Re: Dinner?

From: Georgie Hinklemyer <samoolives_at_yahoo.com_at_hypermail.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:25:42 -0000

#1: Ben Franklin. Assuming there would be no language/communication
issues I would then invite (in no particular order) Leonardo DaVinci,
Sir Isaac Newton, Marie Curie, Thomas Edison, the current Dali Lama,
Abraham Lincoln, and my son's history teacher. Fascinating,
multi-faceted thinkers and inventors.
--G.H.


--- In OliveStarlightOrchestra_at_yahoogroups.com, "Joy McCann"
<joy.mccann_at_...> wrote:
>
> David Foster Wallace, E.M. Forster, Oscar Wilde, Harriet Tubman, Lillian
> Helman, Gertrude Stein, W,H, Auden, Christopher Isherwood. If one of 'em
> could't make it, Annie Oakley
> --J
>
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Rin Watt <katecwatt_at_...> wrote:
>
> > hmmmm....
> >
> > Martin Luther King, Jane Austen, FDR, Dorothy Parker, Mary
Shelley, Mae
> > West, Cesar Chavez, Karl Marx, Kurt Vonnegut, Groucho Marx.
> >
> > Why? they were all smart, influential, progressive, and/or funny.
> > What else is there?
> >
> >
> > "Georgie Hinklemyer" <samoolives_at_> wrote:
> >
> > If you could invite any 8 people from history to dinner, who would
> > they be and why?
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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