Thanksgiving Dinner Guests

[ljones190]

Many years ago our family had an interesting discussion regarding Thanksgiving Dinner guests. Only for fun, dead or alive who would you invite to Thanksgiving dinner. I would invite Dennis Miller, Ronald Reagan,Bruce Springsteen and John Wooden. That dinner would be a lot of fun. A little politics, some music, some comedy and a great basketball coach and an equally fine man.

[K9-Lovers]

Just for fun, I would invite all four Beatles!

[schotzyb]

Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson and Johny Cash

[redwitch]

I would either need a very, very large table or have a couple of Thanksgiving meals -- think I'd go with several different meals. Anyway, some of my list would be Jesus, JFK, MLK, FDR, Socrates, Shakespeare, Da Vinci, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Mozart, Robert Heinlein, Ayn Rand, Plato, Barbara Bush, Michele Obama, Marilyn Monroe (at a table far, far away from JFK), Edward G. Robinson, Robert de Niro, Clint Eastwood, Mark Twain, George Bernard Shaw, Dolly Parton, Phoebe Snow, my grandparents on my mother's side (both died in WWII) and my grandfather on my father's side and, of course, my parents and brother, daughter and grandson.

[Boomer]

Thank you, ljones. This is fun to think about. Maybe I will ask this at the table on Thursday.

For me, it would be Erma Bombeck and Carl Hiaasen and Mark Twain and James Thurber.

Boomer

[Pturner]

I would invite myself to Red's tables. Hopefully, since there's such a big crowd already, she'd let me bring my Beethoven, Michelangelo, Monet, Vincent van Gogh and the Beatles.

[K9-Lovers]

And the Beatles could sing . . . Rollover Beethoven!

[Pturner]

And the Beatles could sing . . . Rollover Beethoven!

They would too! We know they would. You're going to have to join our warped group, K9.

[K9-Lovers]

Warped like my old Beatles 45's and lp's? That's me. Count me in.

[redwitch]

pt, you and your friends are welcome. of course, i forgot to mention the Stones (someone has to be the dysfunctional family group) and Honest Abe.

[ljones190]

Redwitch,

Much better list then mine, you must have put some serious thought into yours.
Mark Twain is a great choice. I think I would have to add John Steinbeck to my list.

[jerseyvillager]

Obama - so I could list for him all the promises he has failed to keep.

[redwitch]

Redwitch,

Much better list then mine, you must have put some serious thought into yours.
Mark Twain is a great choice. I think I would have to add John Steinbeck to my list.


Actually, not much thought -- just people that I've always admired or am seriously curious about. (And I forgot to add Nelson Mandela; shame on me! And Rod Serling -- now that has got to be a strange mind!) I'm sure if I really thought about it, the list would be much different. Imagine having the Wright Brothers and showing them the shuttle, a jumbo jet .... How about Alexander Graham Bell and letting him see a smart phone in action?

I guess rather than a Thanksgiving dinner, I'd like to have the great minds of the past see the world today and see how their thoughts, inventions, deeds have created our world. Wonder what they would think. Would they be pleased, disappointed, frightened?

[ladylake1]

Red - I want to come to your house too but can we add Johnny Depp for a little diversity?

[redwitch]

Johnny Depp always welcome -- how about George Clooney and Brad Pitt. Some eye candy always good for the soul.

[ladylake1]

Perfect!!! Should we rent the Savannah Center for this gig?

[mac9]

My brother, VanGogh, Fried Pal, and J.C. Leyendecker.

[2BNTV]

Off the top of my head:
1. Abe Lincoln for his innate intelligence and ability to tell a good story.
2. Frank Sinatra to discuss his craft, sing songs and tell ancedotes.
3. FDR - He liked to have a drink before dinner and was a President for a very long time.
4. John Madden to discuss football.
5. Rodney Dangerfield for comedy.
6. Fred Astaire for dancing. IMHO -Never will see one like him again.
7. Dick Cavett for keeping discoursse civil and asking interesting question.

[Pturner]

Johnny Depp always welcome -- how about George Clooney and Brad Pitt. Some eye candy always good for the soul.

Yum, Johnny Depp and Brad Pitt! Red, let's take them all on the tour first, then feast on food for thought and Thanksgiving. Oh yes, LJones, Steinbeck must come! Adam Smith as well.

[swrinfla]

I think redwitch's list is wonderful, as are the numerous additions.

What bothers me is, with all these people, how are we, today's guests, going to get a chance to talk to, listen to our wonderful celebrities?

Let's divide them (the celebrities) into parties of 6 or maybe 8, according to some random scheme. Then, having hired the ballroom at Savannah for each event, invite all TOTV-ers (and, maybe a handful of others :22yikes:) to BYOB and then appoint some individuals to question the celebrity guests.

Do a weekly event and we keep ourselves busy all winter! :wave:

SWR
:beer3:

[jblum8156]

Trouble with that, SWR, is that many of them are dead. I suppose we could invite impersonators, but they wouldn't have the ideas and conversation of the originals.

[Mudder]

I'd invite Paula Deen so she could bring a pecan pie, Paul McCartney to sing a tune or two, Billy Graham to say the blessing and Mahatma Ghandi to humble us all.

[Pturner]

...What bothers me is, with all these people, how are we, today's guests, going to get a chance to talk to, listen to our wonderful celebrities?

Let's divide them (the celebrities) into parties of 6 or maybe 8, according to some random scheme. Then, having hired the ballroom at Savannah for each event, invite all TOTV-ers (and, maybe a handful of others :22yikes:) to BYOB and then appoint some individuals to question the celebrity guests.

Do a weekly event and we keep ourselves busy all winter! :wave:

SWR
:beer3:

Good thinking, SWR. We'll defeat the purpose if we don't get to speak to the brains and talent we've invited. We'll feed our distinguished guests for an entire season. We'll divide TOTVers in to groups, too. Each group goes to a different table until we've all had a chance to visit all the tables by season's end.

Trouble with that, SWR, is that many of them are dead. I suppose we could invite impersonators, but they wouldn't have the ideas and conversation of the originals.

Um Jblum... of course we will not invite impersonators! No way, Jose. Don't you see. None of our guests is dead!! That only happens in real life. This is fantasy!

Or to thoroughly misquote Howard Beale (the movie, Network): "In God's name, THEY are the real people! WE're the illusion!"