Afterlife Dinner Party

[Lodestone]

It's the afterlife, and everyone's there. In the afterlife, during the day, there is 3D television coverage of everything that's currently going on in the world, with the billions of cameras all under your control. During the evening, everyone who ever lived gathers together in a monumental dining room filled with an infinity of circular tables of twelve. Every evening, forever, you sit with a new party of people.

Who would be sitting with you at your ideal afterlife dinner party?

Clockwise from me:

2. Rosa Luxemburg
3. George Gordon, Lord Byron
4. Sappho
5. David Hume
6. Angela Carter
7. Todd Solondz
8. Mary Wollstonecraft
9. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
10. Boudicca
11. Immanuel Kant
12. Katherine Hepburn

(NOTE: the afterlife's dinner parties are very traditional, and so you must have equal numbers of men and women, alternating around the table.)

[Kristin]

Oh, what a nice thread for a change!

2. Byron
3. Rochester
4. Thomas Hardy
5. James Macpherson
6. Samuel Johnson
7. Graham Swift
8. Friedrich Schiller
9. Napoleon
10. Cary Grant
11. Aphra Behn
12. Queen Victoria

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Rochester. Royalist rakehell and rebellious romantic restoration poet. An easy earl and a cavalier chum of Charlie's (II). Wine and women, mirth and laughter - sermons and soda water? The day after? Not for the narcissistic nobleman!

[Pan]

2. Eric Morecambe
3. Ernie Wise
4. George Harrison
5. Graham Chapman
6. Einstein
7. Elvis
8. Ivan the Terrible
9. Marylin Monroe
10. Nero
11. Shakespeare
12. Henry VII




edited cos I was being a tard

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"Last time you gave me a pie, I cut into it, and birds flew out of it, hitting me in the face and chin. I was confused. It was a trick pie"

[exnihilo]

Who is Ivor the Terrible? Google seems to think possibly an Australian politician of the 60s and 70s?

[Pan]

^ haha I meant Ivan- I don't know where I got Ivor from? Mind wandering, I think I've been away from uni and thinking for too long!

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"Last time you gave me a pie, I cut into it, and birds flew out of it, hitting me in the face and chin. I was confused. It was a trick pie"

[Satine]

Ooh, I like this thread!

2. Homer (or whoever was responsible for the Iliad and the Odyssey)
3. Mozart
4. Emmeline Pankhurst
5. Julius Caesar
6. Shakespeare
7. Audrey Hepburn
8. Cicero
9. Elizabeth I
10. Aeschylus
11. Cleopatra
12. Oscar Wilde

Edited in order to correct a shameful spelling error. Well we can't all be perfect can we?

[Otis redding]

1. jimmy Hendrix
2. Jim Morrison
3. John Lennon
4. Bob Marley
5. Frank Zappa
6. Marlon Brando
7, James dean
8, Marylin Monroe
9. Truman Capote (Before the guilt and stuff)
10.Bill Hick's
11. James Brown
12. Keith Moon

Yes i know i am cool

[Lodestone]

Blimey, that's two Marilyn Monroe-as-token-womans already.

I think I shall impose an alternating men and women rule, in the interests of interest.

[Pan]

Hey, I'm a woman, and therefore she wouldn't have been the token woman at my table [img]littleicons/yellowtounge.gif[/img]

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"Last time you gave me a pie, I cut into it, and birds flew out of it, hitting me in the face and chin. I was confused. It was a trick pie"

[Lodestone]

Quoting Pan from 15:13, 21st Jul 2006
Hey, I'm a woman, and therefore she wouldn't have been the token woman at my table [img]littleicons/yellowtounge.gif[/img]

[Eliot Wilson]

Quoting Pan from 12:07, 21st Jul 2006
2. Eric Morecambe
3. Ernie Wise
4. George Harrison
5. Graham Chapman
6. Einstein
7. Elvis
8. Ivan the Terrible
9. Marylin Monroe
10. Nero
11. Shakespeare
12. Henry VII

You really want to spend an evening sitting next to Henry VII? I've always imagined he'd be dull and mean-spirited, and I bet he'd pocket the after-dinner mint and take it home.

Anyway:

1. Me
2. Mary of Guise
3. Frederick the Great
4. Golda Meir
5. J. Enoch Powell
6. Diana Cooper
7. Harold Macmillan
8. Eleanor of Aquitaine
9. Sir Arthur Sullivan
10. Katharine Hepburn
11. Victor Borge
12. Anna Comnena

Should be a riot.

[hr]

Bill and Ted beat the Grim Reaper at Twister

Bill: "You played very well, Death, especially with your totally heavy Death robes."

Death: "Don't patronise me."

[Eskimo]

Quoting otis redding from 14:49, 21st Jul 2006
1. jimmy Hendrix
2. Jim Morrison
3. John Lennon
4. Bob Marley
5. Frank Zappa
6. Marlon Brando
7, James dean
8, Marylin Monroe
9. Truman Capote (Before the guilt and stuff)
10.Bill Hick's
11. James Brown
12. Keith Moon

Yes i know i am cool

Bill Hicks doesn't generally spell his name with an apostrophe. Although thinking about it Bill Hicks doesn't really spell his name at all anymore.

[Pan]

Quoting Eliot Wilson from 17:22, 21st Jul 2006


You really want to spend an evening sitting next to Henry VII? I've always imagined he'd be dull and mean-spirited, and I bet he'd pocket the after-dinner mint and take it home.

I think he'd be an interesting guy- he's often passed over when it comes to people liking historical figures- but he did lead us Lancastrians to victory in the war of the roses!
And besides, all my time would be taken up talking to Morecambe and Wise anyways [img]littleicons/grin.gif[/img]

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"Last time you gave me a pie, I cut into it, and birds flew out of it, hitting me in the face and chin. I was confused. It was a trick pie"

[ShinyHappyPerson]

1) Myself
2) Anne Boelyn
3) Charlie Chaplin
4) Lady Godiva
5) Socrates
6) Mary Shelley
7) Edvard Munch
8) Christina the Astonishing
9) Martin Luther
10) Catherine the Great
11) Martin Luther King
12) Jules Verne

[Jen the Phantom Hobbit of]

1) Me own bad self
2) Vespasian
3) Richard Burton
4) J R R Tolkien
5) Thomas Cranmer
6) William Shakespeare
7) Robin Hood (to find out if he did exist)
8) Franz Marc
9) Beethoven
10)Empress Livia (to see if she killed everyone, or if she eats the food)
11) Margaret Beaufort
12) Rob Roy MacGregor



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The voices in my head tell me I'm not insane ... but everyone else does.

[Eliot Wilson]

Margaret Beaufort's a good call, might bump Anna Comnena for her.

Henry VII won the Wars of the Roses? It's all down to the Stanleys, alas. As (I think) the Marchioness of Salisbury said, they've been trimmers since Bosworth.

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Bill and Ted beat the Grim Reaper at Twister

Bill: "You played very well, Death, especially with your totally heavy Death robes."

Death: "Don't patronise me."

[novium]

1)me
2)Cicero
3)Cicero's wife, Terentia
3)Cato (the elder)
4)Ben Franklin (apparently, in addition to being a brilliant statesman and inventor, he was also a great wit.)
5)Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
6)Abe Lincoln
7)Martin Luther King Jr.
8)Mother Theresa
9)Mel Brooks and
10)Anne Bancroft. (it wouldn't be fair to split them up, and I hear she was an interesting woman)
11)Alexander Hamilton
12)Leonardo Da Vinci.

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sed tamen ira procul absit, cum qua nihil recte fieri, nihil considerate potest.

[Midget]

Me
Joan Littlewood
Joe Orton
Mrs Simpson
Kenneth Williams
Iris Murdoch
Plato
Emily Bronte
Aldous Huxley
Mary Shelley


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[Eliot Wilson]

Quoting novium from 02:24, 22nd Jul 2006
1)me
2)Cicero
3)Cicero's wife, Terentia
3)Cato (the elder)
4)Ben Franklin (apparently, in addition to being a brilliant statesman and inventor, he was also a great wit.)
5)Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
6)Abe Lincoln
7)Martin Luther King Jr.
8)Mother Theresa
9)Mel Brooks and
10)Anne Bancroft. (it wouldn't be fair to split them up, and I hear she was an interesting woman)
11)Alexander Hamilton
12)Leonardo Da Vinci.

Two couples together? Tut. Terrible placement.

[hr]

Bill and Ted beat the Grim Reaper at Twister

Bill: "You played very well, Death, especially with your totally heavy Death robes."

Death: "Don't patronise me."

[novium]

i'm too nice to split them up. (although, thinking of cicero and terentia, maybe that would be a good idea...)

Quoting Eliot Wilson from 10:50, 22nd Jul 2006

Quoting novium from 02:24, 22nd Jul 2006
1)me
2)Cicero
3)Cicero's wife, Terentia
3)Cato (the elder)
4)Ben Franklin (apparently, in addition to being a brilliant statesman and inventor, he was also a great wit.)
5)Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
6)Abe Lincoln
7)Martin Luther King Jr.
8)Mother Theresa
9)Mel Brooks and
10)Anne Bancroft. (it wouldn't be fair to split them up, and I hear she was an interesting woman)
11)Alexander Hamilton
12)Leonardo Da Vinci.

Two couples together? Tut. Terrible placement.

[hr]

Bill and Ted beat the Grim Reaper at Twister

Bill: "You played very well, Death, especially with your totally heavy Death robes."

Death: "Don't patronise me."

[hr]

sed tamen ira procul absit, cum qua nihil recte fieri, nihil considerate potest.