Me and some mates played this last night so I thought I'd bring it here and try it.
Rules are simple. You can invite any 5 people from any point in time, dead or alive, must be real though. Who would you invite to the best dinner party ever?
4 of my best friends, and Lemmy. :)
Quote from: PsychoGoatee on 01 October, 2016, 02:39:38 AM
4 of my best friends, and Lemmy. :)
Annnd we have a winner!
My line up was
-Prof. Brian Cox
-Terry Pratchett
-Alan Moore
-Carl Sagan
-Roald Dahl
Because I'm a big nerd.
wife
daughter
late granddad
late grandma
mum in law
simply cos I miss my granparents dearly and they never got to see my daughter.
Excluding Grugz's idea of past family members, which is clearly the correct one:
Jesus (not that I'm religious; I'd just like to pick his brains a bit to see what he's really all about).
Mohammad (ditto).
Alan Moore (to lighten things up a bit).
Chris Morris (to darken things down a bit).
Tony Blair (to ask why, why, why and possibly get the straight answer you wouldn't get from Bush).
And Donald Trump, so I could build a gated wall in advance and not let him through as he's not from my country.
I'd probably spend most of the evening hanging round with Alan and Chris to be honest. And obvoiusly there'd have to be some kind of Douglas Adams babelfishes for the two prophets.
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 01 October, 2016, 01:55:00 PM
Jesus (not that I'm religious; I'd just like to pick his brains a bit to see what he's really all about).
Mohammad (ditto).
One of my mates picked Jesus, until it was pointed out that you wouldn't actually be able to understand the lingo. That and the modern world would probably scare him to death. (better than crucifixion I suppose...)
Quote from: YakuzaFingerChop on 01 October, 2016, 06:14:19 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 01 October, 2016, 01:55:00 PM
Jesus (not that I'm religious; I'd just like to pick his brains a bit to see what he's really all about).
Mohammad (ditto).
One of my mates picked Jesus, until it was pointed out that you wouldn't actually be able to understand the lingo.
Hence my Hitchhiker's Guie babelfish suggestion. But yeah, not sure he'd enjoy looking at a future he played a major role in creating. And he definitely wouldn't appreciate all the statues and paintings of him dying a violent death. At least Mohammad wouldn't have that problem (as long as you steered him away from Christian extremist websites).
Alan Moore (obviously)
Tim Robinson (Cartographer, chronicler of place, polymath and my idol)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (author, radical)
Richard Francis Burton (Explorer, Cunning Linguist)
Richard Feynman (genius, raconteur, bongos)
I'd love to have Ella Fitzgerald over too, but apparently i'm short on chairs? Insteas I've tried to stick to different parts of a theme: explorers of places real, abstract, imaginary and conceptual. All authors too, oddly. It's going to be great.
Jane Austen
Alexander von Humboldt
Paul Verhoeven
Tina Fey
Pat Mills (hey, no one said it had to be a quiet dinner party)
I don't like dinner parties, they're shit. But I'd like to go to Alton Towers with Alan Moore and Floella Benjammin.
God, Allah and Yaweh. I'd sit them down and ask them why their books are so vague they have thousands of different meanings. I'd also have Bodger and Badger, throwing mash potato about with gay abandon! And the Hulk, for when the conversation gets out of hand and everyone (myself included) needs a slap!
Cheers
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 01 October, 2016, 01:55:00 PM
Excluding Grugz's idea of past family members, which is clearly the correct one:
Jesus (not that I'm religious; I'd just like to pick his brains a bit to see what he's really all about).
Mohammad (ditto).
Alan Moore (to lighten things up a bit).
Chris Morris (to darken things down a bit).
Tony Blair (to ask why, why, why and possibly get the straight answer you wouldn't get from Bush).
I'm not sure that Alan Moore would be that light if he's around a table with Blair, Jesus and Mohammed...
Loving the idea of Bodger and Badger being at the table - would have to be some posh mash for a dinner party, wouldn't it? :lol:
I'd like to invite:
Sir Patrick Moore - not only to discuss astronomy, but to learn all the hacks for old computer games as the games master.
Tregard from Knightmare as I bet he'd be entertaining
Christopher Lee as he amazes me with his life experiences, as a former part of special forces, as an actor (Dracula, Saruman the White, Lord Summerilse, Count Dooku) and his music
Lemmy Kilmister as he was my introduction to Heavy Metal and my hero
and finally Nina Hagen as she is another hero of mine who does her own thing with such oomph (and she sang with Oomph! the band once)
Muhammed Ali for the wit
Angela Carter for the imagination
Dorothy Parker for the cynicism
Geronimo for the strength of will
Jane Austen to lightly rib the others
Freeman Dyson
George Orwell
Oscar Wilde
Leonardo DaVinci
Iain M Banks
And let them have at it. Z
Quote from: YakuzaFingerChop on 01 October, 2016, 06:14:19 PM
One of my mates picked Jesus, until it was pointed out that you wouldn't actually be able to understand the lingo. That and the modern world would probably scare him to death. (better than crucifixion I suppose...)
I mean, unless he's y'know,
the son of god.
Quote from: Theblazeuk on 03 October, 2016, 10:22:11 AM
Quote from: YakuzaFingerChop on 01 October, 2016, 06:14:19 PM
One of my mates picked Jesus, until it was pointed out that you wouldn't actually be able to understand the lingo. That and the modern world would probably scare him to death. (better than crucifixion I suppose...)
I mean, unless he's y'know, the son of god.
Better find that out for definite before you splash out on the wine (or don't).
Quote from: TordelBack on 03 October, 2016, 04:04:24 PM
Quote from: Theblazeuk on 03 October, 2016, 10:22:11 AM
Quote from: YakuzaFingerChop on 01 October, 2016, 06:14:19 PM
One of my mates picked Jesus, until it was pointed out that you wouldn't actually be able to understand the lingo. That and the modern world would probably scare him to death. (better than crucifixion I suppose...)
I mean, unless he's y'know, the son of god.
Better find that out for definite before you splash out on the wine (or don't).
Yeah - if it turns out he isn't, then you're stuck with water ;)
Quote from: sheridan on 03 October, 2016, 06:21:23 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 03 October, 2016, 04:04:24 PM
Quote from: Theblazeuk on 03 October, 2016, 10:22:11 AM
Quote from: YakuzaFingerChop on 01 October, 2016, 06:14:19 PM
One of my mates picked Jesus, until it was pointed out that you wouldn't actually be able to understand the lingo. That and the modern world would probably scare him to death. (better than crucifixion I suppose...)
I mean, unless he's y'know, the son of god.
Better find that out for definite before you splash out on the wine (or don't).
Yeah - if it turns out he isn't, then you're stuck with water ;)
Think that was the joke TB was making :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU5w1uR6woY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU5w1uR6woY)
1, Genghis Khan.
2. Blackbeard
3. Julius Caesar
4. Lucretia Borgia.
5. Werner Von Urslingen.
no boring, carping 20th century moralists for me.
only folks who understood what people really are.
Quote from: Zarjazzer on 03 October, 2016, 10:03:07 PM
only folks who understood what people really are.
...which was floor foundations, in Genghis's case.
http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/11142/did-genghis-khan-and-his-troops-kill-prisoners-by-banqueting-on-top-of-them (http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/11142/did-genghis-khan-and-his-troops-kill-prisoners-by-banqueting-on-top-of-them)
Quote from: Zarjazzer on 03 October, 2016, 10:03:07 PM
5. Werner Von Urslingen.
-Predicts upswing in Google search numbers for Werner Von Urslingen.-EDIT: Oooh, feisty! I believe the port stands with you, Sir.
Quote from: YakuzaFingerChop on 01 October, 2016, 06:14:19 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 01 October, 2016, 01:55:00 PM
Jesus (not that I'm religious; I'd just like to pick his brains a bit to see what he's really all about).
Mohammad (ditto).
One of my mates picked Jesus, until it was pointed out that you wouldn't actually be able to understand the lingo. That and the modern world would probably scare him to death. (better than crucifixion I suppose...)
Crucifixation's a doddle!
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 04 October, 2016, 07:00:00 AM
Quote from: Zarjazzer on 03 October, 2016, 10:03:07 PM
only folks who understood what people really are.
...which was floor foundations, in Genghis's case.
http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/11142/did-genghis-khan-and-his-troops-kill-prisoners-by-banqueting-on-top-of-them (http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/11142/did-genghis-khan-and-his-troops-kill-prisoners-by-banqueting-on-top-of-them)
Solid foundations make a good shed though.I might ask Genghis if he could build one, after the cigars of course.
1. Nigel Farage
2. Donald Trump
3. Vladmir Putin
4. Boris Johnson
5. Theresa May.
To start we will have Chicken a la Salmonella and maybe some lovely E.Coli Sundaes for dessert.
Quote from: Theblazeuk on 07 October, 2016, 03:41:55 PM
1. Nigel Farage
2. Donald Trump
3. Vladmir Putin
4. Boris Johnson
5. Theresa May.
To start we will have Chicken a la Salmonella and maybe some lovely E.Coli Sundaes for dessert.
Can I watch through the window?
Your webcam's worked fine so far.