Who would be your ideal dinner party guests (dead or alive)?

Gael

Gael

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Who would you choose to attend your dinner party and why would you want them there?

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Thanks.

I can't really think of anyone I would want to invite for a dinner party. Maybe that guy Jesus, to see what actually made him tick! However as he liked his wine very much, I would need to order a few crates of the stuff, to ensure he was amply supplied.:D
 
Easy answer, my wife & two sons. At 73 we all have enjoyed our conversations across the table.
My wife & I have a great time, having similar interests, & like to share by telling each other of the
things we done that day.
With my two sons 40 & 37 we talk about their families & the three of us have very technical jobs.
(myself retired) They still at my age ask me opinions on different things & I feel that I still have something to offer.
Maybe they are just being polite to their DAD. Get 3 engineers together & you get a lot of nuts & Bolts to talk about!:coolthumb:
 
Justme said:
Who is Martha Stewart?
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Haaa, she definitely would not be your cup of tea Jusme from what I know about you. Also to add to some of the info given, she's a convicted felon.

the homemaking diva was sentenced to five months in prison and two years' probation Friday for lying to investigators about her sale of ImClone Systems stock in late 2001.
Federal Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum also ordered Stewart to serve five months of home confinement after her release and fined the lifestyle expert $30,000.

The sentence was the minimum the judge could impose under federal sentencing guidelines. The fine, while relatively small given Stewart's wealth, was the maximum allowed under federal rules.
Hours later, Peter Bacanovic, Stewart's former broker at Merrill Lynch, also was sentenced to five months in prison and two years' probation; he was fined $4,000.
Neither Stewart nor Bacanovic will be headed to prison anytime soon, however. The judge issued a stay delaying their sentences until a court rules on their expected appeals, a process that could take nine months or longer.
Stewart, in a pre-recorded interview aired Friday night on ABC's 20/20, was asked by Barbara Walters how she would cope with prison life, including strip searches, if she loses her appeal.
"I could do it," Stewart said. "I'm a really good camper. I can sleep on the ground. ... There are many, many good people who have gone to prison ... look at Nelson Mandela."
Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years before emerging to lead the African National Congress, the liberation party he led to victory in South Africa's first all-race elections in 1994.
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Stewart, who has been steadfast in proclaiming her innocence, told Walters, "I didn't cheat the little people. ... We're all little people. I didn't cheat anybody out of anything."
Bacanovic was accused of ordering his assistant to tell Stewart that the CEO of ImClone Systems was selling all his company stock ahead of the Food and Drug Administration's rejection of the firm's new cancer drug, causing the stock price to plunge.
Stewart sold nearly 4,000 shares, and later argued she and Bacanovic had an agreement that he would sell her shares once the price dipped below $60 a share.
Stewart said she was sorely disappointed at her sentence, but felt Cedarbaum was fair.
She wrote Cedarbaum a four-page letter before her sentencing in which she asked the judge to "consider all the good that I have done, all the contributions I have made and all the intense suffering that has accompanied every single moment of the past two and a half years."
"I had hoped for, at the most, some confinement, community service," Stewart told Walters. "And instead I have five months of incarceration, and five months of house arrest that's monitored. ... But it could have been worse. ... Five months versus 10 months or 16 months ... That's a good thing."
Stewart said she's angry over the two-year-long legal drama that forced her to give up her self-made, multimedia empire. "Many, many people have suffered. People have lost jobs. I am very saddened and very, very sorry for that."
"There are certain people who I wish I'd never met. I have lost my job. I have lost my position in my company. I am no longer the CEO of Martha Stewart Omnimedia. ... That makes me angry and sad."
Stewart appeared outside the courthouse after she was sentenced and expressed regret, but she also pledged, "I'll be back."
In her first live interview, Stewart will appear on Larry King LiveMonday.
Stewart's attorneys have 10 days to file their motion to overturn her conviction last March on obstructing justice, conspiracy and making false statements during an insider trading investigation into her sale of $228,000 worth of ImClone Systems (IMCL: Research,Estimates) stock in December 2001.
During the sentencing Robert Morvillo, Stewart's lead trial attorney, asked that if Stewart eventually does go to prison, she be sent to a federal facility in Danbury, Conn. Judge Cedarbaum said she would refer the matter to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
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The Stewart case is one of a number of criminal indictments that prosecutors have brought against corporate executives in recent years
 
GDAD said:
Easy answer, my wife & two sons. At 73 we all have enjoyed our conversations across the table.
My wife & I have a great time, having similar interests, & like to share by telling each other of the
things we done that day.
With my two sons 40 & 37 we talk about their families & the three of us have very technical jobs.
(myself retired) They still at my age ask me opinions on different things & I feel that I still have something to offer.
Maybe they are just being polite to their DAD. Get 3 engineers together & you get a lot of nuts & Bolts to talk about!:coolthumb:
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That's lovely, Gdad! Obviously you are fulfilled and blessed!
 
I'd enjoy some witty dinner guests so I would have Oscar Wilde seated at the head of the table, then I'd also have Stephen Frye attend.

I would like my favorite actor from a bygone era to be there, Burt Lancaster. I would ask him a lot of questions about the Hollywood of his era and since he was politically involved in the civil rights movement in the 50s along with another favorite actor, Marlon Brando, I'd have him there as well to ask quesitons of.

For dessert I'd have Leo DiCaprio.:bigwink:

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Gael said:
I'd enjoy some witty dinner guests so I would have Oscar Wilde seated at the head of the table, then I'd also have Stephen Frye attend.

I would like my favorite actor from a bygone era to be there, Burt Lancaster. I would ask him a lot of questions about the Hollywood of his era and since he was politically involved in the civil rights movement in the 50s along with another favorite actor, Marlon Brando, I'd have him there as well to ask quesitons of.

For dessert I'd have Leo DiCaprio.:bigwink:

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Ok, I'm hungry now, and I don't have much time before I head for Harry's:(
 
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