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RE: Dinner Party Of The Dead
February 10, 2015 at 8:05 pm
My list keeping with Boru's pairs idea:
- Napoleon
- George Patton
(could seriously fuck some shit up)
- Benjamin Franklin
- Cleopatra
(serious fucking)
- Muhammad
- Ibn Rushd
(understanding Islam is a bit of a passion these days)
- Thomas Jefferson
- Abraham Lincoln
(sit back and take notes)
- Christopher Hitchens
- William Shakespeare
(command of the English language anyone?)
For the nights entertainment:
- John Bonham
- Jaco Pastorius
- Jimi Hendirix
- Bon Scott
- Louis Armstrong (musical director)
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RE: Dinner Party Of The Dead
February 10, 2015 at 8:08 pm
Ooohh...
Christopher Hitchens to Hitch slap Mike Huckabee.
George Carlin to make me lulz some more.
Carl Sagan to exercise my sense of awe.
Isaac Newton to pick his mercury addled mind.
Johannes Kepler to sit in awe of his mind.
Marie Curie to ask her it was worth it.
Andrew Carnegie to get my entrepreneur on.
John F. Kennedy to run for president in 2016.
Charles Dickens (my boy Chucky D) to write some more for me to consume.
Alexander the Great to tell me stories.
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RE: Dinner Party Of The Dead
February 10, 2015 at 9:07 pm
This is to be a lively dinner party and I want to be entertained. So I'm eliminating Darwin and Newton right off the bat as known shy men. I'm also magically assuming that part of being brought back from the dead means speaking English.
Mark Twain
Karen Blixen (Isac Dinesen)
Richard Feynman
Elizabeth I
Wolfgang Mozart
Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot)
Johan Sebastian Bach
Billie Holiday
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RE: Dinner Party Of The Dead
February 10, 2015 at 9:20 pm
Are the parenthesized names aliases for the preceding name (sex change or whatever else)?
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RE: Dinner Party Of The Dead
February 10, 2015 at 9:43 pm
(February 10, 2015 at 9:20 pm)c172 Wrote: Are the parenthesized names aliases for the preceding name (sex change or whatever else)?
Yes. They are women famous for writing under the male name in parentheses.
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RE: Dinner Party Of The Dead
February 10, 2015 at 11:03 pm
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(February 10, 2015 at 10:59 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: (February 10, 2015 at 9:07 pm)Jenny A Wrote: Karen Blixen (Isac Dinesen)
Oooh. Good one. Does she bring Denys Finch-Hatton with her? And I'd like to meet a couple of those Irish Deerhounds of hers. Out of Africa remains one of my faves. Isak Denisen is a master of the memoir.
I'm afraid Denys didn't make the cut, but I sure wouldn't turn him away at the door. She could bring the Farah, the dogs, and, the fawn too if she had a mind.
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RE: Dinner Party Of The Dead
February 10, 2015 at 11:06 pm
(This post was last modified: February 10, 2015 at 11:06 pm by Jackalope.)
So, for entertainment...
John Bonham (drums)
Randy Rhoads (guitar)
Dime-bag Darrell (guitar)
Bon Scott (vocals)
Cliff Burton (bass)