Invite 5 people to dinner throughout history. Who would they be and why

[Хahar 🤔]

Ziaur Rahman
Jawaharlal Nehru
Akbar
Mahatma Gandhi
Ashoka

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Michael Jordan
Franklin Roosevelt
Ty Cobb
Bill Russell
Moses

[DownWithTheLeft]

Ron Paul, Barry Goldwater, Adolf Hitler, Jesus Christ and Martin Luther

[CPT MikeyMike]

1. Richard Nixon
2. Ted Williams
3. Elvis Presley
4. Red Auerbach
5. Douglas MacArthur

Alternates
1. Abraham Lincoln
2. Winston Churchill
3. Mark Goodson
4. Ronald Reagan
5. Babe Ruth

[DownWithTheLeft]

Xahar, stop digging up threads to post your post count

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Xahar, stop digging up threads to post your post count

I think this thread is actually pretty interesting.

[DownWithTheLeft]

Xahar, stop digging up threads to post your post count

I think this thread is actually pretty interesting.

I'm sure there are plenty of interesting threads from way back, they don't all warrant rehashing

[SPC]

Adolf Hitler
Karl Marx
Winston Churchill
Abraham Lincoln
Ludwig von Mises

HONORABLE MENTION: Robert E. Lee

[Хahar 🤔]

Xahar, stop digging up threads to post your post count

I think this thread is actually pretty interesting.

I'm sure there are plenty of interesting threads from way back, they don't all warrant rehashing

And I bump only about 2% of the interesting threads I read.

[JSojourner]

Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson- A great millitary leader, but I would have to prepare a meal with no pepper due to him thinking it made his left leg ache.

Have extra lemon slices on hand.

[afleitch]

Presuming they could all converse

Richard Nixon Scratch him, he'd be dull. Barry Goldwater
Thomas Jefferson
King David I of Scotland
Alexander the Great
Stephen Fry (who by default should be in everyones guest list for dinner)

Something a bit different?

Vaslav Nijinsky (dancer)
George Younger (Scottish Tory)
Johnny Carson
Antinous (Hadrian's lover)
Judas Iscariot

[dead0man]

Xahar, stop digging up threads to post your post count

I think this thread is actually pretty interesting.

I'm sure there are plenty of interesting threads from way back, they don't all warrant rehashing

Proper forum etiquette would be to start a new thread with the same subject, possibly linking to the old one as a reference.  Proper forum etiquette is average at best here.  Bumping 4 year old threads is generally looked down upon, but especially if you don't note in the bumping post that you are in fact bumping the thread.

and I'd eat with:
Jesus
Archimedes
Julius Caesar
Mark Twain
Hitler

and since I'd have all these famous dead people I figure I could convince a couple of living people to play waiters for the evening.
John Stossel
Walter Williams
Penn Jillette

[Kaine for Senate '18]

I'm gonna do it by category, just for fun:

Sports:
Ty Cobb
Red Auerbach
Phil Jackson
Pete Rose
Michael Jordan

Literature:
Leo Tolstoy
Charles Dickens
CS Lewis
JRR Tolkien
JK Rowling

Religion:
Moses
Jesus
Muhammad
St. Paul
Pope John XXIII

Politics:
George Washington
Ben Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
Abe Lincoln
Franklin Roosevelt

[JohnFKennedy]

Vaslav Nijinsky (dancer)

Interesting choice. Saw a one man play about him in Edinburgh last year called Nijinsky's Last Dance. Was very very impressive.

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History

Napoleon Bonaparte
Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte
Charles de Gaulle
Charlemagne
Louis XIV

Assorted Politics

Pierre E. Trudeau
Harry S Truman
Jean Lesage or Rene Levesque or Maurice Duplessis (!)
Francois Mitterrand (!)
Jules Ferry