Who would you invite to dinner?

[218bee]

Thought this might be interesting fun. If you could invite five people to dinner live or dead from all of history who would they be.....
I could think of quite a few that would be interesting but I would say
1- My Dad who died about 30yrs ago
2- Ken Waters
3- Geronimo
4-John Browning
5-William Ruger

[405]

Good question! All of history eh? Without spending a lot of time thinking cause it's getting late and I'm tired.... so I'll just take a stab at a few?

1) A couple of my ancestors from SW England who were living there about 500 AD.

2) A couple of relatives, of those ancestors, who left England in 1656 on a small ship to get away from that government and see America.

3) Teddy Roosevelt

[felix]

Jesus, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John. ... felix

[wiljen]

J. Robert Oppenheimer
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
David Henry Thoreau
J.W. Duggins - my grandfather
Rex AppleGate

[scb]

Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
Patrick Henry
Benjamin Franklin
Barack Obama

[Boerrancher]

Not in any particular order, and not at the same time.

George Washington and Thomas Jefferson so I could have a better grasp of US History.

Frank Anderson, who was my Great Great Grandfather so I could find out more about the history of my property and the goings on before and during the Civil War.

Stephen Hawking so I could discuss a Brief History of Time with him.

Don Emily a close friend of my fathers, who taught me how to cast, and build custom rifles to include carving the stocks by hand. He passed just before I went to Afghanistan. He was one of the smartest men I have ever met, and could build just about anything.

Best wishes from the Boer Ranch,

Joe

[gon2shoot]

Bill
Hillary
Monica
and two referees :drinks:

[RNyogi]

tom horn
bernie getz
ben franklin
my 6th grade girlfriend
carlos hathcock

[Echo]

John Adams
Elmer Keith
Jeff Milton
Bill O'Reilly
Uma Thurman

(I would curl up w/Uma and watch the fight...)

[Crash_Corrigan]

My first wife who passed away from cancer.
Mom who passed in '97
Dad who passed in' 72
Uncle Leo {dads bro} who passed in '62
Harry Truman whose brain I would like to pick.

It would make for a very interesting dinner. Dad and Leo loved and hated Truman.

My folks did not like my first wife.

I still dream about the wife after all these years and I would love to see her again.

Truman in my mind is the best president since Lincoln and better than any after him. I wonder what he would have to say about today's economy and how we got that way.

[Southern Son]

I reckon 4 real bad mongrels, Stalin, Hitler, maybe that Mugabe fool, Osama, and my Mother in Law. Then I could just sit back and watch the old bag tear strips off them, it would make a nice change to her tearing strips off me.

[HABCAN]

My mother who passed in '92.
My father who passed in '37.
Winston Churchill.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
King George VI.
If King George was unavailable, President Ronal Reagan.

Go figure.

[10-x]

Jesus, George Washington, Teddy Roosevelt,George Patton and my Dad who passed in 94. Would serve real Smithfield Ham, deep fried wild turkey(not the whisky)relish tray w/home made freezer pickles, celery and carrots, fried yellow squash, mashed potatoes with turkey gravy, green beans seasoned with wild pig smoked jowl, mixed green salad and my Great Aunts dinner rolls, sweet tea, coffee and Bud Light.........not being sacreligeous, Jesus could eat turkey and drink tea as He is a Jew:drinks:

[Phil]

Gotta go with Felix on this one.

Phil

[testhop]

scb s list is good d one i would like to be a fly on the wall for that meeting

[fishhawk]

well lets see

Crazy Horse

Pierre Esprit Radisson

Sir John Franklin

Geo. Washington

John Paul Jones

[Heavy lead]

Wow, good one, not at the same time please, but:
Thomas Jefferson
Gingas Khan
Charles Darwin (no I'm not athiest or necessarily Darwinian)
Sam Colt
Andrew Jackson (this was close, as I really would like to see Teddy Roosevelt)
I'd like 5 more please.

[fishhawk]

another 5? another 25 would be more like it! there are so many i would love to have supper with and talk with....... 25 probley wouldn't even do it. steve k

[KYCaster]

You've been watching "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" again, haven't you?

Jerry

[monadnock#5]

Hugues de Payens, Jacques DeMolay, William Morgan, Josephus, Wat Tyler.

Ah, the mysteries that might be solved.

[Junior1942]

Leonardo da Vinci
Thomas Jefferson
Mahatma Gandhi
Major L. Doughty, my greatgrandfather
Oscar Wilde

[Lead melter]

Miss January
Miss February
Miss March
Miss April
Miss May [I hope she will!]

Now, seriously;

Otto Jacob Emmelhainz [My Junior/Senior high school teacher of English literature. He tried to teach us hormone laden teenagers to think rather than just recite facts.]

Gladys Juanita Taylor [My maternal grandmother. Whether or not your views on Christianity coincide with mine, her prayer ability was fantastic. When she would pray it was as if God was in the same room and she was speaking to him as a close friend.]

Thomas Jefferson [His intellegence and intellect were remarkable.]

Carol Anne [Devasier] Elliot [My early twenties sweetheart and the only woman I have ever truly, deeply, and unreservedly loved. Maybe we could figure out what went wrong between us.]

Jesus the Christ [No explanation needed.]

[buck1]

Jack oconner
my dad
my late granddad
Skeeter skelton
John taffin
BUT!
Miss January
Miss February
Miss March
Miss April
Miss May ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,were hard to pass on...............

[hoss-noogy]

1. Jesus

2. Thomas Jefferson

3. Elmer Keith(the real Elmer not the one of recent fame)

4.Carlos Hathcock

5.My father(passed away in 2000)

[ktw]

Leonardo da Vinci
Mahatma Gandhi
Oscar Wilde

Those are good ones. I'd fill out my list with some the great explorers;

Ernest Shackleton
Alexander MacKenzie
Meriwether Lewis or William Clark (whichever was free that day)
Fridjtof Nansen
Erik the Red.

-ktw

[waksupi]

Curly Gostomski
Slim Pickens
Bill Jordan
Linda Tippets
Mae West

[PatMarlin]

Dep Al, Buckshot, NV Curmudgeon Bill, Waksupi, 45nut.

[August]

Alexander Hamilton
John Dewey
Theodore Roosevelt
Elmer Keith
Albert Einstein

(Great question)

[carpetman]

But what if Sydney Poitier showed up?

[Glen]

Theodore Roosevelt (politics, governance, leadership)
Leonardo da Vinci (observational science, deductive logic, art)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (creative composition, music theory)
John Browning (firearms design, industrialization)
R. B. Woodward (Nobel Prize winning organic chemist)

It would be a most interesting dinner. I would take copious notes...

[Freightman]

Jesus, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John. ... felix
I would add Paul to that list.

[357tex]

freightman
+1 on paul

[kir_kenix]

1. Alexander the Great
2. Jesus
3. John Moses Browning
4. Jim Morrison
5. Teddy Roosevelt

[walltube]

Josephus

Jacques DeMolay

The slaughtered innocents of Waco and their parents.

[Steelbanger]

1. My Dad, died in 1977.

2 & 3. Both my grandfathers, long gone before I was born.

4. My father-in-law who died an untimely death before we got to know each other.

5. My son, for the next generation perspective.

[waksupi]

Pat, what's for dinner?

[dragonrider]

Only four come to mind right away, I'm sure there are others.
MichealAngelo, Galileo, Newton, A. Einstein

[mtgrs737]

The Father, and his Son, Ronald Regan, Dad, Mom, Sis, Grandad, Hey I'm wishing about the last five anyway, the first two are with me everyday!

[Old Ironsights]

Michael Servetus (Author of Christianismi Restituto and ACTUAL discoverer of pulmonary circulation)
Niccolo Machavelli
Thomas Paine
Thomas Jefferson
Robert A. Heinlein or Adam Smith (He of Economics)

[home in oz]

Abraham Lincoln, Julius Caeser, George Washington, Jesus Christ, and Robert E. Lee.

Those are the first five which came to mind.

[ammohead]

Dep Al, Buckshot, NV Curmudgeon Bill, Waksupi, 45nut.

Had dinner with all but Ric and came close last Nov. Good choices all.

ammohead

[ammohead]

I gave this a little thought and Jefferson, Paine, Franklin, Adams and Monroe and their contemporaries would be excellent dinner fare. But decided that I didn't want to be the one to have to explain just what the f... is going on in Washington!

So it's

My Dad gone too long
John M Browning
Elmo Keefe
Kit Carson
Doc Holliday

no card playing of course.

We could all bitch about what's gone wrong.

ammohead

[ammohead]

Oh, guys.

You all want to be on BruceB's guest list. Karen makes the most scrumptuous deserts!

ammohead

[cajun shooter]

All the signers of the Declaration, Teddy Roosevelt, Mark Twain, Robert E Lee, Jeb Stuart,Abe Lincoln, U.S. Grant, John M Browning, Werner Von Braun,Alvin York, Audie Murphy, my list would fill several pages. The persons above would take up many years of conversation.

[MT Gianni]

This took some thought.
1] Moses: Leadership skills Ancient Egypt, talking with God
2] The Apostle Peter: Armed in Jesus Prescence, cut off a Centurions ear, walked a few steps on water
3] John R Cash: he could bring his guitar
4]Doroteo Arrango aka Pancho Villa: leadership in difficult conditions as Ernest Shackleton is tied up elsewhere
5] Lee Harvey Oswald: I got a few questions

Helen of Troy and Sophia Loren to serve tables

[Hicountry]

Only 5 Damn the devil deals hard.

George Washington..after 22 yrs of Naval service I would like to see how our opinions match up.
Moses...great choice MT Gianni
Davinci...the smartest man in history
Robert E Lee...to help me with the same terrible decision he had to make
Osama Bin Laden...its time to make things right!!

How many dinners can we have?

Bob

[oldhickory]

1. Jesus

2. Ben Franklin

3. John Adams

4. Robert E. Lee

5. Lewis B. Puller

[higgins]

Miss January
Miss February
Miss March
Miss April
Miss May [I hope she will!]

Maybe from the early 80s when they were "real"- most of them you see now are the generic skinny (fill in hair color) with inflated assets.
On a more serious note, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, a couple of my ancestors who served in the Confederate Army, and my grandmother who died in 1983.

[WickedGoodOutdoors]

Soup Du Jour

Andrew Zimmerman:cool:

Gengis Kan :veryconfu

Nancy Pelosi [smilie=1:

The Hungry Tiger :mrgreen:

Willie Nelson :drinks:





"We aint wrong, We aint sorry; and its probly gonn happen again."

[sundog]

Jesus
Muhammad
Yogi Berra
General Pershing
B.H.O. (interesting choice, eh?)
Winston Churchill
Sitting Bull
Queen Liliuokalani

[fatnhappy]

hmm

1. Jesus Christ
2. Sophocles
3. Muhommad
4. Joe Stalin
5. Adolf Hitler


I want Jesus there so when I shoot the last 3 he can raise them from the dead so I can shoot them again. Sophocles can write about it.

[Leadforbrains]

hmm

1. Jesus Christ
2. Sophocles
3. Muhommad
4. Joe Stalin
5. Adolf Hitler


I want Jesus there so when I shoot the last 3 he can raise them from the dead so I can shoot them again. Sophocles can write about it.

:mrgreen::drinks:

[felix]

Yeah, if Paul was included, I would like to have all of the Indian Chiefs involved too. Why? I would love to see the approach Paul would take with each of the Chiefs considering what I think I know about the members. One of my hobbies was/is reading info about the circumstances each of the Tribes and how they treated each other and why. Pontiac and Joseph would have been an excellent US President and VicePresident respectively, and then vice versa for the next 8 year term. ... felix

[Idaho_Elk_Huntr]

Gen. Alfred Beckley ( my great grandfather)
Martin Workman (my grandfather)
Immit England (My grandfather)
Fletcher Lambert ( A rough looking tough as hell old man I remember from my childhood that was a well digger)

[Trifocals]

My four grandparents, whom I never knew
My father, who died in '90

[S.R.Custom]

Julius Ceasar
Jesus Christ
Lao-Tzu
George S. Patton Jr.
Raquel Welch

[cabezaverde]

BHO and four really smart people.

Try to see if we can figure out what the h@ll he is doing.

[MtGun44]

Thomas Jefferson
Leonardo Da Vinci
John Browning
Leo Szilard (patented the A-bomb about a decade before they could make one)
Jesus of Nazareth

Those guys would be really interesting to talk to.

Bill

[montana_charlie]

I could not invite five interesting people to dinner. Instead, I would have five seperate dinners and invite only one to each of them. Only then could I devote the necessary attention to an individual to actually learn something.

To the first dinner, I would invite Arthur (to learn how much of his story is true).
CM

[jonk]

In no particular order... Jefferson Washington Robert E Lee Hitler and Jesus.

The first 2 as founding fathers and great minds. The third to ask what he might have done differently. Hitler just because he was probably the greatest cause of suffering in the first half of the 20th century- and Jesus, well, because he's the son of God!

[housedad]

Isaac Newton
Confucious
Noah
Aristotle
Thomas Jefferson

[Heavy lead]

You know, I answered this before, way before as this is a long thread. But after further review I would rather meet and break bread with some more normal people. Bo Schembechler and Woody Hayes, yes at the same table at the same time. Elmer Keith, Skeeter Skelton with a side of Ross Seyfried.
Cool.

[trk]

Thought this might be interesting fun. If you could invite five people to dinner live or dead from all of history who would they be.....
I could think of quite a few that would be interesting but I would say
...


Worth much thought and planning.

I can remember (when I was a young teenager) when Dad brought the German Professor over (who was a U-boat Captain).

I can remember the Master carpenter at the residence department where I was a Hall Advisor - who was a survivor of a concentration camp.

I can remember my grandfather mentioning he was friends with Williams Jenning Bryan and a fellow named Scopes and tried in vain to bring them together and not go to trial.

I can remember a friend (who taught me how to make bratworst) - who was a sniper on the eastern front with 26 confirmed kills.



My point is this - what questions are you going to ask of the folks that are around you now?

I can think now of a hundred questions I SHOULD have asked of each one!!!!!!

[Hicountry]

this is such a great thread...it really makes you think. For my second dinner...more venison left!! I would have.

John Wayne
Chuck Noris
Ronald Reagan
Tom Selleck
Audey Murphy

America needs her heros..its too bad so many of us have forgotten. These men specifically from more recent times. After all America has and has had many heros!!

[looseprojectile]

Audie Murphy The man had it all.
I would like for him to explain how the rusty old gun got that way.

Dusty old helmet and rusty old gun, sit in the corner and wait.


Life is good

[405]

Posted once on this but got to again.
How about TR and Bro' BHO. Then sit back and watch.

[WILCO]

Shooting from the hip here......

1) Theodore Roosevelt
2) My friend Richard/10-22-08
3) Todd Beamer
4) Abraham Lincoln
5) Frank Sinatra

[wildwilly]

1) Abraham Lincohn
2) Wm T Sherman
3) Sam Houston
4) Humphrey Bogart
5) John Wayne
6) Bill Jordan

[runfiveswife]

I would invite president grant because he is my great great uncle and there are so many more oh heck i would just invite everyone i would expecially invite all of those from cast boolits there are so many of you that i would like to meet, cant name ya all.

[44man]

Many, many, many good choices but I also would like to choose all of you fellas on this site, but not all at once---PLEASE! :drinks:
I can only imagine all of the great people listed so far along with all of us here, in one huge hall with all the time in the world, plenty of food and drink and all the guns we could shoot out on a range.
Do NOT ask my wife to cook! :mrgreen:

[softpoint]

First would be Jesus. Second would be Attilla the Hun. Then, no particular order, Robert E Lee, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams.
Jesus first, as He is with me always. The Hun? Well, why not have him on my side.? And I'd like to hear the other's take on the current state of politics.:p

[Trey45]

Jesus
Ronald Reagan
Thomas Jefferson
A tyranosourus Rex
and

Obama.

So the 1st three can tell the last 1 what he's doing wrong, and if he doesn't listen, then the 4th can step in and make number 2 out of him.

[WILCO]

First would be Jesus.

I was gonna pick Jesus, then figured he'd already done supper once before and we all know how that turned out.........

[dromia]

My father died in 1986
Jim Sunter my best friend and shooting conspirator died in 2006
Kay my wife
Daniel my son
Ellen Beth my daughter

I'd wish all of them had known my father and my father had known them.

[lead-1]

I would have to pick,

Jesus

Mel Brooks
Roger Staubach
Alvin York

This is a list that could go on forever.

[exile]

1. My grandfather who died in 1990.,

2. Ronald Reagan.,

3. Elmer Keith.,

4. Deitrich Bonnhoeffer.,

5. Charles Colson.

exile

[trk]

1. My grandfather who died in 1990.,
2. Ronald Reagan.,
3. Elmer Keith.,
4. Deitrich Bonnhoeffer.,
5. Charles Colson.
exile

Bonnhoeffer eh? He wrote some POWERFUL stuff!!!

I'd love to put together half a dozen 'dinners' each with a set of folks brought together focused around a particular subject matter.

[largom]

Tecumseh, Crazy Horse, Geronimo, Chief Joseph

[Baryngyl]

5 of the guys who wrote the U.S. Constitution and the 2nd Amendment so they could explain what it really meant to all the stupid politicians.

Michael Grace

[JeffinNZ]

Dean Martin.
Robert Muldoon (ex NZ Prime Minister).
Beyonce (hubba, hubba).
My father's father whom I never met.
Julian Hatcher.

[Mark Daiute]

Robert Rogers (got a lot of questions for him)

Ayn Rand and Hermann Hesse (my two favorite authors, who just happen to be diametrically opposed) I've always wondered what it would be like to get the two of them side by side at dinner.


Dad. He left this world with a fecal load of stuff unsaid between us. Dad, need to talk to you! What happened to the Krag, the Arisaka your Enfield/Model 1917, your 03A3 and your Smith and Wesson 38?
Damn I wish I knew!