Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?

[yogi-bear]

You are hosting 2 dinner parties one weekend...First one, you can invite 6 famous guests, either dead or alive from history....and why you picked them.

Just for fun....Second one, you can choose any 6 AB'ers from this site...... (It's not a popularity competition, just which mix you think would make for interesting night).

Who would you choose to invite and make the conversation and evening interesting?

[hereIam]

Six famous guests - Princess Diana, Paul O'Grady, Noel Fitzpatrick, Douglas Kennedy (author), Martina Cole (author) and Donald Trump! Because I like/love all of them

Abers - naomi, ladybirder, TTT, Mamya, aog and bobbi (ex aber). I think that would be a good mix.

[grasscarp]

I heard of someone being asked such a question on a job interview about who they would like to have as dinner party guest dead or alive and they answered "Oh definitely alive"

[Canary42]

History

1. William Shakespeare - to find out what he was really doing in the "unknown" years.
2. Queen Boudicca - to establish her views on EU after the way she almost rid us of the Romans
3. J K Rowling - to hear her discuss the relative merits of their fantasy worlds with ......
4. J R Tolkien - see above
5. Karen Carpenter - would just love to hear her sing again.
6. My Father - he left to go to war when I was 5 weeks old, and didn't come back. It would be nice to get to know him.

Answerbank
1. You - to see fair play ;-)
2. The late Mrs O - a wonderful contributor
3. Ab Editor - as 1 above
4. Sqad - in case anyone was taken ill
5. Any one of over a dozen others, I'm unable to choose between
6. Mamyalynne - for a closing song

[hereIam]

Canary - I would have picked my Dad too (and my Mum) both deceased, but y-b said someone famous x

[Togo]

Churchill.
Roy(From Blade Runner).
Napoleon.
Alexander the Great.
Ptolemy.
Isaac Newton.

Tony AV.
New Judge.
Talbot.
Tilly2.
Minty.
The Ex Met Officer.

[Togo]

I would then need to have another couple of AB dinners just to invite at least another very interesting dozen or so Abers.

[gness]

Hi, Yogi....will do the famous ones (sort of history I think) first, then mull over the next six!

Stephen Fry.......for his mind and charm.........
Graham Norton.....for his wit and fun.......
Joan Baez.....♥♥♥
Freddie Mercury.....for one more song.....and I adored him.....
Constance Markievicz.....for her passion and love for Ireland....and because she was a friend of Yeats.....she was a feisty lady who would be wonderful to listen to....
Richard111 I think.....to solve some mysteries.....x

[MargoTester]

Togo - EMO sends kind regards. I'm still pondering over my list

[Arksided]

Blimey ask an easy one Yogi, like why does f over power the qwibble of z. never the less I shall have an atempt:

God (What The Funicular)
Freddie Mercury (He's always there for me)
Issac Asimov (Johnny ball reveals all)
Holly Valance (eye Candy)
Brian Cranston (Walter Whites Better alias ;-)
Peter Kaye (Enough said)

That was easy, too many abers to mention though, depends on whether a party, fight night or a love in.

[yogi-bear]

I've worked out my famous guests......(so difficult for ABers, as there are loads that are really interesting... so will come back to that later)

My famous six are:

Stephen King ( Author )
Clint Eastwood
Eric Morecambe
Steve Walsh (Legendary DJ )
Audrey Hepburn
Oprah Winfrey


(Used to go to same high school as Steve, after he was there, a pleasure to have known him, a real inspiration to me, such a lovely man, and he sadly died in a car accident whilst filming in Ibiza )

[sunny-dave]

Tony Benn and William Cobbett for politics

Byron and Coleridge for literature

John Peel and Neil Young for the music

I've actually met a couple of dozen ABers over the years - it would be invidious to pick favourites (apart from the much missed MrsO)

[yogi-bear]

Freddie Mercury, Graham Norton, Roy ( from Blade Runner )and Karen Carpenter are great shouts, but they all are so far.

How lovely, Canary....It sure would be.....I had an Uncle who lived in the States, like a second Dad to me, saw him only a few times my entire life, he died at 53 of lung cancer, due probably to his heavy smoking. Would have loved to get to know him better too.

[ummmm]

Jeremy Clarkson (funny)
Frankie Boyle (controversial)
John Lennon (deep)
Cat Stevens (Interesting)
Donald Trump (all the above will pee him off)
Syd Barret.

I've met most of the ABers I like but will add to the list...

Your good self..
Smowball
Ecclescake
Mamy
Wolf
Naomi
AOG

And loads of others...

[sunny-dave]

Clarkson is a good call, ummmm - I'd like to see him and Tony Benn together :)

[atalanta]

Catherine the Great, Alexander the Great, Peter the Great, Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Gregory the Great. Not sure if we could all speak Latin, though. There might be a shortage of conversation.

[cupid04]

Eric Morecambe
Michael Landon
My Mum [she died when I was 12]

Arky, Wharton, 1ozzy and Welshyorkie.

[yogi-bear]

I would have a dinner party every week, for at least a couple of months, to fit in as many as I can that I would like to invite.


So for starters would have:

Andy Hughes ( Shared music interest, journalist and DJ, so will make good conversation )
Sqad ( Great knowledge of everything happened in his life, can be really funny, bet has some great stories, and would be a pleasure, ....Plus he's OUR doc :-) )
Gness ( and her pet Owl, Roy, who's currently in her commode at the back of her garden, near ET'S flying bike ) ....
Ummmm ( always liked her, since joining on this site years and years ago )
Mamylynne ( lovely lady....Great choice of music and can choose the evenings tunes, giving me a rest.)
Tilly (just for being Tilly )

Next week

Mikey
Buenchico
Boo
Jackthehat
NoMercy ( for her wine expertise )
Baldric ( I like him a lot, as I do LOADs of you )

Following week

Grasscarp
Mazie
Snags......
.....
And
Loads
More, to numerous to mention all :-)

[Baldric]

Cheers Yogi, I'll bring a Bottle or three ;o)

[yogi-bear]

Murraymints
Canary
Patsy
Cupid
Annesquith
DTC
Hopkirk
....And others

I might have to hire The Metropole or The Grand Hotel's banqueting suites, fit you all in :-)

[Canary42]

Having perused all the interesting responses, I am amazed at the variety. For a baseline list, you could do worse perhaps than check Caryl Churchill's selection for just such a dinner party in her splendid play Top Girls .

For those not familiar with the play, her "famous" guests were ...

Isabella Bird - World traveller
Pope Joan - infamous "female" Pope
Lady Nijo - Japanese concubine (13th Century)
Dull Gret - subject of Brueghel painting
Patient Griselda - Boccaccio/Chaucer character

... and no, before I read the play, I hadn't heard of four of them.

The play focuses on the role of women and feminism.