# Five people you want to meet **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 11, 2012, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-people-you-want-to-meet/637423 "2012-10-11T15:34:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![getitrite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@getitrite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/getitrite)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-people-you-want-to-meet/637423/41 "2012-10-12T23:32:44Z")
John Stewart - humor Dali Lama - world experience Michio Kaku - science stuff Hiliary Clinton - diplomacy Warren Buffett - money matters and on stand by Nathan Fillion if it’s for sexy stuff ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-people-you-want-to-meet/637423/42 "2012-10-13T00:19:17Z")
> [@ducati](#): > > James Herriot, because he’s humorous and self-deprecating If by James Herriot, you mean the veterinarian and writer James Wight, he is no longer available for dinner, having passed away in 1995. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-people-you-want-to-meet/637423/43 "2012-10-13T01:23:08Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Interesting: no women. You don’t consider Mila Kunis to be female? 😮 I think I want to put Tom Waits in there somewhere. Though I wonder how conversation between him and Bowie would go… ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-people-you-want-to-meet/637423/44 "2012-10-13T01:39:19Z")
> [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](#): > > I guarantee in 5 minutes I would come up with 5 new names. Its gotta be like this. Its just human nature. There are a lot, but I know I’d screw it up. I’d either freeze up or go shy or some how through some act of foolishness I’d mess it up and make it awkward. You know, like here. 😃 Sometimes I’ll ask myself this question, but I find myself thinking, “Really…? You Really want to ruin their day…? I thought you liked them.” I’d probably start the conversation with something that my vapor-locked brain thought was witty, but was really, really stupid. “Hi. I’m an average but very shy guy whose overcompensating badly & is acting like a complete ass. _So Very Nice to Meet You…!_” ---
**Author:** ![Sin\_Serially](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Sin\_Serially](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sin_Serially)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-people-you-want-to-meet/637423/45 "2012-10-13T03:36:16Z")
Alton Brown - for the food and the funny Nigella Lawson - same as above and she’s gorgeous Natalie Portman - has to have interesting Hollywood stories - also seems like she would be funny. Yeah ok, she’s pretty hot too. Robert Downey Jr. - Very charismatic, funny, and knows “things.” Johnny Depp - He’ll just make the others more interesting. By being strange. Hopefully not humping things. Ok, he can hump things, just not the guests. (Or me - even though I’d be flattered) ---
**Author:** ![\_Olive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/4af34b/32.png) [@\_Olive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Olive)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-people-you-want-to-meet/637423/46 "2012-10-13T05:58:47Z")
Keb’ Mo’ Barack Obama Bill Gates Stephen Hawking dalai lama ---
**Author:** ![truthSeeker2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7cd45c/32.png) [@truthSeeker2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/truthSeeker2)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-people-you-want-to-meet/637423/47 "2012-10-13T06:47:10Z")
Kate winslet she’s so hot n she’s a talented actor. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-people-you-want-to-meet/637423/48 "2012-10-13T12:20:16Z")
> [@Missy2U](#): > > Eddie Vrdolyak You must live in Chicago!😃 Oh, i see others have addressed the issue!😛 ---
**Author:** ![ducati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-people-you-want-to-meet/637423/49 "2012-10-13T16:46:56Z")
> [@SpoilerVirgin](#): > > If by James Herriot, you mean the veterinarian and writer James Wight, he is no longer available for dinner, having passed away in 1995. :smack: I read alive \*\*OR \*\*dead! replace Thurber with James Earl Jones, and Alf Wight with Jenny McCarthy. JEJ would be a memorable dinner, and JM because I want her more than life itself.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-people-you-want-to-meet/637423/50 "2012-10-15T12:39:32Z")
> [@truthSeeker2](#): > > Kate winslet she’s so hot n she’s a talented actor. Yeah shes kul 2 but i think shes a stickler 4 grammar n punctuation. mmm ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-people-you-want-to-meet/637423/51 "2012-10-15T13:02:09Z")
John Goodman. Kate Winslet. Kenneth Branagh. Margaret Thatcher. And, yeah, I’d add Ringo Starr. Wouldn’t ask him any Beatles stuff, tho. He just seems pretty cool. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-people-you-want-to-meet/637423/52 "2012-10-15T14:14:19Z")
Bill Clinton Hillary Clinton Benjamin Netanyahu Aung San Suu Kyi Nelson Mandela ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-people-you-want-to-meet/637423/53 "2012-10-15T14:25:27Z")
Keira Knightley Queen Elizabeth II Nelson Mandela My sons’ wives, someday… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-people-you-want-to-meet/637423.md?page=2)