Who would be your 12?

[Jakarta ex-pat]

The Queen Of England (She's my Queen)

Taki (Anything but)

President Bush (W)

JK Rowling ( I Love Harry Potter)

Bernard Manning (British Comedian)

Lee Kuang Yew

Joe Clarke (Lean on me)

Simon Murray (Author of Legionnaire)

My mother (My mom)

John Keegan (I LOVE HISTORY)

Margaret Thatcher (Of course)

Charlton Heston (has played none of the above)

For entertainment. The Gypsy Kings.

[DCPatriot]

1) Salma Hayek

2)Halle Berry

3)George W. Bush

4)Laura Bush

5)Dennis Hopper

6)Bill Gates

7)Arnold Swartenegger

8)Charlie Sheen

9)Denise Richards

10)Heather Locklear

11)Chistopher Walken

12)Billy Crystal

[DainBramage]

My favorite twelve.

[strela]

Jesus (he would of course say grace)

Dorothy Parker (I'd pay real money to see her and Roosevelt get into it)

Grace Hopper (once heard her speak at an embassy function in Washington - never got to talk to her though)

George and Martha Washington (I'd love to hear his take on the last 200 years)

Plato

Michelangelo Buonarotti

Theodore and Edith Roosevelt

Gen. George Patton

Lynn Redgrave (my escort to dinner)

Ayn Rand

[Zon]

I'm pretty shy so I'd have to invite my other eleven personalities so they could get to know one another better.

[strela]

Oh and one more thing - a Star Trek-type Universal Translator senceiver implanted in every guest. And probably a good scrubbing and fresh clothes for Michelangelo - his personal hygiene came into question several times in "The Agony and the Ecstasy."

[Pappy Smear]

Tom Lasorda

Sparky Anderson

Moammar Khadaffi (doesn't mean I like him, but I'd love to talk to him)

His interpreter

Erin Kiernan (reporterette on KCCI-Des Moines,)

Steve Forbes

Margaret Thatcher

Chad Pennington (backup QB of the J E T S Jets Jets Jets)

Bobby Pruett (Chad's coach at Marshall University)

Milton Friedman

Joe Elliott (lead singer of Def Leppard)

and with this power I would bring Barry Goldwater back from the grave.

[Mahone]

Robert E. Lee
Stonewall Jackson
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Charles Spurgeon, Prince of preachers
Andrei Tarkovsky, filmmaker
Richard Weaver, author
Charles Dickens
Charlemagne
George Washington
P. G. Wodehouse
Leonardo da Vinci
Johann Sebastian Bach

[boris]

Isaac Newton
Robert Heinlein
Kurt Godel
Piet Hein
P.J. O'Rourke
Johann Sebastian Bach
Frank Whittle
Robert Hutchings Goddard
Lord Dunsany
Rudy Rucker
Mike Oldfield
Thorne Smith

That should make for a scintillating evening.

--Boris

[opinionator]

1) Osama Bin Laden
2) Relative of a WTC victim
3) Relative of a WTC victim
4) Relative of a WTC victim
5) Relative of a WTC victim
6) Relative of a WTC victim
7) Relative of a WTC victim
8) Relative of a WTC victim
9) Relative of a WTC victim
10) Relative of a WTC victim
11) Relative of a WTC victim
12) Relative of a WTC victim

[proudofthesouth]

President Bush

Laura Bush

Thomas Jefferson

Lewis and Clark

Sacajewa

Stephen Hawking

Steve Irwin

Queen Victoria

Prince Albert

Rosamund Pilcher

John Hannah

[strela]

2) ARMED Relative of a WTC victim
3) ARMED Relative of a WTC victim
4) ARMED Relative of a WTC victim
5) ARMED Relative of a WTC victim
6) ARMED Relative of a WTC victim
7) ARMED Relative of a WTC victim
8) ARMED Relative of a WTC victim
9) ARMED Relative of a WTC victim
10) ARMED Relative of a WTC victim
11) ARMED Relative of a WTC victim
12) ARMED Relative of a WTC victim

[buccaneer81]

Stephen King

Stockwell Day

Boz Scaggs

Elisabeth Shue

Bobby Orr

Al Haig

Sophie Ellis Bextor

Neil Cavuto

Laurie Dhue

Maureen McCormick

Martin Landau

John Cleese

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Camille Paglia, Dana Rohrabacher, Robert Reich, Harlan Ellison, Neal Boortz, Ron Paul, Doug Fiedor, Steve Forbes, Brit Hume, Jonah Goldberg, Pat Buchanan, me.

That should make for some great conversation...

[AStack75]

[opinionator]

No. Death must be slow and painful.

[The KG9 Kid]

1. Jesus of Nazareth
2. Moses
3. George Washington
4. Mohatmas Gandhi
5. Cleopatra
6. Kung Fu Tzu (Confucius)
7. Socrates
8. Plato
9. Thomas Jefferson
10. George Patton
11. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
12. Queen Elizabeth I

Jesus can sit at the head of the table, but I'm sitting next to Cleopatra.

[wattsmag2]

Martin Luther
John Wesley
Leonardo da Vinci
Galileo Galilei
Albert Einstein
Alexander the Great
Robert E. Lee
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
Ronald Reagan
George W. Bush

[strela]

Fair enough. Give each one a butter knife then.

[rintense]

1. George W. Bush
2. Laura Bush
3. Bill O'Reilly
4. Susan Sarandon
5. Tina Turner
6. Benjamin Bratt
7. Mary Matalin
8. Madonna
9. Sigourney Weaver
10. Rush Limbaugh
11. Lucy Lawless
12. John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara (tie)