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TXGunNut
03-02-2013, 01:19 AM
I liked Wilco's thread so much I decided to follow his lead and ask what true-life person(s) you'd like to enjoy lunch with.
I'd like to sit at a table with Elmer Keith and Teddy Roosevelt.

plmitch
03-02-2013, 01:29 AM
Lydia Chapin Taft

.22-10-45
03-02-2013, 01:54 AM
I could think of nothing better than sitting in a nice cozy lodge with Crazy Horse, He Dog, High Hawk, American Horse, Young Man Afraid, Touch The Clouds, ..and as many more of these fellows who could fit in there, smoking a lazy pipe after a big meal of Buffalo steaks and dog stew!

Love Life
03-02-2013, 01:54 AM
General Mattis or Chesty Puller.

Harter66
03-02-2013, 01:58 AM
Crockett and Boone. William McKinley later on.

Houndog
03-02-2013, 03:58 AM
The authors of our constitution, Andrew Jackson and Ronald Reagan

P.K.
03-02-2013, 07:10 AM
John Stark, George Patton, anyone from the Roanoke Colony, King Leonidas.

s1120
03-02-2013, 07:21 AM
Easy one... My Dad who I lost last year, and Nikola Tesla. Dad would probably rather I invite Guglielmo Marconi... But he would enjoy a few hours talking to Tesla Im sure.

btroj
03-02-2013, 09:35 AM
Thomas Jefferson. No question about that.

Ickisrulz
03-02-2013, 09:39 AM
Dave Mustaine.

btroj
03-02-2013, 10:02 AM
Dave Mustaine? Wow, you must be pretty young. Bet most here have no clue who he is and are probably better off that way.

Any particular reason why?

Dutch4122
03-02-2013, 10:15 AM
Darrius Aseltine, Pvt., Co. G, 16th Michigan Volunteer Infantry. An ancestor that mustered in to service as an original member of the Regiment and saw it through to the end of the war. Found him in the 1880 Cencus so I know he made it through. I would love to hear his story about that day on Little Round Top. Down to 1/4 their original strength, out of ammunition & reduced to hand to hand with broken muskets for clubs and bayonets; and stuck out on that rocky ledge exposed to everything the Rebel's could throw at them. Hazzard's Battery above running out of ammunition to support their defense..................and yet here come more of those Texas & Alabama Men charging up that horrible rocky hill right at them. Must have been terrifying to say the least.

I would like to meet two of my great grandfathers. Both served in the First World War on the Western Front. One was exposed to Mustard Gas while there and it took his life decades later in the form of emphisyma(sp?). The other came back changed, from what little info there is about him. Not much good is said by my elders about his life. Seems he crawled up in the bottom of a bottle & stayed there. I've wondered if it was shell shock?

Probably the man I would like to meet the most died in the South Pacific on the U.S.S. Bennet during WWII. On pickett station they were attacked by a kamikazee. My grandfather and this man were passing ammo to the gun crews in a relay near the top of a stairwell at a bulkhead door. The kamikazee attacked the port side, but was hit and veered off, semi-circling the stern and turning back into the starboard side where his plane hit the gun tubb my Grandfather was supporting. My Grandfather had just stepped inside the door and grabbed the clip of cannon shells from the Sailor at the top of the stairs when the bulkhead door slammed shut behind him. That was less than a second before the kamikazee hit the gun tubb not far outside that bulkhead door. That man saved my Grandfather's life by slamming the bulkhead door shut; and sacrificed his own life. Nobody in the family ever knew about this until long after his passing in 1992. After my Grandmother passed away my mother found my Grandfather's "Captain's Log" that he used to keep on the 35 foot Cabin Cruiser that he and my Grandmother kept as their home away from home on the Great Lakes. My Mother read through his entries realizing that the book was first used as a diary of sorts during WWII. She read this account of the kamikazee attack and called me immediately. She was born in 1947 and I think feels that if it weren't for that man closing the door she wouldn't be here. I tend to agree. None of us would. I have read that account in his own writing and I get the sense he knew the man's name. Apparently he chose to take the name to his grave.

Ickisrulz
03-02-2013, 10:28 AM
Dave Mustaine? Wow, you must be pretty young. Bet most here have no clue who he is and are probably better off that way.

Any particular reason why?

I'm a Megadeth listener and have been for a long time. I'm a little tired of politics so I don't want to reminisce about how screwed up the country is right now. Of course when it comes to politics, Mustaine can make some of the tinfoil hat wearers seem downright tame and logical, so maybe not the best choice. I'm not as young as you might guess--45.

lbaize3
03-02-2013, 10:48 AM
John Browning..... I would love to know how he came up with all of his wonderful ideas.

km101
03-02-2013, 11:16 AM
John Moses Browning and Eugene Stoner

JonB_in_Glencoe
03-02-2013, 11:16 AM
Ben Franklin...as long as he was over 40...after he sold his printing business...but before he spent too much time in France.

OR Jefferson...in his garden at Monticello.

462
03-02-2013, 11:20 AM
Theodore Roosevelt.

Kraschenbirn
03-02-2013, 11:27 AM
Robert Ruark

Thumbcocker
03-02-2013, 11:54 AM
Ernest Hemingway and Elmer

captaint
03-02-2013, 12:41 PM
Thomas Jefferson and Ronald Regan. I think we'd all get along just fine. Mike

280Ackley
03-02-2013, 12:57 PM
Thomas Jefferson. No question about that.

I second Thomas Jefferson.

oldred
03-02-2013, 01:09 PM
Sgt. Alvin York!

Junior1942
03-02-2013, 02:04 PM
Halle Berry in her Catwoman suit.

gandydancer
03-02-2013, 02:36 PM
Audie Murphy.(solider) Doc Foster.(Bataan death march survivor.) I wish we had more like them in our world today.

TheDoctor
03-02-2013, 02:42 PM
Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Elmer Keith.

stubshaft
03-02-2013, 02:52 PM
Ganges Khan (Attila the Hun), Albert Einstein and Elmer Keith.

TXGunNut
03-02-2013, 03:16 PM
John Browning..... I would love to know how he came up with all of his wonderful ideas.


One of the things I'll never forget is the display of JMB's prototypes and demonstration pieces at the Cody Museum. I'll never get to meet him but that was almost as good. It amazes me that one man came up with so many designs that are still with us today and will be around (hopefully) long after we're gone. It's difficult to imagine today's firearms without the contributions of this one man.

TXGunNut
03-02-2013, 03:22 PM
Thomas Jefferson. No question about that.

I'd like to have him address a joint session of Congress with BHO front and center. I think a weeklong lecture series would be awesome.

gnoahhh
03-02-2013, 03:23 PM
Harry M. Pope, A.O.Niedner, Dr. Franklin Mann. Those guys are probably sitting around somewhere right now chortling over how many times we have re-invented the wheel regarding cast bullets after they worked it all out a century ago.

429421Cowboy
03-02-2013, 04:03 PM
Elmer Keith, Jack O'connor (not at the same time!) WDM Bell, P.O Ackley for famous people.

My Great-Grandfather that survived the Amenian Genocide to come to Montana and cowboy in the 1920's and '30's before he moved to Detroit, I would like to know what it was like back then and how he liked it.

Dan444
03-02-2013, 04:16 PM
Robert E. Lee

Ickisrulz
03-02-2013, 05:07 PM
I'd like to have him address a joint session of Congress with BHO front and center. I think a weeklong lecture series would be awesome.

It would not change anyone's thinking or behavior.

dragonrider
03-02-2013, 06:44 PM
Leonardo DaVinci.

Hardcast416taylor
03-02-2013, 07:06 PM
Guess I`m old fashioned. Would like to have awhile with my Dad that passed back in `61, along with my Mom and brothers that are all gone for some time. One of my brothers was in Patton`s 3rd armored relief column at Bastogne, commanding in a M3 Stuart light tank. He never talked much at all of his time in Europe from Normandy till the end of the war and he was heading for the Pacific when it was finally ended. Most of all I would give anything to have a while longer with my late son, gone now these 2 years.Robert

bbs70
03-02-2013, 08:32 PM
I could think of nothing better than sitting in a nice cozy lodge with Crazy Horse, He Dog, High Hawk, American Horse, Young Man Afraid, Touch The Clouds, ..and as many more of these fellows who could fit in there, smoking a lazy pipe after a big meal of Buffalo steaks and dog stew!

Except for the dog stew, I would love to bjoin in on that dinner

10x
03-02-2013, 09:39 PM
Jack O'Connor and my dad.
I spent many happy hours in the 1950s and 1960s discussing Jack O'Connor's books and stories with my dad. My friend Bud (now 86) would visit Mr. O'Connor at his home in Lewiston Idaho and related that he was an interesting, charming, and very gracious gentleman.
I would like to think that somewhere Mr. O'Connor has a .270 and can hunt what ever game he wants to from a warm and cozy spike camp high on a mountain or deep in the woods. A place where the game is plentiful, camp grub is good, there is always a campfire, and a few drinks left in the bottle of good Scotch whiskey.

Rick N Bama
03-02-2013, 09:45 PM
My G-Grandfather Woodley who spent 2 winters in Yankee Military Prison during the War of Northern Agression.

Rick

375supermag
03-02-2013, 10:29 PM
Halle Berry in her Catwoman suit.

Lunch would be much more interesting without the suit!

472x1B/A
03-02-2013, 10:56 PM
Adolf Hitler! Just him and me in a small out of the way eaterie on the south side of Chicago, summer time 1939. Course I would have a silenced .32 auto in my pocket with hollow points.

runfiverun
03-03-2013, 02:24 AM
i had lunch with Parker many times as a young man.
he influenced me to join the air force.
heck he wrote me a letter of recommendation to join up.
i'd like to have another one.
him and marilyn monroe while she still was brunette/red head, i think he would like that.
i'm pretty sure i would.

WILCO
03-03-2013, 04:36 AM
I liked Wilco's thread so much I decided to follow his lead and ask what true-life person(s) you'd like to enjoy lunch with.
I'd like to sit at a table with Elmer Keith and Teddy Roosevelt.

Glad that you did. I thought about it for a spell and figured I'd like to sit with Audie Murphy and Dean Martin.

slim1836
03-03-2013, 04:57 AM
The defenders of the Alamo.

Slim

gmsharps
03-03-2013, 08:03 AM
What I wouldn't give for 5 minutes with my dad. He passed away many years ago when I first went into the military. I would like to tell him I didn't turn out to bad and still have the wife he had met and he has a grand daughter and 2 great grand daughters that he would have loved to have spoiled. I have tried to instill his values on life and in that he lives on.
miss you dad.
gmsharps

avogunner
03-03-2013, 08:06 AM
#1 Great, Great Grandfather - Co E, 11th Va Cav. 1861-1865
#2 John Basilone
#3 Jane Fonda - so I could spit in her eye.
#4 James Stockdale

flounderman
03-03-2013, 08:22 AM
jefferson was the man. He was the main architect of this country and he would be horrified with the mess we have made of his work. George mason doesn't get credit enough for the bill of rights.

292
03-03-2013, 09:25 AM
John Moses Browning was my first choice. I'll go with Jim Bowie.

Kull
03-03-2013, 10:24 AM
Tough question. Still alive today.....I'd like to sit down and have lunch with Kimi Raikkonen. Not alive today.......Daniel Boone.

Para82
03-03-2013, 10:38 AM
My Dad who passed in 1998, my grandfather on my mother side, who died in WWII while serving in the German Army. Also would like to have lunch with John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.

dagger dog
03-03-2013, 12:42 PM
Elmer Keith and Jack O'Connor, always want to see a good fist fight !

10x
03-03-2013, 01:12 PM
Elmer Keith and Jack O'Connor, always want to see a good fist fight !

Mr O'Connor would never engage in fisticuffs. And when those two met at social and business events they were gentlemen.
They did debate the merits of guns, ammo, and caliber in competing magazines - that sold subscriptions so that folks could read both sides of the debate.
Here is an account from a man who knew both
http://z4.invisionfree.com/Gerrys_Campfire/ar/t105.htm

dagger dog
03-03-2013, 07:56 PM
Thanks 10X looks like some good reading.

walltube
03-04-2013, 12:24 AM
SCOTUS Associate Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. Separately and not necessarily in that order.

Thomas Sowell.

If they were with us today: Gen. Claire Chennault, Commander AVG., Gen. William (Billy) Mitchell, USAAC. Officers and crew of CSS Alabama.
I don't ask for too very much, do I? ;)

Farmall
03-04-2013, 12:09 PM
How can we be 50+ posts into this and nobody mentioned Skeeter Skelton? He'd be among my top picks, along with Bob Milek, Elmer, Bill Jordan, and Charles Askins. Probably Frank Hamer too.

292
03-08-2013, 07:21 AM
John Moses Browning was my first choice. I'll go with Jim Bowie.

Now that I have read my signature, I want to change mine to Archibald Rutledge. What was I thinking?

Rooster59
03-08-2013, 07:34 AM
Sophia Loren, Rachel Welch, Claudia Cardinale. I've had enough lunches in my lifetime with ugly, bearded, argumentative, opinionated b holes. I'll take a quiet sidewalk bistro table with three charming, classic beauties.