Sumie, By all means, create a list of opposites. You might want to consider having five dinners so that you can have two guests at a time. That would keep the conversation focused.
PS, You might want to consider for dinner fare something soft, something that doesn't require knives. LOL
Nope to five dinners. These people would be such egotists that the conversation would surely bounce around.
Jerry Falwell
Pat Robertson
Oral Roberts
Billy Graham
Cardinal Law of Boston
Jesus
Cardinal Sheen (the first Christian I ever saw on TV)
Martin Luther King (the second Christian I ever saw on TV)
Bishop Pike
Mother Teresa
Larry King
(to moderate the discussion):
Most Christian believers don't really believe what Jesus said. Discuss.
Joe, Tres interesting group and topic for discussion. I wish this could actually take place. I would love to hear your report on the dinner conversation.
Maybe I'll write it up.
I have to check with Legal on the making stuff up parts.
Hee. hee.
Joe
Joe--
I would dearly LOVE to read the transcripts on that dinner!
Sofia, I think we should start a pool--who will you be tomorrow? I'm putting my money on Halle Berry.
Of course, if the dinner party was poulated by opposites, I should probably put up a security deposit for a cleanup crew. Things might get a bit...disuptive.
For my third dinner party, I thought I'd invite 10 writers of a particular genre, five men and five women. Seating arrangements not yet worked out.
Edgar Allan Poe
Arthur Conan Doyle
Dashiel Hammet
Josephine Tey
Agatha Christie
P D James
Dorothy Sayers
Raymond Chandler
Sue Grafton
That's nine with one man missing. I'm debating between Erle Stanley Gardner, Robert Parker and Mickey Spillane. Can't invite Manfred Lee and Frederick Dannay (Ellery Queen) as that would make it lopsided. Any helpful suggestions will be appreciated.
Who is this Jesus dude I keep hearing about? I hear he can turn water into wine, which would so save on the alcohol budget. If he can also turn piss into beer, he is the ultimate recycler as well.
hey Cav ~ he's a bud of mine ~ sits at the head of the table. Guests also included are (2) John Muir; (3) Abe, of course; (4) Carl Jung; (5)
Geronimo; (6) Significant other; (7) Hoft, Blatham, & Lola ( broquade dinner table settee seats three people) ; (8) Stradee (if ever located) (9) Sylvia Browne; and (10) Mel Gibson
All I know is this Jesus was this country boy, kinda of mama's boy at first glance, (lived at home till he was near 30,) then showed up at a number of spots and shot his mouth off at a couple.
They tried to roust him at Capharnum but, get this, he disappeared from their midst.
AND then at Cana, (cuz his mom asked him) saved the day for a young couple without enough bread to cover their bar bill,
but the best was yet to come.
A bunch come to see and hear him one day, by this time he was like a rock star, people would come over from the next county to hear what he had to say about everything, grace, father's kingdom, and who was blessed, all kinds of stuff. Anyway it was a scorcher, hot as well, never mind, and nobody had much of anything except this kid with some bread and dried fish. Jesus takes this kid's basket and touchs everything inside and then starts it down the first row. Everybody takes a hunk and passes it on, and on , and on. By the time that basket got to the back there was like twelve baskets full of fish and bread and fruit and water and well, so maybe everybody who was holding out chipped in and maybe Jesus made the whole thing multiply, the people were like who knows, but one thing's for sure.......
you get him to come to your dinner, you're likely to have more leftovers than you started with maybe and if you listen to his patter, well maybe you'll be on a different road than you are on now. maybe, there's no telling how things will go.
anyway that's all I know
Joe
Sumie, The clean-up crew is a good idea. Still waiting for your list. Okay. I'll stop nagging. I promise.
Andy, I can suggest several possible tenths. What about John Dickson Carr (Carter Dickson) or the guy who writes about race track mysteries (his name escapes me; my brain is mush). George Simenon is another possibility. Joseph Wambaugh--not so much a mystery writer as a police procedural writer, but tres good. Rex Stout is another possibility. But the decision is yours. Maybe you could have your party at one of those places where they stage crimes and the guests must solve the mystery. That would be fun.
Santuzza, Interesting guest list. Care to tell us why you've chosen whom you've chosen?
You're a big help, Roberta. Instead of shortening my list of pessible tenth man, you throw in more possibilities. Maybe John Dickxon Carr. Hmmm...I used to love his books when I was in university. I pick up an oldie now and it seems so contrived. Rex Stout was certainly no one to mess with, nor his hero, Caligula Foxe.
That's Dick Francis you were trying to think of, btw.
Dick Francis. Yes. Mercy bow coo, Andy.
Roberta ~
Jesus, a true humanitarian and a guy with a plan. His political views work for me (although the meeting with his army in the Garden could've gone a bit better). John Muir the naturalist, family man, and produce rancher, loved the Sierras and devoted his life to its preservation, plus did not allow workers at the ranch to poisen or shoot critters feeding from the orchards. My kinda guy. We all know a bit about Abe - his personal life in an upheaval - a war - yet managed to remain loyal and true to his beliefs. Besides, his choise of hats gives him an A rating in my book. Geronimo lived an extrodinary life. An Apache who's field abilities for evading soldiers upset the army bigtime - His first wife and children slaughtered by soldiers, his second family also killed - did not stop him from evading capture. The Apache people were not all sent to reservations but split apart, the children adopted by white farmers. Geronimo died a free man. His determination unparralled. Hoft, Lola, and Blatham - Blatham will need allys whilst speaking with Jesus :wink: Stradee ~ a close personal friend and one who prepares one hellava good meal (someone's gotta cook dinner). Sylvia Browne is one of the most hilarious woman I've ever met, plus, ya don't have to say "ya know?" to her, cause she does. And last but not least - Mel Gibson! I've seen every movie he's ever made, he's intelligent, witty, and wonderful to gaze at. Plus, he's Catholic and he and Jesus will get along just fine. And last but certainly not least ~ "Significant other" ~ private, wonderful....
Roberta ~
oops, Carl Jung ~ his philosophy amazing and I've placed his chair right next to Lola's ~ for reference
Haha, Santuzza, you are Stradee! Sounds like a good mix.
Santuzza, I have always been Jung at heart
and would love to hear the conversation regarding psychology and alchemy between him and the big J., who I suspect was actually a party animal, not the dour nailed up dude a lot have come to fear.
