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Aug 13th, 2017 at 9:49pm
 
If you could have dinner with anyone, dead or alive, whom would you choose?

I would choose Leonardo da Vinci.
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Reply #1 - Aug 13th, 2017 at 10:05pm
 


Not Elvis, the bastard would eat all the tucker.

I will give more thought to this.
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Reply #2 - Aug 14th, 2017 at 6:21pm
 
I would choose Joseph Campbell
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Reply #3 - Aug 14th, 2017 at 6:22pm
 
...but he's dead now.
So I'll settle for Porn Star 'Caprice'.
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Reply #4 - Aug 14th, 2017 at 6:30pm
 



My father when he was younger.

I never knew him as a young man, just a nasty old bastard.

I would like to know how he turned out the way he did.
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Reply #5 - Aug 14th, 2017 at 6:31pm
 
The Grandad I never met.
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Reply #6 - Aug 14th, 2017 at 9:09pm
 
I was once asked this question in the form of who I would invite as guests at a dinner party. At the time, I was on the spot, slightly inebriated, and made some kind of glib answer, but I have thought about it on and off, ever since.

Its not an easy one for me to answer, because there are too many to reduce to one. Of course there are ancestors who still fascinate me, and I sort of know how things panned out. The trouble with choosing someone who is remembered in connection with famous events or remarkable achievements is that you end up being something like a verbal autograph hunter. And there is the chance they could be dull as ditch water.

For a start, we have to know where we are going to eat, because I don't want to cook. So if it going to be eating-out, the food has to be bloody marvelous but not expensive.

I am not going to invite a man, that's not my idea of a dinner date. So the one person I would choose would have to appreciate food and wine, and have something intriguing to tell.  

Finally, taking one from a long list I choose, Mata Hari, in the flesh, of course. Madrid, 1916.
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Reply #7 - Aug 14th, 2017 at 9:50pm
 
A Grandparent would be a good choice
as too would Mata Hari.



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Reply #8 - Aug 26th, 2017 at 6:45pm
 
Auggie wrote on Aug 13th, 2017 at 9:49pm:

If you could have dinner with anyone, dead or alive, whom would you choose?





Alexander the Great....

Yadda said....
http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1338771596/116#116
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....i would not like to have been him [i don't have your degree of admiration for him].

But if it were possible, i would have liked to have known him 'contemporarily', and to have 'known' his mind.

I would have liked to have known how he perceived and subsequently approached a 'problem'.





.....and King David, of ancient Israel.


And, ancient Moses.




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Yadda wrote on Aug 26th, 2017 at 6:45pm:
Auggie wrote on Aug 13th, 2017 at 9:49pm:

If you could have dinner with anyone, dead or alive, whom would you choose?





Alexander the Great....

Yadda said....
http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1338771596/116#116
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....i would not like to have been him [i don't have your degree of admiration for him].

But if it were possible, i would have liked to have known him 'contemporarily', and to have 'known' his mind.

I would have liked to have known how he perceived and subsequently approached a 'problem'.





.....and King David, of ancient Israel.


And, ancient Moses.



Sounds like a real fun party. Glad I'm not invited.
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Reply #10 - Aug 27th, 2017 at 8:02am
 
issuevoter wrote on Aug 27th, 2017 at 7:30am:
Yadda wrote on Aug 26th, 2017 at 6:45pm:
Auggie wrote on Aug 13th, 2017 at 9:49pm:

If you could have dinner with anyone, dead or alive, whom would you choose?





Alexander the Great....

Yadda said....
http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1338771596/116#116
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....i would not like to have been him [i don't have your degree of admiration for him].

But if it were possible, i would have liked to have known him 'contemporarily', and to have 'known' his mind.

I would have liked to have known how he perceived and subsequently approached a 'problem'.





.....and King David, of ancient Israel.


And, ancient Moses.



Sounds like a real fun party. Glad I'm not invited.





The 'character' and worldview [at that time] of those persons intrigues me.

Someone such as yourself would have no curiosity about the minds of such persons ?



Alexander the Great     around 356–323 BC
King David      around 1000 BC
Moses      around 1393-1273 BC

All powerful 'princes' of their times.

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Reply #11 - Aug 28th, 2017 at 1:33pm
 
No archaeological evidence for King David or Moses.
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No archaeological evidence for King David or Moses.




Clearly, those two were just mythical characters in history.        Smiley



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Reply #13 - Aug 28th, 2017 at 9:57pm
 
Helen of Troy would have been a nice Dinner date.
Would be good to see what all the fuss was about.
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Reply #14 - Aug 28th, 2017 at 10:04pm
 
Travel back in time to have dinner with Muhammad,  and kill him.
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