# 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:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Tommy\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Tommy\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tommy_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2001, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-day-to-spend-with-anyone-from-history-who-would-it-be/66695/41 "2001-05-31T19:06:09Z")
Allow me to clarify my choice. David Lee Roth in Van Halen’s heyday. Not Diamond Dave in his latter, balding, Vegas years. [sub]Damn, I’m talking about the man like he’s already dead.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2001, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-day-to-spend-with-anyone-from-history-who-would-it-be/66695/42 "2001-05-31T21:50:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Weirddave \* > **Dr. Martin _Luthor_ King.** “I have a dream… a dream that someday, Superman will be encased in a solid block of green Kryptonite…” [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![NotWithoutRage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NotWithoutRage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotWithoutRage)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2001, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-day-to-spend-with-anyone-from-history-who-would-it-be/66695/43 "2001-05-31T23:01:41Z")
Harvey Milk. Without a doubt. If I get two, I’d like to spend the day with my mother’s father, who died when I was eight. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2001, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-day-to-spend-with-anyone-from-history-who-would-it-be/66695/44 "2001-05-31T23:15:49Z")
Kurt Godel or Alan Turing. I just to find out what kind of person comes up with stuff like they did. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2001, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-day-to-spend-with-anyone-from-history-who-would-it-be/66695/45 "2001-05-31T23:38:17Z")
John Lennon after The Beatles. I’d want to hear him talk about music. I’d want to discuss World Peace with him. I’d love to pick his brain about what really happened with The Beatles. None of the crap he fed journalists and talk-show hosts to get them off his back. We could make bread and watch his kid and then we could draw pictures and have a few drinks. We could philosophize, crack dirty jokes and listen to Elvis Prestly records, or maybe some Buddy Holly. And of course, I’d get Paul McCartney’s number from him. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2001, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-day-to-spend-with-anyone-from-history-who-would-it-be/66695/46 "2001-06-01T00:34:09Z")
Okay, I’m ready! **Cyrus R. Teed** (1840-1908)! Researcher in Electro-Alchemical Science! Originator of the Centrifugal-Concavity Theory, stating that the world exists on the inner surface of an 8,000-mile diameter hollow golden ball floating in space! Founder of Estero, the Floridian community of peace and prosperity! “We live inside!” No, no…this guy was obviously a lunatic…lemme think some more… ---
**Author:** ![katiekilldare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/838e76/32.png) [@katiekilldare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/katiekilldare)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2001, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-day-to-spend-with-anyone-from-history-who-would-it-be/66695/47 "2001-06-01T20:35:48Z")
**Sir Walter Raleigh** , to be sure. Explorer, author, poet, pet of Elizabeth I (for a while), credited with planting the first potato in North America. He joked with his executioner and gave the signal for the axe to fall. Plus he was a cutie. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2001, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-day-to-spend-with-anyone-from-history-who-would-it-be/66695/48 "2001-06-02T17:12:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Badtz Maru \* > \*\*As a kid I always fantasized about hanging out with H.G. Wells (after seeing Time after Time). It would be interesting to see what he thought of modern times. > \*\* /hijack/You saw that movie? That brings the total number of people I know who saw that movie to five! The best unknown movie in history!!!/hijack ends. I would like to talk to Jesus H. Christ (after the resurrection, if possible), or maybe Timothy McVeigh before the bombing (with a loaded .45 Magnum). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-day-to-spend-with-anyone-from-history-who-would-it-be/66695.md?page=2)