Who would you pick?

[deannalw]

If given the chance to have dinner with or just spend a few hours with someone in history... who would you choose?
These are some of my choices though I found it impossible to limit the list to just one or two per category.

Presidents
John F. Kennedy
Theodore Roosevelt
Harry Truman

Authors
Oscar Wilde
Stephen King
Mark Twain

Arts
Leonardo da Vinci
Mozart
Van Gogh

Kings and Queens
King Henry the 8th
Marie Antoinette
Queen Elizabeth I
King Louis XVI

Other notables
Jeffrey Dahlmer ( plastic spork only)
Jesse Owens
Gorbachev
Churchill
Ghengis
Khan
Mother Teresa
Jack the Ripper



Arts-
Mozart
Leonardo due Vinci

 

[Vastator]

Caligula, Hitler, Gehngis Kahn, or maybe Pontius Pilot.

 

[OldLady]

Probably Shakespeare.

 

[OldLady]

Caligula, Hitler, Gehngis Kahn, or maybe Pontius Pilot.

Would you shoot them?

 

[Vastator]

Caligula, Hitler, Gehngis Kahn, or maybe Pontius Pilot.

Would you shoot them?

Of course not! I'd inquire as to the most effective usage of power.

 

[shockedcanadian]

Sir Winston Churchill, Mother Theresa, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Aristotle, Jimi Hendrix.

Really the list is endless but those pop in my head.

Oh and how could I not want to meet Jesus and Moses?!

You can keep the kings to yourself. If I met them it might be just to give them a lecture.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Of your list, a toss up between Da Vinci and Mark Twain.

 

[miketx]

Marilyn Monroe, drunk and horny.

 

[deannalw]

Caligula, Hitler, Gehngis Kahn, or maybe Pontius Pilot.

Ooo! I forgot about Caligua. But you'd really have to keep your eye on that one so he didn't murderize ya and suck the marrow from your bones

 

[deannalw]

Of your list, a toss up between Da Vinci and Mark Twain.

You don't have to choose from my list...

 

[esthermoon]

I could say Buddha but maybe it's too much for me
One of my favourite philosophers is Arthur Schopenhauer I think I could ask him to have a dinner with me

 

[Auld Phart]

President:
Teddy Roosevelt

King:
Louis XIV

Queen:
Marie Antoinette, Cleopatra

Actor:
James Cagney, Frank McHugh, Harry Lauter, Myron Healy

Actress:
Barbara Stanwyck, Myrna Loy

 

[esthermoon]

Caligula, Hitler, Gehngis Kahn, or maybe Pontius Pilot.

Caligula, Adolf Hitler and Genghis Khan were dangerous!

 

[OldLady]

I could say Buddha but maybe it's too much for me
One of my favourite philosophers is Arthur Schopenhauer I think I could ask him to have a dinner with me View attachment 123379

Buddha would be awesome. I think you should go for it.

 

[Auld Phart]

Marilyn Monroe, drunk and horny.

You might be the only person in the world she'd have to be drunk to get together with

 

[OldLady]

President:
Teddy Roosevelt

King:
Louis XIV

Queen:
Marie Antoinette, Cleopatra

Actor:
James Cagney, Frank McHugh, Harry Lauter, Myron Healy

Actress:
Barbara Stanwyck, Myrna Loy

Cleopatra would be a great one: Did she really have Caesar's baby? Did she really smuggle herself into his presence rolled in a rug? Was Marc Anthony a good lover?

 

[miketx]

Marilyn Monroe, drunk and horny.

You might be the only person in the world she'd have to be drunk to get together with

I still win.

 

[Auld Phart]

President:
Teddy Roosevelt

King:
Louis XIV

Queen:
Marie Antoinette, Cleopatra

Actor:
James Cagney, Frank McHugh, Harry Lauter, Myron Healy

Actress:
Barbara Stanwyck, Myrna Loy

Cleopatra would be a great one: Did she really have Caesar's baby? Did she really smuggle herself into his presence rolled in a rug? Was Marc Anthony a good lover?

I just want a peek at her asp.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Of your list, a toss up between Da Vinci and Mark Twain.

You don't have to choose from my list...

In that case, Moe, Larry and Curly circa 1940.

 

[deannalw]

I agree with everyone's picks so far... and each post reminds me of someone I forgot . Now my list is novel sized