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living or dead, who would it be?

Tommy Douglas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Douglas).

Jim Morrison. We'd get blasted and hit the town. People would probably die.

Myself, I wonder what life would be like had I lived...

nobody important or famous because I don't like disappointment

I could however do with meeting someone at the pub, who is willing to buy all night of course :)

Buddha, if only so I could kill him.

Either a live human or a zombie? Perhaps a vampire? I don't know.

nobody important or famous because I don't like disappointment

I could however do with meeting someone at the pub, who is willing to buy all night of course :)
Fancy a pint? I'll buy.

You can pay.

I'd like to meet the most misquoted man in history and ask for the real story but I can't make up my mind on whose words have been twisted and perverted the most throughout history.

I'd like to meet the most misquoted man in history and ask for the real story but I can't make up my mind on whose words have been twisted and perverted the most throughout history.

Jesus or Karl Marx.

Jesus would be interesting, if he was at least a real person. Caligula sounds like a fun time.
On a less known scale, I would like to meet my great-grandpop. He was from Italy, and he died before I was born.

Immanuel Kant. I have a number of questions I'd like to ask him.

Genghis Khan. I think I can take him. *nod*


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The Google guys.

I am going to have to go with Winston Churchill on this.......Genius of a man, one of the most quoted leaders in the last 100 years... Should be interesting.

I am going to have to go with Winston Churchill on this.......Genius of a man, one of the most quoted leaders in the last 100 years... Should be interesting.

ANd he partied like the world was ending. *nod*

Jesus or Karl Marx.

i wouldnt go with jesus because i wouldnt understand one word he said. that would be a bummer

marx would be more interesting but did he chat up strangers? was he a great public speaker?

Da Vinci?

Richard Nixon, I'd like to have a long leisurely dinner with him and sip some brandy and coffee by the fire afterward.

I am going to have to go with Winston Churchill on this.......Genius of a man, one of the most quoted leaders in the last 100 years... Should be interesting.
Churchill was fucking metal. See my sig. ;)

I'd say anyone living.

Richard Nixon, I'd like to have a long leisurely dinner with him and sip some brandy and coffee by the fire afterward.

i just dont see ever having a pleasant evening with nixon even if i admired him.

he doesnt seem the coffee and brandy by the fire type.

i just dont see ever having a pleasant evening with nixon even if i admired him.

he doesnt seem the coffee and brandy by the fire type.

I'd love to talk to him about Vietnam and Watergate. A nice dinner and brandy by the fire would be an outstanding setting for that. I do admire him for some of the things he did, like getting us out of Vietnam and having the balls to resign rather than put the nation through an impeachment. Other things I don't admire him for.

I'd love to talk to him about Vietnam and Watergate. A nice dinner and brandy by the fire would be an outstanding setting for that. I do admire him for some of the things he did, like getting us out of Vietnam and having the balls to resign rather than put the nation through an impeachment. Other things I don't admire him for.

yeah but he was a paranoid potty mouth. i cant stand potty mouths.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyamoto_Musashi

But he'd probably get disgusted by me and chop my head off.

"I have trained in the way of strategy since my youth, and at the age of thirteen I fought a duel for the first time. My opponent was called Arima Kihei, a sword adept of the Shinto ryu, and I defeated him. At the age of sixteen I defeated a powerful adept by the name of Akiyama, who came from the province of Tajima. At the age of twenty-one I went up to Kyoto and fought duels with several adepts of the sword from famous schools, but I never lost."

Jim Morrison. We'd get blasted and hit the town. People would probably die.
I knew someone'd say that.

So instead I'll go with our dear boy, Keith Moon. We'd consume large amounts of LSD, alcohol, heroin and cocaine, get in an oversized pickup, hit the down, and by the time we were done, the entire planet which be consumed in a massive fire and everyone would be dead.

Beat that.

Depends. Whoever increases my personal fortune (from zero to a good amount) or whoever increases my personal power (from zero to a good amount).

Could I meet myself? You know.. just to to see what I'm like..

Karl Marx.

So I could slap him for being an idiot and promoting dictatorships that eventually killed at least 100million people.

Karl Marx.

So I could slap him for being an idiot and promoting dictatorships that eventually killed at least 100million people.

Puhlease... have you seen his beard? That man was hards as nails!

I knew someone'd say that.

So instead I'll go with our dear boy, Keith Moon. We'd consume large amounts of LSD, alcohol, heroin and cocaine, get in an oversized pickup, hit the down, and by the time we were done, the entire planet which be consumed in a massive fire and everyone would be dead.

Beat that.

Yeah, but Jim would do it while discussing philosophy and fending off homosexuals.

I'm presuming the title is missing the word 'could'; if it's not, then the next person I meet will probably be my fiancée, which isn't going to be all that interesting for you to read.

E.H. Dance. Only so I could repeatedly punch the wanker in the face.

I actually got to meet one of the people that I wanted to meet. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, the fastest man alive, the first one to go over Mach 1, Mr. Supersonic himself, Captain Chuck Yeager! He was fun, and he actually cussed me out, mainly because I was getting a picture with him and I was holding up a picture that he signed and he said "Put that damn picture down, you want a picture of us not of a poster." :D

In leidu of Mr. Chuck Yeager, I would also like to meet the Wright Brothers. Mainly because I want to designed an airplane too and sell it to either Boeing, Airbus, or Lockheed for a large amount of cash.

You'll eventually find out soon enough.

Assuming that the word 'could' is missing...I'll go with Kurt Cobain.

yeah but he was a paranoid potty mouth. i cant stand potty mouths.Why the fuck not?

Yeah, but Jim would do it while discussing philosophy and fending off homosexuals.Fending off? You sure about that?

I actually got to meet one of the people that I wanted to meet. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, the fastest man alive, the first one to go over Mach 1, Mr. Supersonic himself, Captain Chuck Yeager! He was fun, and he actually cussed me out, mainly because I was getting a picture with him and I was holding up a picture that he signed and he said "Put that damn picture down, you want a picture of us not of a poster." :D

In leidu of Mr. Chuck Yeager, I would also like to meet the Wright Brothers. Mainly because I want to designed an airplane too and sell it to either Boeing, Airbus, or Lockheed for a large amount of cash.

ooooooo you lucky dog!

I've already met lots of people, actually.

If I could meet anyone, dead or alive, for, say, a day, I'd meet my grandmother from my mom's side (may she rest in peace). I still miss her a lot and it's been almost ten years since she passed away. :(

living or dead, who would it be?

Someone living. The dead are notoriously bad at conversation.

Myself from the future......or Marx or Lenin....that would be interesting

Someone living. The dead are notoriously bad at conversation.

you win....

Bismarck.

Vladimir Lenin.

Immanuel Kant. I have a number of questions I'd like to ask him.

lol - I don't know if you meant to write that funnily but I read it as an "Oi, Kant, you obscure bastard, come over here and explain yourself on a priori, you've pissed me off long enough now!'

*Kant humbly shuffles over*

For me - I think I'd like to chat to Zhou Enlai circa 1970

Bob Dole (http://www.bobdole.org/bio/)

Kinda of an inside joke between me and my friends, I mean I'd just like to meet the guy we talk about most... probably because of when he was on the Simpsons.

The Marquis de Sade. Now there was a man worthy of admiration.

me 15 years ago. i'd give him a proper kicking.

Bob Dylan.

Bob Dylan.

who wouldn't want to meet Bob Dylan?...other than Bob Dylan

It's quite tempting to turn this into a what historical figure would you most like to kill (before they [whatever they're infamous for]) thread, but I can't make up my mind on whether I'd strangle Thiers before he could destroy the communards and escape widespread infamy for it, Trotsky before he could finish-off Russian communism in similar fashion and end up infuriatingly credited for trying to save it, or Steve Bucknor before he could give Strauss out in the Adelaide test.

...or else leave it with a heartfelt that girl from the other night, whose name I can't actually remember

Instead I think maybe I'll just say that the idea of talking to Vercingetorix quite appeals to me, except that I'm not sure how to ask, "So, why didn't you charge before they built a fucking fort around you?" in a language he'd understand. The idea of a Celtic rather than Classical culture dominating Europe for the last two thousand years is terribly interesting.

The living one.


You must think I'm REALLY stupid.

That dick that made me have to learn French (with Spanish as the other option) when nobody in my hometown fucking speaks French (or Spanish for that matter) but just under a third (of half a million) people speak Mandarin.

Ned Kelly (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Kelly). I'd love to get to the bottom of his story. Was he a folkloric hero or cold blooded murderer?

Immanuel Kant. I have a number of questions I'd like to ask him.
especially find out if he really was a pissant.

If you meet anyone....
living or dead, who would it be?
I'd prefer living, cause dead people aren't that interesting. Also they smell real bad.
but you can poke them with a stick...

hmmm...now I am confused.

when i meet someone, it generally tends to be whoever happens to be there.

is there some other way for this to be?

if the question was intended to be: "who would i like to meet?", my answer would be "why?".

not that i have anything against ever meeting anyone, but my life would be perfectly content were there no need ever to do so.

from time to time there are, i suppose, individuals i MIGHT be curious to meet, some i've encountered on line, a very few by their wider reputation.

but i'm afraid that's about it, really.

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Hitler, it would be good to see what all the fuss is about :p

living or dead, who would it be?

Patrick Stewart. I'd ask him what the hell he thought he was doing shooting Star Trek: Insurrection and Star Trek: Nemesis and probably get about an hour-long speech on how fed up he is with Star Trek only to hear him planning some other Trek movie later down the line like he always does.

Niels Bohr. It would be nice to get wasted on beers while discussing epistemology and quantum mechanics.... oh wait, this is my standard weekend (just without Niels Bohr:( )

*nerd alert* *nerd alert*

Niels Bohr. It would be nice to get wasted on beers while discussing epistemology and quantum mechanics.... oh wait, this is my standard weekend (just without Niels Bohr:( )

*nerd alert* *nerd alert*

I would definitely enjoy a chat with Bohr. 'Course if we're making a list of scientists I'd like to chat with, let's add Einstein, Fermi, Feynman, Marie Curie, and Oppenheimer.

Fyodor Dostoevsky: I would like to ask him what he thought of my interpretations of his works and also I would like to tell him how prophetic his vision was in regards to 20th Century Russia.

I would want to meet my paternal grandfather...of course meet is the wrong word since I already knew him.

But as a boy i disrespected the man, and he died before i could even realize I needed to apologize.

It is, without a doubt the only thing in my life i regret, period.

It is the only thing about my life I would change if I could go back, with absolute certainty I know this.

My shitty childish self still feels pain when I think of it.

I would apologize to him, and let him know I understnad now.