A few pints with anyone

keefg · 26-11-2007 06:31PM #1

If you could spend an evening in your local having a few pints & a chat with anyone from history who would you pick? And why?

Would it be Adolph Hitler? Just to ask "Why"?

Would it be someone less famous? Maybe a relative who has passed away?

It can be anyone you like.

For me, it would probably be someone like Peter Ustinov, a great actor with loads of interesting anecdotes about the entertainment industry. But that's just off the top of my head, I might pick someone else later.

Over to you....

Karoma · 26-11-2007 06:33PM

*taps foot*

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Hmmm. Still no "yore ma!"? We're slipping, people.

Jesus. Reasoning: to get the thoughts direct (Albeit, with a bit of drink...mmm) + failing that, twice the pints \o/

Holsten · 26-11-2007 06:36PM

Jesus.

I'm sure he'd be a right laugh.

keefg · 26-11-2007 06:36PM

Karoma wrote: »

Jesus.

There are some people who might argue that this is a fictitional character:eek:

Gaz · 26-11-2007 06:41PM

Someone from my familys distant past , great great great great great great grandfather for example but try not to get him too drunk as when he goes back that might be the night my great great great great great great grandmother was due a good seeing too .... i could end breaking the space time whats it and then i'd vanish or something.

The_Minister · 26-11-2007 06:41PM

keefg wrote: »

There are some people who might argue that this is a fictitional character:eek:

No, he existed, there is historical records.
It's whether or not he was able to raise the dead is whats at issue:)

26-11-2007 06:42PM

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biko · 26-11-2007 06:46PM

Michael Collins - for the politics discussion
Oscar Wilde - for the wit and cheeky comments
Marie Curie - only person to win two Nobel Prizes in different science fields

26-11-2007 06:48PM

It'd have to be a decent group of people....maybe 4 or 5 heads.

I'd go for...

Zapp Brannigan (to charm the ladies)
Gordon Ramsey (for the grub afterwards)
Bill Hicks (for the comic insightfulness)
Bill Gates (so you wouldn''t have to put your hand in your pocket)
and then both Roy Keane & Mick McCarthy (just to watch the sparks fly).

If i was limited to one, it's have to be Hicks.

Lands Leaving · 26-11-2007 06:48PM

biko wrote: »

Oscar Wilde - for the wit and cheeky comments
fields

that was what I was gonna say. failing that Ian Wright!

humbert · 26-11-2007 06:49PM

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, I'd say you could have some pretty mind blowing conversations with that guy.

Jigsaw · 26-11-2007 06:50PM

I'd like to have a pint with the c**t who puked all over the bonnet of my car in the middle of the night last night so that I down it in one then glass the bast**d.

Terry · 26-11-2007 06:51PM

Bono.

Jigsaw · 26-11-2007 06:55PM

Assuming my suggestion a few posts above will prove impossible, I guess maybe Brian O'Driscoll, George Best, Keith Richards or Ozzy Osbourne.

WindSock · 26-11-2007 06:59PM

Maddie McCann

Billy Conolly would be a good laugh.

Ruu_Old · 26-11-2007 07:03PM

John Candy, seemed like a jolly nice chap.

ojewriej · 26-11-2007 07:03PM

Michael Palin - loads to ask about Pythons, and when this dries up we could talk about his travels.

Leonardo Da Vinci, true reneissance man, would love to pick his brain.

leninbenjamin · 26-11-2007 07:05PM

Mozart. i want to know how that damn requiem is supposed to sound.

A-Trak · 26-11-2007 07:24PM

Ollie Reid & Richard Harris.

I'd imagine that it would be a quiet porter or two.

humanji · 26-11-2007 07:28PM

Richard Harris would be my one too. It would be a hell of a night!

SligoBrewer · 26-11-2007 07:28PM

Bruce Springsteen - I'm sure he has a good story
Alex Kapranos - Look up to him a lot..

eeeeeeeeh...

Einstein.

MagicMarker · 26-11-2007 07:28PM

Those dogs that play pool.

Jamey · 26-11-2007 07:34PM

Paul Cunniffe (see sig).

Senna · 26-11-2007 07:39PM

Oliver Reed - It would be the night to end all nights.

marcsignal · 26-11-2007 07:48PM

Hitler didn't drink, but that aside, I'd ask why...

1. Why he didn't keep going to the coast, and let the Brits escape from Dunkirk ??

2. Why he didn't completely take out the Radar stations during the early stages of the Battle of Britain ??

3. Why he didn't approve full development Jet Engines earlier in the war, as the technology existed ??

4. Why he didn't allow the Ukraine some Independence when there were 2 divions of vollunteers from the Ukraine serving in the Waffen SS, who were willing to fight Stalin ??

5. Why he didn't let his troops break out of Stalingrad, because they could have done so, and lived to fight another day ??

6. Why didn't he suspect the Allies had broken the Enigma Code ??

7. Was the Dublin North Strand Bombing in 1941 Deliberate, or an Accident.

and finally

8. What the f*uck did he think he was doing, making his underage niece poo all over his head ????

just out of curiousity...........