5 people you want to know.....

[Helga]

This is not a game, just my curiosity. If you could meet 5 people,dead or alive, who would it be?

my list is something like this:

Dalai Lama
Shakespeare
William Wordsworth
Milan Kundera
F. Nietzsche

[Sancho]

Homer
John Steinbeck
John Muir
Mahatma Gandhi
My Mom

-- Not necessarily in that order

[Monica]

Umberto Eco :)
Paul Hewson
Socrates
William Shakespeare
Leonardo da Vinci

[durga]

Buddha
Karl Marx
Tansen (He was a legendary musician in India)
Cleopatra
George Washington Carver

[Jay]

Could you pople specify which Homer? When I see written Homer somewhere out of context I've no idea if it's the yellow guy or the Odyssea guy :D

All of 'my' five people are my friends. Though I might have problems chosing only 5 of them.

[Anselmus]

Bruce Lee
James Stewart
Robin Williams
Steve Martin
Bill Murray

*shrugs*

[amuse]

John Buford (calvary, Gettysburg)
Jimi Hendrix
John Hopps (invented the first heart pacemaker)
Jane Austen
Emily Bronte

[mono]

Many more than 5, but these remarkable people come to mind first:
Immanuel Kant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Albert Einstein, . . .

[subterranean]

I suppose we already have a similiar thread ..well won't harm anyone if we have another and another ;)

(In no particular order):
Thom Yorke
Jimmy Page
Dave Gilmour
Morrisey
Kevin Spacey

If all of them aren't available, I'd like to meet (still in no particular order):

Robert Plant
Siddharta
Bono
Alexander the Great
Achilles


Yes...you're right....NO writer/poet/authoer on the list..

[imthefoolonthehill]

If I could understand all languaes I would meet

Julius Caeser
Saladin
Tacitus
Aristotle
Richard III

If I could only understand English I would like to meet

C.S. Lewis
Robert E. Lee
George Smith Patton
Ronald Reagan
I'd like to see my future wife as she is now.

[Molko]

Fydor Dostoevsky
Albert Einstein
Mohammed
Sir Isaac Newton
George Orwell

[ajoe]

- Jesus (sample q's: How were YOU as a child? Were You ever naughty? If so, how did Your mom punish you? Ever liked a girl?)
- Mary (sample q's: Really, you got pregnant just like that? Was it scary? Why do you always look so young? If you were 14 when you were pregnant and Jesus got to be 33, wouldn't you be about 47 when He died?)
- Santa Claus

TBC

[atiguhya padma]

me
the person who finally solves the immortality problem
Werner Herzog
my partner
maybe you?

[Jay]

Thinking about AP's last 'person' gave me an idea (though I don't know how, not particularly worried as that's just so me as Sub would say ;))... would the five persons actually be willing to meet you (as in us kinda you)? Do/would/did/whatever have any say in that matter?
*coughs* shutting up

[Scheherazade]

I always wonder that... which is why I haven't answer this thread... I *may* want to meet all these 'famous' people but what would/could I tell them to be of any interest to them?

[Anselmus]

That's why I chose the ones I did, because if nothing else I could simply thank them for their work that has inspired me throughout my life.

[amuse]

i forgot Tolstoy! i guess John Hopps goes :confused: hard choice. hmm...Sancho, i wish your list could come true. and Muir, nice choice!

[subterranean]

Why do we need to "worry" whether the names we mentioned want to meet us also or not..

The question is only: name 5 People you want to meet
And not: name 5 people you want to meet and you think would want to meet you as well..
That's another issue Camper ;)





Thinking about AP's last 'person' gave me an idea (though I don't know how, not particularly worried as that's just so me as Sub would say ;))... would the five persons actually be willing to meet you (as in us kinda you)? Do/would/did/whatever have any say in that matter?
*coughs* shutting up

[Jack_Aubrey]

Nels Cline, Kurt Vonnegut, Jeff Tweedy, Robin Williams, Alexis Bledel.

[Shea]

Tolkein
CS Lewis
Robin Williams
Victor Hugo
any Anglo-Saxon scop

[baddad]

Pierre Trudeau (late ex-prime-minister of Canada) , a truly brilliant man.

Mahatma Ghandi

Nelson Mandela

John Lennon

Hemingway (pick his brain, pick up a few writing pointers)

*realizes 'pick-his-brain' may not have been the best choice of words* "Doh!!!"

[Helga]

I expect all these people on my list want to meet me, I am very important and interesting too (at least I hope so..).
but I just think it say's a lot about a person who is on their list, not everything of course but you can see were their passion or interest lies.
I only said 5 people because you can make an endless list if you want to, I could. I am always changing my list, about 4 are always on it but one is changed every now and then. I started thinking about this when my friends were talking about a 'freebe' list I think, that was who you are alowed to sleep with if you had the chance and your partner couldn't get mad, I don't have a partner so I don't have a list, but I can think of a few... but that dosen't matter, it just makes me think about what is really important to me when I wonder about this subject. my dad should be on the list since I never really knew him, but I don't know...

[Psyche]

I would love to meet:
Frank Zappa
Timothy Leary
Carl Jung
Wesley Willis
Sylvia Plath

And I would probably sleep with Bowie, Tori, Michael Stipe, Björk and Stevie Nicks.
I think that society's expectations of monogamy are what makes a partner "mad" when you are intimate with another. If they truly understand polyamory, they will accept it and embrace you regardless, honesty is the most important thing though.

[Helga]

well, since we have started the freebe list I think it's only fair that I put some names down...

a guy named Jonathan is number one, Johnny Depp, Viggo Mortensen, Jay Kay and damien Rice...

[Molko]

Nice choice there with Johnny Depp, Helga :D He's absolutely gorgeous, isnt he? :p

[crisaor]

Homer
Mahatma Gandhi
John Lennon
Jorge Luis Borges
Noam Chomsky

If anyone of those was unavailable, I'd settle with Jennifer Connelly instead.

[Helga]

Nice choice there with Johnny Depp, Helga :D He's absolutely gorgeous, isnt he? :p

I know, a great actor and the most beautiful man ALIVE, well exept for Jonathan of course. I hope his girlfriend won't mind if I borrowed him one day....

[Psyche]

She is of the mind that the "freebe" is just that, lust and fantasy, the unnatainable (celebrity or ortherwise) and believes that internet "love" is all too common nowadays.
Feelings can be easily hurt if a digital crush is not reciprocal.
Without having met the person, you know only the image they project, the outward screen of the persona that may or may not be an accurate representation of who they truly are.
She believes in intimacy, and though words are powerful, the here and now of tangible connections are what she values higher.
She also enjoys long walks on the beach, like mint schnapps, and sometimes likes to refer to herself in the third person. :D

[Stanislaw]

Bobby Fisher
Stanislaw Lem
Sun Tzu
Ghengis Khan
Milla Jovovich


heh heh, the last one just because

[Helga]

She is of the mind that the "freebe" is just that, lust and fantasy, the unnatainable (celebrity or ortherwise) and believes that internet "love" is all too common nowadays.
Feelings can be easily hurt if a digital crush is not reciprocal.
Without having met the person, you know only the image they project, the outward screen of the persona that may or may not be an accurate representation of who they truly are.
She believes in intimacy, and though words are powerful, the here and now of tangible connections are what she values higher.
:D

I hope you are talking to me, cause you seem to know me better than I know my self.... maybe that means you can know someone very closely, even though it's a digital crush..or even through another person...

[subterranean]

I'm curious...who is SHE?

[Psyche]

...and He?

[lhaeber]

Pierre Trudeau (i thought i was alone baddad!)
charles darwin
lee harper (i'd have to ask her if it was really she who wrote t.k.a.m.)
leonardo da vinci (how could anyone resist?)
the guy who owns grizzlies and trains them for tv/movies

[subterranean]

Sorry, I'm lost. Do explain...


...and He?

[mono]

lee harper (i'd have to ask her if it was really she who wrote t.k.a.m.)
Interesting, I have never heard of this question, regarding whether Harper Lee wrote To Kill A Mockingbird. Just out of curiosity, lhaeber, do you know where I could find more information?
I have heard similar things of William Shakespeare in accordance with this plays and sonnets, but never of Harper Lee, and her writing of one of the best novels of all time, in my opinion.

[lhaeber]

I hate it when people answer t.k.a.m. when asked what their favorite book is, because that's just how personally I hold this wonder to my heart, so I agree with you when you say best of all time. ( I have named most of my childhood pets either Scout, Atticus or Boo) It's been a hard issue to debate, whether she wrote it or not, so believe me, when Sitiram first brought it up, I ran around my house screaming "why"...however, there is speculation that Truman Capote wrote it, letting Lee who was his neighbour, take credit. He lived next door to Lee (a real life Dill, I read) and they were collaborators, so at first, it was speculated that he simply helped to edit the book. Read the "Thanksgiving Visitor", Henderson is reminiscent of Mr. Ewell (I looked, I compared, I cried.) Sook, is like Atticus.
Truman dedicated In Cold Blood to Harper Lee.
www.fantasyfreaks.org/reviews/caleyna/tkamb.html
www.lendmesomesugar.blogs.com/bo...ll a mocki.html
www.powells.com/review/2001_12_24

[Psyche]

Sorry, I'm lost. Do explain...

Don;t worry, I am kinda lost too, just trying my hardest to be witty. :D

[Scheherazade]

Interesting, I have never heard of this question, regarding whether Harper Lee wrote To Kill A Mockingbird. Just out of curiosity, lhaeber, do you know where I could find more information?
I have heard similar things of William Shakespeare in accordance with this plays and sonnets, but never of Harper Lee, and her writing of one of the best novels of all time, in my opinion.

Have a look at this thread (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3729&highlight=harper), mono. Sitaram did post some links there, which are quite interesting.

And lhaeber, I know how you feel! I was so shocked, disappointed when I first read that Lee may not actually be the author!

[Miss Darcy]

Ah, what an interesting thread. And a good rest after discussing evolution and what not. ;)

Let's see...I'd want to meet...oh so many people! But well here are a few sample ones:

Shakespeare
Mozart
Mendelssohn
Paganini - or maybe not, I'd be far too outshaded by his virtuoso violinist skills. Replace him with
Fritz Kreisler - he might be able to *teach* me some skills!
My future boyfriend (that's assuming I'll ever have one). Not necessarily NOW, but eventually I'd like to meet him. :D

Miss Darcy

[subterranean]

Another 5 people I want to know (more) :D

Jay
Asha
Crisaor
Mono
Stan

[mono]

Another 5 people I want to know (more) :D

Jay
Asha
Crisaor
Mono
Stan
Aww, sub, how sweet of you to say. :)
In that case, another list of five:
Subterranean,
Psyche (:p I see you all of the time, anyway, what would more hurt?),
Scheherazade,
Amuse,
Helga.

[Psyche]

I too, would love to meet all of those people. (Putting Jay in the place of myself, and since I see you everytime my eyes are open, I can't very well meet you. ;))

[Stanislaw]

lol, I wouldna mind meeting y'all aswell!

[Major Plath Fan]

Sylvia Plath
Robert Frost
Dean Koontz
Lynne Ewing
Gandhi

[Bongitybongbong]

M. C. Hammer
Randy Orton
Chris Benoit
John Cena
Edgar Allen Poe

[Rachy]

1. Elijah Wood
2. Henri Charriere
3. Tolkien
4. Elton John (I know! Kind of stuck with me by being one of my favs due to mum playing his songs when I was too young to argue with her!)
5. Tutankamun (Kind of random, but you have no idea how much I love the Ancient Egyptians and the ancient Greeks!)

[Helga]

well, I think I could add about 5 people I would like to meet...

Mono
Psyche
Sher
Jay
Koa

[Jay]

I can't really think of people I'd like to know for a few reasons, but I think I could play along with people I'd like to meet... though 5 seems to be a bit... too few for my liking :p

So, you're all required to attend the forum cruise! I accept no excuses! ... and no one's allowed to make me walk the plank no matter how baddie a pirate they are :p

[Nightshade]

I cant think of five people really
1 Prince Harry ( what can I say Im curious as to wether he resents being born royalty and if he could would he swap his life for a "normal" one.)

2 Joan of arc (Did you really hear voices or was it all an ilabrate plan to get the people behind you? Also did it hurt? burning that is?)

3 Richard the third (did you assasinate the princes in the Tower? Do you resent the bad press curtesy of Shakespear? Also did you reallly say things like a horse ahorse my kingdom for a horse?)

4 The guy that designed the pyrimids whose name presently escapes me (how did you get those rocks up??)

5 And this is alot of people but :p The UN ( I want to give the lot of them a right flee in the ears.)
:nod:
sorry it appears I told a lie I can :D

Hey Rachy why Tutenkamun I mean their were much more intresting ones like Ramses II and Iknaton The Butliomuses and the Thelmos espesially Thelomos ( not sure about spelling) the second and third. Must forgeet the great women Cleopatra, Hutshepsut, and I just watched this recently but for the life of me cant rember her name she apparantly had a floating staute dedicated to her.

Some one said Saladin? Is that Ayuby the one from the crusades. I think you could probaly- if you havent already got it obviously- get copies of his meoirs/biographies in English though I know you can get them in arabic!

[ihrocks]

I think that I would have Azmuse and enfant terrible Jay accompany me as we sat down with:

Ram Dass
Thomas Pynchon
Nigel Slater

That would do for start.

[Rachy]

I don't know why Tutankaman. Just I want to know he felt having so much responsibilty so young, and I just find him fascinating!

[AimusSage]

I'd love to meet a lot of people of ancient times but they wouldn't understand me, and I wouldn't understand them, so there isn't really a point in it.

But as for more contemporary people, I would like to meet, there are a few I can think of.

1. Adolf Hitler
2. Josef Stalin
3. Ghandi
4. Martin Luther King

Odd combination perhaps. What if all four were stuck in a room and needed each other to get out?

[amuse]

I think that I would have Azmuse and enfant terrible Jay accompany me as we sat down with:

Ram Dass
Thomas Pynchon
Nigel Slater

That would do for start.
:) i am so there with you two. like, just say the word!

would also like the company of joshua chamberlain, clotilde, of chocolateandzucchini, and bridget jones (no one said fictional characters are off-limits, right? :D).

[Jay]

I think that I would have Azmuse and enfant terrible Jay accompany me as we sat down with:

Ram Dass
Thomas Pynchon
Nigel Slater

That would do for start.
Geez, thanks, lol, that's it, you're making me do the word of the day thingy :goof:
:eek: what did I do this time? :eek:

[ihrocks]

Geez, thanks, lol, that's it, you're making me do the word of the day thingy :goof:
:eek: what did I do this time? :eek:

Do you have to do something? :cool:

[Jay]

If you put it that way... :p

[GruesomeBugman]

1. Ed Gein
2. Sam Steele
3. Albert Einstein
4. John Diefenbaker
5. Lester B. Pearson

[Avalive]

My sister

Rimbaud

Aliens

Einstein

The most beautiful woman on this planet ( if there is one)

[Jay]

The most beautiful woman on this planet ( if there is one)
depends on whom you ask, I guess there's gotta be quite a few most beautiful women :)

[Pensive]

Tolikien
George Eliot
Jane Austen
.....(really can't tell the name..)
baddad

Will it be fine if I add 5 more people? lol....I have got a VERY long list...

[samercury]

1) Dickinson

2) Joan of Arc

3) Lois Lowry

4) The person who wrote the first dictionnary

5) Napoleon Bonaparte

......That's all I can think of right now :D

[Mark F.]

Tom Waits
Bob Dylan
Andy Worhol
William Blake
Akira Kurosawa

[querida]

Ray Charles
George MacDonald
Einstein
Victor Hugo
Amy Lee (chick from Evanescence)

[samercury]

Einstein
Victor Hugo
Amy Lee (chick from Evanescence)

I want to meet those people too!!!! -especially Amy Lee :D