# You can have dinner with one famous person who shares your birthday **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 4, 2013, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-have-dinner-with-one-famous-person-who-shares-your-birthday/646086 "2013-01-04T17:54:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-have-dinner-with-one-famous-person-who-shares-your-birthday/646086/41 "2013-01-04T20:03:13Z")
> [@Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](#): > > Wow - I’ve got a LOT of choices! It’d be a toughie but I think I’ll go with William Shatner. 🙂 And not Colonel Klink? Pfff… ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-have-dinner-with-one-famous-person-who-shares-your-birthday/646086/42 "2013-01-04T20:05:18Z")
Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-have-dinner-with-one-famous-person-who-shares-your-birthday/646086/43 "2013-01-04T20:06:30Z")
Merriweather Lewis Rosalyn Carter Robert Redford Christian Slater I think I’d love to have Lewis tell me all about travelling across the Great Plains and how hot Sacajawea really was. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-have-dinner-with-one-famous-person-who-shares-your-birthday/646086/44 "2013-01-04T20:08:23Z")
Frank Capra or Pope John Paul 2. I think I’ll go with Il Poppa. Most entertainers that I’ve met have been sore disappointments, and PJ always struck me as a very holy man. I saw him speak in Rome once, and you could see the holiness coming off him like cold smoke off dry ice. ---
**Author:** ![Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/77aa72/32.png) [@Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fluffy_PickleSniffer)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-have-dinner-with-one-famous-person-who-shares-your-birthday/646086/45 "2013-01-04T20:12:14Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > And not Colonel Klink? Pfff… I know _nothiiiiingk!_ ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-have-dinner-with-one-famous-person-who-shares-your-birthday/646086/46 "2013-01-04T20:14:09Z")
H.G. Wells ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-have-dinner-with-one-famous-person-who-shares-your-birthday/646086/47 "2013-01-04T20:14:11Z")
There are several that are quite tempting; John Prine, Ben Vereen, Theolonious Monk, Harold Pinter, Helen Hayes, but I think I’d have to go with Ed Wood Jr. Not sure if he’d dress for the occasion. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-have-dinner-with-one-famous-person-who-shares-your-birthday/646086/48 "2013-01-04T20:18:27Z")
Ooh, I think I would have to go with Howard Carter, although Belle Boyd would also be interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-have-dinner-with-one-famous-person-who-shares-your-birthday/646086/49 "2013-01-04T20:27:18Z")
Oh no question for me. Harvey Kurtzman who founded Mad Magazine. I’m afraid I could not keep from gushing and fawning and embarrassing myself. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-have-dinner-with-one-famous-person-who-shares-your-birthday/646086/50 "2013-01-04T20:36:16Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > And not Colonel Klink? Pfff… I don’t know if I’d like to have dinner with Werner Klemperer, but I’d love to to meet his dad. ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-have-dinner-with-one-famous-person-who-shares-your-birthday/646086/51 "2013-01-04T20:38:31Z")
I have a pretty bad one. I will exchange it sight unseen with anyone else’s - even Mugabe’s Feb. 21 ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-have-dinner-with-one-famous-person-who-shares-your-birthday/646086/52 "2013-01-04T20:47:12Z")
Nov. 24th: Desmond Morris 1928 Runner ups: Ernest Borgnine 1917 Warren Zevon 1947 John Belushi 1949 ---
**Author:** ![Sassy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@Sassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sassy)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-have-dinner-with-one-famous-person-who-shares-your-birthday/646086/53 "2013-01-04T20:51:01Z")
Will Rogers, Art Carney, Delbert McClinton, Robert Mapplethorpe, Laura Bush, Ralph Macchio … I think I have to choose Walter Cronkite ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-have-dinner-with-one-famous-person-who-shares-your-birthday/646086/54 "2013-01-04T20:57:14Z")
Jerry Mathers as the Beaver! Also, despite some mysterious oversight, Lester “Beetlejuice” Green. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-have-dinner-with-one-famous-person-who-shares-your-birthday/646086/55 "2013-01-04T21:03:06Z")
I really get robbed on these things. Full of C-listers, I tell ya. Hmm, do I go for Ray Stevens or Ernest Borgnine? Neil Diamond or Yakov Smirnoff? John Belushi would probably be entertaining, but I’ll probably go historical with the Emperor Hadian, or Frederick the Great of Prussia. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-have-dinner-with-one-famous-person-who-shares-your-birthday/646086/56 "2013-01-04T21:04:59Z")
If I get a translator, Suleiman the Magnificent. If not, hell, still Suleiman the Magnificent, because people with the middle name “the” rule. ---
**Author:** ![pete66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8c91f0/32.png) [@pete66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pete66)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-have-dinner-with-one-famous-person-who-shares-your-birthday/646086/57 "2013-01-04T21:07:29Z")
Some great choices for March 17th. A couple of porn stars, Stormy Daniels and Katie Morgan. Actor Rob Lowe and Kurt Russel. Musicians Billy Corgan and Nat King Cole. Inventor Gottlieb Daimler. And of course one true sicko, John Wayne Gacy. I wouldn’t have much of an appetite with that one. The one person I would really want to sit down and listen to his experiences is James Irwin, eighth man to walk on the moon. I bet there’s some fascinating storys there. There were others, but hell, hes been to the moon. [http://www.nndb.com/lists/594/000106276/](http://www.nndb.com/lists/594/000106276/) ---
**Author:** ![Speak\_to\_me\_Maddie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Speak\_to\_me\_Maddie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speak_to_me_Maddie)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-have-dinner-with-one-famous-person-who-shares-your-birthday/646086/58 "2013-01-04T21:08:12Z")
Well I’m an English teacher and a fan of his work I’d say Washington Irving, but I think I’d have a lot more fun with Alec Baldwin. ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-have-dinner-with-one-famous-person-who-shares-your-birthday/646086/59 "2013-01-04T21:11:20Z")
Will Durant. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-have-dinner-with-one-famous-person-who-shares-your-birthday/646086/60 "2013-01-04T21:23:10Z")
My three best choices would be hard to communicate with Mohammed Ali can barely speak Gerard Depardieu might be able to learn me some Русский Johannes Kepler, well, I do have a 6" telescope, at least we could try to look at (_no, I will not say it_) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-have-dinner-with-one-famous-person-who-shares-your-birthday/646086.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-have-dinner-with-one-famous-person-who-shares-your-birthday/646086.md?page=4)