Steverino's last post on the "Dinner date with an escort" got me wondering. He posted that he would have paid money to dine with Einstein, and I agree. However, of all the people in the world (past and present), who would I have wanted most to have a meal with. I think perhaps Mahatma Gandhi (if nothing else it should be a VERY inexpensive dinner, LOL). How about you? Who would you like to eat dinner with?
Dining with the famous
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I know this will sound quite immodest but in my life I have been privileged to dine with a number of great and famous people. In no particular order I will drop a few names. Prince Charles and Princess Margaret, Robert Mugabe, P.E. Trudeau (my favourite), and others. They were all very interesting people but I would wager not nearly as interesting as giving
a dinner party for 30 special SP's! Failing that, however, I think I would enjoy dining with Sir Winston Churchill.
a dinner party for 30 special SP's! Failing that, however, I think I would enjoy dining with Sir Winston Churchill.
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My father was not famous yet he was well respected in the community.
He was not financially wealthy yet his frugal property investments soared a couple of decades after his passing.
Everything he did, he did it for the family.
What I would give to see him once more over a fabulous dinner...
He was not financially wealthy yet his frugal property investments soared a couple of decades after his passing.
Everything he did, he did it for the family.
What I would give to see him once more over a fabulous dinner...
Dining with the famous...no thanks....if the conversation goes south you are in for a bad time....golfing with the famous is a different story....I myself have played 18 holes with Bill Murray.....it was on my birthday at Kananaskis....the Mt.Kidd course....I rolled out there early in the day in hopes of a walk on single....I got on in 10 minutes and 1 of my playing partners was Bill Murray....the round was totally wicked....lots of 1 liners fron Caddyshack....the 5th guy in the group was his personal assistant and he picked up the tab at the turn....funniest moment was my tee shot on the 16th....I hit my driving iron up the left side and shouted cart path....cart path!!!!...CART PATH!!!!....I hit the cart path allright...5 fricken times....I ended up with a 9 iron shot to the green.....Bill said out load....."cripes you cant buy a shot like that for love or money"......most enjoyable round of golf I have ever played.
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They probably wouldnt want to dine with you.
In any case, "famous" people are just like you or me, ordinary in person (having had dinner with a few, I'm pretty certain about that). It would not necessarily be an interesting dinner, especially if you had nothing in common.
Especially since hes been dead for years!! Hmmm....I think the conversation might be a little "stiff".
I love to enjoy a meal with friends or loved ones...I have found that breaking bread with strangers is one of the best ways to become a friend or loved one...
One of the best meals Ive shared with someone, was a young man Id never met before by chance at Subway on Granville st at 3 am. about 6.5 years ago.
I was working for an agency back in those early days and was a slow night for me. Raining cats and dogs.
I was all by myself there with the sandwich artist napping in the back.
In walks a traveller wearing alot of baggage. He woke up the staff .
He orders his food and goes to sit a few tables away... I said to him, "May as well come join me!"
He smiled and sat across the table.
He asked me how I came to be alone in that place in the middle of the nite.
Then he listened for a few hrs while I tried to answer his question...
Then I asked him the same thing.
I listened for a few hours while he replied.
Ill most likely never see this man again.
But our meal together altered my world.
The words we exchanged that nite changed my life.
xo,
jxxx
One of the best meals Ive shared with someone, was a young man Id never met before by chance at Subway on Granville st at 3 am. about 6.5 years ago.
I was working for an agency back in those early days and was a slow night for me. Raining cats and dogs.
I was all by myself there with the sandwich artist napping in the back.
In walks a traveller wearing alot of baggage. He woke up the staff .
He orders his food and goes to sit a few tables away... I said to him, "May as well come join me!"
He smiled and sat across the table.
He asked me how I came to be alone in that place in the middle of the nite.
Then he listened for a few hrs while I tried to answer his question...
Then I asked him the same thing.
I listened for a few hours while he replied.
Ill most likely never see this man again.
But our meal together altered my world.
The words we exchanged that nite changed my life.
xo,
jxxx
Actually, I would have a lot to talk about with Einstein and Gandhi. I have always been a physics buff and have spent many years formulating my religious convictions.
People like that get asked about their "work" all the time. They get sick of it. They would not want to be talking about that in social time, especially with someone who didn't have a clue what their "work" entails. Think about it, if you go out to dinner with a potential girlfirend, would you be discussing the finer details of her work at the local animal shelter (or whatever)? More likely you would be discussing the more mundane idle chit-chat that people usually talk about at dinner. Famous people are no different.
It reminds me of high school many years ago in the 70s, when the author Alan Paton came in and gave a talk to us (he lived close by). At the end of it he asked for questions, a girl stood up an started off with some nonsense about the sort of analysis you do in English literature studies about his book (which we were studing at the time IIRC). He kind of looked at her for a while and then said something like "are you serious?"
Cause we're cool unlike some of the other guys on this forum. ITB likes to fart in a restaurant full of people and it's hilarious
LAG and In the Bum, I just don't know why?
Are you always this negative? For people like this, their work is their passion. They LOVE to talk about it.
Most people who are truly successfull at what they due tend to have broad interests. Renaissance men and women. Trust me, the ones you would want to talk to are NOT going to be talking about their work. The ones who do talk about work will have you wishing time would pass more quickly so you can get the hell out of there. That has been my experience anyway.
I would love to have dinner with any of the Rat Pack ... Not the Brat Pack... the Rat Pack... I think especially Dean Martin would be awesome to share a dinner with... or Sammy Davis Jr. to ask how he did it... Became famous...!!!! Or Marilyn Monroe as there is no other like Marilyn... James Dean for a meal to extend to several... I don't think I would ever get "bored" talking to James Dean EVER...
Two men alive? I would love to sit down with? Billy Idol - He so IS my Idol - - that snarl has me captivated and would end up on the back of his bike... Lance Armstrong and end up cycling with him and I would be HAPPIEST... Paul Stanley of KISS... Love his accent... His art, his person... The way he dresses... BOOTS even make the man **GRIN**
Matthew McConnaughey I would just love to **EAT** up **giggle** but that is a whole other write**UP** mmmmmm...
Clint Eastwood to just sit across with in awe... I so would not be able to eat...
And CARY GRANT was gay???????????? So did not know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Carly
Two men alive? I would love to sit down with? Billy Idol - He so IS my Idol - - that snarl has me captivated and would end up on the back of his bike... Lance Armstrong and end up cycling with him and I would be HAPPIEST... Paul Stanley of KISS... Love his accent... His art, his person... The way he dresses... BOOTS even make the man **GRIN**
Matthew McConnaughey I would just love to **EAT** up **giggle** but that is a whole other write**UP** mmmmmm...
Clint Eastwood to just sit across with in awe... I so would not be able to eat...
And CARY GRANT was gay???????????? So did not know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Carly
