You can have dinner with one famous person who shares your birthday

In My Humble Opinion
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You are allowed to have dinner with any one person, living or dead, who shares your birthday. Whom do you choose? Why do you choose this person? What questions or topics of discussion will you raise? Who picks up the tab?

Link to helpful reference site.

As for me, I will bypass the likes of Judd Hirsch, Eva Longoria, Dee Snider, and Fabio to break bread with Andrew Jackson.

I will press Old Hickory to speak to his advocacy for forced displacement and ethnic cleansing of Native American tribes. I will ask him if his views have changed at all in the 150+ years since his death.

And I will pick up the bill since I earn 3x as much as he ever made. :smiley:

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Wow, I get to choose from David Crosby, Steve Martin, Gary Larson, Halle Berry and Mila Kunis.

Halle and Mila get bumped…hotness will not win out this time, ladies!

Crosby might be pretty fascinating, but I think I’d probably feel inadequately prepared to do the dinner justice.

Gary Larson would be fantastic, hypothetically. However, I don’t know anything about his actual personality. He might turn out to be a creepy introver for all I know, and be terrible company.

So Steve Martin wins. I would ask him what it was like to be born a poor black child.

He would pick up the tab, but would forget his wallet. So, he’d have to play the banjo to earn our dinner.

3

Blues musician Corey Harris and I share birthdays, but I know that because we have talked over a meal, so he’s out. Robert Mugabe I guess.

4

Haydn and Bach are tempting. Al Gore and David Eisenhauer not so much.

I think I’ll choose Wm. Waldorf Astor. His place. After we’re done eating I’ll ask him if he ever feels guilty.

5

Neal Patrick Harris (FUCK YEAH).

6

Lots of singers and musicians I’m unfamiliar with, or Harry, Prince of Wales. I’m sure they’d all be great dinner companions, but I’m going with William Howard Taft.

7

I can honestly say that there’s no one the website lists for me that I have a burning desire to eat dinner with.

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I’ll skip Keir Dullea, Brooke Shields, Denholm Elliot, Clint Eastwood and even John Bonham in lieu of Walt Whitman.

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James Cook, who also happens to be my favorite explorer. He was fairly enlightened for his times and would have some amazing stories of adventure to share.

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Count Basie or Joe Strummer? I’m going with Basie…

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I have a fairly uninteresting group, but I’ll go with Bob Balaban because I bet he has great stories.

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Thanks a bunch - until this minute, I was unaware that I shared a birthday with former DC mayor and noted scumbag Marion Barry.

I don’t think I need to consider him.

Let’s see: Michelangelo, Cyrano de Bergerac, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Willie Stargell, Shaq, astronaut Gordon Cooper…I’m torn between Marquez and Stargell. Lots of baseball to talk about with Stargell, from an era I remember well. And I’d love to ask Marquez about how One Hundred Years of Solitude evolved in his mind. And I’d be happy to pick up the tab, either way.

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I’ll go with Stephen Colbert.

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Soren Kierkegaard, Karl Marx… I gotta go with Ann B. Davis, who played the Alice the maid on the Brady Bunch. Tina Yothers is a close second.

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Trade?

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Both Larry Flynt and Jenny McCarthy might make for interesting conversations, but I think I’ll go with Marcia Wallace.

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Yours is the toughest choice so for, in my opinion. I’d go with Steve Martin as well.

(But if it were Neil Young instead of Crosby, I’d take him)

(and resist the urge to go, “So, who’s the Old Man now, huh? Huh?”)
mmm

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What’s weird is I almost met him once. He left a record store a minute before I entered it.

He was shooting a scene right across the street at the time.

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Garrison Keillor. We could talk about movies and poetry and Minnesota. My grandmother lived there as a child.

Plan B is David Duchovny. I never watched X-files but I’ve enjoyed some movies he’s been in and have found him affable in interviews. I think he’d be a perfectly pleasant dinner companion.

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Whatever you do, don’t mention the bathtub.

Not a lot of great options for me (I used wikipedia, btw, which had a much more extensive and legible list than the site OP linked). I’d narrow it down to Dr. Benjamin Rush, Kit Carson, and Lemmy. I’m not really a huge Motorhead fan–Lemmy made the list mostly just because, LEMMY. Ben Rush and Kit Carson, that’s a tough call. Signer of the Declaration of Independence vs. famed mountain man and explorer. I’d go with Kit–there’s just no denying the romance of that period of history, and the tales he could tell…