If you could spend an evening with someone alive or dead, who would you choose ?

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[Baron]

For me, it would be (in no particular order) John Wayne, Peter Sellers, Jeremy Clarkson, Stephen Fry, David Mitchell.

There probably a few more that I can't think of at the moment, but wondered if this might start a coversation going, being as the board has been pretty quiet of late.

A lack of response will probably mean that my attempt has failed.......miserably. 

[Langston]

I'm not one for the rich/famous/celebrity type and any such list I make would be of people I have known who are no longer with us.
To list them would be pointless and somewhat tasteless.
Others will probably have much more interesting answers so I guess you'll have to wait for their replies...

[Yvonne]

My thoughts are similar to John's at this stage in my life, when I was younger it would have been different, but feel I'd be out of my league with people I'd be a stranger to 

[Baron]

Ah well.....

[crikey]

Ah well.....

And long may you remain so.

[Baron]

 
It was worth a try.

[Babs]

It was worth a try.

That it was. It would be good to spend an evening with my Nan and Grandad... They passed after I had left Canada.

[Baron]

Cheers , I would like to speak to mine to have a better family history.
But it could be anyone from any time, and there quite a few people I would love to have a chat with.
However as an idea for a thread it fell flat on its face.

[Richard]

However as an idea for a thread it fell flat on its face.

Because one person has personal issues they don't want to deal with - that's hardly your fault.

And by way of protest, I'll pick two people, one alive and one dead.

The dead one is Alan Turing.

He was one of my boyhood heroes, although at the time few no-geeks would have heard of him as the name wasn't mentioned in polite circles - he died in disgrace for that terrible 'crime' as it then was of being queer.
I don't think many would argue against the mathematical genius of the man, and before his fall from grace he saved possibly hundreds of thousands of lives by shortening the war by at least a couple of years... he was the leading intellect behind the code-breaking activities at Bletchley Park.
Both as a scientist and as a human being he's always fascinated me... those wonderful leaps of logic to crack 'unbreakable' codes, and in the process lay many of the foundations of the computer revolution we enjoy.

If nothing else, besides the conversations I'd no doubt enjoy, I reckon after some of the treatment he's had over the years the guy deserves a treat!

The live one is actually more difficult, but it's going to be another eccentric, of course... Prince Phillip - assuming he's still alive by the time you read this.
He's that completely fucked up I reckon a drunken session would be fekkin' hilarious! 

[Baron]

Cheers ..............I agree with both of your suggestions..........Turin since I have a (very) little in common with him regarding codes and cyphers, plus doing a special signals course for a few weeks at Bletchley Park, although I didn't know the significance of the place at the time, and was just a Post Office training place at the end of the 60's.
Now I am kicking myself..

Certainly Price Phillip, who I reckon would be a good hoot after a bit of alcoholic nourisement. 

I was rather cross with Churchill for ordering that all the computer equipment be dismantled and smashed at the end of WWII.
 As you probably know, a working replica of a 'bombe' is I believe at Bletchly Park......now that would be interesting to look at.

[Richard]

 As you probably know, a working replica of a 'bombe' is I believe at Bletchly Park......now that would be interesting to look at.

I intend to visit one day... a friend of mine does so regularly and I know (online) some of the team involved in running the place now.

I would have loved to have been part of the wartime team there, extremely difficult puzzles are so rewarding when you finally crack them... and to be able to share ideas with some of the brilliant minds that were gathered together would have been great.

I think I'll add another dead genius to my list... Grace Hopper, or more strictly Rear Admiral Grace Hopper... a wonderful woman I wish I'd had the chance to meet when she was alive.

http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/Files/hopper-wit.html

Google will tell you many stories of her contributions to computer science, but having seen her lecture on TV her wit and charisma loom just as large...

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/aZOxtURhfEU&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/aZOxtURhfEU&rel=1</a>

[Langston]

Because one person has personal issues they don't want to deal with - that's hardly your fault.

Interesting to know who the person with 'issues' is here.
Certainly not me as I clearly supported the thread even though I couldn't contribute directly.
I don't idolise famous people, sorry if you have a problem with that.

[Richard]

I don't idolise famous people, sorry if you have a problem with that.

Neither do I.

My problem - if indeed it is one - was what you said about it being tasteless.

If that's the case, then you're declaring the whole field of history 'tasteless' because it's basically the same thing... presumably you instantly destroy all of your recordings of an artist upon their death too.

If you don't, then you're a hypocrite.

[Langston]

Neither do I.

My problem - if indeed it is one - was what you said about it being tasteless.

If that's the case, then you're declaring the whole field of history 'tasteless' because it's basically the same thing... presumably you instantly destroy all of your recordings of an artist upon their death too.

If you don't, then you're a hypocrite.

Er what?
I did not say the idea was 'tasteless' (perhaps you could try actually reading my original post).
What I said was that the only people I would like to meet are personal friends who have now passed on and putting them into a thread such as this would be tasteless.
So no, I'm not a hypocrite.
Come back when you're able to read with out PCing everything I say.

[Baron]

I watched that clip, and must admit I have never heard of her until now. A good sense of humour like the question about the wartime comuter...."How did you know so much about computers ?."...................."I didn't, this was the first one." 

, you enjoy music, but wouldn't you like to speak to a composer for example and discuss his work ?
Anyway, I guess it was a fair enough reply, and replied in the same vein.

I know it is a bit of an impossible question, but I posted it thinking that people might like to talk to someone from all of history that they admire.
There have been lots of interesting people throughout the ages, but an interesting evening I chose a few that I would like to talk to, and I might actually learn something and get answers straight from the horses mouth so to speak and not gleaned from other peoples stories about them.

Still, this thread has progressed further than I thought it would, so thanks all for the contributions. 

[Yvonne]

I have a bit of an inferiority complex I think, I used to be quite shy, 

[Baron]

Never mind........have a large bunch of 

[Razor]

Top 5 would be:

1. Ozzy Osbourne - Just in case we have bat for dinner and no-one wants the head.
2. Moses - Watching him have his soup parted would be a riot.
3. Nostradamus - I would ask him if it was worth serving the trifle?
4. Derren Brown - Just so he could convince people to eat their greens.
5. Jesus - He could turn the water into wine and throw in some fish sandwiches if anyone was still hungry.

Worst 5 would be:

1. Monica Lewinsky - There would be no after dinner cigars.
2. Anna Frank - Everytime she went to the loo, I would wonder if she was hiding behind the wardrobe.
3. Dr. Hannibal Lector - He would only drink wine and eat father beans.
4. A Zombie - He might eat the other guests.
5. Mr. Creosote - From Monty Python's "The Meaning Of Life"

[Baron]

Well, it keeps the thread going....

[Ray]

Pia Zadora 

 

[Richard]

Pia Zadora 

Good call... she'd certainly have some worthwhile gossip!

[Yvonne]

Never mind........have a large bunch of 

Thanks ,