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

[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]

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

[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

[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.

[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.

[Harry D]

Alan Watts.

[Robert]

I was thinking that maybe we could call in Aaron too and have a concerto for three hands.

[Sam Flynn]

Laurel & Hardy - sorry I'd be greedy and want both.

Why certainly. And Wolfgang could play "In The Good Old Summertime."

...theme and 32 variations on it. Improvised, of course.

Come to think of it, In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia would make a great subject for a set of piano variations.

[Robert]

Laurel & Hardy - sorry I'd be greedy and want both.

Why certainly. And Wolfgang could play "In The Good Old Summertime."

[Pcdunn]

Hello Pat,

Well I have to say that I am flattered. I am going to assume that you...uh...would be buying?

c.d.

Separate tickets, I think. I'm an independent woman. Or we could alternate buying rounds, though I think Twain would wiggle out of it, the old rascal.

[c.d.]

I 'm simply not a beer drinker, but would love a glass of wine with Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, c.d, and Caz.

Hello Pat,

Well I have to say that I am flattered. I am going to assume that you...uh...would be buying?

c.d.

[Herlock Sholmes]

Billy Connolly is probably my favourite comedian, but he's the only one I know who literally makes my ribs ache with laughter. I wouldn't want to spend an evening in pain

That's a good point Sam. You'd probably spend the entire meal choking and spitting food everywhere!
I have to say that I also love Eric Morecambe. Have done since I was a kid.

[Sam Flynn]

Billy Connolly - genius.

Billy Connolly is probably my favourite comedian, but he's the only one I know who literally makes my ribs ache with laughter. I wouldn't want to spend an evening in pain

[GUT]

Easy my best mate who we lost 39 years ago.

[Herlock Sholmes]

You always end up missing someone out!

For me there's a few:

Arthur Conan Doyle - obviously I'm a massive Holmes fan
Jeremy Brett - finest Holmes ever.
Laurel & Hardy - sorry I'd be greedy and want both.
Muhammad Ali - sporting hero.
Donald Trump - because he'd be within punching range.
Billy Connolly - genius.
Churchill - not perfect but a remarkable man.
My grandad - because I miss him.