13 Dead People I'd Invite to Dinner If I Could...- Joe Gadowski - my father, who died in 1968 when I was 20 months old. I have so many questions...
- Jesus - who was he? Son of God or rebel scholar who was hated for bringing to light the blasphemous actions being done in the name of God. Oh, and I'd make him bring the wine.
- Shakespeare - did he imagine that his tragedies, comedies and dramas would still be relevant, loved and studied 500 years later?
- Aristotle - yes, he was one of the great thinkers of the human age, but he had some wild and crazy theories about women. I'd love to set him straight...
- Princess Diana - someone needs to class up the table! But seriously, I would like her to know how her untimely death affected the entire world...
- Joan of Arc - Did God really speak to her? How did it feel to be so young leading an army?
- Marilyn Monroe - Did you really kill yourself, or were you offed?
- Michaelangelo Buonarotti - I'd have him come a couple of hours before dinner to paint my ceiling...
- Hitler - every good party needs a crazy lunatic. And I'd slap him upside the head really hard for being such a little shit. Then I'd poison his wine...
- John F. Kennedy Jr - did he intend to someday run for office? Then, I'd give him the opportunity to tell us what was really going on in his marriage. Was he happy? Was C really a druggie? If he could go back and begin all over again, would he choose me instead...
- Winston Churchill - his wisdom and witty one-liners would be welcomed. I'd seat him across from Hitler so he could kick the little dick's shins under the table and pretend he wasn't doing it.
- Gandhi - to keep everyone calm when I serve burnt soup. Then he could impart his patience, wisdom and faith in humanity while Jesus makes more wine.
- Siddhartha (aka Buddha) - same reason as Jesus. I want to know if these men were really qualified for their leadership roles in our spirituality. I want to sort out myth from reality, wisdom from dogma, sarcasm from stupidity.
Leave me a comment telling me who you would add to the guest list!
40 comments:
Very interesting list! I like the wine theme you've got going. :-) Happy TT!
Yeah! What a great list. And I would add: Carl Sagan, Flannery O'Connor, Ernest Hemingway, and Hypatia of Alexandria. :)
Happy TT!
What... no Gilda Ratner? Or however her name was spelled. She was Gene Wilder's wife. Anyway, what a neat idea for a list. Thank you for stopping by my blog. How's that work in progress coming along?
that is one interesting dinner.good list
Rashenbo - Ah, yes... Gilda would be great, as long as she didn't do her Rosanna Rosannadanna thing :)
As for the wip -- don't taunt me! Kids, March Break, Test the Nation, need I go on?
Amy - you didn't leave a suggestion!
TL - I'd definitely set a few extra places for those folks!
Cool list! I would have to invite Oscar Wilde too. He would be pretty entertaining. Thanks for stopping by my TT!
Thank you for admitting that you quickly skimmed my post. I did not quickly skim yours. Interesting list! Who would I invite to dinner if I could? Well my list is different than yours. I would invite my mother, my father, my grandparents and my daughter. Seeing how I cannot invite dead people to dinner, I guess I'll wait untill I die to dine with them.
I'd invite Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein and Walt Whitman to dinner.
Thanks for a thought-provoking list.
I'm all about words beginning with "z" this week.
Wow, I hope I'm invited! I'd love to talk with a lot of those. Can we add people? I know a few too. :-)
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That would be an interesting dinner party (if you had them all there at once). Jesus and Hitler and Gandhi. I bet they'd have a lot to talk about. Great list..
Great list! I'd invite my dad. Have a few things to discuss with him. And my Grandmother because there were things I didn't get to say to her. And I agree with you on Marilyn Monroe...I think she definitely has some scoop to share ;-)
interesting choices...
smiles, bee
Great list! I would invite Shakespeare too... he would be one interesting person to have at the dinner table!
If I could invite someone to dinner it would have to be the entire Emergency Task Force Unit, but I'm affraid I would just sit there in a stupor, with my tongue hanging out of my mouth... and a high chance of drool! :)
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Now that would make for interesting dinner converation! *g*
Jesus would probably bring good wine...
So the question really is, who would you have sit next to each other?
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I'd love to talk to Buddha. To find that kind of peace in your life would be great.
Great list! I especially like #6. She was part of the inspiration for my name. ;-)
Hmmm...we don't know any dead cats. But did you know there are "Kitlers?"
check it out:
www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com
I'd like to be a fly on that wall. What would you serve?
Interesting because depending on your belief system there will be a big dinner party of the dead. But it's invitation only so some of your guest list won't be in attendance :-D Anyway my Thursday Thirteen #34 The 13 Things You Wish You Could Say At Work Edition is up. Stop by if you get a chance.
Great list. I'll have to steal that theme one week.
Very interesting ... but I'd do a lot more nastier things to Hitler than slap him and poison his wine.
Interesting list. Hope you have a rolled up newspaper to swat people with if they get out of line.
Man, I'd love to talk with Joan of Arc. She's one of the most fascinating people in history.
I think if you had a quiet dinner for two, just you and God, he might give you the inside scoop on all those other people and then there'd be less dishes to clean up. :-)
... but who would paint the ceiling?
Brenda - you made me LOL! If you only knew my hatred of dish-washing...
Sensational list, Wylie! I'd attend your dinner in a heartbeat. I can think of dozens of names to add but I think I'll whittle the list down to Julia Child, Cary Grant and Danny Kaye. :-)
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This was a lot of fun to read and to imagine. I'd love to have Shakespeare and Lucrecia Borgia and Cleopatra!
I think these are great settings for a short story too.
Fun list!
What a great list! I think I'd like to meet Clara Schumann and Emily Dickinson and Catherine the Great.
Happy TT!
i'd love to be in that dinner with you, just to listen and to take notes of your ongoing conversation!!! that would be blast!!! great TT list for this week!
Wow that's a very interesting list. The dinner conversation would be fascinating! I'd add Carl Sagan, Galileo, and/or Einstein, 'cause I'm a nerd. :-)
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What a fun creative list! Well done :) I agree with inviting Diana...only I'd have her bring Prince William with her (he can sit next to me...)!
I LOVE your list.
What a dinner that would be. . .
LOL, Wylie! Great list! So many great choices.
What a creative idea for a TT. I don't know if I'd have the patience to wait for the poison in the wine to kill Hitler. And what happens if he shares?
Absolutely fascinating idea for a TT -- and some excellent choices. Thanks for coming by my blog.
That'd be one kickin' dinner party. :)
What a fabulous list! And yes, Jesus would be the best choice for bringing the wine. Then poison Hitler's. Uh huh.
Hey Wylie,
I enjoyed your Thursday Thirteen so much that I listed you in my Link Love. I look forward to reading more.
Great TT list. I used almost the same theme without even knowing someone else was doing it. Drop by and see my list, even tho we chose some of the same people.
I love this list, I've totally thought of writing one too and you beat me to it :)
This will give me food for thought.
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