So, 20 posts until I hit 5000. This is a shameless attempt

[TallahasseeGrannie]

to get there fast so I get my prize. There IS a prize, right?

Answer this: You can invite two people to dinner: One living, one dead (he/she comes uncorrupted, hopefully). Whom would you invite, what would you serve, and what would you listen to?

I'LL START:

John the Baptist
Jerry Falwell

Kosher hotdogs, kraut, baked beans

76 Trombones from The Music Man

[newyawker99]

1. You are down to 14 now.

:hi:

[TallahasseeGrannie]

2. Yeah, this one is dying a very rapid death

I guess I'll go make trouble somewhere.


heheheh

[hfojvt]

3. You have hit 5000 PDQ

I am no good at hosting. You made me realize that I have never made a meal for someone else in my entire life. Except I made a salad once that my dad also ate and I have made peanut butter cookies that my sister ate (and also took a batch to school).

Just for the fireworks, it would be nice to invite Abe Lincoln and George W. Bush to dinner. I think JR would be having humble pie.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

7. Oh yeah I'd like to be at that one

and I'd like to ask Abe about sleeping in bed with a guy for four years. Maybe you should tiptoe out and leave them alone?

Peanut butter cookies sounds good.

But what would you be listening to?

[LSK]

4. no, there is no prize

I was sadly dissappointed last week.

I would invite Thomas Jefferson and Bill O'Reilly and watch someone get schooled!

[TallahasseeGrannie]

8. Oh, yeah! I'd want to be there, too

Any particular menu in mind?

[BOSSHOG]

5. Abraham Lincoln and Mark Twain

Crawfish berl on the Patio accompanied by the Moody Blues. Would you join us TG?

[TallahasseeGrannie]

9. I'm there.

I'll bring pecan pie and a mason jar of camelias.

[VaYallaDawg]

6. OK, TG, here goes.

Nostradamus
Prince William

Prime rib (don't know why, other than it's one of my favorite indulgences)

Turandot

[TallahasseeGrannie]

10. Now I gotta google Turandot because I'm clueless

But I sure wouldn't mind watching Prince William eat dinner.


god, I sound like a pedophile.

[VaYallaDawg]

12. Turandot is an opera by Puccini.

It has one of the most beautiful tenor arias in all of opera, "Nessun Dorma" - it's been made very famous by Pavarotti.

The reason I said Prince Wm. is I'd like to exchange ideas with a person who is young, reasonably well educated, and who is assured a place in history - don't know exactly what it will be at this time, but you can bet your boots he'll be there.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

13. Prince William is an empty slate right now

a very pretty empty slate.

I think there is a possibility he might have something to say.

I am off to Amazon to find "Nessun Dorma" and listen to a cut and see if I recognize it. I am not familiar with the opera.

I used to go to the Met when I was a child in the NYC metro area. Wonderful memories. I liked the orange juice and the costumes the best.

[Strong Atheist]

11. Dead? My dad.

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[TallahasseeGrannie]

14. Oh, you've got that right

I'd like to sit at a dinner table with ALL my dead relatives. I have so many questions.

What I'd like even better is some sort of a way to go back and just look at their lives. I'm a genealogist and I think about this sort of thing.

[Strong Atheist]

18. My dad was more important to me than anything.

I guess I would not "set the world on fire, and use my soul as kindling" to get him back, as a character in the beginning of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time said, but the kindling part, and anything that only hurt me; YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT. Ahem, sorry for shouting.

[Metta]

15. The Buddha, the Dalai Lama.

Vegetables galore with brown rice and a nice sweet. The found sounds in the environment.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

16. AHHHHHHH

And bells tinkling? Birds? Waterfalls?

I love that this is my 5000th post!

[Metta]

17. Mazel tov. A day that will live in sunshine.

Peaceful, healing sunshine. Birds, bell, waterfalls and kites in the air. Jai. :hippie: :)

[bigwillq]

19. Congrats on 5k!

:toast: