Five Live or Dead People You Would Invite To Dinner

[Alpha_Geek]

So, if you could have any 5 people from any time, living or dead, over for dinner and conversation, who would they be?

I'd have to go with:

Alan Shepard
Richard Feynman
John Wayne
Werner Von Braun
Tachyon Shield

 

[T'Baio]

Tina Fey
Christina Hendricks
Gina Gershon
Angie Everhart
Olivia Munn

 

[jamestyler]

Katee Sackhoff - she seems like laugh and someone I can share sleaze with.
Ric Flair - incredibly funny man. And he'll do anything on camera with enough alcohol.
Jane Goldman - I'm sure a few fascinating topics would crop up.
Kevin Smith - a dinner party isn't fun without a cock joke or two.
Tom Baker - just for the voice.

 

[Kirby]

Bob Newhart
Craig Ferguson
Samuel Clemmons (aka Mark Twain)
Ernest Hemmingway
Stephen Colbert

 

[Crewman47]

An obvious one here:

William Shatner
Patrick Stewart
Avery Brooks
Kate Mulgrew
Scott Bakula

And if I could squeeze another one in it'd be Chris Pine.

List for another night:

Gene Roddenberry
George Lucas
JJ Abrams
Joss Whedon
? Can't think of a fifth here

 

[Pingfah]

Freddie Mercury
Brian May
Roger Taylor
John Deacon

and Sid Vicious.

 

[ThankQ]

Dick Feynman
Carl Sagan
Bill Maher
Bob Dylan
Crusher Disciple

 

[auntiehill]

Anthony Bourdain (someone has to cook)
Peter O'Toole
Richard Harris
Ian McShane
George Carlin


Let the story-telling begin!

 

[nevermore]

John Waters
Friedrich Nietzsche
Dalai Lama
H.L. Mencken
John Stewart

 

[sojourner]

And if I could squeeze another one in it'd be Chris Pine.

He can sit at the kids table.

oh, and for your second table's fifth, JMS of course.


My list:

Andrew Bourdain
Carl Sagan
Marilyn Monroe
Dennis Leary
David Tennant

 

[Sky]

Leonard Cohen
Leonard Nimoy
Oliver Sacks
Carl Sagan
and let's say Amelia Earhart, so I could ask her what the heck happened?

 

[auntiehill]

And if I could squeeze another one in it'd be Chris Pine.

He can sit at the kids table.

oh, and for your second table's fifth, JMS of course.


My list:

Andrew Bourdain

Do you mean Anthony Bourdain or Andrew Zimmerman?

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

Conan O'Brien
Jay Leno
David Letterman
Johnny Carson
Howard Stern

WATCH THE FUN!!

 

[Count Zero]

Friedrich Nietzsche
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Paul McCartney
John Lennon
David Tennant

 

[thestrangequark]

Stephen Fry
Richard Feynman
Mark Twain
Carl Sagan

I can't think of a fifth right now. I suppose it should be a lady, so I'm not the only one there. Hmmm...

 

[Gary Mitchell]

Jennifer Garner
Yvonne Strahovski
Claudia Black
Rachel McAdams
the Buddha

 

[snakespeare]

William Carlos Williams
Ezra Pound
Louis Zukofsky
Charles Olson
Robert Duncan

 

[RJDiogenes]

The first two are easy:

Thomas Jefferson
Arthur C Clarke

After that, there are a few I'd like to have over:

More Founding Fathers:
Ben Franklin
George Washington

More Writers:
Isaac Asimov
Edgar Allen Poe

Some Scientists:
Carl Sagan
Stephen Jay Gould

And others...

I'll just choose one from each category and make it a total of:

Thomas Jefferson
Arthur Clarke
Ben Franklin
Isaac Asimov
Carl Sagan

 

[Miss Chicken]

Sir David Attenborough
George Bent - his father was a white trader, his mother was Cheyenne. He was bought up in both worlds. He recived quite a good white education, fought in the Civil War, was a survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, took part in 27 raids against the white man but also worked to make peace between his two peoples.
Arnaldur Indridason- Icelandic crime mystery writer
Douglas Adams
Michael Palin

 

[Roshi]

Angus Young
Malcolm Young
Brian Johnson
David Gilmour
and Ronald Belford Scott