Whom would you want to meet?

**Jim** · 07-06-2006, 06:28 AM

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** · 07-06-2006, 07:32 AM

1. Jerry Garcia

2. Harry Truman

3. Betty Grable

Just musin',
Mark

**Pilfer** · 07-06-2006, 09:22 AM

Leonardo DaVinci
Albert Einstein
Socrates

**ouch** · 07-06-2006, 11:10 AM

Originally Posted by Pilfer

Leonardo DaVinci
Albert Einstein
Socrates

I hope you're fluent in Italian and Greek.

**mantic** · 07-06-2006, 11:17 AM

Neil Armstrong (yes, I know he's still alive...I still want to meet him!

)
Ben Franklin
King Gillette

**letterk** · 07-06-2006, 11:33 AM

Kyle?

**AJS** · 07-06-2006, 11:33 AM

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** · 07-06-2006, 12:28 PM

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** · 07-06-2006, 12:38 PM

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

**jfm** · 07-06-2006, 01:01 PM

(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** · 07-06-2006, 01:05 PM

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** · 07-06-2006, 01:23 PM

Chet Baker
Mahler
John Dewey

**mantic** · 07-06-2006, 01:35 PM

Originally Posted by jfm

(2) B.F. Skinner,

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

**jfm** · 07-06-2006, 01:57 PM

Originally Posted by mantic

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

That's why I keep drooling all over myself!

**designwise1** · 07-06-2006, 02:34 PM

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.

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** · 07-06-2006, 03:04 PM

Originally Posted by mrob

Chet Baker
Mahler
John Dewey

That'd be a hell of an evening!

**Kyle** · 07-06-2006, 05:00 PM

Originally Posted by letterk

Kyle?

**mark the shoeshine boy** · 07-06-2006, 05:06 PM

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

THAT WAS ON THE BIG SCREEN IN THE THIRD INNING !!!

MARK THE SHOESHINE BOY

**designwise1** · 07-06-2006, 09:00 PM

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

**AACJ** · 07-06-2006, 09:15 PM

Originally Posted by 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

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!!