A scenario.
You can host dinner for people who are dead.
Who would you invite?
Me?
. William Shakespeare;
. David Bowie (add the sad emoji);
. Andy Warhol;
. Iggy Pop (ha ha ha - that man is never gonna die, but I want him at my table);
. Dmitri Shostakovich;
. A woman I knew at university. She had breast cancer;
. Jane Austen;
. Steve McQueen.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Sorry, I'm too morbid for this question. All I can think about is decomp and smell 
pixiedust
Level 8
May 16, 2018
4
LMAO!!! 
There's no reason you can't have Dracula at the table - just saying 
@Palindromeman lol
@Palindromeman No Dracula - my daughter is anemic
@pixiedust You must check out a New Zealand film called What We Do In The Shadows:
@Palindromeman OMG!! I HAVE to see this! That last line is exactly why I've always wanted to be a vampire LOL
@pixiedust You will love it! Such a Kiwi film.
@Palindromeman I am being haunted by kiwis this week. My daughter made me some jewelry that incorporates kiwi stones..
@pixiedust Kiwis are cool. Kiwi vampires are very cool
Prince and he has to bring his legendary Pancakes!
John Dunsworth (as Mr. Lahey)and he’s on drink duty!
Aaliyah...no reason I just want her to sing “At Your Best” in person to me
Bernie Mac on grilling duty
Robin Williams to make the sides
Notorious B.I.G. Brings the grape Juice and either Super Nintendo or Sega Genesis
And lastly Jimi Hendrix for ummm you know... party favors lol
Freethinkerr
Level 6
May 16, 2018
2
Prince - oh yes!
And I want to watch Robin Williams make the sides.
My Mum, My grandma and Grandpa. My other Grandpa, my cousin Rowena and my mother-in-law (who would probably bash my ex!). My Mum would insist on cooking an extremely elborate meal, my Grandpa would smoke cigars at the table and burn a hole in the table cloth. My grandparents would all drink whisky and the rest of us would just be entertained in their amazing company. The thing is, I couldn't let them go.
Amisja
Level 8
May 16, 2018
2
Need more women for a well-balanced dinner party. And what the hell do dead people eat?
Coffeo
Level 8
May 16, 2018
5
That is a good question. I'm guessing that dead women still restrict their carbs
White Jesus, Black Jesus, Asian Jesus, Jewish Jesus, Mexican Jesus and all the lesser Jesuses because sometimes I just like to eat alone.
Surfpirate
Level 9
May 16, 2018
4
Clever!
@Petter A Jesus for everyone, whoever thought that one up was probably made a saint for maximizing profits. It's right up there with Purgatory and Absolution for raking in the money for the most profitable business on the planet. 
@Surfpirate What about holy relics? (With no provenance.)
@Petter with all the splinters that have been sold from the One True Cross over the centuries I would guess that it had to have been 10 ft thick and 500 ft tall.
My personal - and fictional - Jesus is a swearing, knife fighting tradesman from Nazareth. I'd love to have him around.
@Palindromeman Good guy to have at a party, you'd never run out of wine unless you ran out of water. 
@Surfpirate An excellent point!
Ben Franklin
Mae West
Noel Coward
Isadora Duncan
Mohamed Ali
Marilyn Monroe
Oscar Wilde
Joan of Arc
273kelvin
Level 8
May 16, 2018
2
Oscar Wilde - right there you have conversation covered. It is said that he could make any person feel like they were the most interesting person in the room. It's a mantra that I try to use.
Hermann Hesse, Mark Twain, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, Barbara Jordan, Reinhold Niebuhr.
wordywalt
Level 9
May 16, 2018
3
Herrmann Hesse - a controversial choice for some. Not me, to be clear.
If your going to have Herman Hesse. It would be cruel not invite Jim Morrison
@273kelvin Hesse is a set confessed German combatant in the Second World War. According to his account, he didn't fire a shot in anger. But that still raises a red flag for some people. Morrison just front a rock band. Personally, I don't see a difference.
@Palindromeman That was Rudolf Hesse. Herman won the nobel prize for literature in !946. Wrote amongst others "Steppenwolf" from which the band took their name. All the hip dudes read Hesse in the 60`s him and Huxley
Two things there. 1) you are speaking about Rudolf Hess, who spent his life after the war in Spandau prison. I know the difference; 2) I stand corrected. I was thinking of Gunther Grass, who has revealed that he was a combatant in the Second World War.
I offer my apologies.
@Palindromeman Hermann Hesse did no such thing. He was anti-war and won the Nobel Prize for literature. Get your facts straight before you embarrass yourself.
@wordywalt I usually do. Which is why I corrected myself.
I have no idea what to make. What do dead people eat?
chucklesIII
Level 7
May 16, 2018
2
It's theoretical. But probably not oysters.
@McVinegar Which makes them more hungry...
I gotta get back into the kitchen. Bill Shakespeare eats like you would not believe.
Marie Marvingt, Alfonsina Strada, Annie Londonderry, Beryl Burton, Elizabeth Robins Pennell, Susan B. Anthony, Billie Fleming, Eileen Gray, Annefleur Kalvenhaar, Carla Swart, Sharon Laws, Amy Dombrowski, Carly Hibbert, Nicole Reinhart, Connie Meijer, Amy Gillett, Michela Fanini.
Jnei
Level 8
May 16, 2018
3
That is a big arsed dinner party. You and I are going to be super busy in the kitchen.
Jnei:
@Palindromeman I cut my original list by 50%!
Jnei:
Incidentally, all the people on my list were cyclists. Cyclists eat a lot more than normal humans - it might actually require a full-scale army field kitchen to feed this lot!
@Jnei Right - send in the Marines!
Jnei:
@Palindromeman They'd probably eat them, too!
My dearly beloved grandparents who save for one didn't get to meet the deceased man who managed to domesticate me. (A few would've been shocked)
For late dh I'd have to invite his favorite authors, off the top of my head some easily recognizable being, William Burroughs, Austin Osman Spare, Lovecraft....
Bonus to have my 1st doberman there. The once in a lifetime dog that saved my life and paid with his own.
Qualia
Level 8
May 16, 2018
2
Lovecraft would be fascinating. I love the HP.
Eisenstein
Hubble
Feynman
Hawking
Planck
And just listen to them talk about the future of physics
DavidEwers60
Level 4
May 16, 2018
2
And my contribution will be making the risotto and getting them all drunk.
You can't invite dead people because they are dead, gone, finished. Why even speculate? It is like religion, an exercise in mental masturbation.
dandadan
Level 3
May 16, 2018
3
Jnei:
Well, technically you can invite dead people. Whether they receive your invitation and show up at the party is a different matter.
You say that like masturbation is a bad thing.....
@Palindromeman rofl
So, let me see you will be having dinner with people that are dead and you will be talking to yourself and imagine the stink.
Jolanta
Level 9
May 16, 2018
3
It's an exercise in imagination!
Besides, I really don't to work with those intolerances and allergies.
I'm just there for the conversation!
Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, John Lennon, Coco Chanel, Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepbrun.
Alexa
Level 5
May 16, 2018
3
For me? Elvis - yes.
Lennon - maybe. He was an awkward bugger, apparently.
I missed Coco Chanel there.
Hells yes!!!
@Palindromeman Lennon did have GSOH
@273kelvin Exactly.
John Dilinger. Marie Curie. H.P. Lovecraft. Montezuma II.
TimothyNovelo
Level 4
May 16, 2018
3
Lovecraft in Brooklyn:
Albert Einstein
George Carlin
Robin Williams
Teddy Roosevelt
Sitting Bull
Andrew Carnegie
Jay Gould
Should be some lively conversations
TimBowen
Level 4
May 16, 2018
2
@Mortal That would be a bummer, yes.
My dad, David Foster Wallace, Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, Rev Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Harvey Milk, Susan B Anthony...I could go on but I can only fit so many people at my table.
Then again as the saying goes if you have more than you need don’t build a bigger fence, build a bigger table.
TimothyD
Level 4
May 16, 2018
2
Holy shit - David Foster Wallace and Harvey Milk at the table would be awesome.
George Carver (bet I'm the only one here with his name), Ben Franklin, Alexander von Humboldt, François-Marie Arouet, Leonardo da Vinci.
DaveSchumacher
Level 7
May 16, 2018
2
Franklin might surprise me after a few brandies, but I reckon da Vinci would get the party started.
@Palindromeman Franklin was a great wit and a world class scientist. Probably have a language problem with da Vinci, but Voltaire and von Humboldt spoke English.
Not as straightforward a question as it looks. The lists people have given don't seem to me to be people who would make a good dinner party. If you could have them one at a time maybe, but not all of them together!
CeliaVL
Level 7
May 16, 2018
2
Yeah, but I'll be in the kitchen, so the food will be awesome
@McVinegar At least at a dinner party you can hear yourself think - going to a bar for a conversation is usually a disaster; sound levels turned up to 11 (yes, that is a Spinal Tap reference).
@Palindromeman Make the food ahead of time, just have one or two carefully chosen guests and enjoy the conversation.
@CeliaVL I want them to talk to each other. Bill Shakespeare and Andy Warhol sharing a bottle of wine. How cool is that?
@Palindromeman Be interesting if the truth about who wrote the works of Shakspere came out.
@CeliaVL If Bill and Christopher Marlowe are in the room, it's gonna be fight!
@Palindromeman Do you think so? I lean towards the 'group' theory, which I think Marlowe would be quite amused by.
@CeliaVL I studied Shakespeare at university, and the rumour/myth/suggestion that Marlowe wrote a lot of those plays were strong.
Personally, I think bullshit - Marlowe was good in his own right; Shakespeare was amazing. And remains so.
@Palindromeman Maybe there is room for a 'Who wrote Shakspere?' Group on this site!
Christopher Hitchens...
carlyhorton
Level 7
May 16, 2018
2
Oh, yes!
John Steinbeck
Bradley Nowell
Jimmi Hendrix
Alexandre Dumas
Robert Heinlein
Vincent Van Gogh
And
Ernest Hemmingway
DuffMcConaughe
Level 2
May 16, 2018
2
Hemmingway - yes.
But I would need to have the liquor cabinet stocked....
Mr. Rogers
Kurt Cobain
Viktor Frankl
Louis Jourdan
Krishnamurti
Bowie
My parents
Bukowski
Cary Grant
Hmmmm probably be a whole new list tomorrow.
CM1965
Level 7
May 16, 2018
2
Louis Jourdan would be difficult coz .....he ain`t got no body
Cary Grant - I like the way you think!
Most famous people are said to be notoriously unpleasant in person, so I'll pass.
I wouldn't mind seeing extinct animals though, like I would like to see the world before American settlers arrived and shot all the passenger pigeons, bison and buffalo wolves, polluted the streams, and clear-cut the forests.
birdingnut
Level 8
May 16, 2018
3
I totally see a Tasmanian Tiger prowling around your table
@Palindromeman That would be awesome!
I've read articles about credible sightings of the tiger in extremely remote areas, but hopefully nobody photographs it and causes a sight-seer stampede.
@birdingnut I have some friends in Taz. Apparently the Tasmanian devil is going the same way. They did ask Warner bros to stump up a bit of money to help (considering how much they made of the name) but they refused. After a whole lot of shaming they donated $180,000
@Palindromeman I was going to say just that before scrolling! Yes a Tasmanian tiger!!!
@birdingnut Indeed. A parallel example - the Wollemi pine.
It was considered an extinct flora. And then one was discovered somewhere here in New South Wales. Its cones were successfully harvested and you can now buy one. But the original - the source code - is a well kept secret for exactly the reason you describe.
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