2 Dinner Parties, 3 Guests

il_principe

So, I'm a tad bored today!

If you could have two dinner parties and are allowed 3 guests at each:

Party 1: 3 Guests from anytime BC
Party 2: 3 Guests - must be alive atm!

Mine would be:

Party 1:

1: Agrippa - Fascinated by the guy. A great Roman general & statesman.
2: Herodotus - Father of history
3: Alexander the Great. Needs no intro really!

Party 2:

1: Stephen Fry - National treasure!
2: Steve Jobs
3: Lance Armstrong

Yours?

biondino

Am I single in this scenario?

biondino

Also, why do you hate women? Apart from anything else, who's going to cook?!

il_principe

Right I should add some rules:

1: None of this "my wife, kids, siblings" etc. The people must not be related to you and have a broader appeal than "your mate Dan from the pub"
2: Jesus cannot be a guest.

That is all.

il_principe

biondino wrote:

Also, why do you hate women? Apart from anything else, who's going to cook?!

Stop being difficult Blondie or I shall be forced to come and poke you in the ribs.

biondino

If you poke me in the ribs I WILL poke il principe in the top tube. With a car crusher.

Dinner party 2 I would, being single, invite Ann Dudek, Drew Barrymore and Holly Willoughby (who are also all single) and see how lucky I can get

always_tyred

I'd invite the father, the son and the holy ghost. Since they are omnipotent, I'd only have to think the invites. In addition, I'd make sure I thought my invites with RSPV's at the end, in case no one turned up.

il_principe

biondino wrote:

If you poke me in the ribs I WILL poke il principe in the top tube. With a car crusher.

Dinner party 2 I would, being single, invite Ann Dudek, Drew Barrymore and Holly Willoughby (who are also all single) and see how lucky I can get

But you're not single (are you, if so what happened!?) Besides I'm not sure Dudek has broad appeal:



:shock:

il_principe

Always Tyred wrote:

I'd invite the father, the son and the holy ghost. Since they are omnipotent, I'd only have to think the invites. In addition, I'd make sure I thought my invites with RSPV's at the end, in case no one turned up.

Read the rules fella! Anyway given that none of those 3 exist I'd argue that they are unlikely to make an appearance!

always_tyred

jashburnham wrote:

Always Tyred wrote:

I'd invite the father, the son and the holy ghost. Since they are omnipotent, I'd only have to think the invites. In addition, I'd make sure I thought my invites with RSPV's at the end, in case no one turned up.

Read the rules fella! Anyway given that none of those 3 exist I'd argue that they are unlikely to make an appearance!

Oh, didn't spot that. Okay, perhaps get Santa, the Tooth Fairy and the monster that lives in the toilet to sub in.

biondino

jashburnham wrote:

biondino wrote:

If you poke me in the ribs I WILL poke il principe in the top tube. With a car crusher.

Dinner party 2 I would, being single, invite Ann Dudek, Drew Barrymore and Holly Willoughby (who are also all single) and see how lucky I can get

But you're not single (are you, if so what happened!?) Besides I'm not sure Dudek has broad appeal

She has broad appeal (geddit) to me, and it's my dinner party!

(and no, I'm not single and not likely to be, but if we're being hypothetical...)

jonginge

Ah, I see. Was Precious in Friends and was in House. Sorry, I don't see what you see. Life's rich tapestry and all that

biondino

She was also in short-lived British sitcom "The Book Group". A vision of loveliness. The pic in my link is one of the most swoonworthy pictures ever. Sigh.

greg66_tri_v2.0

jashburnham wrote:

2: Jesus cannot be a guest.

That is all.

Why not? Is it because he does that overcatering thing?

Christophe3967

Greg66 wrote:

jashburnham wrote:

2: Jesus cannot be a guest.

That is all.

Why not? Is it because he does that overcatering thing?

You wouldn't need to pop out to the offi at midnight when you've run out of booze though.

il_principe

Greg66 wrote:

jashburnham wrote:

2: Jesus cannot be a guest.

That is all.

Why not? Is it because he does that overcatering thing?

Yeah, that and the fact that he would be an insufferable dullard and we've already heard all his stories a million times...

"this one time, at Calvary"
"this one time, in Galilee"

etc etc...

always_tyred

jashburnham wrote:

Greg66 wrote:

jashburnham wrote:

2: Jesus cannot be a guest.

That is all.

Why not? Is it because he does that overcatering thing?

Yeah, that and the fact that he would be an insufferable dullard and we've already heard all his stories a million times...

"this one time, at Calvary"
"this one time, in Galilee"

etc etc...

Yeah, but you invited Lance Armstrong. I mean, I love the guy as an athlete, but I'm not sure I'd want him over for dinner. For one thing he'd have to weigh all the food. And what would happen if anyone disagreed with him?

lost_in_thought

Oh she was Amber, the one who died in House, wasn't she? I can't really see it either.

Anyhoo.

Dinner Party 1:
1. Markus Wolf - ex-head of the East German intelligence service.
2. Hitler
3. Rudolf Höß - commandant of Auschwitz


Dinner Party 2:
1. Margaret Thatcher (but if I could please have her at her best and not having lost her marbles)
2. Stephen Fry
3. George W Bush

DonDaddyD

lost_in_thought wrote:

Oh she was Amber, the one who died in House, wasn't she? I can't really see it either.

Anyhoo.

Dinner Party 1:
1. Markus Wolf - ex-head of the East German intelligence service.
2. Hitler
3. Rudolf Höß - commandant of Auschwitz


Dinner Party 2:
1. Margaret Thatcher (but if I could please have her at her best and not having lost her marbles)
2. Stephen Fry
3. George W Bush

:shock:

Littigator

biondino wrote:

She was also in short-lived British sitcom "The Book Group". A vision of loveliness. The pic in my link is one of the most swoonworthy pictures ever. Sigh.

Woah, throbbing with testosterone

alfablue

lost_in_thought wrote:

Oh she was Amber, the one who died in House, wasn't she? I can't really see it either.

Anyhoo.

Dinner Party 1:
1. Markus Wolf - ex-head of the East German intelligence service.
2. Hitler
3. Rudolf Höß - commandant of Auschwitz


Dinner Party 2:
1. Margaret Thatcher (but if I could please have her at her best and not having lost her marbles)
2. Stephen Fry
3. George W Bush

Terrifying dinner parties!

always_tyred

lost_in_thought wrote:

Oh she was Amber, the one who died in House, wasn't she? I can't really see it either.

Anyhoo.

Dinner Party 1:
1. Markus Wolf - ex-head of the East German intelligence service.
2. Hitler
3. Rudolf Höß - commandant of Auschwitz


Dinner Party 2:
1. Margaret Thatcher (but if I could please have her at her best and not having lost her marbles)
2. Stephen Fry
3. George W Bush

Isn't "Margaret Thatcher at her best" an oxymoron?

I know she was involved in the development of Mr. Whippy icecream, but its hard to argue of the global significance of either this or her involvement in the research (as compared to, say, selling most of the UK's nationalised industry to Europeans).

What's with Pary 1? Do you just want them all in the same room so you can call the police? Or did you want to ask Hitler's advice on the credit crunch? So, Adolf, you don't mind me calling you Adolf do you? ...what would YOU do?

CiB

Hitler, Mahler & John Constable from the past.

Ben Miller, Paul Merton & Martin O'Neill from the present.

lost_in_thought

Terrifying, but interesting. And I don't think Dinner Party 2 is that scary!

Littigator

DonDaddyD wrote:

lost_in_thought wrote:

Oh she was Amber, the one who died in House, wasn't she? I can't really see it either.

Anyhoo.

Dinner Party 1:
1. Markus Wolf - ex-head of the East German intelligence service.
2. Hitler
3. Rudolf Höß - commandant of Auschwitz


Dinner Party 2:
1. Margaret Thatcher (but if I could please have her at her best and not having lost her marbles)
2. Stephen Fry
3. George W Bush

:shock:

I can only assume this is so you can interrogate them with electrodes attached to their testicles (yes I think Maggie T had more balls than most men alive). All apart from Stephen Fry of course, he could just help you.

Anyway my three

Dinner Party 1

1. Attila the Hun
2. Henry 8th...or maybe the 5th...hmmmm
3. Winston Churchill

Dinner Party 2

1. Stephen Fry
2. Terry Pratchett
3. Robin Williams

greg66_tri_v2.0

jashburnham wrote:

Greg66 wrote:

jashburnham wrote:

2: Jesus cannot be a guest.

That is all.

Why not? Is it because he does that overcatering thing?

Yeah, that and the fact that he would be an insufferable dullard and we've already heard all his stories a million times...

"this one time, at Calvary"
"this one time, in Galilee"

etc etc...

Be quite fun to watch him do the washing up with his feet though...

il_principe

Hrmph. You peeps are not reading the question:

Party 1: 3 Guests from anytime BC

BC ans in Before Christ, as in before AD i.e 36 BC... as in ancient. Hitler does not count, neither does John Constable etc etc.

As my old English teacher used to say: "Always read the question!"

DonDaddyD

Why would interviewing Hitler be interesting? What, do you want to hear their philosophical arguments and his personal justifications behind the Final Solution?

ANYWAY... I gotta have four dinner parties, behold:

BC
Socrates
Caesar Augustus
Sun Tzu

People who are dead
Malcolm X - After the Nation of Islam stint and after he went to Mecca
Martin Luther King
Huey Newton

Alive today
Muhammad Ali - after the Nation of Islam stint but before parkinsons settled in
Nas
Michael Jackson

Fictional Cartoon/comic characters
Optimus Prime
Goku
Thor

lost_in_thought

jashburnham wrote:

Hrmph. You peeps are not reading the question:

Party 1: 3 Guests from anytime BC

BC ans in Before Christ, as in before AD i.e 36 BC... as in ancient. Hitler does not count, neither does John Constable etc etc.

As my old English teacher used to say: "Always read the question!"

Boooooooooo all the people from then are DULL. I'm choosing to ignore it.

Littigator

Feckin Fun Police....jeeez :roll:

OK OK,

1. Attila the Hun
2. Cleopatra
2. King Arthur

always_tyred

jashburnham wrote:

Hrmph. You peeps are not reading the question:

Party 1: 3 Guests from anytime BC

BC ans in Before Christ, as in before AD i.e 36 BC... as in ancient. Hitler does not count, neither does John Constable etc etc.

As my old English teacher used to say: "Always read the question!"

Classics coming in useful, finally, then?

Rule 3: All answers must be in Latin.