Who would you have dinner with, living or dead?

metaldams · **on:** October 08, 2009, 03:46:51 PM

OK, just for fun, name five people, living or dead, you'd like to have dinner with. To make things more interesting, they can't be Stooges because we'd all answer the same thing!

Dunrobin · **Reply #1 on:** October 08, 2009, 05:35:44 PM

Only five?

Dr. Ron Paul, Murray Rothbard, Thomas DiLorenzo, Thomas Woods and Terry Pratchett.

curlysdame · **Reply #2 on:** October 08, 2009, 07:03:53 PM

Good question! I'd have to have dinner with:

Mary Pickford, Bea Arthur, Jackie Gleason, Betty White, and Frank Sinatra. ...Can The Boys at least come for dessert?

metaldams · **Reply #3 on:** October 08, 2009, 07:10:36 PM

1. My maternal grandfather - he died before I was born, obvious reasons

2. Cliff Burton - inspired me to play bass, died at 24 in a bus accident, but seemed wise beyond his years

3. Theo Epstein - Red Sox GM, would love to talk baseball with the guy and he has old Hollywood history because his great grandfather and great uncle also wrote Casablanca

4. Buster Keaton - A comic genius, yet it seems like it never went to his head. I'm sure he'd be a great storyteller.

5. Laura Prepon - Donna from THAT 70'S SHOW, 'cause it wouldn't be a dream dinner without some beauty. When the others go, she stays a while longer.

metaldams · **Reply #4 on:** October 08, 2009, 07:14:24 PM

Quote from: curlysdame on October 08, 2009, 07:03:53 PM

Good question! I'd have to have dinner with:

...Can The Boys at least come for dessert?

OK, 9 people, assuming four are Moe, Larry, Curly, and Shemp. I wouldn't throw them out until the 50th pie was thrown.

BenStooge9 · **Reply #5 on:** October 09, 2009, 01:17:52 AM

Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Larry David, Rodney Dangerfield, John Lennon

FineBari3 · **Reply #6 on:** October 09, 2009, 08:45:08 AM

Quote from: BenStooge9 on October 09, 2009, 01:17:52 AM

Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Larry David, Rodney Dangerfield, John Lennon

ooooooooooo....that's a good one!

(still thinking up mine)

OldFred · **Reply #7 on:** October 09, 2009, 04:48:25 PM

Abraham Lincoln, Lewis Carroll, Harpo Marx, Charlie Chaplin, Paul McCartney.

Celebrities I have had dinner with: Uncle Floyd Vivino and Davy Jones. Honest, no kidding.

FineBari3 · **Reply #8 on:** October 09, 2009, 07:49:19 PM

Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Theodore Roosevelt, Peter Sellers, and Janis Joplin.

I was going to say Thomas Edison, but I don't think he would be fun dinner company!

shemps#1 · **Reply #9 on:** October 09, 2009, 11:44:33 PM

Thomas Jefferson, John Lennon, George Carlin, Ted Williams and Richard Dawkins.

BeAStooge · **Reply #10 on:** October 10, 2009, 12:00:05 AM

Quote from: metaldams on October 08, 2009, 03:46:51 PM

OK, just for fun, name five people, living or dead, you'd like to have dinner with.

- My paternal great-great-great-great-grandfather Joseph Seguine... who made the Seguines of Staten Island one of the richest families in New York City in the first half of the 1800s. After his death, his children lost the family fortune. The Seguine Mansion he built still stands on Staten Island, on Seguine Point overlooking the Raritan Bay.

- My mother's father Martin Burdge, who I never met, but taught me that life is a soap opera. He allowed everyone to think he died in the Hercules Dynamite explosion of 1940 in Roxbury NJ. He was accidentally found living as a hermit in Budd Lake NJ in 1960 by some of my cousins, and disappeared again before my mother could confront him... no one knows where he went, or when he died.

- My older brother Barry, who died two years ago. We always stayed in touch by phone, but with him in Florida and me in NJ, I didn't see him after he became sick with throat cancer. Just one more dinner.

- Stan Laurel

- Jack Kirby

hiramhorwitz · **Reply #11 on:** October 10, 2009, 04:48:31 AM

Albert Einstein (the mathematician, not the comedian)
Ansel Adams
Mother Teresa
Leonardo da Vinci
Mama Cass

locoboymakesgood · **Reply #12 on:** October 10, 2009, 02:51:09 PM

This is really hard since I'm a movie and history buff.. but an interesting question none the less.

-My Dad (passed away in 2005)
-Abraham Lincoln
-Stan Laurel
-Leslie Nielsen
-Rodney Dangerfield

Way too hard.

metaldams · **Reply #13 on:** October 10, 2009, 03:29:24 PM

Great lists guys! Keep 'em coming if you haven't made one yet.

Brent, very sorry to hear about your brother. I had no idea.

metaldams · **Reply #14 on:** October 10, 2009, 04:29:01 PM

Quote from: locoboymakesgood on October 10, 2009, 02:51:09 PM

-My Dad (passed away in 2005)

Just read this, my condolences to you as well, Loco.

Deangonga · **Reply #15 on:** October 10, 2009, 07:26:54 PM

-Friedrich Nietzsche
-Howard Stern
-Syd Barrett
-H.P. Lovecraft
-Joey Ramone

Justin T · **Reply #16 on:** October 10, 2009, 09:03:26 PM

- John Adams
- Abraham Lincoln
- Harry Truman
- C.S. Lewis
- Alfred Hitchcock

middlenamewayne · **Reply #17 on:** October 11, 2009, 07:32:21 PM

Quote from: hiramhorwitz on October 10, 2009, 04:48:31 AM

Albert Einstein (the mathematician, not the comedian)

Al may not have been a comedian himself, but he was personally responsible for Brother Theodore's escape from Nazi Germany! (True fact!) I'd take that over being Super Dave Osborne's brother any day!

Anyhoo...

W.C.Fields (alive)
Bill Hicks (alive)
George W. Bush (dead)*
my former editor (dead or dying)
Bela Lugosi (undead)

BTW: I don't get it -- so far, noone but me has answered the original question of whether they'd want the people on their list to be living or dead!

-- mnw

*(The most subtle death wish ever recorded is the line "I can't wait 'til I see your face on a dollar bill" in the song "W" by The Damned.)

shemps#1 · **Reply #18 on:** October 11, 2009, 08:03:32 PM

Quote from: middlenamewayne on October 11, 2009, 07:32:21 PM

BTW: I don't get it -- so far, noone but me has answered the original question of whether they'd want the people on their list to be living or dead!

You can pick 5 people who are either living or dead, not decide if you can bring people back to life or kill them. I don't know why anyone would want to have dinner with corpses.

middlenamewayne · **Reply #19 on:** October 11, 2009, 09:49:18 PM

Quote from: shemps#1 on October 11, 2009, 08:03:32 PM

I don't know why anyone would want to have dinner with corpses.

Choose from punch line A or B:

A) You're completely right! Everyone knows you should have your corpses with BREAKFAST!
B) Well, I don't know why some people are rotten to the corpse, but they still are!

-- mnw

percytheslice · **Reply #20 on:** October 13, 2009, 12:41:55 AM

Don Vito
Hitler
Ringo Starr
Richard Branson
Ron Jeremy

middlenamewayne · **Reply #21 on:** October 14, 2009, 02:11:41 PM

Selecting from the names already mentioned, I'll list my "relationships" with these:

Terry Pratchett - ran into his occasional writing partner Neil Gaiman twice in one month! I used to sleep with Death, too! (The model for the "Sandman Comics" character was my dearly missed Cinnamon Hadley...)

Larry David - his TV dad on "Curb" (Shelley Berman) is an old buddy of mine, which in turn put me on the good side of Jorge Garcia* (Hurley on "LOST").

John Lennon - literally ran into (ouch!) his son Sean at a nightclub opening.

Janis Joplin - not sure, but everyone in Austin has crossed her path (posthumously) at some time. Her good pal Eddie Wilson is a friend of mine as well.

Jack Kirby - closest I can claim is meeting the fragile but amazing Gil Kane. Of course, my best buddy Daniel Johnston** often THINKS that HE is Jack Kirby!

Howard Stern - conducted a debacle of a phone interview with him that was supposed to go on his E! TV series as well, but it stank too bad...

George Carlin - co-produced the "Arizona Bay" CS by his protegé Bill Hicks.

Ron Jeremy - is one of the most delightful people I ever got to chat on the phone with*** - better than Joe Rogan, Stan Freberg, Michael Nesmith, Mark "DEVO" Mothersbaugh, et cetera.

Joey Ramone - he attended a Lodge Party, though that was before I became a Lodge member (the organization was then co-chaired by Rob [Veronica Mars; Cupid] Thomas]. My Lodge party guests later included members of Fishbone, Replacements, Guns 'n' Roses, Special Beat Service, Joe King Carrasco, BH Surfers, and many more.

Missing Persons/Frank Zappa drummer Terry Bozzio once took me to the finest restaurant in town! I never had lunch with William Shatner, but only because I had to turn HIM down! (We had a wuick glass of tea and a chat, with Mrs. Shatner and Harry Hamlin.

Oh... and Courtney Love hates me.

- mnw

* (Jorge's first TV acting role was a pot dealer selling "medical marihuana" to elderly Shelley on Curb".)
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***(If ya wanna get "The Hedgehog" in a chatting mood, just mention his XXX-rated "stone-age parody" movie "The Flintbones"!)
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BTW: Stooge-wise****, I clearly recall wanting to write to them and each new obit in the paper, for Larry, then Moe, then Joe... was a blow to my heart and a severe lesson about procrastination. I'm proud to say that circumstantial evidence suggests that a holiday card I sent to Emil Sitka appeared to have reached his eyes before he had his final stroke!

****(Is "Stooge-wise" an oxymoron? Or am I one for asking?

)

metaldams · **Reply #22 on:** October 14, 2009, 03:50:30 PM

Quote from: middlenamewayne on October 14, 2009, 02:11:41 PM

Selecting from the names already mentioned, I'll list my "relationships" with these:

Terry Pratchett - ran into his occasional writing partner Neil Gaiman twice in one month! I used to sleep with Death, too! (The model for the "Sandman Comics" character was my dearly missed Cinnamon Hadley...)

Larry David - his TV dad on "Curb" (Shelley Berman) is an old buddy of mine, which in turn put me on the good side of Jorge Garcia* (Hurley on "LOST").

John Lennon - literally ran into (ouch!) his son Sean at a nightclub opening.

Janis Joplin - not sure, but everyone in Austin has crossed her path (posthumously) at some time. Her good pal Eddie Wilson is a friend of mine as well.

Jack Kirby - closest I can claim is meeting the fragile but amazing Gil Kane. Of course, my best buddy Daniel Johnston** often THINKS that HE is Jack Kirby!

Howard Stern - conducted a debacle of a phone interview with him that was supposed to go on his E! TV series as well, but it stank too bad...

George Carlin - co-produced the "Arizona Bay" CS by his protegé Bill Hicks.

Ron Jeremy - is one of the most delightful people I ever got to chat on the phone with*** - better than Joe Rogan, Stan Freberg, Michael Nesmith, Mark "DEVO" Mothersbaugh, et cetera.

Joey Ramone - he attended a Lodge Party, though that was before I became a Lodge member (the organization was then co-chaired by Rob [Veronica Mars; Cupid] Thomas]. My Lodge party guests later included members of Fishbone, Replacements, Guns 'n' Roses, Special Beat Service, Joe King Carrasco, BH Surfers, and many more.

Missing Persons/Frank Zappa drummer Terry Bozzio once took me to the finest restaurant in town! I never had lunch with William Shatner, but only because I had to turn HIM down! (We had a wuick glass of tea and a chat, with Mrs. Shatner and Harry Hamlin.

Oh... and Courtney Love hates me.

- mnw

* (Jorge's first TV acting role was a pot dealer selling "medical marihuana" to elderly Shelley on Curb".)
**(
)
***(If ya wanna get "The Hedgehog" in a chatting mood, just mention his XXX-rated "stone-age parody" movie "The Flintbones"!)
____________________________________________________________________________
BTW: Stooge-wise****, I clearly recall wanting to write to them and each new obit in the paper, for Larry, then Moe, then Joe... was a blow to my heart and a severe lesson about procrastination. I'm proud to say that circumstantial evidence suggests that a holiday card I sent to Emil Sitka appeared to have reached his eyes before he had his final stroke!

****(Is "Stooge-wise" an oxymoron? Or am I one for asking?)

You mean you never met my grandfather?

metaldams · **Reply #23 on:** October 14, 2009, 04:45:25 PM

PS: If you look at my dinner and want to change it to the g-rated version where Metaldams doesn't get any (I can't believe I'm the only person here who thinks of his love life in these situations, SHEESH), replace Laura Prepon with Orson Welles. An incredibly fascinating human being from a very young age, and I'm sure his ego, humor, and storytelling would be awesome.

middlenamewayne · **Reply #24 on:** October 16, 2009, 10:23:58 PM

Quote from: metaldams on October 14, 2009, 04:45:25 PM

PS: If you look at my dinner and want to change it to the g-rated version , replace Laura Prepon with Orson Welles. An incredibly fascinating human being from a very young age, and I'm sure his ego, humor, and storytelling would be awesome.

I'm nopt sure if it would be allowed, but you could probably place Laura Prepon INSIDE Orson Welles and have your cake and... well, Orson would eat it.

As far as G-rated, here's a typical dinner conversation with Welles, which may not be appropriate for the little ones (it originally appeared on FOX TV, for Besser or worse...:

http://utube.smashits.com/video/IH1PJTY9AVA/Rosebud-Frozen-Peas.html

-- mnw

BTW: Tangentially, I'm reminded of a great hit by The Dickies:

"I'M STUCK IN A CONDO (WITH MARLON BRANDO)!"

I'm stuck inside a condo with Mr. Marlon Brando.
He tells me, "Get the butter," sounds just like my mother!
He wasn't nice to Connie.
His son, he shot somebody
For messin' with his daughter,
Just like the Godfather

I'm stuck inside a condo with Mr. Marlon Brando.
He's heavy and he's hairy.
He's really scaring me...Marlon Brando!

Well, I saw him in a movie.
He used to be so groovy.
Now he's eating mashed potatoes.
He's a human Winnebago.

I'm stuck inside a condo with Mr. Marlon Brando.
He's a heavy dingleberry.
He's really scary...Marlon Brando!

Domino's delivery has brought me to him.
Cheese and pepperoni, watch him shovel it in.
He's giving me a lecture on the wages of sin.
Mr. Brando, please show me the door!

(repeat chorus)