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Zoroastrian Kingdom of Eranshahr
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Postby Zoroastrian Kingdom of Eranshahr » Sun Mar 17, 2013 2:08 pm

Adolf Hitler
Zoroaster
Teddy Roosevelt
Yazdgerd III
Jenaveve Jolie

After dinner, we'd all take turns......
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Postby Place of Interest » Sun Mar 17, 2013 2:17 pm

1. Richard Dawkins
2. Fr. Georges Lemaître
3. Br. Andrew Gordon, O.S.B.
4. Abbot Gregor Mendel, O.S.A.
5. Fra. Roger Bacon, O.F.M.
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Postby Mirkana » Tue Mar 19, 2013 7:00 pm

DogDoo 7 wrote:Mark Twain
Mustafa Barghouti
Hassan Nasrallah
Nate Silver
Richard Feynman


Please tell me you're going to poison his food. He ruined my vacation to Israel with his stupid rockets.

Anyway, limiting it to people alive today:

1. Neil deGrasse Tyson (astronomer, curator at the Hayden Planetarium)
2. Joss Whedon (screenwriter/director behind Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, and Avengers)
3. David Weber (naval historian, author of the Honor Harrington novels)
4. HM King Abdullah II (ruler of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan)
5. Rabbi Morton Moskowitz (one of my favorite high school teachers)
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Postby Rocopurr » Tue Mar 19, 2013 7:01 pm

Gaveo wrote:People I know.
Aiden (a friend at school)
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Jordan (a friend at school)

People I don't know but like.
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Postby Haydenish People » Tue Mar 19, 2013 7:42 pm

1. John Green
2. Margaret Thatcher
3. Jules Verne
4. Ron Paul
5. Constantine



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Postby Anachronous Rex » Tue Mar 19, 2013 7:44 pm

In seriousness, I think I'd just take any four great scientists from the ancient world, and Stephen Hawking, and enjoy an evening of having these great men and women caught up to speed on the state of discovery.
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Postby Ost-Bremen » Tue Mar 19, 2013 7:49 pm

1. Alexander the Great
2. Julius Cesar
3. Charlemagne
4. Gaiseric
5. Chiang Kai-Shek
Just some listed :)
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Postby Zoroastrian Kingdom of Eranshahr » Tue Mar 19, 2013 8:21 pm

But what if your choices wreck up dinner? Adolf Hitler would probably be moody and quiet, complain about the food, and go on and on about "the Jews", even if you invited Jesus!

I think a lot of our choices, if we look at the logic behind them, would be complete disasters, especially to those who chose Tamerlane or Genghis Khan...
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Postby Ireases » Tue Mar 19, 2013 8:40 pm

Where should I even begin..

1. Jesus
2. Elon Musk
3. Ayn Rand
4. Barack Obama
5. Frederick Nietzsche

Another group of five..

1. Benjamin Netanyahu
2. Kim Il Song
3. Nikolai Tesla
4. Mark Twain
5. Andrew Breitbart
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Postby Great Nepal » Wed Mar 20, 2013 12:30 am

Zoroastrian Kingdom of Eranshahr wrote:But what if your choices wreck up dinner? Adolf Hitler would probably be moody and quiet, complain about the food, and go on and on about "the Jews", even if you invited Jesus!

What if you invite Stalin and Hitler from 1942?
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Postby Cameroi » Wed Mar 20, 2013 12:32 am

it would take me more then one meal to consume even one human, let alone five.
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Postby Free Detroit » Wed Mar 20, 2013 12:57 am

Five is tough...

1. Mark Twain (seems he gets invited to all the time travel parties, I wouldn't want to snub him)
2. William S. Burroughs
3. Laozi
4. Empress Theodora (heard she does great parlor tricks)
5. Socrates
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Postby Cameroi » Wed Mar 20, 2013 1:09 am

i would probably invite five of the same people my housemates invite over almost every satyrday anyway.

or five of the young, living artistic people who's work i know from the net, who i doubt most of you here would know anyway either.

or i could name five science fiction authors who have died within the last ten years.

i'm not that big on people and names, mostly, and as far as dining, its one of those things like sleeping, traveling and creating 'art', i seem to have found i enjoy best without the distraction of human company.
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Postby The Archregimancy » Wed Mar 20, 2013 2:32 am

To make this an interesting night out rather than a heroic one...

Origen Adamantius
Kong Qiu
Mosheh ben Maimon
Ibn Rushd
Ramanuja
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Postby Cabra West » Wed Mar 20, 2013 4:01 am

Good one. Let's see...

For really nice, interesting and entertaining conversation

Stephen Fry
Dirk Bach (RIP :()
Leonardo da Vinci
The Queen Mum
Victoria Coren

For a bit of eye candy on top of that

Prof Brian Cox
Neil Oliver
Reginald D Hunter
Ross Noble
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Postby Samuraikoku » Wed Mar 20, 2013 4:04 am

Yukimura Sanada
Shingen Takeda
Nobunaga Oda
Ieyasu Tokugawa
Hideyoshi Toyotomi

We're gonna solve this without the Sengoku Jidai.
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Postby The Blaatschapen » Wed Mar 20, 2013 4:16 am

Cabra West wrote:Good one. Let's see...

For really nice, interesting and entertaining conversation

Stephen Fry
Dirk Bach (RIP :()
Leonardo da Vinci
The Queen Mum
Victoria Coren

For a bit of eye candy on top of that

Prof Brian Cox
Neil Oliver
Reginald D Hunter
Ross Noble
Rufus Hound


I find it very telling that you put a RIP after Dirk Bach but not after Leonardo da Vinci :p
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Postby Cabra West » Wed Mar 20, 2013 4:18 am

The Blaatschapen wrote:
Cabra West wrote:Good one. Let's see...

For really nice, interesting and entertaining conversation

Stephen Fry
Dirk Bach (RIP :()
Leonardo da Vinci
The Queen Mum
Victoria Coren

For a bit of eye candy on top of that

Prof Brian Cox
Neil Oliver
Reginald D Hunter
Ross Noble
Rufus Hound


I find it very telling that you put a RIP after Dirk Bach but not after Leonardo da Vinci :p


Nor the Queen Mum... they've just been dead longer, so I'm over it a little at this point :p
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"I was walking along the bank of a stream when I saw a mother otter with her cubs. A very endearing sight, and as I watched, the mother otter dived into the water and came up with a plump salmon, which she subdued and dragged on to a half-submerged log. As she ate it, while of course it was still alive, the body split and I remember to this day the sweet pinkness of its roes as they spilled out, much to the delight of the baby otters who scrambled over themselves to feed on the delicacy. One of nature’s wonders: mother and children dining upon mother and children. And that’s when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior."

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Postby Bottle » Wed Mar 20, 2013 5:14 am

Are we talking about all at once, like a dinner party? Because then the group would have to be constructed with group dynamics in mind. For instance, I'd love to meet both Elizabeth Blackwell and Freddy Mercury, but I don't think they'd be particularly fascinated with each other as dinner companions.
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Postby DogDoo 7 » Wed Mar 20, 2013 5:41 am

Mirkana wrote:
DogDoo 7 wrote:Mark Twain
Mustafa Barghouti
Hassan Nasrallah
Nate Silver
Richard Feynman


Please tell me you're going to poison his food. He ruined my vacation to Israel with his stupid rockets.


Nah, I'm just really curious exactly as to what his beef with me is. Like, he's neither stupid nor impulsive. And we're not oppressing/occupying Lebanon anymore so he doesn't really have a reason to be angry. AND, it's not like he cares about Palestinians either (he wants them out of Lebanon just as much as we want them out of here).
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Postby The Diomede Islands » Wed Mar 20, 2013 12:28 pm

Winston Churchill
George Orwell
Ron Paul
David Starkey
Margaret Thatcher
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Postby The Serbian Empire » Wed Mar 20, 2013 12:51 pm

1. Chiang Kai-Shek
2. Papa Doc Duvalier
3. Richard Nixon
4. Enver Hoxha
5. Caligula
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Postby The Blaatschapen » Wed Mar 20, 2013 12:53 pm

Bottle wrote:Are we talking about all at once, like a dinner party? Because then the group would have to be constructed with group dynamics in mind. For instance, I'd love to meet both Elizabeth Blackwell and Freddy Mercury, but I don't think they'd be particularly fascinated with each other as dinner companions.


Hence why I picked 5 NSGers that will hopefully get along quite nicely.
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Postby AETEN II » Wed Mar 20, 2013 1:20 pm

1. Mark Twain for sure.

2. Robin Williams, preferably on crack.

3. Abraham Lincoln.

4. Theodore Roosevelt.

5. Winston Churchill.


Best dinner party ever. Not to mention that everyone would love everybody, especially because I'd supply them all with the amount of alcohol needed to get Churchill hammered alone. Me and Abe though would probably lay off the drinking and keep discussing things while the rest feel asleep on a pillow drool.
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Postby Pope Joan » Wed Mar 20, 2013 1:24 pm

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