Best dinner party guests

[Scully]

I just wondered who people would invite to a dinner party to make it interesting and who would sit next to who? Margaret Thatcher, Billy Connelly, Robbie Williams, Hitler, Oscar Wilde, Shakespeare....?

[Aldous]

A mirror

[KateBush]

Juvenal, Homer, Sappho, William Dunbar, Robert Henryson, Emmeline Pankhurst. Hopefully they wouldn't mind me eating birdseed.

[loretta]

hmm.. Lord Byron, Napoleon, Rasputin, Tsar Nicholas II and Emily Bronte..oh and Stalin. He could shoot anyone with boring conversation

[The Man Next Door]

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[loretta]

Currently writing an essay on both of them..Hmm can't really see their economic policies in quite the same light..

[blondie]

A friend and I spent most of Saturday afternoon debating this exact question (sad, I know). My final 6 were - Iris Murdoch, Jesus, Martin Luther King, Albert Camus, Tolstoy and Bob Dylan.

[MrGreedy]

In no particular order:
Nelson Mandela
Fidel Castro (he could supply the after dinner cigars)
Primo Levi
George Orwell
Vincent Van Gogh (preferably in a more lucid moment)
Bill Hicks

I'm surprised this idea hasn't been turned into a kind of upmarket BBC4 version of "I'm a celebrity..." already

[Rapunzel]

[s]MrGreedy wrote on 08:28, 22nd Mar 2004:

I'm surprised this idea hasn't been turned into a kind of upmarket BBC4 version of "I'm a celebrity..." already



It has... "Guess who's coming to dinner", hosted by Anne Robinson. Hardly upmarket, but exactly the same format. Quite liked it, actually.

[Cain]

king arthur, stephen fry, my maternal grandfather, eric cantona, cosimo de medici, martin luther, and eliot ness.


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I will diminish, and go into fourth year, and remain Cain

[MrGreedy]

[s]Rapunzel wrote on 09:01, 22nd Mar 2004:
It has... "Guess who's coming to dinner", hosted by Anne Robinson.


A tragedy I missed out then...
I wonder how AR never made my list?

[themanwiththehair]

Jesus on the left of me, Pontius pilot to the right.

[Quentinfetishwoman]

Quentin Tarantino,Stanley Kubrick, Jean-Luc Godard,Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin, John Clease, Johnny Depp, Oliver Reed, Vladimir Lenin, Steve Buscemi, John Cusack, Stephen Fry, Bill Bailey, Adolf Hitler, Chris Rock

Can you imagine everyone ripping the piss out of Hitler?

[hr]''Rob Marshall would say I am a troll and I live in a hole, also known as Harvey Weinstein's ass.''

[MrGreedy]

OMG! How did I leave out Quentin! OK, sod the dinner, we'll have a buffet so there's more room...

[Laura]

Stephen Fry, Peter Sellers, Gyles Brandreth, Boris Johnson, Oscar Wilde, Evelyn Waugh, Lady Diana Mosely, Marilyn Monroe, Janis Joplin, Bryan Ferry.

[Quentinfetishwoman]

Q.T is the ideal dinner guest. Hes a man of many words and, erm, many drugs....if all else fails get them all stoned.

[hr]''Rob Marshall would say I am a troll and I live in a hole, also known as Harvey Weinstein's ass.''

[Pilmour Boy]

Eric Blair would have to be my choice, sitting next to Camus.

[Quentinfetishwoman]

[s]Pilmour Boy wrote on 17:24, 22nd Mar 2004:
Eric Blair would have to be my choice, sitting next to Camus.


Wouldn't you rather have Bush? Seems there is a lot in comon..

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''Rob Marshall would say I am a troll and I live in a hole, also known as Harvey Weinstein's ass.''

[Pilmour Boy]

Note the first name.

[Quentinfetishwoman]

I was referring to you.

[hr]''Rob Marshall would say I am a troll and I live in a hole, also known as Harvey Weinstein's ass.''