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If you could have Dinner with any One Person

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torakris

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Oh dear you are asking at the wrong time of the month! :biggrin:

I would have to say at the moment, Heath Ledger, I doubt he would make it through dinner though! :shock::wub:

I post back next week when I am thinking with my head...........

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torakris

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Ill be in Japan next week, will you cook for me?

Heath

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HELL YAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Sorry it took so long to respond, I was stuck heathbaby.com looking at exactly the same picture!

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Anna N

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Jinmyo, but I'd want to be in the kitchen watching her cook! That would be awesome!

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It is utterly impossible for me to pick one person.

At first, I wanted to say Thomas Jefferson -- but what the hell do I *really* know about Thomas Jefferson? He was a genius and a gourmand, but would I really like the guy? I mean, I think I would -- but I'd probaby just sit there silently in awe that I was actually having dinner with Jefferson.

Next I thought I'd say MFK Fischer, but that sounded pretentious.

Douglas Coupland maybe? Nah. He hasn't written anything particularly interesting lately.

Thinking about this is giving me a headache.

Oprah maybe? Yeah. I'd like to have dinner with Oprah.

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Jinmyo

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Anna, that's very kind. Thank you.

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Would loved to have chewed the fat with Zappa.

Was fortunate enough, in another life altogether, to share a table with Kingsley Amis and Anthony Burgess who were literary heroes of mine

Greatly regret never getting to break bread with Bruce Chatwin or Derek Jarman.

Oh, and dinner with The Don ( wilf knows who I mean ) would have been interesting

S

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It is utterly impossible for me to pick one person. 

At first, I wanted to say Thomas Jefferson -- but what the hell do I *really* know about Thomas Jefferson?  He was a genius and a gourmand, but would I really like the guy?  I mean, I think I would -- but I'd probaby just sit there silently in awe that I was actually having dinner with Jefferson.

Next I thought I'd say MFK Fischer, but that sounded pretentious. 

Douglas Coupland maybe?  Nah.  He hasn't written anything particularly interesting lately.

Thinking about this is giving me a headache. 

Oprah maybe?  Yeah.  I'd like to have dinner with Oprah.

I was thinking of Jefferson too, and would have also been speechless at the table.

Oprah would be great, set up the time and place and I will join you.

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At first, I wanted to say Thomas Jefferson -- but what the hell do I *really* know about Thomas Jefferson?  He was a genius and a gourmand, but would I really like the guy?  I mean, I think I would -- but I'd probaby just sit there silently in awe that I was actually having dinner with Jefferson.

 

When John F. Kennedy invited a group of Nobel Prize recipients to dine at the White House he stated that there had not been such genius present in the room since Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

However, I have increasingly lost respect for Jefferson of late. I think there is a good argument to be made that had he lived long enough, he would have supported the Confederacy. I would like to dine with Jefferson's arch rival and distant cousin, John Marshall. And like Jefferson, he spent time in France, so I figure he would know his food.

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Jaymes

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Harriet Tubman

What a gal.

However, I probably couldn't eat much. I get all choked up even just thinking about her and what she accomplished at such great personal risk. And she never lost a "passenger," either. So I admire her not only for her passion, concern, vision, kindness - but also for her competence.

I don't understand why rappers have to hunch over while they stomp around the stage hollering.  It hurts my back to watch them. On the other hand, I've been thinking that perhaps I should start a rap group here at the Old Folks' Home.  Most of us already walk like that.

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