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La_Comtesse 12:45 am UTC 01/17/09 |
| In reply to: | re: Dinner party guest - Ali 10:57 pm UTC 01/14/09 |
| Didn't Genghis Kahn also invade Eastern Europe ? Hm, Napoleon and Jim +Wagner....sounds like that cat hater Napoleon sure will get his arse kicked ! :-D > Okay, as well as the Steinfan dinner party with Jim, which > would be wonderful but involves more thna 9 people, I'd go > for... > > (in no particular order) > > 1) Jim Steinman (obviously) > > 2) Wagner (for Jim) > > 3) Florence Nightingale (invented modern nursing but also > very no-nonsense kick-ass woman who had half the war > office* in Britain running round following her orders for > large chunks of the 19th century) > > 4) Napoleon Bonaparte (because I sort of fancy him, and > anyway, I've never met anyone who's invaded Eastern Europe > before) > > 5) JRR Tolkein (Wrote "Lord of the Rings". I always felt > he must have been enjoyably nuts) > > 6) Queen Boadicia (Queen of the Iceni tribe, who fought > off the invading Roman army in Iron Age Britain. Would > probably get on well with Florence Nightingale and I don't > want us girls to be too outnumbered.) > > 7) The Buddha (I'm not actually a Buddist, I just think he > sounds really interesting. Also I appear to have invited > rather a heavy contingent of mad militaristic dictators > and I think it would be important to have someone there to > teach them to calm down and meditate a bit more.) > > 8) Sir Patrick Moore (Famous 80+ yr old British TV > Astronomer) - Always good for a laugh. Have had dinner > with him before and it took me a good hour to scrub the > curry off his kitchen wall afterwards!** > > 9) Genghis Khan (in case it inexplicably got boring) > > Of course it wouldn't actually be as much fun without some > friends along to share all these people with... so ideally > this would be combined with the Steinfan dinner party so > we could all meet them together! > > Ali > > *They called a spade a spade in the 19th century. Nowadays > the department is called "The Ministry of Defence" (and > spends large amounts of its time "defending" the country > by dropping bombs on people several thousand miles away) > > ** Strangely this is actually true | |
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