Dinner for Eight - Who Would Be Your Guests

That would be dinner for nine.

Unless you're not eating?

Talleyrand
Oscar Wilde
Elizabeth I
Mark Twain
Petronious
Lily Langtree
Rafael Sabatini
Michel de Nostredame

Laurel and Hardy
The Three Stooges
The Marx Brothers (not including Gummo or Zeppo)

Learn to count people! PLEASE!

You're all cooking dinner for nine!!!

Aren't you guys a little one-sided on the sex thing? (Except for donroc). I mean, give me a break! Surely you can come up with a more feminine dinner companion who stimulates conversation. At the very least, pick a woman you'd like to look at. Sheesh!

vixey said:

Aren't you guys a little one-sided on the sex thing? (Except for donroc). I mean, give me a break! Surely you can come up with a more feminine dinner companion who stimulates conversation. At the very least, pick a woman you'd like to look at. Sheesh!

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I did both, Liz Tudor for brains and with hope she did have Bette Davis' eyes, and Jersey Lil for charm and conversation.

Albert Einstein
Plato
Napoleon Bonaparte
Billy Connelly
Emma Thompson
Dorothy Parker
Marilyn Monroe
Queen Elizabeth I

williemeikle said:

Albert Einstein
Plato
Napoleon Bonaparte
Billy Connelly
Emma Thompson
Dorothy Parker
Marilyn Monroe
Queen Elizabeth I

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An evenly matched table...except you make a 5th man.

I'd love to have Billy Connelly at the table.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Dorothy Parker
Mark Twain
Larry McMurtry
Robert B Parker
Dorothy Sayers
Dame Agatha Christie
Catherine the Great

Francis Crick & Rosalind Franklin (should be quite a row)
Dorothy Parker & Hannibal Lecter (I suspect they'd hit it off)
Stephen King & Robert Heinlein (always wanted to meet them)
Luc Besson & Joss Whedon (i, fanboy)

ETA: I wanted Billy Connely, but he already had plans

My great-great grandmother, a Catawba indian, on my mother's father's side
My great grandmother, who ran a bordello with her mother, on my mother's mother's side
Eleanor Roosevelt
Thomas Hardy
King David (yes - the Biblical one - I'd ask him about his affairs)
Jon Stewart (comic relief and I think he's brilliant)
John Cleese (he's my favorite Python)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

OK - that's 5 men, and 4 women including myself

Oh. And Lassie.

Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
Mae West
Eleanor Roosevelt
Jay Leno
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Queen Elizabeth I

Hmm. There's a story in here!

Haggis said:

Mark Twain

Margaret Mead
Julia Child
Richard Nixon
Ben Franklin
Jesus of Nazareth
Winston Churchill
Edgar Allan Poe​

Oh. And Lassie.

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Don't forget your stepstool.

Don said:

Don't forget your stepstool.

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We used to sit on the Sears catalog.

vixey said:

We used to sit on the Sears catalog.

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I was actually referencing his invitation to Lassie.

Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges
Portuguese-Mexican nun and early feminist Sor Juana
French philosopher Voltaire
US writer and adventurer Ernest Hemingway
Venezuelan patriot Francisco de Miranda
British-American filmmaker Stanley Kubrick
French-American singer Josephine Baker

Stephen Spielberg
Jimmy Carter
Admiral Rickover
Barack Obama
Oprah Winfrey
Matt Simmons
Jon Stewart
Ed Begley Jr.
Al Gore
T. Boone Pickens

Oops, that's 10.

vixey said:

Aren't you guys a little one-sided on the sex thing? (Except for donroc). I mean, give me a break! Surely you can come up with a more feminine dinner companion who stimulates conversation. At the very least, pick a woman you'd like to look at. Sheesh!

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That'll have to wait for my next dinner for eight.

scarletpeaches said:

Learn to count people! PLEASE!

You're all cooking dinner for nine!!!

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I'm the host, dammit. I'll grab a burger later.

Ghandi
Buddha
Jesus Christ
John F Kennedy
John Lennon
my sister
my mother
myself