# Dinner for Six **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [October 15, 1999, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dinner-for-six/16849 "1999-10-15T18:26:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![SoxFan59](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@SoxFan59](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoxFan59)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 1999, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dinner-for-six/16849/41 "1999-10-18T19:01:00Z")
“He is in attendance whether invited or not.” Well, obviously He needs to brush up on his Emily Post. \>\>\> Flora Entertainingly flippant, Flora. But there is nothing in Emily Post regarding ominpresent but wilfully ignored guests. I believe Jesus Himself tried to deal with this with the verse in Revelation about standing at the door and knocking. Sox: Would that be Joe Jackson of the infamous Black Sox? Or the Joe Jackson of angst rockers such as “Is She Really Goin’ Out With Him?”\>\>\>\>\> Waste Well, Waste, I certainly meant the baseball player. But I also thought about musicians I might invite. I have always admired the work of Johannes Brahms above most other composers. not only for its beauty but for what I percieved to be his philosophy as he wrote it. I would be interested in talking with him about that. So perhaps I’d invite Mr. Brahams if Joe couldn’t make (he’s always hanging out in Iowa Cornfields and such). * * * SoxFan59 “Its fiction, but all the facts are true!” ---
**Author:** ![GLWasteful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f05b48/32.png) [@GLWasteful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GLWasteful)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 1999, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dinner-for-six/16849/42 "1999-10-18T19:25:00Z")
Actually, Sox, I sorta assumed as much. The problem seems to be with the HTML code for smart-assed remarks. . . And Brahms was okay, but I always liked Beethoven. And if I invited him, I would have to invite Mozart, just so Herr B could have someone to curse at. Which brings up Salieri, who I would need to invite so that he cou… Ah, forget it. I’m going for sesame noodles. If any of them want to come, they have to pick up their own checks. Waste Flick Lives! ---
**Author:** ![CatInHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@CatInHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatInHat)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 1999, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dinner-for-six/16849/43 "1999-10-18T20:03:00Z")
OK, I’m assuming that neither language nor proof of existence is an issue. Here are my choices. 1. Pope Joan B. Elizabeth Cady Stanton iii. Plato d. Frank McCourt I don’t know that this is the best possible combination of guests, but I’d like to meet all of them. I have NO IDEA what we’d talk about, or what I’d feed them, or anything. If I could have 2 such parties, I might re-arrange the guest list some. * * * The Cat In The Hat ---
**Author:** ![CatInHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@CatInHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatInHat)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 1999, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dinner-for-six/16849/44 "1999-10-18T20:03:00Z")
OK, I’m assuming that neither language nor proof of existence is an issue. Here are my choices. 1. Pope Joan B. Elizabeth Cady Stanton iii. Plato d. Frank McCourt I don’t know that this is the best possible combination of guests, but I’d like to meet all of them. I have NO IDEA what we’d talk about, or what I’d feed them, or anything. If I could have 2 such parties, I might re-arrange the guest list some. * * * The Cat In The Hat ---
**Author:** ![CatInHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@CatInHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatInHat)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 1999, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dinner-for-six/16849/45 "1999-10-18T20:04:00Z")
AARGH!!! Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 1999, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dinner-for-six/16849/46 "1999-10-18T20:16:00Z")
You can’t invite them twice, Cat!! Peabody was very explicit on the contract for the Wayback Machine. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![David\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@David\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_B)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 1999, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dinner-for-six/16849/47 "1999-10-18T20:46:00Z")
Incidentally, folks, if you accidentally double-post, just leave it. You can tell me in e-mail, or I may catch it myself. Either way, I’ll delete the extra. I would have here, but by the time Cat apologized and Poly referred to it, I’d have to be deleting like 3 messages, and I don’t want to do that (Poly would have been wondering what the heck he did to deserve deletion 🙂 ). Just an FYI. * * * David B, SDMB Great Debates Moderator ---
**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:** [October 18, 1999, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dinner-for-six/16849/48 "1999-10-18T20:54:00Z")
Oh, yeah…my other reason for inviting Petronius, Li Po, Dr. Johnson, and Baudelaire (beyond their conversation) is to see which one of us would be the last upright one when the others were dead drunk under the table. * * * Uke ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 1999, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dinner-for-six/16849/49 "1999-10-18T20:57:00Z")
Simulation scheduled for one hour from now. * * * Livin’ on Tums, Vitamin E and Rogaine ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 1999, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dinner-for-six/16849/50 "1999-10-19T02:08:00Z")
Whoops, finally caught up on reading this thread and left out Polycarp’s request to explain the choices… I thought this bunch would be a good mix for conversation and interests. Elizabeth I: worldly, witty, subtle and enjoyed a good time…and good men! Hillel: for wisdom and insight and depth. Mark Twain: funny, excellent conversationalist; it’d be fun to see his interactions w/ Liz! Regal old world redhead meets irreverent new world redhead. Mme. de Stael: much like Liz; a wordly, witty charmer w/ killer looks and charm. And Ben Franklin: excellent company, witty, urbane, and it’d be fun to see how long it took him to seduce Mme. in the butler’s pantry. Or vice versa. (I wanted to throw Winston Churchill in there, too, but the table is getting crowded.) Abandoned by Ben, Veb ---
**Author:** ![okatym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/76d3ee/32.png) [@okatym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/okatym)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 1999, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dinner-for-six/16849/51 "1999-10-20T05:21:00Z")
Simon Peter Martin Luther Martin Luther King, Jr. Victor Hugo Mary, Mother of Jesus Dr. Laura Schlessinger Simon Peter: I’d want to see what this “rock” upon which Jesus built his church thinks of his progeny. (I’d be particularly interested in his opinion of Saint Peter’s Cathedral, where they worship his bones and his statue.) Martin Luther: A revolutionary who rocked the church and changed it forever. Martin Luther King, Jr.: An admirable, amazing man. Victor Hugo: Wrote the most inspirational novel I ever read, “Les Miserables”, although it took me forever to finish it. Mary, Jesus’ mother: I’d find out what’s up with her showing her face all around the third world and mixing up all those poor people. Dr. Laura Schlessinger: Interesting addition to the mix…She would be humbled and improved. ---
**Author:** ![okatym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/76d3ee/32.png) [@okatym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/okatym)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 1999, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dinner-for-six/16849/52 "1999-10-20T05:35:00Z")
OOOPS—I knew you said 4, but for some reason I was thinking 6… Anyway, please uninvite Dr. Laura…I don’t really want her there anyway. And I guess Martin Luther King, Jr. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 1999, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dinner-for-six/16849/53 "1999-10-19T18:01:00Z")
That’s OK, Katy; you can send the extras over to David’s, since he has two empty chairs! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 1999, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dinner-for-six/16849/54 "1999-10-19T18:33:00Z")
1. Dr. Laura 2. Howard Stern 3. Jerry " no more fightin’" Springer 4. Bill Maher Would be very interesting. ---
**Author:** ![AzRaek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/azraek/32/16739_2.png) [@AzRaek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AzRaek)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 1999, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dinner-for-six/16849/55 "1999-10-21T03:37:00Z")
Shirley, you need to film that dinner! * * * “On the edge of sleep, I awoke to a sun so bright…” ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 1999, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dinner-for-six/16849/56 "1999-10-22T19:23:00Z")
AND to liven things up, I think I would have a couple of play boy bunnies/ hooters girls and Dr. Laura’s ex lover that took those naked pictures of her when she was younger work as servers during the course of the meal. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 1999, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dinner-for-six/16849/57 "1999-10-22T21:35:00Z")
AzRaek wrote: > [@](#): > > Shirley, you need to film that dinner! I _am_ serious. And don’t call me Shirley. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dinner-for-six/16849.md?page=2)