Dinner Party for the Famous and You

[TE999]

H.G Wells

Jules Verne

H.P. Lovecraft

Aw hell, and Robert E. Howard

They wrote some of the best Sci-Fi, Horror and Adventure stories ever put on paper.

I wouldn't talk, I'd just listen.

 

[justaregularguy]

..hmm
Larry
Moe
Curly

are there 3 better? Understand they all are sitting at the same table right? I think I've even seen this episode

my son, my wife and my grandmother

 

[scheherazade_79]

Frank Abagnale (of Catch Me If You Can fame)
Howard Marks
Amy Johnson
Mata Hari

Because they'd all have interesting stories to tell, and I admire the drive and resourcefulness of each one.

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

Frank Abagnale (of Catch Me If You Can fame)
Howard Marks
Amy Johnson
Mata Hari

Because they'd all have interesting stories to tell, and I admire the drive and resourcefulness of each one.

Yikes - I only know the last.

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Churchill.
Aristotle.
Madison and Hamilton.
Charles Murray.
Richard Feynman.
Hayek.

 

[DesertPirate]

Thomas Jefferson, Winston Churchill, John Lennon
for serious


Groucho Marx, Bob Hope, Johnny Carson
for fun

 

[impressive]

My father -- one more time. No one else has ever made me feel that unconditional acceptance.

My son -- in a realm where he could talk & tell me his innermost thoughts. I have a huge need to hear him say I'm doing right by him.

And, because it makes a tidy trinity, the holy ghost. I want to know what's truth and what's an elaborate ruse to manipulate the devout.

 

[DesertPirate]

My father -- one more time. No one else has ever made me feel that unconditional acceptance.

My son -- in a realm where he could talk & tell me his innermost thoughts. I have a huge need to hear him say I'm doing right by him.

And, because it makes a tidy trinity, the holy ghost. I want to know what's truth and what's an elaborate ruse to manipulate the devout.

 

[lesbiaphrodite]

Jim Morrison

Edith Piaf

Mozart

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

My father -- one more time. No one else has ever made me feel that unconditional acceptance.

My son -- in a realm where he could talk & tell me his innermost thoughts. I have a huge need to hear him say I'm doing right by him.

And, because it makes a tidy trinity, the holy ghost. I want to know what's truth and what's an elaborate ruse to manipulate the devout.

 

[al_Ussa]

Well, for me I'd have to pick....

1. Abu ‘Abdullah al-Lawati al-Tanji ibn Battuta - One of my personal heroes. Not only because I respect the fact that his feet touched most of the known world in his day, and I've always wanted to equal or even outdo him, but also because of his knowledge as a legal scholar and Qadi.

2. Sir Richard Francis Burton - Polyglot, explorer, swordsman, physician, spy, ethnographer and all around scoundrel. You all probably know Burton - he served in India and the Crimea, made the Hajj disguised as an Afghani physician, was the first European to penetrate into Somali land (and live), sought out the source of the Nile, translated the 1,001 Nights and Kama Sutra (amongst other works), and searched for the gold mines of Midian, amongst many other exploits. I figure anything with Burton would wind up being quite exciting.

3. Sir Rudyard Kipling - Because I grew up with his stories of India, and jungle animals, and tales of adventure on the Northwest Frontier. Very, very few authors managed to capture that like he did - maybe Robert E. Howard and Talbot Mundy, and James McDonald Frazer - but Kipling was a boyhood hero. Who else could make British Imperialism so child friendly? Although in all fairness, 'The White Man's Burden' was actually written about the U.S.

Also, because you, you would need entertainment, I'd have to vote for Rachel Brice (my personal favorite bellydancer), Natacha Atlas and Azam Ali (beautiful voices both), Rekha (for her role in Umrao Jaan), Nabila Ebeid (wa wa wee wow), Ruby (hey, I saw those videos!) and... hmmm... lets add in Cleopatra VII, Mata Hari, Djaziya, Theda Bara, and a few other classic sex icons. I'm sure Burton would know more than a few.

 

[Shakti_Dreamer]

Van Gogh

O'Keefe

Gaugain