Let's say you won a contest, and can go on a date with Rachel Maddow.

[Archae]

Anyplace you want.
(Within reason, naturally.)

Where would you take her?

Me, I'd invite her up to my Mom's place in WI's Oconto county and we'd go fishing.
Rachel loves going fishing.

They may be mostly panfish, but they sure are fun to catch, and being with Rachel would be delightful company.

[pokerfan]

1. Salmon fishing

out of Westport.



Or trout fishing on a canoe only lake I know in B.C.

[BlueJazz]

2. I'd take her to Australia and let her play with the baby Kangaroos

[Archae]

3. Awwww...

Adorable!

Not as cute as a kitten, but still cute.

[Taverner]

4. I am a male, she is a lesbian

As attractive as she is, and damn she's hot

I don't want to waste someone like hers' time

[femmocrat]

5. Hell, I would go on a "date" with her and I'm a married woman!

Just think of how exciting and fun it would be to spend a day with Rachel!

[Taverner]

7. I always thought "date" referred to specifically a romantic interaction

I mean if it's a "work date" or a "lunch" then awesome! I would love that!

But even if I were a female, she does have a significant other...which means it would be a bad idea to try and steal her...

I guess the answer is: define date?

[csziggy]

8. Can't friends have dates together? That's what I would consider it

I go out with friends, my husband goes out with friends. Sometimes we go out with each other with the other's friends, sometimes not.

As a married woman, I'd enjoy an evening with Rachel Maddow (though my husband would insist on coming along since he enjoys her intellect, too). I'd also enjoy going out with Chris Hayes, Lawrence O'Donnell and maybe even Ed Schultz, even though they are all married.

My major worry would be that I do not clean up well and whether I could hold up my end of the conversation! Oh - and whether Rachel would be offended that I wouldn't drink with her since I don't drink.

ETA - I forgot - I'd take Rachel down to the coast to a good seafood restaurant.

[Archae]

14. That's basically what I was thinking of.

Just spending a few hours or a day with Rachel, having fun, no romance or sex, and with Rachel it'll be one heckuva good conversation too.

[Taverner]

16. What can I say? My mind is in a strange place these days.

The world, as I know it, is changing.

So be it.

Adapt or die.

[one_voice]

10. Me too..

I'd love to spend the day with her.

[whistler162]

6. Conway Scenic Railroad and Mt. Washington!

[lindysalsagal]

9. I'd buy her whatever kind of food she likes, and ask her to tell me all the things she knows that sh

she can't say on TV.

I'm straight, so, it would just be for fun. She's probably a ton of fun.

[Aristus]

11. First of all: *SWOON**THUD!*

LOVE to go on a date with Rachel Maddow!

I'd probably 'do the town' with her, the town being Seattle. Breakfast in a cafe on Queen Anne Hill. Check out the scene on Broadway. Really gay-friendly up there, so I know she'd feel comfortable. Tour Seattle Center, and all the really cool museums, The Experience Music Project, The Museum of Science Fiction, etc. Over to the Ave by UW for lunch at Aladdin's or Schulze's. A walk in Gasworks Park. Check out the Fremont Troll. Shop the cool places in Ballard. Dinner at the top of the Needle. A play at the Bagley Wright, The Intiman, or The Empty Space. Then music and dancing at a cool club, late into the night...

[rurallib]

12. I would just spend the time talking to her.

Maybe order pizza or something. She's wicked smart.

[OriginalGeek]

13. I would propose a date swap scenario

I would accompany her to any concert of her choice and then she would go with me to see Bolt Thrower in Chicago this summer.



This is only partly because I don't expect to get to go see Bolt Thrower in Chicago this summer unless some awesome TV star news lady takes me. I don;t mean to be ungentlemanly and make her pay - I was figuring the production company and/or whatever organization was responsible for setting up this fantasy would pay.

[Ptah]

15. I'd ask her if she would go to the County Fair with me.

[Archae]

17. That picture is from the 50's or 60's, right?

I had a red cowboy hat like that one when I was little back in the 60's.

I feel old...

[Ptah]

19. 1954.

Back in the day.

[jmowreader]

20. It's from last year

Never been to an Idaho fair? Lots of people dress just like that.

[AnneD]

29. How can she resist...

such cuteness. I think she would want something stronger than a Roy Rodgers or Shirley Temple.

[Taverner]

18. Coffee - and scones

Anywhere

[jmowreader]

21. I would take her to a Reagan Republicans meeting

We have a group up here called the Kootenai County Reagan Republicans. Their current hobby is politicizing the nonpartisan races - they are running Reagan Republican Approved Candidates in the upcoming hospital trustee election. To watch Rachel tell people who worship Reagan enough to name their club after him what a piece of work he was would be the high point of the decade.

After that I would make her my special patent pending noodleless lasagna.

[DFW]

22. I met her purely by chance at an airport in rural Massachusetts

She introduced herself with, "Hi, I'm Rachel." Like I didn't know who she was!! LOL She was seeing her parents off back home.

She said that her parents had not taken it well when she told them she was gay, but after she left, they told me they were very proud of her now (I would be, too!).

[madmom]

23. I would take her to my home and prepare a

delicious home cooked meal, with plenty of wine. There we could talk and talk, well into the night!

[olddots]

24. i 'd take her on the scenic Manson tour of L.A.

history buffs love it and you always learn new things on it.

[Archae]

25. A Manson tour?

To the ranch where Manson's family hung out?

The homes where Sharon Tate and the LaBianca's were killed?

(I'm just teasing!)

[HarveyDarkey]

26. Don't feel bad, that was my first thought too

you just beat me to commenting

[Manifestor_of_Light]

28. try this!!

www.dearlydepartedtours.com



For the weirdoes amongst you.

[AnneD]

30. Oh...

I am so there!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

31. No comment.

There are some sick bastards out there...and they're fun to hang out with.

I will confess....I've been on a couple of Preservation Society cemetery tours. I'm sick too!!

[AnneD]

32. Cemeteries can tell you the best history.....

I use to take my 3rd grade daughter to pioneer cemeteries. We learned so much. She practiced math, we learned about epidemiology, and of course, local history. The dead can tell you much, if you just listen.

If she had wanted, she would have made a fine archaeologist.

[ZombieHorde]

27. Anywhere we could play Dungeons & Dragons.

Or some other role playing game. I'm open.

[4_TN_TITANS]

33. Take her to Nashville, 2nd Ave & Broadway and the river walk

or maybe Chattanooga, there's much to see and do there. Wait, I'm being selfish. Probably best to spend the time grilling burgers at one of our local state parks and letting her give my daughter advise on being a high school lesbian.