# If you could invite anybody to your dinner party

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-invite-anybody-to-your-dinner-party/119745>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 19, 2002, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-invite-anybody-to-your-dinner-party/119745 "2002-07-19T02:45:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2002, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-invite-anybody-to-your-dinner-party/119745/21 "2002-07-20T18:20:07Z")

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Ralph Nader  
Abbie Hoffman  
Lenny Bruce  
Wavy Gravy  
Dick Gregory  
Stokely Carmichael  
can you tell I’m a hippie?😉

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**Author:** ![brainychick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b38774/32.png) [@brainychick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brainychick)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2002, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-invite-anybody-to-your-dinner-party/119745/22 "2002-07-20T20:59:02Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Lorenzo \*  
> \*\*Jesus, Bill Clinton, Dennis Rodman, Rudy Giuliani, JFK, David Letterman, Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Janet Reno, John Summers, Thomas Jefferson, Albert Einstein, Gandhi, Pete Townsend, Roger Daltrey, all of the Beatles, Janis Joplin, Joan Jett, The Wilson Sisters, Howard Cosell, Muhammad Ali, Cesar Chavez, C.S. Lewis, Gary Larson, Jerry Seinfeld, Richard Pryor, Mike Meyers, '70-79 Pittsburgh Pirates, John Belushi, John Meynard Keynes, my dad, Oprah, Rosie O’Donnell, Pam Anderson, Abe Lincoln, Gilda Radner, Dr. Seuss, Norman Schwarzkopf, Don Felder, Randy Meisner, Joe Walsh, Glen Frey, Jackson Brown, Stevie Wonder, friends and family, am I forgetting someone? \*\*

Most of these. Reminds me of a short story I heard an actor read on NPR. It’s called “Uta Dream” or something like that, about some guy dreaming of having a dinner party, inviting a bunch of people with wierd names, and having to introduce them to each other, to comedic effect.

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2002, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-invite-anybody-to-your-dinner-party/119745/23 "2002-07-20T22:04:32Z")

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Mikhail Gorbachev

Seriously.

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**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2002, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-invite-anybody-to-your-dinner-party/119745/24 "2002-07-21T03:50:13Z")

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Thomas Alva Edison, Jesus, Moses, Joseph Smith, Buddha, Marie Curie, Elanor Roosevelt, Ted Churchill, Jeff Kedson, Janice Nevyas, Kerry Miller, Sam Shephard, Hilary Clinton, Harriet Tubman, Benjamin Franklin, Cora McNeil, Christa MacCauliffe, Wilma Rudolph, Pern Beckman and last but surely not least, Stanley Kubrick.

Cartooniverse

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