The Dinner Party of Eternity

[_Molok]

1. Hunter Thompson

That's probably enough right there.

It's not that fun.

Are you saying eating with Hunter Thompson isn't fun? Did you meet him?

[_Analytics]

I'm not sure if this has been done here before, but here goes:

You can have a dinner party with anyone in history. Table seats 12 (yourself plus 11). For the purposes of our party, there are no language barriers, everyone can understand else. Everyone is served food of their own preference. Who would you have?

I'm not sure if this has been done here before, but here goes:

You can have a dinner party with anyone in history. Table seats 12 (yourself plus 11). For the purposes of our party, there are no language barriers, everyone can understand else. Everyone is served food of their own preference. Who would you have?

Fun question!

Here is my list:

1. Benjamin Franklin
2. Ameila Earhart
3. Catherine II
4. Augustus
5. Emily Bronte
6. Mark Twain
7. Edna St. Vincent Millay
8. John Woolman
9. Elizabeth I
10. William Shakespeare
11. Kelly Ripa

That would be a fun evening; pour the champagne!

[_Fence Sitter]

Okay if I can't invite my family then here is my guest list and seating order.

Dan Peterson
Dr Scratch
Louis Midgley
Sterling McMurrin
Will Schryver
Kevin Graham
Wade England
Paul Osborne
Bill Hamblin
Kiskumen
Jullian
Dr. Shades

[Anonymous]

Are you saying eating with Hunter Thompson isn't fun? Did you meet him?

A long, long time ago in another life. He was not a fun drinking and eating companion. Yeah, I was surprised too.

Maybe it was just an off night. Who knows?

Edited to add: To put it in perspective, I had a better time at dinner with William F. Buckley. So that's sayin' something.

[_zeezrom]

That is too many people. I would get nervous and maybe just spend time in a tête-à-tête with the one next to me. In that case, I choose Joseph Smith.

In case he is too busy or offended by my hatred comment (sorry Joseph), I would choose Charlotte Bronte. I understand she might be difficult to get to know, however.

No matter what, this whole thing would make me nervous.

Maybe I should just stick with someone like Quas.

[_Blixa]

I've been playing around with this on my commute this week and it's been agonizing limiting it to 11 and/or figuring out whether to go with people I'd like to meet vs. people who would make convivial dinner talk together.

[_zeezrom]

Paul Newman

[_moksha]

Edited to add: To put it in perspective, I had a better time at dinner with William F. Buckley. So that's sayin' something.

At least Buckley could hold his liquor and amphetamines, and not be tempted to write about it.

[_Morley]

I'll play. Mine are all people for whom I have two or more, tormenting, unanswered questions.


Gustavus Adolphus
Sir Richard Burton
Sally Hemings
Rashid ad-Din Sinan (The Old Man of the Mountain)
Walt Whitman
Suleiman the Magnificent
Mosheh ben Maimon
Joan of Acre
Sylvia Plath
Frederick Douglass
Ragnar Lodbrok
Cleitus the Black



Edit to add alternates:

Ho Chi Minh
Omar Khayyam
Sydney Rigdon

[_Analytics]

Okay if I can't invite my family then here is my guest list and seating order.

Dan Peterson
Dr Scratch
Louis Midgley
Sterling McMurrin
Will Schryver
Kevin Graham
Wade England
Paul Osborne
Bill Hamblin
Kiskumen
Jullian
Dr. Shades