Dinner for six ~ Who would you invite?

[Haffner]

Me too, it would seem.

I couldn't resist inviting all the wonderful friends I met here at GMG. People in the overwhelming majorityvhere are kind, adult and generous.

[dtwilbanks]

I'm not inviting anyone who didn't invite me. 

[Papy Oli]

The Dream Table (  0:) ):

Isabella Rossellini
Jacqueline Bisset
Ingrid Bergmann
Catherine Deneuve
Grace Kelly
Cate Blanchett

The serious Debate Table (a.k.a Entente Cordiale  )

Jeremy Paxman
Tony Benn
Tony Blair or Alistair Campbell
Winston Churchill
Francois Mitterand
Charles De Gaulle

The entertainment Table (British ?...quite...  )

Stephen Fry
Hugh Laurie
Ricky Gervais
John Cleese
Ronnie Barker
David Jason

[Kullervo]

It's interesting how many people said they would invite philosophers. Aren't you afraid you'd have nothing to say to them? Do you really think you could keep up?

[Renfield]

It's interesting how many people said they would invite philosophers. Aren't you afraid you'd have nothing to say to them? Do you really think you could keep up?

Do you really think you couldn't? They were human like me and you, I trust: and all of them would make interesting dinner guests!

[BachQ]

It's interesting how many people said they would invite philosophers. Aren't you afraid you'd have nothing to say to them? Do you really think you could keep up?

The key is to invite TWO (2) philosophers, so that they can challenge and debate each other while you eavesdrop .........

[Kullervo]

Do you really think you couldn't? They were human like me and you, I trust: and all of them would make interesting dinner guests!

Probably just a bit of healthy self-doubt on my part, or possibly just knowing my limits!

[Hollywood]

Here's my list:

Beethoven
Mozart
Thomas Jefferson
Edgar Allan Poe
James Stewart
Amelia Earhart

[Renfield]

Here's my list:

Beethoven
Mozart
Thomas Jefferson
Edgar Allan Poe
James Stewart
Amelia Earhart

Interesting choice. For some reason, I wouldn't expect Poe to make the most cheerful person to have dinner with, despite his brilliance as an author.

[Haffner]

Interesting choice. For some reason, I wouldn't expect Poe to make the most cheerful person to have dinner with, despite his brilliance as an author.

Not "just" that, but wasn't he also an alternating opium addict and drunk?

Actually, that just might make him interesting! Not to mention the fact that he might have been the greatest American author ever.

[longears]

Not "just" that, but wasn't he also an alternating opium addict and drunk?

Actually, that just might make him interesting! Not to mention the fact that he might have been the greatest American author ever.

Some addicts (including alcoholics) are very interesting...but seldom while they're still practicing their addiction, which tends to turn even extraordinary people into depressed, self-obsessed jackasses.

As for greatest American author...hmmm, have you read Twain, Melville, Cooper, Hawthorne, James, Thoreau, Whitman, Dickenson, Crane, or any of the dozens of superb 20th Century American writers?

[Haffner]

Some addicts (including alcoholics) are very interesting...but seldom while they're still practicing their addiction, which tends to turn even extraordinary people into depressed, self-obsessed jackasses.

As for greatest American author...hmmm, have you read Twain, Melville, Cooper, Hawthorne, James, Thoreau, Whitman, Dickenson, Crane, or any of the dozens of superb 20th Century American writers?

Read all of them. I would put Faulkner, Poe, Mailer, and Hemingway before any of those.

[Lady Chatterley]

Read all of them. I would put Faulkner, Poe, Mailer, and Hemingway before any of those.

May I add Theodore Dreiser and how about F Scott Fitzgerald?

[Harry]

May I add Theodore Dreiser and how about F Scott Fitzgerald?

Muriel Hemingway?

[Haffner]

May I add Theodore Dreiser and how about F Scott Fitzgerald?

Tremendous writers.