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post #1 of 18
6/21/03 at 4:34am
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I like asking this question to my dates.

It gives me a little insight into who she is or who she isn't, whatever the case may be it's usually an interesting conversation. Even though sometimes the answers are sad or deadly boring, occassionally she gets whats happening and makes it fun.

If you could invite three FAMOUS people, living or dead, to dinner, who would they be and why?
What would you ask them?

My picks are:

1. Adolf Hitler
2. Jesus Christ
3. Elvis Presley

Why?

All three have produced maniacal followings in their respective times.

Find out why so many felt/feel compelled to worship these cats.

1. I would ask him why he so underestimated the Allied forces, especially the Americans, during WWII?

2. Do you wonder what sex was/is like?

3. Why didn't you fire Col. Parker?


Anyone else?

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post #2 of 18
6/21/03 at 6:47am
The BBC actually have series on at the moment which explores this idea called "Guess who's coming to Dinner?" It lets a celebrity guest choose six dinner guests, real or fictional, living or dead, and then in the end has a psychiatrist look at the list to make character profile of the guest, usually churning out something like "sadomasochistic nightnurse of is fond of nazis and buddism." Or something like that.

It's actually a pretty decent show, but it's presented by Anne "I'd rather rub my eyes with chili peppers than watch her" Robinson.
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post #3 of 18
6/21/03 at 6:56am
Karl Marx
George Orwell
Ronald Reagan (healthy)

I'd pay to watch those three go at it.
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post #4 of 18
6/21/03 at 7:03am
Bill Hicks.
Akira Kurosawa.
Sergio Leone.
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post #5 of 18
6/21/03 at 11:54am
Buddha, Mohammed, and Jesus (assuming we all had translators, of course - my Aramaic is a tad rusty, to say nothing of my Chinese wink )

Why? Think about it - probably the three most influential religious leaders EVER. Plus the possibility of a fistfight between Mohammed and Jesus.

Questions?

- what do you think of some of the paths your teachings have led people down?

- if one leads a moral life, by your standards, but does not worship your God, what becomes of him?

- who'd win in a fight: Gandhi or the Dalai Lama?

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NOWHEREMan
Only two of those people are actually real though
Eh, this atheist/agnostic thinks it's reasonable to assume that Jesus DID exist.
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post #6 of 18
6/21/03 at 1:09pm
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NOWHEREMan:
Only two of those people are actually real though, and if we can take fictional character I would pick more interesting people like Supergirl or Black Cat or something, and dinner would involve jello wrestling.
Elvis was real.
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post #7 of 18
6/21/03 at 5:43pm
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General Zod:


My picks are:

1. Adolf Hitler
2. Jesus Christ
3. Elvis Presley
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ........ BOOOORRIINNGGGGG!

Seriously. Those are the most generic choices I can possibly imagine. I hope those choices don't tell us too much about your personality. The most ineresting person in the bunch is likeley to try sticking you in the oven at the first available opportunitiy.

My Choices:

1.Charles Manson (Sure he's a psychopath, but I'm a pretty big guy. If he got out of line I'd tie him to a moving dolly Hannibal Lecter style)

2. Bruce Lee (A great mind, spirit, and body all rolled up in one package. Besides, I may need him to help me keep Manson in line)

3. Eddie Murphy. (Fuck you. I still think he's one of the funniest men on the planet)

Now THERE'S a conversation for you.

What I would ask them:

1. Can you help me to be cool?

2. May I borrow your salad fork, I seem to have dropped mine?

3. Have you ever wished you were someone else, Who and why?

4. Pluto Nash? What the WTF!?!?

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post #8 of 18
6/21/03 at 6:02pm
1. Tommy Chong

2. Hunter S. Thompson

3. Jason Mewes
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1. Will you guys smoke with me?

2. Heeeeeeyyyyyy mmmmaaaaaaannnnn........Huh huh huh....what?

3. Where's Silent Bob?
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post #9 of 18
6/22/03 at 2:45am
Thread Starter 
Quote:
Hubris: Crimson Lad:
Quote:
General Zod:


My picks are:

1. Adolf Hitler
2. Jesus Christ
3. Elvis Presley
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ........ BOOOORRIINNGGGGG!

Seriously. Those are the most generic choices I can possibly imagine. I hope those choices don't tell us too much about your personality. The most ineresting person in the bunch is likeley to try sticking you in the oven at the first available opportunitiy.

My Choices:

1.Charles Manson (Sure he's a psychopath, but I'm a pretty big guy. If he got out of line I'd tie him to a moving dolly Hannibal Lecter style)

2. Bruce Lee (A great mind, spirit, and body all rolled up in one package. Besides, I may need him to help me keep Manson in line)

3. Eddie Murphy. (Fuck you. I still think he's one of the funniest men on the planet)

Now THERE'S a conversation for you.

What I would ask them:

1. Can you help me to be cool?

2. May I borrow your salad fork, I seem to have dropped mine?

3. Have you ever wished you were someone else, Who and why?

4. Pluto Nash? What the WTF!?!?
Eddie "Daddy Daycare" Murphy?

Please.

You disappoint me, Hub.

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post #10 of 18
6/22/03 at 2:00pm
Living or dead? Well let's just assume that Eddie Murphy was creamed by a bus shortly after the filming of "The Nutty Professor" (1 not 2)
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post #11 of 18
6/22/03 at 2:47pm
This is too hard so I'll break it up:

Living

1. Weird Al
2. Steve Martin
3. Steven King

I wouldn't be able to ask questions because I'd be laughing too hard.

Dead

1.Danny Kaye
2.John Wayne
3.Albert Einstein

Again I don't think I'd be able to even speak, I'd just want to sit back and bask.
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post #12 of 18
6/22/03 at 4:04pm
Right now it would be

1. J.K. Rowling (I have to know more)
2. Steven Spielberg (personal God)
3. Kurt Cobain
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post #13 of 18
6/22/03 at 4:07pm
1) The Wimmer
2) Guillermo Del Toro
3) Terry Gilliam
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post #14 of 18
6/22/03 at 4:11pm
Dead: Edgar Allen Poe, Allen Ginsberg, Mary Shelly

I would ask Ginsberg what its like to be an openly gay jewish hippy, besides that I would just bask in the presence of depressing writers.

Alive: Chuck Palahniuk, Marilyn Manson, David Fincher

I wouldn't need to ask any questions. There is a good chance they would all kill me and eat me for dinner. If they didn't I could just soak up the genius.

Edit: Did I say genius? I meant GENIOUS.

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post #15 of 18
6/22/03 at 4:38pm
Dead: Hemingway, James Joyce, Jeff Buckley. last one cause I wanna see and hear him perform live, the other two because I want to know what made them so good at what they wrote. If Buckley refused to sing, however, I'd trade him for Bill Hicks. I think that Sean Hughes (Irish comic) actually had him on his list when he was on teh TV show I mentioned.

Alive: Neil Gaiman (because he's a nice guy and he's great fun to listen to), Alan Moore (because I'm mesmerised by his comics, and his spoken word things give me enough food for thought to entertain me for weeks) and Nick Cave (again, nice music after dinner... one hopes. plus I wanna ask him some stuff about his book). Or Monica Bellucci, so I can impress her with my cookery skills. ok, maybe not.
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post #16 of 18
6/22/03 at 10:50pm
hahaha let me think

1. Chino (from the Deftones)
2. Bradly Nowell (Lead singer from Sublime...RIP)
3. Bruce Cambell..(you know evil dead star!)

why?

Just because it would be fun as shit to smoke and drink with them
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post #17 of 18
6/22/03 at 11:39pm
Robert Jordan (so I can bitch-slap him and tell him to FINISH THE FUCKING SERIES ALREADY)

Les Claypool (cause he's fucking COOL)

T.a.T.u. (I'm sure it would be interesting)
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post #18 of 18
6/23/03 at 6:02pm
Zod, your list is near perfect for me as well. I want to look into the eyes of these men and see the qualities that true leaders have. Despite what most believe, Hitler was not a one dimension guy. His motivation for his actions was that wanted a better world for his people. The worst of acts are usually cloaked behind good intentions. This is why people in that specific time, cannot see past to what was really happening.
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