Thread: The Perfect Dinner Guests

This one should get folks scratching their heads.

You have a big dinning room and can seat 8 guests, besides you and your spouse/sig. other.

What 8 people, currently living, from any walk of life, would you invite for dinner? They can be famous or just well know to you.

If you want to include why after each, that's cool.



Gong!!!! Dinner is served...........

Greg

Marcus Tulius Cicero
Jesus Christ
Marcus Aurelius
Ronald Reagan
Roy Masters
Allen Keyes
Winston Churchill
Maggie Thatcher

There are so many possibilities, but this will have to do

Originally Posted by JMS

Marcus Tulius Cicero
Jesus Christ
Marcus Aurelius
Ronald Reagan
Roy Masters
Allen Keyes
Winston Churchill
Maggie Thatcher

There are so many possibilities, but this will have to do

Nice list, but they all have to be living...I don't think I could select only 8 from all the people to choose from in history. Still, nice mix. I wonder what Thatcher and Jesus would chat about......

Originally Posted by WireBeard

Nice list, but they all have to be living...I don't think I could select only 8 from all the people to choose from in history. Still, nice mix. I wonder what Thatcher and Jesus would chat about......

They all live in my heart!!

Originally Posted by JMS

They all live in my heart!!

And lets not forget the 300 Spartans and so many others!

8 living people
so,...

tough one

Stephen Hawkins
Paris Hilton

no one else


I would just love to see that

Originally Posted by mhailey

Stephen Hawkins
Paris Hilton

no one else

Do you hate Stephen Hawkins that much!?

1) Mark, I can't believe you failed to invite Publius Cornelius Scipio - Africanus, one of the most brilliant military minds in history!
2) Tsar Dushan -- The greatest Serbian emperor in history, author of a legal system and the protector of Christianity
3) Leo V -- The author of Tactica and the driving force behind a major Byzantine comeback
4) Cleon -- Another creative military mind.. Used a bunch of light infantry and slingers in a creative way to defeat an equal number of Spartan hoplites.
5) Nikola Tesla -- needs no itroduction and we could use an eccentric
6) Momo Kapor -- An excellent writer and a party animal of my dad's generation. Definitely fun to have around (a couple of years ago, my dad came across him at a bar, with 2 18yrolds lol).
7) Mohammad Pasha Sokoli -- As a kid he was taken from his Christian parents and trained for the Ottoman army/admin. Ended up being the most powerful political figure in the empire and the driving force behind the biggest renaisscance in Ottoman history.
8) George Patton -- Again no introduction and he'd definitely spice things up...
I can definitely see Publius, Leo, Cleon and George playing a game of Risk to see who's the best

Well, since you said they have to be living...

1. Bill Gates
2. Steve Jobs
3. Linus Torvalds
4. Erick Schmidt
5. Vladimir Putin
6. Jimmy Carter
7. Bill Clinton
8. Hu Jintao
9. Colin Powell (he'll take my s/o's place at the table... she wouldn't be interested in dining w/these folks anyway.)

Now, if we were allowed to invite past leaders, I've always been fascinated by the likes of Ghengas Khan.

John Pilger
Naomi klein
Noam Chomsky
Richard Dawkins
Richard Bennett
Michael Hayden
Pope Benedict XVI
Stephen Hawking