Whom would you want to meet?

[Jim]

This is my first post and I would like to say hello, I am starting to feel a bit of a lurker enjoying the B&B without participating.So I thought I would throw my hat into the ring as it may be.

I was up a bit later last night then usual doing some reading and started to contemplate about what makes the man? What is a great man and how do we know it when we see it? So in this vein if you could meet 3 men from history who would they be? why? what would you ask them?

I would want to meet;

My Grandfathers

Theodor Roosevelt

Abraham Lincoln

Jim

[fret]

1. Jerry Garcia :cool:
2. Harry Truman :thumbup1:
3. Betty Grable :drool:
Just musin',
Mark

[Pilfer]

Leonardo DaVinci
Albert Einstein
Socrates

[ouch]

Leonardo DaVinci
Albert Einstein
Socrates

I hope you're fluent in Italian and Greek.:rolleyes1

[mantic]

Neil Armstrong (yes, I know he's still alive...I still want to meet him! :blush: )
Ben Franklin
King Gillette :tongue_sm

[letterk]

Kyle?

[AJS]

Peter Jackson (the greatest boxer no one has heard of)
Captain Titus Oates
Stu Ungar

I'm not much of a conversationalist so what I would ask them is irrelevant, even if I could think of a question I wouldn't be able to get it out.

[yasuo200365]

I would have liked to had a meal with...,

Winston Churchill sometime in 1946.
The Engineer - Isambard Kingdom Brunel around 1844.
The Explorer - Ernest Shackleton in September 1916.

Regards
John

[Justso]

Jesus
My Grandfather
Ronald Reagan
Thomas Aquinas
Winston Churchhill
Pope St. Pius X
Archimedes
Galileo
Stu Unger
Stevie Ray Vaughan

[jfm]

(1) John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, or George Washington (whoever is availible, although I would like Adams and Jefferson together in order to hear a debate),
(2) B.F. Skinner,
(3) Akira Kurosawa or Jean-Pierre Melville (again, either).

[rtaylor61]

These are men from MY history. I'd like to meet my grandfathers (my father's dad passed when I was 3), and my great-grandfathers. If that were possible, I'd be happy reading about anyone else.

Randy

[mrob]

Chet Baker
Mahler
John Dewey

[mantic]

(2) B.F. Skinner,
He'd be interesting to talk to, as long as he'd stop ringing that damned bell! :lol:

[jfm]

He'd be interesting to talk to, as long as he'd stop ringing that damned bell! :lol:

That's why I keep drooling all over myself!

[designwise1]

I did a college paper on a Skinner commune. Lots of peanut butter and hammock making hippies running around with a much better education than mine.:biggrin:

Anyway...
Ben Franklin (cause there's never been anyone quite like him)
Bill Clinton (shut up! - he's interesting!)
Adoph Hitler before he got control (can I take a gun with me?)

[rossination]

Chet Baker
Mahler
John Dewey

That'd be a hell of an evening!

[Kyle]

Kyle?
:biggrin: :tongue:

[mark the shoeshine boy]

MONICA LEWINSKI...
HANK WILLIAMS
MOTHER MAYBELLE CARTER
JOHHNY CASH
TONYESPO
RANDY
ART
HARRY TRUMAN
CHET ATKINS
GROUCHO MARX
THE REDHEAD AT THE BALLPARK WITH THE NICE :w00t: THAT WAS ON THE BIG SCREEN IN THE THIRD INNING !!!

MARK THE SHOESHINE BOY

[designwise1]

Chet Atkins. That's a good one. There'd probably be no need to meet Mother Maybelle after talking to him, though.:001_smile

[AACJ]

MONICA LEWINSKI...
HANK WILLIAMS
MOTHER MAYBELLE CARTER
JOHHNY CASH
TONYESPO
RANDY
ART
HARRY TRUMAN
CHET ATKINS
GROUCHO MARX
THE REDHEAD AT THE BALLPARK WITH THE NICE :w00t: THAT WAS ON THE BIG SCREEN IN THE THIRD INNING !!!

MARK THE SHOESHINE BOY

WOW, Tony, Randy and myself made the list with all those nice dead people (except for "that woman, .......Miss Lewinsky" and the redhead at the ball park with the knockers)

Pics....Mark....Where's the pics!!

[AACJ]

Randy
MTSSB
Dr. Moss
Nick
Tony Espo
Phog Allen
Erica :eek:

[mark the shoeshine boy]

how could I forget her.....

http://badgerandblade.com/gallery/displayimage.php?imageid=3007

:w00t: tina has only one flaw...she likes general motors products....

[AACJ]

Oh, gotta add a few:

Ron
Kyle
Joel
Andrew
Howard
and a few of the other regulars....names of which escape me right now (so don't feel bad if you're not on my list)





Randy
MTSSB
Dr. Moss
Nick
Tony Espo
Phog Allen
Erica :eek:

[AACJ]

Jay
Ren
Richard (both)
Sam

[rtaylor61]

This is my first post and I would like to say hello, I am starting to feel a bit of a lurker enjoying the B&B without participating.So I thought I would throw my hat into the ring as it may be.

I was up a bit later last night then usual doing some reading and started to contemplate about what makes the man? What is a great man and how do we know it when we see it? So in this vein if you could meet 3 men from history who would they be? why? what would you ask them?

I would want to meet;

My Grandfathers

Theodor Roosevelt

Abraham Lincoln

Jim

I believe that THREE was the number, although I can see how the thread went astray since Jim actually listed FOUR! :lol:
Randy

[mark the shoeshine boy]

ok randy you win....

Tina....first of course...

Little Jimmy Dickens...

harry truman


mark tssb

[rtaylor61]

Mark,

You already know Tina. I'll take her to lunch! You pick another!

Randy

[Stauff]

Thomas Mann
Arthur Schopenhauer
Richard Wagner

[Jim]

I believe that THREE was the number, although I can see how the thread went astray since Jim actually listed FOUR! :lol:
Randy


So Randy- I hijacked my own thread? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:


Jim

[guenron]

how could I forget her.....

http://badgerandblade.com/gallery/displayimage.php?imageid=3007

:w00t: tina has only one flaw...she likes general motors products....
Are those Bridgestones?:tongue_sm

[ouch]

Eh. She's okay, I guess.

[MJB]

Winston Churchill
Herman Melville
Josef Haydn
Albert Einstein
Sigmund Freud
Thomas Edison
Leonardo DaVinci
Thomas Jefferson
Robert Oppenheimer
Neil Armstrong
Sue
Watson and Crick
Alexander Fleming
Henry Ford
The Wright Brothers
Jonas Salk
Charles Darwin
Karl Marx
Mark Twain
F Scott Fitzgerald
Marie Currie
Abner Doubleday
Elvis Presley
John Lennon
Aaron Copeland
Leonard Bernstein
Mahatma Ghandi
Martin Luther King
Walt Disney
Lucille Ball
Bill Gates
Steve Jobs
Andrew Carneghie
Rosa Parks
Jesse Owens
Ray Charles
Dame Sheila Sherlock (actually met her once but she was quite old and nothing more than a handshake)

Can I come up with more later?

Oh wait you said just 3: Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, and Mark Twain

MJB

[Tito]

My top 3:

John Lennon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_lennon)
Miles Davis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_davis)
Authur Andersen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Andersen#Arthur_Andersen.2C_the_Founder) (I'd like to hear how he feels about what happened to his firm)

[ouch]

Winston Churchill
Herman Melville
Josef Haydn
Albert Einstein
Sigmund Freud
Thomas Edison
Leonardo DaVinci
Thomas Jefferson
Robert Oppenheimer
Neil Armstrong
Sue
Watson and Crick
Alexander Fleming
Henry Ford
The Wright Brothers
Jonas Salk
Charles Darwin
Karl Marx
Mark Twain
F Scott Fitzgerald
Marie Currie
Abner Doubleday
Elvis Presley
John Lennon
Aaron Copeland
Leonard Bernstein
Mahatma Ghandi
Martin Luther King
Walt Disney
Lucille Ball
Bill Gates
Steve Jobs
Andrew Carneghie
Rosa Parks
Jesse Owens
Ray Charles
Dame Sheila Sherlock (actually met her once but she was quite old and nothing more than a handshake)

Can I come up with more later?

Oh wait you said just 3: Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, and Mark Twain

MJB

According to most major religions, this should be easy. All you have to do is die, then wait for Gates, Jobs, Armstrong, and a few others to join you.:001_rolle

[mrob]

Leonardo DaVinci


Hey, is that the guy who makes the water?:wink: