I often think about who from anywhere in history I would invite for the perfect dinner party. It changes often perhaps dependent on what topic is playing in my mind at the time but any list of potential guests would include people like Jefferson or Churchill, Chief Joseph, or actors like Alec Guinness. I might include Joseph Smith but determining the rest of the party with him might be difficult. Perhaps for devilment I could pair him with his mirror image Donald Trump.

Right at the top of any dinner guest list would be Peter Ustinov but then with him no one else would be necessary and I would likely so amused I would forget my hosting duties.

Who would be your perfect dinner guests?

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> Who would be your perfect dinner guests?

Anyone that I've known for years on RfM. I've never met in person anyone on here with the single exception of a guy I used to go to church with so I met him while I was on RfM and he had never heard of it. I was here several years before I stopped attending. back in 2005.

George Carlin, Helen Thomas, Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln, and Quentin Crisp, and one cheat--the very much alive Dame Edna Everidge.


I am drawn to the clever and unafraid. Nice combo.

You, sir, have great taste. Your place is set.

very good list, I would add Hitchins and Paul McCartney

Twain with two of my favorite writers, James Lee Burke and Phillip Kerr, would be interesting. Perhaps for devilment Twain and Joseph Smith.

I would punch Joseph Smith right in the kisser.

He would bleed all over the salad.


PS: Not that I'm included with the other esteemed guests. But JS? No. He wouldn't be on my list. :)



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Nightingale, it is not based on likeability. I am sure I would thoroughly dislike him but would find it interesting to listen in to his interactions with others, similar or opposite.

I think Helen Mirren would give you a run for your money.

Yes, I realize kentish. I was just goofing off.

Oh, I love Helen Mirren.

Sounds like you could make up an amazing guest list! I'd be the fly on the wall.

Nightingale Wrote:
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> I would punch Joseph Smith...
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He wouldn't even be allowed, listening to him speak, especially when his reputation was exceeding him, especially for his lust for [other(s)] girls and women and promises [if ye' would just follow me yadayadayada]...

> PS: ... JS? No. He wouldn't be on my list. :) >

Me neither

PS. to op/ Kentish: he wouldn't be invited.

Sorry

I'd be playing single, get added as the 4th with Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock and Helen Mirren, and then having found me to be amusing, as well as genuinely humble, would invite me to join them at a nice Mexican restaurant...

Somebody finds you amusing?

The IRS considers me to be not only amusing but hilarious!

The Itinerant Relief Society of exmo women who left the church because they wanted male priesthood authority?

The guest of honor would be Jesus and all of the wine glasses would be filled with water…and I’d say “OK big guy, go for it.”

The true Adam and true Eve to show them all that their children accomplished.

Who ever designed the pyramids to show them how long their legacy lasted.

The first person that invented wine, beer and brandy respectively.

Whoever invented writing.

The first person to smelt metal, produce glass and design a building respectively.

The guy that invented the wheel.

Whoever domesticated the first dog.

"They" as in "They said" he seems to know everything.

And last but not least my mother, who died to give me life.

I think most of these people on your list were part of group efforts and long processes of people refining things.

Sad about your mother.

I would invite 10 mormons and 10 jay dubs. Are you ready to rumble ?

Marcus Aurelius
Terence McKenna
Rumi

With plenty of ice cream for one, and KFC for the other.

Jesus and the twelve apostles but I would pop for a better meal than bread and water. The Bible says they drank wine. I would have some fine pacific northwest and Napa valley wines and maybe some French and Italian ones too.

I hear if you go back to church you can have Jesus for dinner.

Sounds like a winner. And my order would be "whatever Jesus is having' cuz if you have God making wine, and, a crusty bread. Watch out!

I enjoy good conversation (listening to especially) so that would be the my main interest in the perfect dinner company.

I recall visiting Washington's home overlooking the Potomac and while everyone was marveling at the antiquity of the house, that did little for me. My moment came when I was sitting on one of the chairs on the veranda gazing out over the river wondering about all the conversations that have taken place there. If verandas could speak.

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> If verandas could speak.

I wonder what the slaves cleaning them were saying?

All part of the fabric.

Me- if I could make it (I'm usually hungry, a fine cook, and a great 'conversation peace')!

How about decent people, someone with manners, someone who is greatful, enchanting, interesting...

How about you? Would you like to be my guest? Or have me as yours? We can invite Hansel and Grettle. And Robert Hunter.

Epictetus

George Washington Carver

Dolly Parton

And I agree with kentish, my interests change here and there. So many interesting people out there. Hard to choose just a few.

Anybody working in a disaster zone, after a catastrophe, helping others...

Someone cold, tired and hungry or suffering from fast-food-itus, or who hadn't seen a real meal in a while...

Anyone passing through...

A traveler

A kind soul

A wise friend

A stranger

Someone interesting...

Someone noble

Someone grateful

Someone enchanting

Someone wild

Someone beautiful

A few old friends, and
A few young ones too

Someone that was really about what they were really about.

I'd invite you

Henry David Thoreau

Louisa May Alcott
Homer
My parents
My Mom’s parents

U. Utah Phillips (IWW) (1935-2008)

I saw him in concert once, in Colorado, along with Ani Difranco and Greg Brown (all GREAT 'folk' singers) for $5. Even then, it was a great deal and a Great Show!

I'd like to hear some (more) of his stories, and great working songs, and he could stay at long as he wanted...

https://www.thelongmemory.com/#audio-archive

LOAFER'S GLORY / A HOBO JUNGLE OF THE MIND

Loafer's Glory was originally broadcast from KVMR in Nevada City, Ca. These broadcasts are a collage of rants, poetry, tales, and reminiscences mixed in with little known music and talk from over 1,000 tapes of everything under the sun, from tramping and labor (historic and contemporary ) to baseball and old friends... from unreleased Lord Buckley to animals, children, tall tales, Paul Robeson, and most of what you need to know about life on the open road... and always music.

A few off the top of my head:

Mary Shelly

Edgar Allan Poe

Lyudmila Pavlichenko (Ukranian sniper from World War II. From 1942-1943 she killed 309 Axis troops, 36 of which were enemy snipers)

Vincent Price (Bonus if I can find the cookbooks he wrote and prepare a course from one of the recipes)

Christopher Lee (the man had quite the interesting life)



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