am so ****ing popular... ;)

it's a couple days old

Oh, I did respond to that. U even mentioned it on another thread...  
  
Hmm. maybe I'm confused. let me check again.

no i sent any one after that. i'm not real popular so my box is pretty empty  
  
man are we hijacking this thread or what?

just sent you a new one.  
  
back to this dead thread now....  
so. who you wanna have dinner with?

yeah i got it and sent you another hahaha it nevers ends  
  
as for the thread how about  
rabidbadger   
keely smith  
howard zinn

Im honored.

Im honored.  
  
yeah i hope you like howard zinn course all my time would be spent trying to get in keely's pants