I was thinking of making two lists. One more serious, enlightening and the other more for a good time. Hunter S. Thompson was going to be on both lists. :lol:

I thought that way as well. HST would make both for me, Hitchens might be replaced with a more scientific-oriented atheist like Dawkins or Hawking on my serious list, I'm not so sure on Muir but he probably wouldn't make it, and unfortunately Bukowski would have to drink somewhere else.

Mine didn't. Jay Z is only 3-4 years older than me and Tupac was still alive when I was in school. He was still in Digital Underground when I graduated. :lol:

1. I was kidding around. I was still in school when Pac got shot.

 

2. You're old!

2. You're old!

 

That's what I got out of it! :lol:

I'm still sticking with mine...but at this point I think I'd go with Hemingway over Thompson. Thompson would be number 5, Muhammad Ali would be number 6 - and although I would want to be able to communicate clearly with him, there's no way I wouldn't want to talk to current day Ali rather than pre-Parkinsons Ali. Number 7 would probably be Teddy Roosevelt.

 

Other folks I'd be rather interested to hear from would be Muddy Waters, Black Jack Pershing, Patton, Truman (how interesting would it be to chat about the decision to drop the atomic bomb???). Another couple guys who I think would just be darn cool to sip some suds with would be Sean Connery and Michael Caine. Those two have been awesome for decades. I'd just like to see what they're like and hear some stories.

 

One of the reasons that Robert Oppenheimer almost made my short list.

 

Ditto to the person who said Dorothy Parker.

 

And I think David Feherty would be a great guy to have a pint with.

You're old!

 

That's what I got out of it! :lol:

 

 

I thought y'all knew. :lol:

 

 

37 going on 25 mentally. 37 physically.

I went for variety rather than staying in the athlete / historic figure catagory.

One of the reasons that Robert Oppenheimer almost made my short list.

 

Yeah, I think if I had an interest to talk to Truman about it, I'd have about as much interest to talk to Oppenheimer - especially given how embattled as Oppenheimer was over the bomb.

One of the reasons that Robert Oppenheimer almost made my short list.

 

Ditto to the person who said Dorothy Parker.

 

And I think David Feherty would be a great guy to have a pint with.

That was my Aunt's list I shared. The same one I said made you look like a statist.

Mother Theresa

Margaret Sanger (not a fan of her's but interested in her thoughts).

Have to think about the last two.

Everybody is different. I find 90% of the choices on here to be quite boring to be completely honest. I want an entertaining dinner not my history books from middle school and high school all over again. To each his own.

 

Well, like the fella said... "I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam."

Frank Sinatra

Dean Martin

Bob Hope

Don Rickles

Major Richard "Dick" Winters

Staff Sergeant William "Wild Bill" Guarnere

Dr. Jerome V Reel

Coach John Calipari

You beat me to the punch on this one. It's a shame MOST people have no idea who he is, got 3 books on the man in my small collection of reading material. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla

 

I'd have no idea who he was if it wasn't for the movie, The Prestige.

Major Richard "Dick" Winters

Staff Sergeant William "Wild Bill" Guarnere

I knew at least one of these would be on your list. Would definitely be an interesting conversation.

 

Dr. Jerome V Reel

Who is this?

 

Coach John Calipari

I hope you and your other guests like hearing about yogurt. :lol:

I'd have no idea who he was if it wasn't for the movie, The Prestige.

 

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