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The Question: "If you could lunch with any person from history (living or dead), who would it be?"
The Celebrity Cafe ^
| july 15th, 2007
| DancesWithCats
Posted on 07/15/2007 1:06:44 PM PDT by DancesWithCats
Shane Inwood, of Tripod Jimmy
Well, I assume that trite answers like "Saddam Hussein so I could slip 10 tabs of bad acid and some rat poison in his dinner" or "David Geffen so I could auction it on-line to the millions of graspers all vying for his time" are against the spirit of the question.
And as much as I would love to meet say, Kevin Shields from My Bloody Valentine or Bob Mould or to have met Kurt Cobain etc, how much can you really accomplish in one dinner? You may love their work but hate them and have a really bad time. What big secrets would they tell you that you couldn't get from an interview. Would Kurt Cobain lean across the table and say "you know man, I've only known you for an hour but I've come to love you like a brother and I have to tell you, I think I'm going to blow my head off with a shotgun next week. What should I do?"?
And I don't think celebrities really have a great time at the "WKNY FM win a date with XXXYYYZZZ!" competitions so I would choose someone that I know would be a laugh. So, I would choose an outrageously expensive dinner with my wife Lisa.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: history; idols; lunch; wish
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Maybe 'lunch' is not the best of ideas, so I would change this to a 'have a week in the country with' so that you have some real time together and I'd also add to the rules, and you can't change history either by meeting with this person ... this is just chit-chat opportunity. There are people in my personal life that I miss so much and would love to be with again (the usual suspects ... gramma, uncle, cousin ...) and then there are those that it would take a fictional situation such as this to address ... a son I'd lost at 9 months pregnant, family members who died a long time ago that I never met but hear about all the time and whom I admire greatly. But from history? Or the headlines? I'd like to be with Winston Churchill or Princess Diana(I know. I know. I've got a lot of chutzpah asking for a week's audience schlepping about with these people! LOL) But if you're going to dream ... why not dream big?
Who would you like to spend such time with? Why? Just a Sunday daydream ...
To: DancesWithCats
"If you could lunch with any person from history (living or dead), who would it be?"Rush Limbaugh
'have a week in the country with'
Pamela Anderson.
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posted on
07/15/2007 1:16:22 PM PDT
by
lowbridge
(If You’re Gonna Burn Our Flag, Wrap Yourself in It First /No Oil for Pacifists)
To: DancesWithCats
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posted on
07/15/2007 1:18:09 PM PDT
by
stm
(Fred Thompson in 08! Return our country to the era of Reagan Conservatism)
To: DancesWithCats
I would have given anything to have had one more day with my grandfather.
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posted on
07/15/2007 1:26:30 PM PDT
by
nonliberal
(Graduate: Curtis E. LeMay School of International Relations)
To: DancesWithCats
To: DancesWithCats
A week in the country with: Chuchill
"Lunch" with:
Teri Garr
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posted on
07/15/2007 1:43:59 PM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(If martyrdom is so cool,why does Osama Obama go to such great lengths to avoid it?)
To: DancesWithCats
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posted on
07/15/2007 1:46:44 PM PDT
by
dakine
To: DancesWithCats
"If you could lunch with any person from history (living or dead), who would it be?" Howard Stern
'have a week in the country with'
Rachel Ray
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posted on
07/15/2007 1:53:40 PM PDT
by
WhiteGuy
(GOP Congress - 16,000 earmarks costing US $50 billion in 2006 - PAUL2008)
To: DancesWithCats
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posted on
07/15/2007 1:59:08 PM PDT
by
TornadoAlley3
( “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping that it will eat him last.”)
To: TornadoAlley3
Y’know, I very nearly added Johnny Carson to my list! What a great week that would be, huh?
To: DancesWithCats
Lunch:
Paul Thomas Anderson
A week in the country:
Benicio Del Toro
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posted on
07/15/2007 2:06:19 PM PDT
by
AnnaZ
(I keep 2 magnums in my desk.One's a gun and I keep it loaded.Other's a bottle and it keeps me loaded)
To: DancesWithCats
A common unnoticeable person who was a settler in the New World from the year 1700. I wonder if we could understand the same English. And I would love to spend time with an ordinary person who left St. Louis for the West via the Oregon Trail.
To: DancesWithCats
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posted on
07/15/2007 2:11:06 PM PDT
by
djf
(Bush's legacy: Way more worried about Iraqs borders than our own!!! A once great nation... sad...)
To: lowbridge; DancesWithCats
Well, Rush was taken, so for lunch:
Howard Hughes - H-1 Racer 1935
Week in the country?
Ann Coulter - (Rules!)
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posted on
07/15/2007 2:14:39 PM PDT
by
GoldCountryRedneck
("Flying is like Life: Know where you are, where you're going, and how to get there." - 'Ol Dad)
To: DancesWithCats
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posted on
07/15/2007 2:16:07 PM PDT
by
blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
To: A knight without armor
More inspiration! Sacajawea!
To: DancesWithCats
Warren Buffett for lunch and also for a week in the country or anywhere else. No, not Jimmy Buffett, Warren, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway and, according to Forbes, the second wealthiest billionaire in the world. It’s not about the money, it’s about the mind that created the empire. Plus, he’s rather a teddy bear.
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posted on
07/15/2007 2:57:39 PM PDT
by
Veto!
(Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
To: DancesWithCats
Idi Amin, although I’d probably not say “I’ll have what he’s having.”
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posted on
07/15/2007 2:59:03 PM PDT
by
toddlintown
(Six bullets and Lennon goes down. Yet not one hit Yoko. Discuss.)
To: DancesWithCats
Hegel. He was much better explaining his stuff in conversation than in his mystical mumbo-jumbo books. Kant was more entertaining, though.
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posted on
07/15/2007 2:59:49 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(It's Brecht's donkey, not mine)
To: GoldCountryRedneck
Howard Hughes is a good one.
Jesus Christ would have to top my list.
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