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03 Mar 2008, 4:48 am

Eve (I shot Adam before they bumped into one another), I don't know whether I should try to woo her, or just kill her.

Father or death of humanity, that's one hell of a choice.



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03 Mar 2008, 12:24 pm

Scott Joplin, the "King of Ragtime", definitely.

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Meeting Mozart would be cool, too, but his laugh might get on my nerves.

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I think they were both Aspies.


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03 Mar 2008, 12:40 pm

Martin Luther King
Abraham Lincoln
Albert Einstein
Jesus
Gandhi
Dorothy Day
Nicolas Copernicus
Beethoven
John Lennon
Elvis Presley
George Washington
Winston Churchill
JFK
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03 Mar 2008, 12:47 pm

RFK
George Washington
FDR
Bob Shaye
Bob Weinstein


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03 Mar 2008, 2:02 pm

Mark Twain, although I'd probably have to ask him to refrain from the cigars.
Kurt Vonnegut.
Robert Anton Wilson.
Harlan Ellison. (Yeah, I know he's still alive.)


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03 Mar 2008, 4:15 pm

Hunter S. Thompson, although I would tell him to keep his swearing at a minimum.


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03 Mar 2008, 4:20 pm

Alexandre Dumas


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03 Mar 2008, 7:25 pm

Stephen Sondheim!


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03 Mar 2008, 7:32 pm

I've felt like Adolf Hitler did sometimes about wanting to make the world and simple nice, good place and knowing only one way to do it, so I think I could get along with him and we could understand each other and have a special friendship. :oops:



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03 Mar 2008, 9:13 pm

Prof_Pretorius wrote:
They say that Salvador Dali was quite the interesting drunk. He was friends with Walt Disney and Jackie Gleason. I'm sue James Joyce could drink me under the table, speaking of which, Ernest Hemmingway would be fun...


Yes, I've heard the same about Dali, LOL. Agreed also on Ernest Hemingway. I would have liked to talk to him as well.

What I'd really like to ask Joyce is how and why he really decided to write 'Finnegan's Wake.'

Even though I've never gotten through even the first chapter of that novel, the language construction within it still draws my interest to this day. Maybe it's just me, but every time I read it I keep thinking I can 'almost' understand the narrative, like it's just outside of my grasp. (I know there have been translations attempted, but they may or may not be correct).

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04 Mar 2008, 1:20 am

The question you should ask is this: would these people want to have tea with you?
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04 Mar 2008, 3:35 pm

Well I would love to take tea with Nelson Mandela and Nadine Gordimer, but they are hardly dead, yet(even if the end is near).

As for people who are actually dead, well Auguste de Comte, would be fascinating, and I would love to talk to Nyerere about his policies in Tanzania.



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04 Mar 2008, 3:40 pm

Edgar Allen Poe.
I'd love to toss back some Laudanum with him, and ask where he got the idea to invent the detective story genre.


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04 Mar 2008, 4:02 pm

Ana54 wrote:
I've felt like Adolf Hitler did sometimes about wanting to make the world and simple nice, good place and knowing only one way to do it, so I think I could get along with him and we could understand each other and have a special friendship. :oops:


You are soooo weird. I want to take tea with YOU!


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04 Mar 2008, 11:05 pm

MissPickwickian wrote:
Ana54 wrote:
I've felt like Adolf Hitler did sometimes about wanting to make the world and simple nice, good place and knowing only one way to do it, so I think I could get along with him and we could understand each other and have a special friendship. :oops:


You are soooo weird. I want to take tea with YOU!


Oh yes, and let's invite Joe Stalin, and Pol Pot for some scones...


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04 Mar 2008, 11:41 pm

Well, I think that either Euler and Gauss or perhaps Lavrenti Beria and Genrikh Yagoda.
Either way it would be a very odd tea party. I think inviting Chekhov would be a safer bet.