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Most Like to Meet?
« on: December 12, 2008, 02:36:13 PM »
What living person would you most like to meet?

What person who is no longer living would you most like to be able to meet?
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Re: Most Like to Meet?
« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2008, 02:43:23 PM »
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What living person would you most like to meet?

Currently I'd like to sit on my deck and have a talk with Obama. I'm just curious what he is like one on one with no cameras on.

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What person who is no longer living would you most like to be able to meet?

My mom's father. Grandpa died when I was 8 years old, he has fought a 2 or so year battle with cancer so I wasn't old enough to sit down and talk to him. He was a WWII vet and was in the invasion of Italy, he was also in his mid 30's when he was drafted. I think it would be real interesting to hear his stories of living in the depression, WWII and raising my mom and her siblings.

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« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2008, 03:41:09 PM »
Currently living ... John Lassiter, founder of Pixar.

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Re: Most Like to Meet?
« Reply #3 on: December 12, 2008, 04:17:02 PM »
Hard to say, but for living, Clarence Thomas would be very high on my list.  Possibly Warren Buffett, Nouriel Roubini, or Shelia Bair though...

For the dead, see the avatar.  I'd love to spend a day hanging out on the Owl Farm talking politics, drinking whiskey, and shooting guns with Hunter Thompson.  OTOH, Thomas Jefferson or Barry Goldwater would be great choices too.
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Re: Most Like to Meet?
« Reply #4 on: December 12, 2008, 04:50:26 PM »
Dead:
Maternal grandfather, who died before I was born.  Fought in the Pacific during WWII.

Alive:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_G._Koch
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« Reply #5 on: December 12, 2008, 05:34:34 PM »
Anyone willing to give me a job, starting at 50k or more, with decent hours.
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« Reply #6 on: December 12, 2008, 05:45:04 PM »
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Re: Most Like to Meet?
« Reply #7 on: December 12, 2008, 05:53:02 PM »
Quote from: Unisaw on December 12, 2008, 02:36:13 PM
What living person would you most like to meet?

No one, really.  I'm not swayed by celebrity or power, and I'm not much of a history buff, either.  So, all of the "normal" people that others might mention have no effect on me.

I am somewhat interested in meeting people who can actually change my life.  A master-class shooter than can improve my shooting in an afternoon, or a magical fairy that can grant me three wishes might be worth meeting.

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« Reply #8 on: December 12, 2008, 06:07:58 PM »
Living-at-least-for-now: Charlie Watts of the Rolling Stones. He just seems like an interesting guy, and I'd love to get more insight into the development of the band.

Passed on? Richard Nixon.
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« Reply #9 on: December 12, 2008, 06:15:05 PM »
Alive:  Fistful so I can punch him and give him a wedgie!

Dead:  Any of the founding fathers.
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« Reply #10 on: December 12, 2008, 07:32:32 PM »
Alive:  Same as Bridgewalker =D (I *hopefully* get to graduate at the end of this school year).

Dead:  Probably Thomas Jefferson. 
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« Reply #11 on: December 12, 2008, 07:48:30 PM »
Bridgewalker, what's your line of work?

Person I'd like to meet that is still alive?  Id say no one in particular.

Deceased?  I'd say my mothers father.  My grandmother was an awesome woman and I'm sure he was a great man.  Mom said he was.
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Re: Most Like to Meet?
« Reply #12 on: December 12, 2008, 07:49:47 PM »
Jorge W. Bush. Not to punch him in the nose/taser him, either.

As for dead people... my idiot side wants to see Jimmy Hoffa and ask him where he's buried. Probably P.G. Wodehouse, though.
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« Reply #13 on: December 12, 2008, 07:50:10 PM »
Alive:  I'm thinking I'd like to debate Obama in person.  That could be interesting, if of course, he'd listen to ANYTHING I had to say, which I doubt.  
Dead: Richard Feynman, absolutely no doubt in my mind.  I stand in complete awe of that man, and not just because of his physics.  
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« Reply #14 on: December 12, 2008, 08:09:52 PM »
Living: Steve.

Dead: N. Tesla.
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« Reply #15 on: December 12, 2008, 08:49:40 PM »
Dead: Churchill, Reagan, Teddy Roosevelt, or any of the Founding Fathers.

Alive: Sarah Palin or Bobby Jindal
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« Reply #16 on: December 12, 2008, 10:07:33 PM »
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« Reply #17 on: December 12, 2008, 10:15:08 PM »
Later in life, wasn't Tesla penniless and a bit crazy?  That could make for an interesting time, as long as you're the one buying the drinks.

And if it's Goldwater, would that be before or after the '64 election?  One of the radio hosts up here thinks that Barry was more than a bit senile later in life.

For me, amongst the living, I'd probably want to meet James Lileks or Stephen Green, a couple of bloggers I read whose writing I really enjoy.  For those shuffled from their mortal coil, I'd say William F. Buckley or Harry Truman.
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Re: Most Like to Meet?
« Reply #19 on: December 12, 2008, 11:14:05 PM »
Alive: Shawn Ryan, creator of The Shield, if in the context of an audition for a future show.

Dead: Anybody who hung out with Jesus while he was in human form.
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« Reply #20 on: December 13, 2008, 09:21:17 AM »
Quote from: Charby on December 12, 2008, 02:43:23 PM
Currently I'd like to sit on my deck and have a talk with Obama. I'm just curious what he is like one on one with no cameras on.

Oddly, me too.  Part of it is that I'd like for him to really, really hear from real Americans what it takes to do things like run a small business.  I'd like him to see how people he calls "wealthy" really aren't so, and show him my minority and single mother employees....ask him which one I should fire when he raises my taxes.   :angel:
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« Reply #21 on: December 13, 2008, 10:03:41 AM »
Gone:
Robert G. Ingersoll
Ayn Rand
Arthur C. Clarke
J. M. Browning

Still here:
Terry Pratchett
Kate Beckinsale  :angel:

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Probably P.G. Wodehouse, though.

Good choice, me too.

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« Reply #22 on: December 13, 2008, 01:05:01 PM »
Quote from: grislyatoms on December 13, 2008, 10:03:41 AM

Kate Beckinsale  :angel:


Why, you haven't been mistaken for a valet recently?  =D
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« Reply #23 on: December 13, 2008, 07:36:14 PM »
Alive: can't really think of anybody  =|  Tom Selleck might be a good guy to have a drink with, though.

Dead: for one, my great-grandfather to find out what happened to him (he supposedly "disappeared" while out on a cattle drive or something - might make a good time travel plot).  Or my great-great-great-grandfather just to ask him who his parents were, since I'm stuck there in my genealogy research.
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« Reply #24 on: December 13, 2008, 07:44:10 PM »
Quote from: Devonai on December 12, 2008, 11:14:05 PM
Dead: Anybody who hung out with Jesus while he was in human form.

Why not the J-man Hisself ??
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Bring me my Broadsword and a clear understanding.
Get up to the roundhouse on the cliff-top standing.
Take women and children and bed them down.
Bless with a hard heart those that stand with me.
Bless the women and children who firm our hands.
Put our backs to the north wind.
Hold fast by the river.
Sweet memories to drive us on,
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