ATS - Come Dine with me.

An interesting topic that I usually encourage around the table with friends is:

"You can choose 5 people from any era to have at a dinner party/BBQ, religious individuals included - whom would you choose".

Reasons for choice are not required, but feel free to divulge if you want.

These are my 5.............

1. Julius Caesar.
2. Winston Churchill.
3. Alexander The Great.
4. Socrates.
5. Leonardo Da Vinci.

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1. Queen of Sheba
2. Cleopatra
3. Joan of Arc
4. Harriet Tubman
5. Eve

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LOL - I had Joan of Arc too but scrubbed her for Alexander.

I really like choice #5 - I'd be like "Why did you have to eat that bloody apple woman"?

Justin Beiber - So I could shoot him in the face

Lil Wayne - Why have you destroyed Rap music and then proceed to shoot him in the face

Kardishian family - Shoot them all in the face

David Cameron - Shoot him twice in the face

Jedward - Shoot them both 3 times in the face


To be honest I think if the above happened, it would be a pretty productive dinner


On a more serious note, I would love to have dinner with Jiddu Krishnamurti, the author of The Awakenign Of Intelligence. If you havent had the plesure of reading any of his books, I'd highly reccomened them

1. Frankie Boyle - he's hilarious.
2. Khufu - I want to hear the pyramid story.
3. Josh Freese - someone to talk drums with.
4. Jesus - I have a lot of questions.
5. Phage - to debunk Jesus.

Originally posted by Fazza!
4. Jesus - I have a lot of questions.
5. Phage - to debunk Jesus.

I LOLed at that - very witty mate.

1. Leonardo Da Vinci.
2. Leonardo Dicaprio
3. Abraham Lincoln.
4. Robert John Downey.
5. Moses.

After the dinner, My life would then be complete.

In no order.. and very likely to change as this was very hard to think of in the 2 minutes it took me.

1. Karl Marx

2. John F Kennedy

3. Bob Marley

4. Aristotle

5. Boudica

Originally posted by n00bUK
Kardishian family - Shoot them all in the face

On a more serious note, I would love to have dinner with Jiddu Krishnamurti, the author of The Awakenign Of Intelligence. If you havent had the plesure of reading any of his books, I'd highly reccomened them

Agreed on the Kardashians

Thanks for the heads-up on that book - I'll track it down and give it a once-over

1) Winston Churchill
2) Michael Faraday
3) Albert Einstein
4) William Herschel
5) Marie Curie

cool thread!
let me see...
1) enoch
2) job
3) joseph smith - just to see what he was really up to!
4) newton
5)john the baptist

i wanted to add the christ to the list,but apparently i learned everything about him on ats!
it would be cool if constantine popped in for a visit!

Would have to be an all-Philosopher line-up for me. This is by no means a "greatest people in history" list; it's more a "who would I love to talk about life and the nature of reality with the most" list.

Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
Nietzsche
Confucius

(I know the first two are believed to share very similar views but it would be cool to see if there was anything significant about Socrates that Plato failed to record in his writings.)

Hmmmm

1. Mohammed
2.Jesus
3. That really hot girl you couldn't get in high school
4. The inventor of the slinky
5. Batman in case Jesus and Mohamed couldn't get along can't have them ruining my date with your high school crush.

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Now that would be a fantastic evening - just to sit back and listen to those guys.

Good one

1. Henry VIII
2. Katherine of Aragon
3. Anne Boleyn
4. Katherine Howard
5. Anne of Cleve's


Now that would be an interesting meal.....

My choice of guests for the dinner party, in no particular order:

Nicola Tesla

Jimmy Hoffa

Pope John Paul I

JFK

Genghis Khan

It's a shame you limited the guest list to 5 people. If I could invite a few more I'd like to bring in:

Louis Farrakhan

Adolph Hitler

Mahatma Ghandi

Tesla
Lincoln
Einstein
Cleopatra
Elizabeth I


Would like some artists, poets, writers, but alas no room

Van Gogh
Pablo Picasso
Marilyn Monroe
Hank Williams Sr.
Patsy Cline

Great thread!

1. Churchill
2. Khufu
3. A rothschild
4. Larry Bird
5. JFK

Hello, this is a good idea, one that I will ask my friends about when we are next sitting around the table chatting.

Here are my 5:

1. Princess Diana.
2. Charlie Chaplin.
3. Stephen King.
4. Clive James.
5. Billy Connolly.