Top 5 people you'd like to meet from any place and anytime

I'll start...doesn't have to be your permanent top 5...just off the top of your heads...5 people from any time you'd like have a drink with or something....

God
Einstein
Picasso
Leonardo DaVinci
Tesla

Joe Montana
George Carlin
Mel Brooks
Louis Real, I'd like to know what really happened.
My Great, Great Grandparents. I'd like to know how the family WAS.

I just saw a cell phone commercial like this

Siddhartha Gautama
Jesus Christ (if he was an actual person)
Muhammad
Isaac Newton
H. P. Blavatski

Cool Topic!

Nicola Tesla
Albert Einstein
Jimi Hendrix
Janis Joplin
The pilot of that UFO I saw

Well, I'd like to meet..

-Buddah
-Alexander the Great
-Murasaki Shikibu
-Plato
-King Tut

I never really thought about it much, there are so many people.

President Bush comes to mind , Former President Clinton, Possibly Adolf Hitler, Clint Eastwood and Eddie Van Halen for guitar lessons, oh and Masonic Light. Heh, Heh.

Masonic Light? What is he some sort of rapper or something

I guess here's my list:

Moses
Jesus
Washington
Lincoln
Einstein

Jesus
Moses
Leonardo Da Vinci
Pope John Paul II
Mother Teresa

No offense intended but some of the lists I am reading would make for pretty boring dinner parties.

-Voltaire
-Trotsky
-Twain
-Franklin
-Plato

Now, THAT would be one wicked insanely cool week-long non-stop party!

Jon

Originally posted by Voxel
No offense intended but some of the lists I am reading would make for pretty boring dinner parties.

Too right!

And John Paul II - HOW dull? Now, JP I, for an ATSer, come on, that would be good - just to ask, "were you bumped off then? Was it the Mafia? Cardinal Marcinkus?"

Interesting ones - for me - from the lists so far: Mark Twain, Eddie Van Halen, Tesla, George Carlin... but they've all been done. So;

Frank Zappa
Stephen Fry
Lao Tse
Thelonius Monk
George Orwell

Gerinimo
Cochise
Sitting Bull
Crazy Horse
Red Jacket


that is a start anyway. I would add,
Oceola
Chief Joseph
Jacques de Molay
William Sinclair
Marie Lavou

Good stuff....don't be afraid to repost new lists as they come to you.

I have more:

JFK
RFK
MLK
Someone from another planet
My father when he was a kid

My list is

My father
My uncle
Ahmenotep
Plato
Homer (Illiad and Odessey)

Mine would be:

Alexander The Great
Albert Einstein
Nikola Tesla
Nostradamus (Michel de Nostradame)
Leonardo DaVinci



What I would not give to travel back in time and meet and learn from those magnificent people !

Wow, great thread!

Jimi Hendrix - The man single handedly revised rock & roll as we know it. Dead more than 30 years and his music is still awesome. Did anyone download and watch the video of him playing the song FIRE at Woodstock? Unbelievable guitar work. He was so far ahead of his time. He couldn't read or write music, and was self taught. Just imagine where music would be now if he were still composing. Even my 3 year old son loves his music. RIP Jimi.

Jim Croce - Another major tragedy to the music industry. One of the only artists I can think of who doesn't have a song I don't like. RIP Jim.

Stephen King - What an imagination. I've read every novel he's put out, both as himself as well as his pen name Richard Bachman. The unedited version of The Stand is my all time favorite novel. The thing that is so intriguing about his writing, to me anyway, is that I can relate to almost every character in some miniscule way. Man, having a beer or 6 and/or smoking a bone with him and talking about ideas would be unbelievable. Too bad he's sober these days!

Tesla - The genius of the man is amazing. How interesting would it be to just talk "shop"?

Pontius Pilot - I would love to know the "real story".

Hmm tough.


Kurt Cobain
Dave Mustaine
My Nan
My Grandad
Erm...
*thinks*
Omg yes Maynard James Keenan MMMMM

Some interesting ideas...

Kurt Cobaine - maybe just before he killed himself or before Courtney killed him to see where his head was at
River Phoenix - before he died to maybe save him from himself
Chris Farley - same thing, before he died to try and save him from himself
John Belushi - same
Elvis - before he died to ask him "What the hell are you doing?"

I like these threads.

Hrmm?

5. My grandfather - He passed away just after the Habs won the cup in 1973, I've always been disapointed I never had the chance to meet him.
4. Maurice Richard - Him & Lafleur are my two favorite hockey players of all-time and I have met Lafleur, so the Rocket would have to be on my list.
3. Lee Harvey Oswald - I'd have a few questions to ask.
2. JFK
1. John Lennon

New list..

-Nikola Tesla
-Karl Marx
-Madame de Pompodour
-Benjamin Franklin
-Thomas Edison