Who are 3 people you'd like to meet (dead or alive)?

I would like to see a boxing match between Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla with Mark Twain and I as referees.:)
I think that would be a great time!

Leonardo Da Vinci – He’s my role model and he’s just awesome.

Kahlil Gibran – I used to think he was my soulmate who died before I was born and his writing is wonderful.

And a guy we’ll call Churchill – I have tons of reasons, but we’ll say because I like him.

Vince McMahon, Howard Stern, and Merv Griffin. All people who essentially achieved the top tier of their particular niche of entertainment.

The Dali Lama
Cher
Ed Leedskalnin (extra points for anyone who knows who that is)

Marilyn Monroe : Just because ;¬}
Adolf Hitler : So I could tear that stoopid bloody tache off his mad face :¬)
Tarzan : So I could ask how he kept Jane from having an affair with cheetah XD

1. My dad, once more (he died in 2007) – but not in a monkey’s paw way.

2. Kurt Vonnegut. I would make him my mentor.

3. Sylvia Plath, so I could put her on some psychotropics and see if her attitude improved.

My great everyone, because they all died of smoking (UGH) and sigh

1. Jesus of Nazareth
2. Sir Issac Newton
3. Robert E. Lee

My mom because I really miss talking to her.

Nicola Tesla because I’d like to ask him about what information went up in that fire.

John Mann because I think he would be fascinating to talk too.

I second Jesus, not because I am really religious or anything just would like to say I chilled with big J! Also, my biological father, just so I could get his side of the story, and Layne Staley, so I could pick his brain for a spell.

1, Alexander the great, just to see how the man really worked, how he thought & what drove his passion.. :-/

2, Aristotle, to be taught by him as Alexander was…

3, My Dad….. Because I never had the opportunity of having him in my life!

hmmm…
adolf hitler : i would like to understand why he did what he did on a personal level
my greatgrandfather : he’s like the person everyone in my family talks about you know? the sort of family legend/ gentleman
and . . .
the guy who created gunpowder : I’d like to tell him and possibly show him the immense destruction caused by his invention

1. Homer, because I’d love to see him writing down those epics.
2. Shakespeare for similar reasons.
3. Socrates, to hear his oratory and reasoning.

Jimmy Carter—because I so admire what he’s accomplised in his post-presendency
Frank Sinatra—because I’ve revered him as a singer since I was 11
John F. Kennedy—because I’d like a chance to find out if he was a genuine hero or simply a manufactured, mythological one

Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Henry David Thoreau, and Teddy Roosevelt.

Bill Clinton. I’m sure he’s got some interesting stories to tell.

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. For their stories as well.

Jesus and the Devil on a public debate presided by Sarah Palin just to witness how she can handle it. I wonder what the outcome would turn out to be

@Austinlad

Are you SURE you’re a Texan??? LOL!

1. my third child that my hubby doesn’t want to create
2. my mother’s first husband in a dark alley, so I can wipe him off the planet
3. Johnny Depp, for perfectly shallow reasons

@MatChup Jesus wins.

Sylvia Plath – because I think her writing is incredible
Leonard Cohen – because his music speaks to me and I think he’s quite wise
My brother – just because :)

1) Carl Sagan, so we could smoke a blunt

2) Jack the Ripper, so I could kick him in the nads

3) Buddha, so we could share a pot of tea

@bkcunningham, how well would Sarah Palin perform as a judge though?

1. Teddy Roosevelt, because he is the crown prince of ass-kicking and my personal role model.
2. Winston Churchill, because he is the secretary of ass-kicking, and my other personal role model.
3. T. E. Lawrence, because he is the attorney general of ass-kicking, and my other-other personal role model. Also, my grandfather swears I was Lawrence of Arabia in a past life.

@CaptainHarley—Texas born but New York schooled and son of a raging Democrat. ;-)

Wayne Coyen of The Flaming Lips cause I love him and I wanna make stuff with him.
Theodore Roosevelt- I would love to talk to him and possibly go horse riding together
And Maya Angelou she’s so inspiring!

My daddy who died in 1960 – to kiss him, tell him how much I missed him while growing up and to pick his brilliant legal mind.
Clarence Darrow – to pick his legal mind.
Bruce Springsteen – for purely unpure reasons which have less to do with his singing and songwriting than you might think.

Vivaldi— my favorite composer
Beethoven
Benjamin Franklin—because he was just a cool dude, and I think we would get along

My Mom

Psychocandy

That’s about it.

@MatChup: did you ever see the Comedy Central show called “The Root of all Evil” with Lewis Black?

@ladymia69 Comedy Central? Is that one of those highbrow Masterpiece Theater programs? ; )

Brian Greene
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Carl Sagan

Nikola Tesla
Oscar Wilde
Boxxy

Thoreau
Eleanor Roosevelt
MLK Jr.

The first one is actually 2 people, but I think they need to be met as a two-some- Laurel and Hardy. I was just watching some of their films with my Dad last night and we were just laughing so hard. Apparently the 2 of them were very instrumental in coming up with a lot of the techniques that were used in movies after they started out. One of the things that they did, which I think was very interesting is that they re-made some of their movies in Spanish. Ollie spoke Spanish fluently, but poor Stan (as you will see if you watch one of the Spanish-language movies) kind of did his lines by memorizing the sound of the words without really understanding much Spanish. Both of them were masters of the “look” that they would give the camera and I love how they often do little tap dance numbers in the films. Ollie was a pretty darned good singer too. They just both seem so nice and so cute!

Bill Clinton, because I think he was our best President, so far, despite his horrible decisions with regards to women and having affairs. I think he would be pretty interesting without being highbrow or being intimidating. I think he too would appreciate Laurel and Hardy. And I’d like to talk to him about how he maintains his new heart healthy diet.

And Mahatma Gandhi. He has been a true inspiration in my life, and from what I’ve seen of him in those old black and white film clips, he had a pretty good sense of humor and I know he would appreciate eating dinner with me at an Indian buffet. I think this group of people together would get along famously.

Bach
Churchill
Stravinsky

@WillWorkForChocolate mmm, Johnny Depp. I’d like to meet a housewife from 1850 or, a rich, rich woman from London in 1910, and my Dad who died when I was 13. I’d like to talk with him as an adult.

@ladymia69, please send me the link of this comedy “The Root of all Evil with Lewis Black” if you have it handy. Would be most appreciated!!

Barbra Streisand
Cher
Stephen Fry

Barbra Streisand and Cher are my idols. I find Stephen Fry incredibly interesting and love the sound of his voice!

Choosing just three is hard, there’s a whole list of people I’d love to meet.

Keir Hardie a personal hero, I’d love to ask him what he thought of “New Labour”, the modern day SNP and his views on what the world has become in general. His views on women’s rights were far, far ahead of their time. As I said, a personal hero and an incredible man.

Boris Johnson he’s a Tory but I love him, he puts the fun into politics :-) there is a cool site here

and like @ducky_dnl I’d LOVE to be able to sit at the feet of Winston Churchill: and just listen. I’d love to ask his views on so, so, so many things including his own experiences with depression which he famously described as a black dog

@Leanne1986 Mr Fry is quite possibly the sweetest, kindest, cuddliest, loveliest man in the whole world. I’ve been lucky enough to have met him several times and he gives great hug :-)

@bunnygrl You lucky, lucky lady. May I ask how you have had the chance to meet him so often?

I’ve been a HUGE fry and Laurie fan since before I met hubby (and we’ve been married over a quarter of a century…. OMG I’m so old!! lol) hubby jokes that Mr Fry (and Mr Rickman of course) are “my other men” LOL. I have scrapbooks, books of his newspaper articles, interviews, TV mag articles, etc etc, carefully clipped and pasted, going back over 30 years. I went to the book signing for his first novel, The Liar, and have only missed one signing up here since then (wasn’t well enough to go). He gave a talk in Glasgow a few (quite a few) years ago too where he talked for around 2 hours and then just mingled with everyone for over an hour afterwards. There was only maybe a hundred or so people there, I suppose he wouldn’t be able to do that now, it was before QI, and he’d be mobbed now :-( That makes me so sad, I’m glad he’s successful, he deserves every good thing possible in my book, but he probably can’t attend talks or whatever without it turning into a media circus now. If you get a chance to go to a book signing or anything similar, do go sweetheart, he really is just lovely, and just the sweetest person. Other than my books, one of my most prized possessions is a promotional photograph from “Peter’s friends” of Mr Fry with the beautiful Emma Thompson, which he signed for me.
huggles honey xx

@bunnygrl Mr. Rickman is also my “other fella” but I didn’t choose him for this question, because I think I would have a heart attack and die at his feet if I ever met him in person! But what a way to go. Especially if I met him and he uttered the word “glockenspiel”! I still hold out hope of maybe seeing him in person somewhere, like at a movie premier.

I have been lucky enough to meet and shake hands with some of my other fave fellas like all 4 of The Monkees, David Crosby, Jan and Dean, and Brian Wilson.

@Kardamom I haven’t met Mr Rickman either, I’m sure (and from all accounts) he’d be lovely to chat to, but I think I’d just keel over and lose the power of speech altogether lol, and OMG all four of the Monkees!!! God I loved them when I was young :-)
huggles xx

@bunnygrl I’m so glad to hear that he is a lovely chap. I would be heartbroken if he turned out to be not so nice, his persona on TV seems really genuine.