If you could invite 10 well known people (from any era) to a party

[Champ]

Who would they be?

[ThreeCatNight]

1. The 3 Stooges +

The Marx Brothers + The Beatles.

[jedicord]

2. This may take a while...

David Bowie, Benjamin Franklin, my mom, Bob Dylan, Mark Twain, Al Franken, Jon Stewart, John Lennon, Andy Warhol, Vincent Van Gogh

What an interesting evening!

[BigMcLargehuge]

3. oooo good question

I'd invite

Erich Maria Remarque
Siegfried Sassoon
Myamoto Musashi
Thomas Jefferson
Robert Heinlein
Nicole Kidman
Iris Chang
Matsui Iwane
Theodore Roosevelt
William Gibson

[HornBuckler]

4. I'd Invite

A Bunch Of Hotties And Timothy Leary For The Drugs.

Edit - You Can Come Over Too, Champ

[Champ]

7. lol

Thanks for the invitation :hi:

[Career Prole]

5. Gotta get the "founding fathers" on the guest list...

...and a camera crew. I'm so tired of hearing "That's not what the founding fathers intended" every time I turn around. I'd really love to buttonhole those guys and pin 'em down on what exactly they did intend. Just put that tired argument to bed, once and for all.

[stopthegop]

9. umm...they wrote it down...

US constitution...Federalist papers...that sort of thing

[Career Prole]

11. No kidding...and you haven't noticed how many different ways

folks try to spin it? Seriously?

[stopthegop]

13. the words are there...how people choose to

misrepresent it is another issue...but the thoughts of the Founders are available...they wrote a lot down...

[Career Prole]

18. I know that...okay, look. Second amendment...

I know you're aware there are two groups who disagree completely on what they meant by the right to keep and bear arms, even though it's written down.
You don't think it would be an illumination to one side or the other to ask the fellows who wrote it for an opinion on the two interpretations of that which they wrote?
Or to ask them about the ten commandments in federal buildings?
Or if flag-burning is protected free speech?
I can think of lots of questions about what they've written down.
What's open to interpretation is also open to misinterpretation, and you gotta admit, the thought of Roy Moore telling the founding fathers that they don't know what they were talking about is kind of funny.
It's all a game anyway!

[stopthegop]

19. true...it's a game....

although I suspect the thoughts of most of the founders would be closer to those of Roy Moore the Michael Moore....

[gpandas]

23. that's how it goes when you own slaves

[amjsjc]

6. My list...

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Buddha, Shakespeare, Einstein, Dante, Jefferson, Twain and Franklin. I might consider squeezing in Jesus somewhere. It'd be interesting to see what all the hype is about.

[x-g.o.p.er]

8. My list would be...

1. Thomas Paine--The most radical of the Founding Fathers
2. Harriet Tubman--True Courage
3. Abraham Lincoln--Best president ever.
4. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain--He saved the Union at Gettysburg
5. Robin Williams--Funniest guy ever
6. Louis Armstrong--Greatest musician ever
7. Muhammad Ali--Greatest athlete ever
8. Harry P. "Bud" Grant--Greatest football coach ever. (Hey, I'm a Vikings fan.)
9. Chuck Yeager--Greatest pilot ever, next to me, of course, lol.
10. Jesus Christ--Just to see what he thought of the fundamentalists who condemn, kill, and persecute in his name.

[TX-RAT]

10. Easy

Willie Nelson
Hank Williams Sr
Hank Williams Jr
Waylon Jennings
Dolly Parton
Bob Wills
Lee Marvin
John Wayne
Louis Armstrong
Jackie Gleason
King Louie from thr Jungle Book

[Donkeyboy75]

14. That's 11, dude.

;)

[TX-RAT]

15. Sorry - I couldn't leave out King Louie

[Donkeyboy75]

12. Charles Bukowski

Dylan Thomas
Jack Kerouac
Hunter S. Thompson
Ernest Hemingway
*smart drunks*
Heidi Klum
Katharine Hepburn (late 20s)
Tina Fey
Mia Hamm
*hotties*
George W Bush
*stooge*

I'd bring cameras, lock the door, and document the erosion of *'s willpower. :evilgrin:

[Catshrink]

16. Steve Allen had a tv show like this called "Meeting of the Minds"

He'd have actors portraying historical people from different eras. I loved watching that show -- it was really interesting.

on edit -- I forgot to add my ten

1. Thomas Jefferson
2. Ben Franklin
3. Elizabeth I
4. Eleanor of Aquitaine
5. Ella Fitzgerald
6. Abraham Lincoln
7. Gene Kelly (to sing to me)
8. Walter Payton
9. The Big Dawg
10.Hillary.

I would love to listen to a conversation between Jefferson, Franklin, and Clinton, Elizabeth and Hillary. That would be damn interesting. And how about the Big Dawg jamming with Ella? Wow.

[daligirrl]

28. I loved that show - and I was a little kid when it was on. . .

Not many people remember it. My list is:

Alexander the Great
Socrates
Voltaire
Oscar Wilde
Claude Debussy
Salvador Dali
Langston Hughes
Dorothy Parker
Malcolm X
Barry Goldwater

[LanternWaste]

17. Off the top of my head

Off the top of my head

From the Home Offices in WallaWalla Washington


1. C.S. Lewis

2. Benjamin Franklin

3. Winston Churchill

4. Thurgood Marshall

5. Grieg

6. The Apostle Paul

7. Aristophenes

8. John Bunyan

9. Pitt the Younger

10. Paul McCartney

[johnnie]

20. It would be

Elvis
John Lennon
Bob Dylan
Buddy Holly
Hank Williams
Brian Wilson
Woody Guthrie
Keith Richards
Pete Townshend
Johnny Cash

Just to do a lot of drinkin' and singin'

[Insider]

21. iced tea & butter cookies

angela davis
toni morrison
kweisi mfume & lynn whitfield
rachelle ferrell
spike & tanya lee
bill & hillary clinton
tom joyner

[Bunny]

22. In no particular order:

Ben Franklin, Meriweather Lewis, Nostradamus, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jimmy Stewart, Elizabeth I, Dorothy Parker, Oscar Wilde, Cleopatra, and JFK.

24. off the top of my head

Emerson
Nietzsche
Rousseau
William Blake
Ezra Pound
Thomas Jefferson
Coleridge
Aldous Huxley
James Joyce
Socrates

[Senior citizen]

25. An interesting evening

Hypatia

Franz Kafka

Annie Besant

I. F. Stone

Frederick Douglass

Lise Meitner

Thelonius Monk

Janis Joplin

Richard Pryor

Skinner

[nini]

26. Jesus and George W Bush

Georgie would be very surprised I believe.

[Book Lover]

27. Do they have to be well-known?

Hmmmmm... OK:

1. Mary, mother of Jesus
2. Dante Alighieri
3. George Washington
4. Bill Clinton
5. JRR Tolkein (yes, for geeeky purposes, but also to discuss his translation of Gawain and the Green Knight)
6. Gloria Steinem
7. Susan B. Anthony
8. Aristophanes
9. Augustus Caesar
10. Edgar Degas