People I'd Like To Have Lunch With...

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ZOID

Tuesday, January 25, 2005 10:41 PM

Greetings, Fellow Browncoats:

I was discussing Zhon-Clod Van Damn with Mal-Licious on another thread, when I made the comment that he was not on my top 1000 list of people with whom I'd like to eat lunch. You know: For the sparkling conversation and life insights, et cetera. That got me thinking about that game, and realize that I'd never seen it done here on FFFn. So...

The premise: If you got to have lunch with, say, no more than 3 persons -- real people, past or present -- who would you pick? Please limit your responses to 3 persons or less; a scattershot selection of 50 people just means you're not being selective enough, and doesn't say anything about you, which is the point of the exercise.

I'll start then, shall I?

1. Albert Einstein: Well, how could this not be choice Numero Uno? (NB: While tempted to say Jesus, I don't know that He'd be fair game, since He means so many different things to different people. Same thing with Joss: If you're here on this board, we can just assume you'd like to lunch with JW.) AE, on the other hand, was not only one of the most intuitive thinkers ever to walk the planet, he reportedly had a sparkling wit. I could easily spend several hours in casual conversation with him.

2. Thomas Jefferson: A deeply flawed man, but also a visionary genius. Almost every word of this country's formative documents were penned by TJ (at the insistence of the other Founding Fathers, who recognized his art with the written word). This mixture of 'Renaissance Man' and blind adherent to societal norms remains an enigma today, and is one of my top lunchtime conversation nominees.

3. Sean Connery: Yes, he's a testosterone-riddled, woman-objectifying, heterosexual pig; but he's also the ultimate guy's guy. Lunch would consist solely of Cuban cigars and single-malt Scotch, and would end sometime after dawn the next day, as we crawled from the bottom of a heap consisting of the aggregate cast of "Girls Gone Wild", Episodes 1 - 206. Call it a guilty pleasure...

So, there's my three. Of course, I could go on and on (no, really). But that'd be my Top 3. There'd be many people I'd like to meet; but, to have a meal and a conversation for an hour or more? Not so much.

I hope everyone will play. I look forward to your nominees...

Respectfully,

zoid

P.S.

I would have nominated 'Licious, but I just know that would have gotten too expensive. (zoid has mental image of himself, abandoned, shackled to some immovable object, and wearing something ridiculous.) Worshipping a fickle and mischievous goddess is such a challenge.
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"Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me." The Ballad of Serenity

MALICIOUS

Tuesday, January 25, 2005 10:48 PM

For me: James Thurber and Dave Barry. Bar none. I love funny people who are smart. Not necessarily smart people who are funny though. Funny.

I have met Stephen King in real life and he was very rude to me, so I wouldn't choose him. However, if he promised to be realllly nice and begged my forgiveness, I'd let him eat lunch with me.

Mal-licious

Co-Holder of the Red Bell from Hell

Oh, and I PROMISE I won't shackle you to anything. Funny, Gunhand had a very similar scenario. What aren't you telling me?

CAPTAINCDC

Tuesday, January 25, 2005 11:02 PM

Given time I could probably tweak this list a little, (obviously Joss would be at the top of the list) but off the top of my head these would be the three that I would choose.

Terry Goodkind
Stephen King
Woody Allen

The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason!

THATWEIRDGIRL

Tuesday, January 25, 2005 11:12 PM

Ooh, this could be very revealing. The question is, do I go for hours of conversation or simple obsession?

Obsession it is!

1. Michio Kaku: Our generation's Einstien. He's absolutely brilliant. He has wit and charm oozing out the ears. He talks to people like they understand him, never down to them. He also happens to like a good scifi story and I bet I could convince him to attend the Serenity Premier. I kinda have a crush on the guy. How often does the world get a witty physicist? I'll crush if I want to.

2. Ann Margret: I have a long history of choosing sexy women as idols. It started here, with the innocent goddess herself. The original Swinger. My idols include such buxom confident women as Liz Taylor, Jane Russell, and Rhonda Shear (okay not quite the talented as the others). Anywho, Ann is the girl next door that everybody wanted to see in a bathing suit. Angel and devil in one. She can sing, dance, and act. She's worked with all the greats. I bet her stories are more salacious than Jackie Susannes.

3. Vincent vanGogh: This is my true obession. Forget Firefly, forget the good doctor, forget Sean Connery and all the rest: this man is my obession. I have read every book I can get my grubby little paws on and I've collected a nice little group of cheap prints. I know he was not the greatest man the world has seen, but I fell for him when I was six and never looked back. One painting was all it took to drown me in his madness. I would love the chance to go back in time and be that scarlet woman that gives him her body but cannot give him her soul.

Well, that's that right? Only three. Zoid mentioned something about Mal, perhaps I should as well. She's great.
I'm in a couple of harems so it would only be proper to invite the men I dance for right? Static and El Jefe can join me for lunch anytime.

www.thatweirdgirl.com

MALICIOUS

Tuesday, January 25, 2005 11:20 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by thatweirdgirl:
Zoid mentioned something about Mal, perhaps I should as well. She's great.

That's IT? "Great?" I am stunned. Utterly and completely speechless. Frankly, If you hadn't specifically said "Ann Margaret" I would have assumed #2 was ME.

Unfreakingbelievable.

Mal-licious

Co-Holder of the Red Bell from Hell

MISGUIDED BY VOICES

Tuesday, January 25, 2005 11:30 PM

1. Harlan Ellison. Since it sounds as though Working Without a Tightrope may not be coming out now, it may be the only chance to hear some more of his life.

2. Alistair Cooke. He may only just have left us, but re-reading his Letters from America has reminded me what a keen eye he had for presenting one side of the pond to the other.

3. Bill Hicks. Dammit he went too soon.

"I threw up on your bed"

THATWEIRDGIRL

Tuesday, January 25, 2005 11:30 PM

*bangs head against thread wall. does it again, and again.*

Why do I keep stepping in it? Urgh, I'm a complete idiot. Everyone knows Malicious is the greatest person on board. I say so to all my friends, I do. You could have been #2. It's just...I don't feel I'm capable of the kind of devotion the men, such as Zoid and TRM, offer you. So, I purposely shoot myself in the foot. I'm not as good as them, so why try. But, the dancing thing, I can do. With you being worshipped all the time and Suz, well I'm not sure where she is right now, I have a chance at being 'the' harem girl. It's not Mistress level, to be sure, but it's what I have.

I freely give all my twirls, crunchies, flakes, and misc chocolates to Mal, my Most HIgh Mistress.

www.thatweirdgirl.com

MALICIOUS

Tuesday, January 25, 2005 11:34 PM

YOU ROCK.

I am fairly certain there is a secret thread everyone else can see except for me wherein I am made fun of...but you'd tell me about it, right? RIGHT?

Mal-licious

Co-Holder of the Red Bell from Hell

CRAP. I think I just hijacked Zoid's thread. Hmmm. How to make up for it? I know! What would we EAT at this luncheon? I would like steamed Maryland Blue crabs and ice cold Pepsi.

DROPPYMCCOOL

Tuesday, January 25, 2005 11:49 PM

Oddly enough, this is just about the same question I was asked yesterday for an interview as part of an assignment in my Rhetoric and Writing class in hope we could all get to know each other better. It's about that time when spring semester starts and I am forced to meet hundreds of new people. Me and my antisocial tendencies are always thrilled about this. of the topic for a sec (I know I should have said that a couple of sentences ago...oh well) I almost posted a thread in a blind rage earlier today when I missed the first session of one of my classes because there was no parking.

My response was:
Ben Frankin-to see really is as funny as he is reported to be and see what he thinks of the world today. And to see who would win in an eating contest. (for the last few years I have thought it would be neat to drive around the streets of LA with him...don't ask me why)

George Lucas-first cause I'm a huge Star Wars geek, and second, just to try to understand a little bit about how one person can be so creative and make something that so many people love (same goes for Joss)

Issac Newton- to express my utter admiration at the intuitivness of the way the universe works and my utter frustration for the whole calculus thing.

Droppy

"We gotta go to the crappy town where I'm a hero."

CASUALTY

Tuesday, January 25, 2005 11:52 PM

It's tough to pick just three. I didn't know whether to go for intellect or entertainment. Usually I'd pick my Grandmother but although my family can no longer enjoy her company I have had lunch with her before so I'm going with new experiences.

Julie Andrews
Roy Castle
Whoopi Goldburg

I guess entertainment won! I wonder if they'd all get on?

"If nothing we do means anything then the only thing that means anything is what we do"

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