Who Would Be On Your Guest List?
Betty E. Stein at the Forth Worth News-Sentinal has written an article wondering what three famous people—dead or alive—she would like to invite to lunch. It's not a new idea, but it's one that does make me wonder every time someone raises it. Would I invite my top three favourite authors (and how could I possibly keep it down to three?). My top three favourite musicians? Maybe three religious leaders? Or would I mix and match? How would a lunch that included Jane Austen, the Buddha, and Tom Waits work out? Or how about Charles Dickens, Confucious, and Billie Holliday? Via AustenBlog.
posted by Amy @ 4/05/2006 03:38:00 a.m.
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6 Comments:
hi amy,
i look at your blog everyday and love it! good, fun links...
i'd invite:
Johnny Cash
Vincent Van Gogh (probably wouldn't come though)
Annie Jones (famous bearded lady)
i'd probably end up ignoring vinnie and annie though, johnny's the one who really has my heart.
hmmm and all my choices are dead...
cara
Oh, what fun! Let me see...if it was today, I'd invite Enheduanna (ca. 2285-2250 B.C.E.), Marguerite de Porete (burned at the stake in Paris in 1310), and Margaret Mead.
I'd have to record the conversations, of course!
Thanks, Amy!
B-)
I'd invite William Blake, Jimi Hendrix and The Blessed Virgin Mary.
Today I'd invite Shakespeare's wife, Anne Hathaway, Queen Elizabeth I, and Nostradamus.
Thanks for the kind words, Cara! I agree--Johnny Cash was one interesting guy.
Boy, what interesting choices. I'd love to talk to all of them!
Bernadette, I was fascinated to read about Enheduanna--I'd never heard of her.
Brenda, I think your group would be lively; Jimi Hendrix would animate any group, and I don't think Blake was any slouch either.
Tracy--absolutely right on about Nostradamus. I have a few questions I'd like to ask him.
I think I'd like to invite only guests who are alive - dead guests just aren't as animated.
That being said :
William Shatner (alive)
St. Augustine (alive)
Johnny Depp (alive)
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