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Five people you would...
Posted: 04 May 2008, 03:13
by Inkling
A conversation I found myself a part of earlier today, and a healthy dose of curiosity begs me to ask this question--If you could meet five people, dead or alive, who would it be?
My list is something like this:
Immanuel Kant
Mahatma Ghandi
Leonardo da Vinci
Albert Einstein
Noam Chomsky
Posted: 04 May 2008, 05:32
by Eric
Good question! As for me, I would choose:
Martin Luther King, Jr.
John Coltrane
Karl Marx
Charles Darwin
Friedrich Nietzsche
Posted: 04 May 2008, 06:00
by sleepydumpling
Hmmm....
Douglas Adams
General Robert E Lee
Billy Connolly
Jane Austen
Emma Thompson
There are many, many others, but those pop into my head right now.
Posted: 05 May 2008, 08:52
by Tracey Neal
Excellent question sweet pea
Umm, lets see...
1)Jesus Christ
2)Jane Austen
4)William Shakespeare
5)Beatrix Potter
Dude my list could go on of course!
But those would be of particular interest
Posted: 05 May 2008, 16:32
by clarebear
1. Charles Bukowski
2. Hunter S Thompson
3. Stephen Fry
4. Johnny Depp (Sorry, but its got to be done)
5. George Orwell
Posted: 05 May 2008, 21:52
by Ribaldo
Bill Hicks
Robert Anton Wilson
Winston Churchill
Bob Marley
Thucydides
Posted: 06 May 2008, 11:08
by Spoons
Lenin
Weber
chuck palahniuk
shakespeare
Edward Norton
Posted: 06 May 2008, 18:23
by Ribaldo
Good thread idea. I can't narrow down the people I would like to meet so here are some more.
Jim Henson
Paul Morphy
Lee Marvin
Billie Holiday
Galen
Posted: 07 May 2008, 06:19
by Scott
I'm going to go with mostly all dead criminals:
Martin Luther King
Henry David Thoreau
Ghandi
Voltairine de Cleyre
Thomas Paine
Posted: 12 May 2008, 18:16
by Sheila
In no paticular order
1. Sir Author Conan Doyle
2. Teddy Roosevelt
3. Michael Collins
4. Mary Queen of Scotts
5. Thomas Jefferson
Posted: 12 May 2008, 22:37
by Taneha
Nelson Mandela - his life from his mouth.
Queen Elizabeth 1s t- a powerful woman when it was hard.
Edgar Allan Poe - was he a little crazy or just brilliant.
Selim 1 - architecture, harem and ottoman history.
Nostradamus - his life and thoughts.
Mary Magdalen
I would love to learn from these people.there lives, language, thoughts and ideas . mostly I would love to understand them.
Re: Five people you would...
Posted: 05 Sep 2012, 00:52
by laci_baby
1. Oscar Wilde
2. Ghandi
3. Ryan Buell
4. Jane Austen
5. My aunt Twyla.
Re: Five people you would...
Posted: 05 Sep 2012, 21:56
by Bighuey
Robert E. Howard
Bix Beiderbecke
Barack Obama - Just to see what kind of a guy he is
Hank Williams
Lana Turner pant pant
Re: Five people you would...
Posted: 08 Sep 2012, 10:05
by Ant
1. Rupert Brooke
2. Adolph Hitler
3. Margaret Thatcher
4. Isambard Kingdom Brunel
5. Horatio Nelson
( In no particular order )
Re: Five people you would...
Posted: 09 Sep 2012, 08:40
by Geneen Karstens
1. My uncle Charley who died in the flu epidemic in WWI
2. My best friend Barb who died way too young
3. Mark Twain
4. Jasper Fforde
5. President Truman