Guess who's coming to dinner?

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Who would you invite to a fictional dinner party, and why?

Male or female

Alive or dead

Real person, or fictitious character

I'd have to include:

Eddie Izzard (a very funny man, would break the ice nicely)

Freddie Mercury (maybe he'd sing a bit for us, too)

Mel Gibson (I'd just stare dreamily into his eyes)

Alan Coren (great raconteur - I love his razor sharp wit)

Ellen Macarthur (I'd love to hear her round thw world yachting stories)

Germaine Greer (I like her opinions, and she doesn't take herself too seriously)

Who else shall we invite?

C J

(ps: only recently discovered this site - been lurking for a few days - you seem like a great crowd. Be kind to the newbie girl ......!)

― C J, Sunday, 16 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'd invite ppl I'd wanna fuck, obv.

That and Morton feldman, of course. His glasses and greasy hair were fab!

― Julio Desouza, Sunday, 16 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

We are kind, fret not. :-)

Oscar Wilde to see if his teeth were as bad as all that from all the smoking for a start. Beyond that I'll have to think.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 16 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

CC DeVille: coz it looks like a time-lord these days, and I'd ask him questions about the Tardis and Daleks

Kirsten Dunst: Well, duh!

J Mascis: For his great conversation

James Kochalka: Hopefully he'd make rude jokes

Natalie Portman: I'd ask her questions about psychology and star wars

R2 D2: He's cool.

― jel --, Sunday, 16 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Raconteur:Scheherezade. Shakespeare.
Wit: Dorothy Parker and Groucho Marx and Peter Cook.
Sex appeal: Madonna, and can I have Marlon Brando circa The Wild One too please. Oh, and since we can have fictional characters, Maggie and Hopey.
Intellect: Borges. Maybe Jonathan Miller,because I like his range and he's funny.
Personal idols, though I don't know whether they'd be great guests: Al Jackson, Pele. For top entertainment, can we have Tommy Cooper as maitre d' and Buster Keaton and Stan Laurel as waiters?

― Martin Skidmore, Sunday, 16 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'd invite the Basic 8, before the plot unravelled too much And it'd be cool to get Frank Lloyd Wright and Francesco Borromini to talk architecture with Peter Eisenmann I'd also like to think my future girlfriend was invited, although I don't know who that is yet.

― Gordon, Sunday, 16 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wow - this is going quite well. I'm going to need a bigger dining table at this rate.

I think I'd also like to invite the whole Monty Python Team, JFK, John Lennon, and Shaggy (from Scooby-Doo).

Robbie Williams can stay in the kitchen, dressed in a silver thong and a Simpsons apron, doing the washing up.

Any thoughts on who can provide some of the background music? I wouldn't mind a bit of jazz - Bix Biederbecke would be good - followed by something a bit noisier. I wonder if Dire Straits and the Stones might be free?

― C J, Sunday, 16 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

id invite dan perry and ned raggett to a night out at TGIFridays

― chaki, Sunday, 16 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Robbie Ross and Constance Wilde w/o Oscar Wilde
Alice B Toklas w/o Gertude Stein
Vita Sackville West and Leonard Woolf w/o Virginia
Peter Orlosky w/o Allen Ginsberg
Peter Pears w/o Britten
Chester Kallman w/o WH Auden
Antinous w/o Hadrian
Vivienne Eliot w/o Thomas Stern ELiot
Nora Joyce w/o James

Its the only way to get the real dirt.

― anthony, Sunday, 16 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If there's still enough room, I'd also like to invite Dylan Thomas, Henry VIII and Picasso. Thanks.

― C J, Sunday, 16 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think Anthony's is brilliant. To Chaki -- in its own weird way tempting. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 16 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

been lurking for a few days - you seem like a great crowd.
Wait till you REALLY get to know us.

― nathalie, Sunday, 16 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

carrie brownstein, and meatloaf to serenade us.

― queenoftheharpies, Sunday, 16 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I would only invite fictional characters cos they don't eat too much and never go to the toilet (though TV and Film characters have a terrible habbit of only ever using three sides of a dining table).

― Pete, Monday, 17 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Chaki, that sounds great!

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No dinner party is complete without Winston Churchill. Strangely enough, people still keep having them despite his having been dead for a while.

― Dave M., Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.