Three dinner guests

[Puff Daddy]

We were just sitting around the dinner table and one of my daughters dropped the "If you could have dinner with any three people, who would they be?" question.

Living or dead, but must have lived in modern times. Amazingly (actually, sadly, not amazingly) all the young people at the table picked actors and actresses.

My picks were Albert Camus, George Carlin and John Steinbeck. Who would you pick?

And I know EJ's gonna pick 3 dead people cuz they don't eat much and the tab will be a lot less :lol:

 

[Midnight Blues]

Well P, the first two would be my Mom and Dad, man I sure do miss them, the last would be my friend Dave, he was a kind and gentle soul.

 

[*camoham]

first of all id have to ask what is considered modern times.

keeping it within the last hundred years.

(1) Teddy Roosevelt.

(2) Robin Williams

(3) Mary Orvis Marbury

edit- didnt think loved ones would count. i have a long list for that one.

camo

 

[Slow Puffs]

Lee Harvey Oswald
Jack Ruby
J Edgar Hoover

:shock:

 

[Midnight Blues]

Cam, Loved ones always count. I would also like to add my dog Jake, he sat next to me
at dinner every night, he was better than most people....

 

[Anonymous]

We were just sitting around the dinner table and one of my daughters dropped the "If you could have dinner with any three people, who would they be?". Living or dead, but must have lived in modern times. Amazingly (actually, sadly, not amazingly) all the young people at the table picked actors and actresses.

My picks were Albert Camus, George Carlin and John Steinbeck. Who would you pick?

And I know EJ's gonna pick 3 dead people cuz they don't eat much and the tab will be a lot less :lol:

So why did you pick 3 dead people? :tongue:

Humm who would I pick??? Obama!,,,naah secret service nightmare.

I liked camos pick #2 Robin Williams, we would be laughing too hard to eat, it would probably take an hour to get through the menu.

I did like PD's choice of Steinbeck, just to chat about the changes in the world since he wrote Travels with Charlie.

Now one of my own would have to be the grandfather I never met as he died when my dad was 9. He was killed on Dec. 16 1944 which as some might recognise as the first day of the Battle of the Bulge. He was in the 28th infantry division, 109 infantry regiment who had just come out of the Hurtgen Forest after sustaining a very high casualty rate. The 28th was supposed to be taking a break.
He posthumusly received the Distinguished Service Cross for singlehandedly taking out a machine gun nest so his pinned down platoon could get out, he was then taken down by another machine-gunner. I would love to sit down to dinner and talk to him about everything.

 

[pistolero]

Patton
Carl Sagan
Jeff Cooper

 

[puros_bran]

Cooper.. From what I understand a hell of a guy to ride the river with... Good choice, but if you really wanted to make it fun you'd bring two of Puffs guys over and enjoy the real life western...lol

 

[LL]

Jacques Barzun
George Bernard Shaw
Dick Cavett

 

[bruins]

ahh...two are easy, valky and piet. the third, well ****, there's too many of you guys i'd love to eat with. let's just do a brother's of the briar dinner. piet's buying.

 

[puros_bran]

It was done in the west coast back when we were Knoxers...

We tried to get a midwest deal going but someone sideshifted it to the Chicago Pipe Show and no one showed up..

 

[Falconer]

ahh...two are easy, valky and piet. the third, well ****, there's too many of you guys i'd love to eat with. let's just do a brother's of the briar dinner. piet's buying.

My choices exactly but we'd have to include Jason (the founding father), sorry fellas but that's just the way it is. Although I'd like to meet most of you over a pipe full. And we'd have to go to Olympia of course! God's country. Piet can't pay, a rand doesn't calculate over here. Now if he could bring a grand, that's differnt. Say Jason, did you ever consider having a one time rendezvous for all us BoB's? Maybe in the center of the US? Like Wichita? I'll bring the paper plates!

Valky

 

[eggman]

It was done in the west coast back when we were Knoxers...

We tried to get a midwest deal going but someone sideshifted it to the Chicago Pipe Show and no one showed up..

Your right PB I forgot all about that meeting the westerners had. Lots of great smokes (cigars and Pipes) good drink and good food from what I remember reading in the posts.

I was all for a midwest meet up. But it is still not too late we could get one together if we wanted to.


Now back to the original post.

1. Ernest Hemingway
2. C S Lewis
3 Anna Nicohl Smith

Maybe I need to had a second dinner just for Anna

 

[Slow Puffs]

ahh...two are easy, valky and piet. the third, well ****, there's too many of you guys i'd love to eat with. let's just do a brother's of the briar dinner. piet's buying.

My choices exactly but we'd have to include Jason (the founding father), sorry fellas but that's just the way it is. Although I'd like to meet most of you over a pipe full. And we'd have to go to Olympia of course! God's country. Piet can't pay, a rand doesn't calculate over here. Now if he could bring a grand, that's differnt. Say Jason, did you ever consider having a one time rendezvous for all us BoB's? Maybe in the center of the US? Like Wichita? I'll bring the paper plates!

Valky

Mixed motives... nice try Valky... the reason is that Jason always brings three beauties with him on his outings... your wife must have went to bed

 

[bruins]

the reason is that Jason always brings three beauties with him on his outings.

but for some reason all three look like marge from the simpsons. weird.

 

[LL]

My choices exactly but we'd have to include Jason (the founding father), sorry fellas but that's just the way it is.

I think you wouldn't find the interest reciprocated, Falconer. You are the wrong sex, nowhere near good looking enough, and way too old.

J's idea of a good dinner guest is more along these lines:

https://i.imgur.com/VRdYj.jpg

 

[Smokin' Blues]

My dad
My maternal grandfather
Edgar Allan Poe

 

[LL]

Falconer ---

With golf partners like that why do you even mess with dinner parties?

 

[Falconer]

Falconer ---

With golf partners like that why do you even mess with dinner parties?

Hmmmm. Let me look into it. I'll reflect on that and get back to ya. Might have something to do with the number of strokes.

 

[Centurian 803]

C. S. Lewis
Dorothy Parker
Tony Hillerman

and Jason's dinner guest for dessert!