Your dream dinner (3 people, living or dead)

[Hash]

André Siegfried (my model), José Antonio Aguirre and... Pearson/Trudeau?

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

I pick 3 dead people so I can nom their food while they are busy being dead.

But, seriously, my answer would probably be something like, Ian Paisley, Gerry Adams, and David Ford to hear their opinions - or perhaps Tommy Douglas, John Diefenbaker, and Leslie Frost to hear how they always managed to keep the people first - or if I were going American, George Washington, Franklin Roosevelt, and Barack Obama, to hear the stories they'd tell one another.

[Platypus]

Assuming they're all 40, let's say, and I can't have family... I'd have one of Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford, or Bette Davis; one of James Cook, Benjamin Disraeli, or Alfred Deakin; and either Oscar Wilde or Freddie Mercury. It'd be a difficult thing trying to get the table blance right, but I think I'd probably go with Dietrich, Disraeli, and Freddy.



(A German, a Jew and an Arab walk into a bar... )

[Platypus]

Oh, and Adam, as in Adam and Eve, as the waiter. Stupid, naked and gullible with a literally divine body.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

I feel like a selfish idiot. Has my Dad's death meant so little to me that I don't remember to put him on the list? I can't believe myself. God, this is horrible. Let's hope he's having a good meal with Jesus, Jefferson, & Jimbo right now.

[Ban my account ffs!]

Hillary (or Bill) Clinton, Jimmy Carter, and Barack Obama... as far as living people go.  They would all provide for excellent conversation on the topic of current affairs.

Dead?  No idea. 

[muon2]

Let me riff on a name for my invitations (all dead alas) ...

I'll start by inviting Isaac Asimov, a prolific writer who could write on any topic, past present or future.

I'm sure he would have appreciated an invitation to Isaac Newton who has been described as the last man to know all that there was to know in he world available to him while he lived.

And since both of these men were trained in science but wrote on religion as well, I would do them the honor of inviting their namesake Isaac, son of Abraham.

I think the ensuing discussion would be engaging for all.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Jesus, obviously; Arii Shokyuu (probably one of the most obscure of all major Japanese poets, but I'd love to pick her brains on her main subjects: Faith, humor, nature, and tradition); and a spot left open for whatever other luminary might show him- or herself, but I'd definitely be hoping very much for one or more of Marcus Aurelius, Takasue no Musume, Margery Kempe, Christopher Smart, Ema Saiko, Ninomiya Sontoku, John Ruskin, Charles Williams, Yoshiya Nobuko, and Flannery O'Connor.

[The Mikado]

Let me riff on a name for my invitations (all dead alas) ...

I'll start by inviting Isaac Asimov, a prolific writer who could write on any topic, past present or future.

I'm sure he would have appreciated an invitation to Isaac Newton who has been described as the last man to know all that there was to know in he world available to him while he lived.

And since both of these men were trained in science but wrote on religion as well, I would do them the honor of inviting their namesake Isaac, son of Abraham.

I think the ensuing discussion would be engaging for all.

Of all the characters in the Bible you pick Isaac?  He's a bit player in his own near-sacrifice, his own wedding, and his end-of-life blessing.

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

I'd also debate a dinner with Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot, or Sid*, JC**, and Moe***

*Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddah
**Jesus Christ
***Mohammed the profit.

[Хahar 🤔]

Assuming they're all 40, let's say, and I can't have family... I'd have one of Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford, or Bette Davis; one of James Cook, Benjamin Disraeli, or Alfred Deakin; and either Oscar Wilde or Freddie Mercury. It'd be a difficult thing trying to get the table blance right, but I think I'd probably go with Dietrich, Disraeli, and Freddy.



(A German, a Jew and an Arab walk into a bar... )

Freddie Mercury was a Parsi, wasn't he?

[muon2]

Let me riff on a name for my invitations (all dead alas) ...

I'll start by inviting Isaac Asimov, a prolific writer who could write on any topic, past present or future.

I'm sure he would have appreciated an invitation to Isaac Newton who has been described as the last man to know all that there was to know in he world available to him while he lived.

And since both of these men were trained in science but wrote on religion as well, I would do them the honor of inviting their namesake Isaac, son of Abraham.

I think the ensuing discussion would be engaging for all.

Of all the characters in the Bible you pick Isaac?  He's a bit player in his own near-sacrifice, his own wedding, and his end-of-life blessing.

Two reasons. First, as I noted, he was the namesake of the other two. Second, though his written history is less than others, he was the longest lived of the three patriarchs and should be able to fill gaps in the history of the patriarchs. I thought the other two guests would appreciate this in the conversation.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Off the top of my head and I wanted to choose three different types of people...

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Robert Anton Wilson and J.G. Ballard. EDIT: Decided to change things around a bit.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Marc Bloch, Dennis Potter... and... hmm... Leszek Kołakowski? George Orwell? Irving Howe? Hard to choose, and there would be other possibilities as well. It would certainly be amusingly waspish (because all of them were), and that's how I like things.

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

From the forum it would be Napoleon, Mechaman, and Hamilton

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Marc Bloch, Dennis Potter... and... hmm... Leszek Kołakowski? George Orwell? Irving Howe? Hard to choose, and there would be other possibilities as well. It would certainly be amusingly waspish (because all of them were), and that's how I like things.

Hazlitt would be another possibility, of course.

[afleitch]

Marc Bloch, Dennis Potter... and... hmm... Leszek Kołakowski? George Orwell? Irving Howe? Hard to choose, and there would be other possibilities as well. It would certainly be amusingly waspish (because all of them were), and that's how I like things.

I raise you Lucien Febvre if you want dinner party discussion of that persuasion. Someone who won't comment on the dinner itself but pass remarks on the sociological setting of the diners and this history of mealtimes Which would be ideal if you're not the best cook...

[fezzyfestoon]

Michael Vick, Cory Booker, Bob Marley. Easy

[big bad fab]

To solve some of my favourite mysteries: Lin Biao, Lavrenty Beria and Martin Bormann

To make me "cleverer": Jesus, Planck and Beethoven
(and I'd take my cheeses and my desert with Churchill, after Beethoven would have become deaf or would have taken place at the piano)

With living people, to learn about contemporary history: Gorbachev, Helmut Kohl and Alain Juppé

[courts]

J.G. Ballard.

Him alone well.. wouldn't you be overwhelmed?

[big bad fab]

To solve some of my favourite mysteries: Lin Biao, Lavrenty Beria and Martin Bormann

To make me "cleverer": Jesus, Planck and Beethoven
(and I'd take my cheeses and my desert with Churchill, after Beethoven would have become deaf or would have taken place at the piano)

With living people, to learn about contemporary history: Gorbachev, Helmut Kohl and Alain Juppé

I realize that I must add another formula: I should have a dinner with women !
Let's say... Halle Berry, Jodie Foster and Naomi Watts: less serious, eh ?
And for the dead ones: Ingrid Bergman, Grace Kelly and the young Diana Rigg (well, she's dead in a way... )

[dead0man]

Carl Sagan, Hunter Thompson and...lets say, Brigitte Bardot.  Lets make it 1959 for fun.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

I'm not going to choose anyone who lived more than 300 years ago, simply because I don't think it would it would be relevant or comparable to my experiences. That being said, I would probably choose political figures when it came down to it... while I would love to talk music with John Lennon, art with Picasso, psychology with Freud, and sex with Monroe, that's what it would fall to. I'll also keep my choices within languages I can understand.

Due to Anglo-Saxon tendencies, my choices would be Lord Randolph Churchill, Theodore Roosevelt, and Otto von Bismarck. I have no idea how this would turn out; here you have three people used to dominating the room sitting at a dinner table.

Oh, and I'd probably invite Mint, Alexander Hamilton, and Xahar.

By Alexander Hamilton, do you mean Kyle Mercado?

Oh, and Nostradamus' three Anti-Christs: Napoleon Bonaparte, Adolf Hitler, and whoever the third one is. Let's say it's Osama Bin Ladden.

[Mr. Morden]

BushOK's ex, Naso's dad, and BRTD's imaginary daughter.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

J.G. Ballard.

Him alone well.. wouldn't you be overwhelmed?

I think Wittgenstein and Anton Wilson would be more overwhelming to be honest.

If I could add more people, I think Wilde and Milovan Djilas would round up an interesting five.