# A day to spend with anyone from history..Who would it be? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 27, 2001, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-day-to-spend-with-anyone-from-history-who-would-it-be/66695 "2001-05-27T17:38:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tornado\_Siren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Tornado\_Siren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tornado_Siren)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2001, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-day-to-spend-with-anyone-from-history-who-would-it-be/66695/1 "2001-05-27T17:38:48Z")
This has probably been done…but I am still curious. You have an unlimited budget. You can go or do anything you want to do for one day. You can choose from any one person(living or dead)to join you. Who would you choose, and where would you go? Myself, I would Love to spend a day barhopping with Mark Twain. Think of the the fun? Of course, I also have this fantasy involving Harrison Ford, Kurt Russell, and myself in a hottub. But I figured it was too shallow to mention at a first go. ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2001, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-day-to-spend-with-anyone-from-history-who-would-it-be/66695/2 "2001-05-27T21:33:50Z")
I am not the least bit religious but I would love to have a heart to heart with Jesus. No other person has had such an effect on mankind. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2001, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-day-to-spend-with-anyone-from-history-who-would-it-be/66695/3 "2001-05-28T08:26:58Z")
One of my favorite fantasies has always been an evening at the pub with Ben Jonson. He’d be interesting in his own right (how many devastatingly witty dead poets do you get a chance to meet?), but he also knew _everybody_ – Shakespeare, Donne, James I – and was a notorious gossip. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2001, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-day-to-spend-with-anyone-from-history-who-would-it-be/66695/4 "2001-05-28T09:01:00Z")
Hmm… I think it would be very interesting (and amusing) to sit down and swap fantasies with the Marquis de Sade. I imagine I can think of a couple things that he hadn’t come up with, and I think he’d be very entertained by those notions. ---
**Author:** ![Piell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/34f0e0/32.png) [@Piell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Piell)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2001, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-day-to-spend-with-anyone-from-history-who-would-it-be/66695/5 "2001-05-28T11:33:01Z")
I would like to spend a day with Hitler. (with a few fully licensed torturers, of course) ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2001, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-day-to-spend-with-anyone-from-history-who-would-it-be/66695/6 "2001-05-28T13:34:19Z")
I’d have to second Mark Twain. Another good one would be Winston Churchill, but not the old one. The YOUNG Winston Churchill. Or maybe the young Teddy Roosevelt. Crazy bastards, but smart. Einstein would also be good. Jesus would be interesting but I don’t speak Assyrian. ---
**Author:** ![dodge\_this](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@dodge\_this](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dodge_this)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2001, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-day-to-spend-with-anyone-from-history-who-would-it-be/66695/7 "2001-05-28T14:05:53Z")
This may sound strange, morbid even, but I’d like to spend a day with Virginia Woolf. I’d like to be with her the day she decided to walk into the river with rocks in her pockets. Richard Feynman would be my second choice, followed closely by Oscar Wilde. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2001, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-day-to-spend-with-anyone-from-history-who-would-it-be/66695/8 "2001-05-28T14:23:04Z")
Nicholas II of Russia and his family, and King Alexander of Yugoslavia-(I have a crush on him…). I’d convince him to propose to Grand Duchess Olga before it was too late. (He wanted to marry her, but the war interrupted him from courting her while he was Crown Prince of Serbia, and then she was killed while he was at the front. He never got over it.) ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2001, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-day-to-spend-with-anyone-from-history-who-would-it-be/66695/9 "2001-05-28T14:37:26Z")
Abe Lincoln. He’s my favorite from history, plus he seems like a real interesting guy from what I learned in Civil War class. ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2001, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-day-to-spend-with-anyone-from-history-who-would-it-be/66695/10 "2001-05-29T04:56:14Z")
Probably someone who was controversial, just to find out what they were really like (I realize one day might not resolve that, but whaddya do?): Richard III and Tiberius are two that are foremost in my mind. Alternately, someone who left a significant imprint on the world, like Julius Caesar, Augustus, Jesus Christ. ---
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2001, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-day-to-spend-with-anyone-from-history-who-would-it-be/66695/11 "2001-05-29T05:10:36Z")
About Jesus speaking Assyrian… I have a feeling if He truly was the Son of God, He would have no trouble conversing in whatever language necessary. 😃 I don’t know who I’d really want to talk to, Jesus maybe. I would find it fascinating to speak with Hitler for a while, though, and do my best to figure out how a man can be so driven by hate. –Tim ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2001, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-day-to-spend-with-anyone-from-history-who-would-it-be/66695/12 "2001-05-29T05:13:40Z")
Shakespeare. ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2001, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-day-to-spend-with-anyone-from-history-who-would-it-be/66695/13 "2001-05-29T05:19:33Z")
Mark Twain or Will Rogers. Both lived interesting lives, yet both could see the humor in those lives. ---
**Author:** ![ColonelMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f6c823/32.png) [@ColonelMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColonelMoose)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2001, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-day-to-spend-with-anyone-from-history-who-would-it-be/66695/14 "2001-05-29T06:39:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RickJay \* > \*\*Jesus would be interesting but I don’t speak Assyrian. \*\* Uhm, hate to nitpick, but I think Jesus spoke Aramaic. This, of course, could be incorrect- I’m a political science, not religion major. M. ---
**Author:** ![Juniper200](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@Juniper200](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Juniper200)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2001, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-day-to-spend-with-anyone-from-history-who-would-it-be/66695/15 "2001-05-29T06:44:30Z")
I would either doll myself and attend a ball at the court of (young) Ludwig II of Bavaria ( **tsarina** : _Wagner kommt! Wagner kommt!_) or I would attend a lavish diner party with Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. ---
**Author:** ![Katisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Katisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katisha)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2001, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-day-to-spend-with-anyone-from-history-who-would-it-be/66695/16 "2001-05-29T06:50:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ColonelMoose \* > \*\*Uhm, hate to nitpick, but I think Jesus spoke Aramaic. This, of course, could be incorrect- I’m a political science, not religion major. > \*\* No, you’re right – Jesus spoke Aramaic. I’d have to go with Will Shakespeare, though…a choice which should be surprising to absolutely no one. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2001, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-day-to-spend-with-anyone-from-history-who-would-it-be/66695/17 "2001-05-29T12:03:32Z")
Toss-up between John Adams and Richard Feynmann… I kinda lean towards Adams, because I’ve been able to at least see Feynmann on NOVA and such. Or maybe Abigail Adams… Decisions, decisions… ---
**Author:** ![holdenmagroin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5daacb/32.png) [@holdenmagroin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/holdenmagroin)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2001, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-day-to-spend-with-anyone-from-history-who-would-it-be/66695/18 "2001-05-29T12:10:26Z")
Ok, I guess I’m not as refined as everyone else answering this question but I’d like to hang out with The Babe. The booze, the women…maybe take some batting practice with him, get a few pointers. Wow…The Babe ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2001, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-day-to-spend-with-anyone-from-history-who-would-it-be/66695/19 "2001-05-29T12:20:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by holdenmagroin \* > \*\*Ok, I guess I’m not as refined as everyone else answering this question but I’d like to hang out with The Babe. The booze, the women…maybe take some batting practice with him, get a few pointers. Wow…The Babe \*\* Ruth or Didrickson? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Raziel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4bbf92/32.png) [@Raziel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raziel)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2001, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-day-to-spend-with-anyone-from-history-who-would-it-be/66695/20 "2001-05-29T12:31:52Z")
Sun Tzu. Maybe after an hour on bringing him up to speed, he can help me beat that blasted Starcraft game. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-day-to-spend-with-anyone-from-history-who-would-it-be/66695.md?page=2)