2. trouserPilot - Oct. 26, 1998 - 7:41 AM PT
The cast of the original "12 Angry Men." No other reason than it saves me from having to type out a bunch of names.
3. trouserPilot - Oct. 26, 1998 - 7:42 AM PT
Or the Apostles. Except that I'm afraid it might be my last dinner party.
4. TheDiva - Oct. 26, 1998 - 7:46 AM PT
Billie Holiday
Charlie Parker
Charles Mingus
Thelonius Monk
Ella Fitzgerald
Duke Ellington
Count Basie
Freddie Green
Lester Young
Dizzy Gillespie
Max Roach
A recording engineer
First we'd eat......timpano and chianti; then cannoli and asti.
then we'd jam.
5. cllrdr - Oct. 26, 1998 - 7:48 AM PT
1) Frank O'Hara: Great poet, great wit.
2) Reynaldo Hahn: Proust's boyfriend; composer.
3) Lena Horne
4) Gustave Flaubert
5) Abraham Polonsky: My favorite Communist.
6) Kitty Carlisle: The soul of graciousness and wit.
7) Dorothy Dean: Troublemaker.
8) Gore Vidal: Cause he'd be pissed as hell if he weren't invited.
9) Gloria Stuart: See Kitty Carlisle.
10) Noam Chomsky
11) Elliot
12) PseudoErasmus
6. trouserPilot - Oct. 26, 1998 - 7:50 AM PT
cllrdr
That's OK. I didn't want to come to your stupid dinner party anyway.
7. 109109 - Oct. 26, 1998 - 7:52 AM PT
One rule. No foreigners. I want to understand everything that is said.
William Tecumseh Sherman
Huey Long
Bill Clinton
Omar Bradley
George Patton
Aaron Burr
Thomas Jefferson
William Randolph Hearst
Mark Twain
Ernie Pyle
Gore Vidal
Abraham Lincoln
8. cllrdr - Oct. 26, 1998 - 7:54 AM PT
Sorry Trouser. But you were in a dead heat with Gustave Flaubert for awhile.
9. trouserPilot - Oct. 26, 1998 - 7:56 AM PT
Hey, cllrdr, I can be just as gracious and witty as Kitty Carlisle, you putzhead!
10. bubbaette - Oct. 26, 1998 - 7:58 AM PT
Besides Gustave is prone to indigestion and never likes anything that's served.
11. mariagleason - Oct. 26, 1998 - 8:00 AM PT
Damn, that's Aquitaine. I thought I'd changed that ...
Anyway, I don't want thirteen at table (including me), so I'm adding Napoleon.
12. trouserPilot - Oct. 26, 1998 - 8:00 AM PT
Bill Bennett
Newt Gingrich
Dan Burton
Helen Chenoweth
Tom DeLay
Dick Armey
Trent Lott
Dan Coates
Roland Bartley
Al D'Amato
Phil Gramm
Bob Barr
I didn't have room in the fridge for that big bowl of macaroni salad, but I'm sure it's fine. Dig in, everyone!
13. TheDiva - Oct. 26, 1998 - 8:01 AM PT
Maria
Excellent point.
Add Norman Granz to my list.
14. ScottLoar - Oct. 26, 1998 - 8:01 AM PT
Sei Shonagon
Margaret Thatcher
The Dowager Empress
Dolley Madison
Nell Gwynne
Sarah Bernhardt
Josephine Baker
Elizabeth I
Benazir Bhutto
Cleopatra
Mahta Hari
and Oscar Wilde
Women are much more interesting and entertaining than men (Wilde obviously does both better than either man or woman). These ladies and Oscar would easily find their own places at the table.
15. IrvingSnodgrass - Oct. 26, 1998 - 8:09 AM PT
I haven't really thought about my own list, but I know Dorothy Parker would be on it.
16. cllrdr - Oct. 26, 1998 - 8:13 AM PT
"Putzhead"! What do think this is Trouser -- the New York Senate race?
17. marjoribanks - Oct. 26, 1998 - 8:16 AM PT
A working breakfast for:
Martin Luther King
Emperor Ashoka
Gautama Buddha
Gandhi
Nelson Mandela
Swami Vivekananda
Mahavir Jain
Akbar the Magnificent
Jesus
The Dalai Lama
18. JaDeGoLd - Oct. 26, 1998 - 8:20 AM PT
Oscar Wilde
Mary Magdalene
Mark Twain
Dorothy Parker
Alexander the Great
Julius Caesar
Bernard Fall
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Muhammad Ali
Miep Gies
Leonardo DaVinci
My dad
19. Raskolnikov - Oct. 26, 1998 - 8:23 AM PT
1) Woody Allen
2) Cary Grant
3) Orson Welles
4) Buster Keaton
5) Humphrey Bogart
6) Ed Wood
7) Audrey Hepburn
8) Martin Scorsese
9) Akira Kurosawa (with a translator)
10) Oscar Wilde
11) Dorothy Parker
12) Preston Sturges
20. TheDiva - Oct. 26, 1998 - 8:31 AM PT
Rask
Can I come to your party? I promise not to gape.
21. marjoribanks - Oct. 26, 1998 - 8:33 AM PT
Benazir Bhutto? Why would anyone want to break bread with that frightful woman?
22. Raskolnikov - Oct. 26, 1998 - 8:40 AM PT
Diva: I'll certainly need help coming up with a seating chart (I suppose I could make Wilde's day by seating him next to Grant and across from Parker), so if you are willing to give me advice there, as well as help out serving the dinner courses (Keaton has to get soup, he does very amusing things with it), you are welcome to come.
23. TheDiva - Oct. 26, 1998 - 8:47 AM PT
Rask
I'm at your service. I think maybe Bogie should sit next to Woody and across from Hepburn.
24. glendajean - Oct. 26, 1998 - 8:49 AM PT
E.M. Forster
Gail Levin (Edward Hopper's biographer -- he wouldn't talk if he showed up)
Jane Austen
Benjamin Britten
Penelope Fitzgerald
Barbara Pym
Thomas Merton
Martin Buber
Emily Dickinson
Andrew Young
Franklin Roosevelt
Duke Ellington
25. Jenerator - Oct. 26, 1998 - 8:51 AM PT
Alexander the Great
Plato
Apostle Paul
Augustine
Michealangelo
Martin Luther
Galileo
King James I
Voltaire
James Madison
Albert Einstein
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
26. jeb111 - Oct. 26, 1998 - 8:53 AM PT
Hemingway
Socrates
Barbara Walters
I.B. Singer
Omar Sharif
Coretta Scott King
Edgar Allen Poe
Sid Caesar
Hillary R. Clinton
Tina Turner
Bill Gates
Mae West!
Bill needs us. Let's make him the guest of honor.
27. VicKuligin - Oct. 26, 1998 - 8:57 AM PT
Well, taking a slightly different approach, there is a dinner that involved twelve people in the past that I would like to have observed, namely, the Last Supper.
28. freetochoose - Oct. 26, 1998 - 8:59 AM PT
You guys make up your mind so quickly!!!
I started with Churchill, and haven't figured out who else yet (although sneaking a peek at others suggestions, Mark Twain sounds like a good choice).
29. freetochoose - Oct. 26, 1998 - 9:01 AM PT
Vic
different? Trouser Pilot already mentioned that.
30. Jenerator - Oct. 26, 1998 - 9:02 AM PT
Vic,
Honestly, if I had the chance to meet all of these people, I wouldn't want it to be in the form of a "dinner party".
31. TheDiva - Oct. 26, 1998 - 9:03 AM PT
FTC
Thanks for the nifty link in the Science thread. You're a peach.
32. Raskolnikov - Oct. 26, 1998 - 9:03 AM PT
Vic, that was 13 people. I suppose you could leave out Judas, but doing so would kind of muck up the dramatic tension in the scene.
33. Ronski - Oct. 26, 1998 - 9:06 AM PT
Jenerator,
I hope Elliot notices that you invited some gay people. (g)
34. ScottLoar - Oct. 26, 1998 - 9:08 AM PT
re Message #21, exactly because I enjoy frightful women, among others. Also, the Empress Dowager - the most fearsome of 'em all - makes Benazir look like a turtledove.
The Empress Dowager once had the hands, feet, nose and ears of her son's favourite concubine lopped off and the poor woman thrown into a privy to which she invited her son to "Look at the human pig".
35. marjoribanks - Oct. 26, 1998 - 9:13 AM PT
Ronski,
"I hope Elliot notices that you invited some gay people. "
Oddly enough, so did Vic.
Loar,
She sounds quite charming. Bhutto by contrast is shrill, unseemly and not nearly as imaginative.
36. ScottLoar - Oct. 26, 1998 - 9:14 AM PT
Marjoribanks, thus the "mix".
37. trouserPilot - Oct. 26, 1998 - 9:16 AM PT
"some" gay people? Jeez, she's practically a fag hag.
38. Msivorytower - Oct. 26, 1998 - 9:19 AM PT
Okay, I plead guilty.
I have no idea what a "fag-hag" is. Could someone explain?
ScottLoar
The Dowager Empress would make a formidable mother-in-law, don't you think? Wasn't she the one profiled in "The Last Emperor"? (I may have the name of the movie wrong). If so, she was definitely fire-breathing.
39. marjoribanks - Oct. 26, 1998 - 9:20 AM PT
Loar,
As a host you are obviously more intrepid than I.
Jenerator,
Would you discuss Michaelangelo's works with him? What about all those penises?
40. dsaintg - Oct. 26, 1998 - 9:26 AM PT
1. John Steinbeck
2. John dos Passos
3. Garcia Lorca
4. Carl Hiaasen
5. Louis L'Amour
6. Mickey Spillane
7. Agatha Christy
8. O'Henry
9. Edgar Allen Poe
10. Rudyard Kipling
11. Leo Tolstoy
12. Joseph Heller
41. vonKreedon - Oct. 26, 1998 - 9:29 AM PT
You all are mostly missing the "and why?" portion of the thread. Based on that I would have to have more than one dinner, each one with a different theme/reason for the guest list. For instance I would have an Alexaderan dinner to discuss Alex the Great's methods, goals, and legacy.
- Philip II, Alex's dad, to give insight to what he hoped for his son and for Macedon
- Alex, what were his hopes/goals, what would he do differently
- Aristotle, what is his take on his pupil
- Demosthenes, the Athenian counter-point to all the Alex worship
- Ptolemy, this and the next four are the founders of the successor kingdoms
- Seleucus
- Cassander
- Antigonus
- Lysimachus
- Darius, the Persian counter-point
- Julius Caesar, Jules and Napy to give historical POV from other great conquerors, Jules seemed to found a dynasty by accident, Napy could keep his together through is own life.
- Napoleon
42. trouserPilot - Oct. 26, 1998 - 9:30 AM PT
fag-hag:
A woman who hangs out with gay men, often exclusively, though not a lesbian. Usually a woman who for whatever reason can't handle/manage relationships with straight men. Deludes herself that she merely appreciates the wit, the dish, the fashion sense, etc., of her gay male companions.
43. davidtudor - Oct. 26, 1998 - 9:31 AM PT
Alexander the Great
Dostoevsky
Napoleon
Elizabeth I
Edith Wharton
Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas. (they could take turns at the various courses)
da Vinci
Thomas Jefferson
Aristotle
Louis XIV
Catherine de Medici
Mary Cassett
I would, of course, have people change seats between courses. I would tape everything and then sell it to pay for all the various different foods and drinks I would have to have to buy to satisfy that group.
44. Ronski - Oct. 26, 1998 - 9:32 AM PT
Frederic Bastiat
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Milton Friedman
Rose Friedman
Jan Hus
Martin Luther
H.L. Mencken
Ludwig von Mises
Albert Jay Nock
Thomas Paine
Adam Smith
John Peter Zenger
45. Ronski - Oct. 26, 1998 - 9:34 AM PT
The purpose of my party, it probably goes without saying, is to discuss freedom.
46. Ronski - Oct. 26, 1998 - 9:35 AM PT
Scott,
I'd like to be a fly on your wall to hear what Sei Shonagon has to say.
But heck, I'm sure I'd get to read it all, eventually.
47. JaDeGoLd - Oct. 26, 1998 - 9:35 AM PT
Ronski;
You forgot Lysander Spooner.
You could serve fruitcake(s).
48. DocBrown - Oct. 26, 1998 - 9:38 AM PT
The first person on mariagleason's list was Michael Collins. I commend her for such imagination and thoughtfulness. Most people would have invited Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first. *g*
49. Ronski - Oct. 26, 1998 - 9:39 AM PT
Jade,
Some Lutherans and Moravians might take umbrage at a remark like that (though not I). I know you mean everything in fun.
And I know you, too, value freedom, in your fashion.
50. elliot803 - Oct. 26, 1998 - 9:39 AM PT
Jerry Falwell
Mr. Spock
Cher
Vladimir Nabokov
Jesus H. Christ
Marshall Applewhite
Sappho of Lesbos
Joan Collins
Norman Bates
Harry Houdini
Edward Teller
Karen Carpenter
51. marjoribanks - Oct. 26, 1998 - 9:40 AM PT
All my invitees are/were visionaries who employed peaceful tactics to make their point, achieve their goals. I'd want an update on the right way to pursue these goals in today's world. And I'd like to see us all gang up on Jesus for a bit, to reproach him for leaving ambiguities in his legacy which allow so much evil and intolerance to be perpetrated in his name.
52. Msivorytower - Oct. 26, 1998 - 9:41 AM PT
I think I'd want several theme parties myself.
1) Ancient Sumer and Egyptian notables and scribes
2) Ancient Greek and Roman scholars, figures
3) Henry the Eighth and wives
4) Leading artists, scholars of the Renaisance
5) Dinner with Locke, Hobbes and Machievalli - no others
6) The Constitutional Convention
7) WWII - leading political figures
- military personnel (male and female)
- those at home trying to support the effort
53. VicKuligin - Oct. 26, 1998 - 9:44 AM PT
rask
Hey, yeah, that was 13 people!! Sorry about that.
marjoribanks
Even in a nice, calm thread such as this one, with a basically non-intensive, non-threatening subject, you still have to take potshots at others.
You have no class.
54. trouserPilot - Oct. 26, 1998 - 9:46 AM PT
"Um, excuse me, Karen, are you going to finish that?"
55. marjoribanks - Oct. 26, 1998 - 9:46 AM PT
Example # 1.
56. trouserPilot - Oct. 26, 1998 - 9:48 AM PT
VicKuligin
Even in a nice, calm thread such as this one, with a basically non-intensive, non-threatening subject, you still evince an incredibly thin skin.
57. VicKuligin - Oct. 26, 1998 - 9:49 AM PT
"And I'd like to see us all gang up on Jesus for a bit, to reproach him for leaving ambiguities in his legacy which allow so much evil and intolerance to be perpetrated in his name."
Actually, I'd like to see this too.
And after all of you chastised him and derided him, as you are wont to do marjori, he'd still die on the cross for your sins.
Would you still ridicule him, deride him, and reject him after that marjori??
58. Raskolnikov - Oct. 26, 1998 - 9:50 AM PT
I think it could be fun to get people like Bismarck, Bethmann-Hollweg (sp?), Schlieffen, Moltke, Sergei Witte, Kissinger, Lenin, Wilhelm II, Nicholas II, Gavrillo Princip, George Kennan, and Keynes together to discuss the outbreak of World War I.
59. TheDiva - Oct. 26, 1998 - 9:52 AM PT
Well, at least we made it all the way to 50 posts before the fisticuffs began.
*sigh*
60. DocBrown - Oct. 26, 1998 - 9:57 AM PT
I can think of two reasons to hold such a dinner party. The first is a selfless thank you to my guests for some contribution they made to the world. I would serve these people a wonderful dinner out of appreciation and not care at all if I could understand the conversation:
Albert Einstein
Guglielmo Marconi
Christopher Columbus
John VonNeumann
Adam Smith
Marie Curie
Charles Darwin
Gottlieb Daimler
Karl Benz
Sir Isaac Newton
Johannas Keppler
John F. Kennedy
61. TheDiva - Oct. 26, 1998 - 9:57 AM PT
1. Marcella Hazan
2. James Beard
3. Julia Child
4. Apicius
5. My grandmother
6. My other grandmother
7. My mother
8. Diva-ette
9. Calvin Trillin
10. MFK Fisher
11. Isabel Allende
12. Laurie Colwin
62. marjoribanks - Oct. 26, 1998 - 9:59 AM PT
Kuligin,
FYI, my question to your cheerleader was sincere.
Now,
"Actually, I'd like to see this too.
And after all of you chastised him and derided him, as you are wont to do marjori, he'd still die on the cross for your sins.
Would you still ridicule him, deride him, and reject him after that marjori??"
What is this, a merry-go-round? He already (according to you and my grandmother) died for my sins and I already said I'd like to reproach him for leaving ambiguities that have been exploited by evil men and women.
Listen up Kuligin. I have no problem with Jesus, especially the Jesus I read about in the Gospel of Thomas. I merely feel rather upset at the intolerance and injustice and outright viciousness that is committed by those who purport to "know him" and use "his words" as some kind of justification for their acts. I feel that had Jesus been clearer in his words and taken real trouble to ensure that they were recorded accurately and appropriately for all posterity, we would be a lot better off. In fact, I've been meaning to ask Gandhi to prepare a short speech to kick-start this section of the working breakfast.
63. DocBrown - Oct. 26, 1998 - 10:01 AM PT
The second reason to hold such a party would be for *my* enjoyment. Once again, the conversation does not matter. A good list of twelve guests to please me might be:
Miss January
Miss February
Miss March
Miss April
Miss May
Miss June
Miss July
Miss August
Miss September
Miss October
Miss November
Miss December
64. Ronski - Oct. 26, 1998 - 10:04 AM PT
Doc,
An annual event, I take it.
65. VicKuligin - Oct. 26, 1998 - 10:04 AM PT
marjori
I think the first thing Ghandi would do in that dinner party is thank Jesus for dying for Ghandi's sins.
66. Msivorytower - Oct. 26, 1998 - 10:07 AM PT
Brown
One has to admire your relentless pursuit of self-indulgence and pleasure.
67. JaDeGoLd - Oct. 26, 1998 - 10:07 AM PT
VK;
Plus if you had Jesus at a dinner party---you'd only have to provide water, one fish, and a slice of bread to feed everyone.
68. DocBrown - Oct. 26, 1998 - 10:07 AM PT
That's the spirit Ronski! I ought to start mailing the invitations for DocFest 98 pretty soon, huh? I should probably get a subscription first.
69. boohab - Oct. 26, 1998 - 10:08 AM PT
jeez o pete's!
sojourner truth
oscar wilde
machiavelli
ramses II
richard rorty
i'll come up with some more...
70. mariagleason - Oct. 26, 1998 - 10:08 AM PT
The purpose of my dinner would be to listen to Churchill and Collins make 'dinner conversation' with the others taking sides. All knives would be removed from the table.
71. ScottLoar - Oct. 26, 1998 - 10:08 AM PT
Message #41, "you all are missing the 'and why?' portion." I thought my choice is obvious to even the most pedestrian mind but again, because women - and those especially - are interesting and entertaining. It's a dinner party not a forum, a stage not an auditorium.
Msivorytower Message #38, yes, the same.
72. tmachine - Oct. 26, 1998 - 10:09 AM PT
my dad (one of the world's most enjoyable conversationalists)
Jane Austen
John Lennon
Louisa May Alcott
Lytton Strachey
Galileo
Joseph Brodsky
Primo Levi
Ivan Turgenev
Anton Chekhov
Colette
Philip Roth (one of the funniest storytellers--in person--I have ever heard)
73. marjoribanks - Oct. 26, 1998 - 10:09 AM PT
Kuligin,
Now you know why you are not invited. You may serve the dessert when called for.
74. TheDiva - Oct. 26, 1998 - 10:10 AM PT
Doc
Hmmmmmmm..........I like where you're going with that.
Okay:
1. Antonio Banderas
2. Johnny Depp
3. Matthew McConaughey
4. Gene Kelly (in his prime, natch)
5. Bernie Williams
6. Denzel Washington
7. Wesley Snipes
8. Quilvio Veras
9. Evander Holyfield
10. Leon
11. Flex Wheeler
12. Father Steve (for confession after dinner)
75. DocBrown - Oct. 26, 1998 - 10:11 AM PT
Msivorytower,
I hope you realize that Message #63 was a gag. In case you didn't notice, I posted Message #60 first.
Some Fraygrants are just like my wife. I have to explain all of my jokes to her, too.
76. stostosto - Oct. 26, 1998 - 10:11 AM PT
I would definitely invite my soccer team, FC Freon. We always have a jolly good time. Before dinner we'd go bowling, go-card racing or paint ball-fighting. And afterwards we'd roam the pubs and taverns of this town, playing billiards and drinking our brains out.
77. marjoribanks - Oct. 26, 1998 - 10:16 AM PT
Doc Brown,
It occurs to me that Hugh Hefner already enjoys the pleasurable parties you envisioned in your second list. The bastard.
78. cllrdr - Oct. 26, 1998 - 10:17 AM PT
Alternate Dinner Party
1) Jeff Stryker
2) Cal Culver
3) Danny Sommers
4) Joey Stefano
5) Blade Thompson
6) Robert Mapplethorpe
7) Ch-Chi La Rue
8) Gary Bauer
9) Kevin Spacey
10) Montgomery Clift
11) Judy Chicago
12) TrouserPilot
79. trouserPilot - Oct. 26, 1998 - 10:17 AM PT
I would just like to point out that TheDiva ("NL? What's NL?") had never heard of her #8 dinner guest until I pointed him out to her.
80. TheDiva - Oct. 26, 1998 - 10:18 AM PT
Trouser
If you think for one minute that it'll get you invited to the party.....
81. trouserPilot - Oct. 26, 1998 - 10:18 AM PT
Ooooh oooh! I want to sit next to Gary Bauer!!!
82. mariagleason - Oct. 26, 1998 - 10:19 AM PT
TMRtP:
That's a left-handed invitation if I ever saw one. You might think about sending your regrets at the last minute to mess up the numbers.
83. jeb111 - Oct. 26, 1998 - 10:19 AM PT
Nominations for kitchen help:
Mike Tyson
Donald Trump
Marquis de Sade
Baba Walters
Kathy Lee Gifford
Monica Lewinsky
84. glendajean - Oct. 26, 1998 - 10:20 AM PT
cllrdr -- I wonder if Jeff Stryker and Montgomery Clift would compare notes?
85. VicKuligin - Oct. 26, 1998 - 10:20 AM PT
JaDeGoLd
"Plus if you had Jesus at a dinner party---you'd only have to provide water, one fish, and a slice of bread to feed everyone."
There ARE definite economic advantages involved!!
86. JaDeGoLd - Oct. 26, 1998 - 10:22 AM PT
The question remains what kind of wine Jesus might change the water.
Since we're having fish, I would hope for a nice Sauvignon Blanc.
87. Judithathome - Oct. 26, 1998 - 10:22 AM PT
Oscar Wilde
Marcel Proust
Isadora Duncan
Dick Cavett
Dorothy Parker
Tom Wolfe
Louise Brooks
Ann Richards
John Malkovitch
...and my friends Michael and Franz.
We would have wine, cheese, crusty French bread, and fruit. And the party would be for no reason other than good wine, good people, and good conversation.
88. cllrdr - Oct. 26, 1998 - 10:23 AM PT
I don't think so glendajean -- Monty's too butch for the likes of Jeff.
89. elliot803 - Oct. 26, 1998 - 10:25 AM PT
Cellar:
Given your guest list (TP excepted, of course), the dinner table conversation may be less than scintillating.
"Shut up and suck."
"Ooooh yeah! You like that, don't you?"
"Yeah baby, give it to me hard."
"Sit on it."
etc., etc.
90. Ronski - Oct. 26, 1998 - 10:25 AM PT
Cellar,
Or at least too rough.
91. glendajean - Oct. 26, 1998 - 10:25 AM PT
cllrdr -- it was those Tiny Princess rumors I was referring to.
92. boohab - Oct. 26, 1998 - 10:26 AM PT
hey i like glendajean's party. now i've got to head in a different direction..
93. stostosto - Oct. 26, 1998 - 10:32 AM PT
Doc
I am with you on Message #63
94. trouserPilot - Oct. 26, 1998 - 10:32 AM PT
elliot803
Damn right. I've never said "Yeah baby, give it to me hard."
95. BobaFett - Oct. 26, 1998 - 10:39 AM PT
My 12 Guests:
William Shatner
Leonard Nimoy
DeForest Kelly
George Takei
Walter Koenig
Nichelle Nichols
Gene Rodenberry
Mark "Sarek" Leonard
The chick who played the green alien with the out-of-this-world cleavage
Riccardo "Kahn" Montalban
E. Gary Gygax (Creator of Dungeons and Dragons)
Finally, my PC-pompous-historical pick would be:
Charles Drew, African-American doctor, discoveror of blood plasma
96. cllrdr - Oct. 26, 1998 - 10:42 AM PT
Actually I don't understand why all this Gay Jesus business is so controversial.
In his 30's
Unmarried
Hangs out with 12 other guys
Caters weddings
You do the math.
97. trouserPilot - Oct. 26, 1998 - 10:43 AM PT
Yes, Boobster™ doesn't pick the obvious characters for his list in #95. I think I can explain this. Harrison Ford, Carrie Fischer, Mark Hamill, Alec Guiness, Frank Oz and James Earl Jones all have secured restraining orders.
98. BobaFett - Oct. 26, 1998 - 10:47 AM PT
Trouser:
The real reason is that the entire cast of "Star Trek" is more obscure and therefore funnier.
99. trouserPilot - Oct. 26, 1998 - 10:53 AM PT
Oh yeah. It WAS funny.
100. trouserPilot - Oct. 26, 1998 - 10:54 AM PT
Boobster™, feel free to annotate all of your witticisms. Thanks.