Fantasy dinner party...

Have you ever played the Who would you invite to a fantasy dinner party game?  We were tossing this around yesterday.  What five people would you like to sit down with over a meal?

Here were our rules of engagement:

1.  They can be dead or alive.
2.  They can be fictional or real; for example, you can invite a character from a movie, not the actor who played the part, but the character.
3.  My wife, Staci, is a Koko the gorilla fan, so your guest can be an animal (this rule is where I cave to my wife).
4.  Sometimes we exclude Biblical people because we don't want to feel guilty if we forget to invite Jesus; but today we didn't.
5.  Translation is not an issue.  Somehow, all attendees would speak the same language, after all, this is make believe.

Here is Staci's list:

1.  Koko the gorilla
2.  John Denver
3.  Augustus McCrae, from Lonesome Dove
4.  Tony Hillerman
5.  Pearl S. Buck

Here is Rebekah's list:

1.  My grandfather
2.  John the Baptist
3.  Harriet Beecher Stowe
4.  Daniel, from the Bible
5.  Gandhi

Here is September's list:

1.  My husband's mother, who died before I met him
2.  Robert Redford
3.  Ruth, from the Bible
4.  Anne Shirley, of Green Gables fame
5.  Tasha Tudor

And mine:

1.  Bono
2.  George Mueller
3.  Jesus of Nazareth
4.  Hudson Taylor
5.  Muhammad (because I would love to see how Jesus engages with him)

What about you?

Comments

[berit]

alright, i'll play along:
1. bono
2. johnny depp (yes, i'm selfish)
3. my mother (deceased since i was 6)
4. my husband
5. david (from the Bible)

[Eric]

berit,

good choices, although i think i would have to pass on johnny depp...

[Becky]

My list is:
Robert E Lee
Martin Luther King
Mary Magdalene
Lottie Moon
Rush Limbaugh

[Kimberly]

off the cuff, lest I think too hard about it...

(of course, it would be a chick night... on a porch... sippin' iced tea...)

Madeline L'engle
Dorothy Day
Nanci Griffith
Jane Austen
Sarah Groves

[Eric]

Becky,

Looks like that would be a crazy get together...

Kimberly,

Wow, I might have to pass on that one. :-) Too girly...

[Neal and Linda]

Dad's List:

1)John The Baptist (he can eat locust and honey)
2)Bach (he will play Prelude in Fugue in F)
3)Winnie the Pooh (he'll say "Oh bother" and eat honey with John)
4)President Ronald Reagan (I want to hear him say "Tear This Wall Down" - Berlin wall)
5)R. G. Lee (he can preach his famous sermon "Pay Day Some Day")

Mom's list:

1) Jesus of Nazareth
2) OT Joseph
3) Harper Lee, Author of To Kill A Mockingbird
4) C.S. Lewis
5) Corrie Ten Boom

[Eric]

Wow, my parents read my blog...

Looks like I'll have to behave!

Thanks guys...

[berit]

your father just moved to the top of my list of favorite people for including pooh bear! i LOVE that!