If You Could Have a Beer with Anyone in History Who Would It Be?

[c.d.]

Alan Watts.

Hello Harry,

Alan Watts? Well I'll be gobsmacked. That was about the last name that I would have expected from you. I would have guessed more along the lines of say Erwin Rommel. Could it be that under that tough, conservative exterior of yours beats a sensitive, liberal heart?

c.d.

By the way, I am also a big Alan Watts fan. You probably know this but a number of his lectures are available on YouTube.

[Limehouse]

Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell)

Woody Guthrie

My parents - because, sadly, I never shared an adult drink or adult conversation with either of them.

[Patrick S]

I'd pick from this short list depending on my mood:

George Washington
Babe Ruth
Daniel Boone (my great x 5 (or is it 6?) grandfather)
Winston Churchill
Fredrick Abberline

[Steadmund Brand]

First off.. I am a bit sad that nobody picked me!!!

This is the
"old dinner party game" where you can invite 3 people from history.. and everyone will speak the same language (so you can't say so and so can't come because you wouldn't understand them).. my picks are usually

1-Lao Tzu
2- Harpo Marx
3- this once changes...sometimes it's Johannes Kepler or Einstein (or Tesla)....other time Babe Ruth or Jack Dempsey, and still other times I would want someone I actually did have several dinners with...he was truly the most interesting man in the world (commercials be damned) and I miss him terribly, Bert Randolph Sugar.. seriously, the man was part Damon Runyon, part Groucho Marx, part Ernest Hemmingway and all fun!!!.. a special man.. problem is, if Bert were there nobody else would get a word in (but we would ALL be entertained!!)

Steadmund Brand

[GUT]

Can I pick someone who is still alive.

See I've got thismate in 'America who I've never met.

Would love to gave a drink with him.

[Steadmund Brand]

Can I pick someone who is still alive.

See I've got thismate in 'America who I've never met.

Would love to gave a drink with him.

I don't know.... I heard he was a Fatty Bum Bum and a real jerk.... probably likes Brisbane Lions as well hahhah


Steadmund Brand

[Abby Normal]

I thought this might be an interesting idea for a thread. Of course you are free to choose anyone you wish but I would try to keep in mind the beer aspect of it. There are people in history that I admire but they might not be my first choice for a pub companion.

With that in mind, my choice would be Mark Twain.

c.d.

that's an easy one for me-Jesus!

[Robert]

Make sure the beer hasn't been watered down or he'll turn it into wine.

[Graham]

Richard III - wouldn't be beer, more likely a stoup of sack, but I'd dearly love to know if he really did bump off his nephews in The Tower.

Robert Johnson - again, it wouldn't be beer, but probably a bottle of bourbon. I'd just like to watch him play guitar.....I know what he sounded like, but I would just like to watch him do it.

Graham

[Hunter]

I would share a pot of tea with Oliver Hardy, and I would have Mozart playing pub piano.

Only after he and Stan had to drag it up a long flight of steps. Might be time for a beer instead of tea then. At least Mozart would be less likely to smash the thing up.

[Steadmund Brand]

I would take Liszt over Mozart... he would get better woman to join us

Steadmund Brand

[GUT]

Adam and Eve (as in the first homo-sapient)
King Tut
Henry VIII
Elizabeth I


DaVinci
Einstein
Newton
Hawkins

What meeting of minds to observe

John
Paul
George
Ringo

Price concert

Jack
Then I'd know who he was

Numerous departed family and friends

Paternal grandparents who I never knew
Maternal grandparents who I knew and adored
My two best mates who were killed when an ambulance hit the car they were in
My great grandmother who I had till I was 14 (just for one last hug)

My great Aunty who suffered with CP, couldn't walk, barely talk, but a wicked sense of humour and most of all because she loved a beer and it would let her have one last one.

[Herlock Sholmes]

You always miss one or six!

Id have to add:

Christopher Hitchens.
Van Gogh (though I can't speak Dutch)
Francis Bacon (the painter)
Salvador Dali.
WG Grace.
My grandfather ( I never met him)

[GUT]

I would take Liszt over Mozart... he would get better woman to join us

Steadmund Brand

Plus Liszt rhymes with what everyone may become with all that beer flowing so freely.

[c.d.]

that's an easy one for me-Jesus!

Hello Abby,

You probably wouldn't have any trouble getting a table. Now the big question - would you pick up the tab or wait till he makes a gesture to pay?

c.d.