Thanksgiving Dinner Guests
 

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.

Just for fun, I would invite all four Beatles!

Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson and Johny Cash

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Thanksgiving dinner guests
 

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.

Turkey
 

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

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?

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

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