Thanks to inspiration from Morgan K!

So, who would you like to have dinner with?
 

So far, I'd like Stephen Fry (adore him!) and Salma Hayek.

(Can we pick dead people or do they have to be alive?)

Id have liked to meet Douglas Adams before he died.

So I assume you can pick dead people.

hmmm okay.

In that case, please add Nietzsche, Foucault, Derrida and Freida

I still pick stephen fry and shaun micallef

I used to love Shaun's work.... but his latest work hasn't been very funny

yeah....everyone has their time i think. But he'll make a comeback....I'm sure of it!! (uh, maybe)

but still, dinner? sure!

Yeah, you have a point there!

Oooo yes! James Spader for sure! And Colbert!

(My table's getting pretty crowded)

And Jon Stewart!

Nah... Colbert is a smart guy. I'm sure he'd be great company!

Oh, and one more to my list. Kimi!

F1 champion

*shaking head*

Why is that?

She's a very smart lady!

Typical....

I think I'd have to go with Jesus, firstly just to see if anyone turned up for dinner, secondly because there are some real savings to be made in a restaurant with the whole "water to wine" trick.

Thirdly the more obvious things.. get his view on the world and such

I guess this dinner would count as the second coming.. signalling the end of the world.. maybe I'll invite someone different.

Going for mythological figures, I'd rather have Oedipus

But I bet he's got great stories to tell!

The way I heard it, he didn't know they were his parents until later on. There was a prophecy that he would kill his father + marry his mother, so dear old dad decided to kill him as a baby - left him out in the wild for the wolves or something.

However, some shepherd type took him in, sooner or later he went back to the city and got into a fight with some random guy (and killed him) then married the widow somehow. Surprise surprise, it was his parents. Prophecy fulfilled.

I'm a little sketchy on the details, but I think that's how it went... I may have to look it up now you've made me think about it 

Wikipedia's version of events:

Oedipus was the son of Laius and Jocasta. At his birth it was prophesized that he would murder his father and marry his mother. To avoid this calamity, the child was given to a herdsman who was told to kill him. The herdsman, out of pity and yet of obesiance, instead tied the child by his feet and hung him from a tree-branch (which caused him permanently to have swollen feet - hence Oedipus).

The child Oedipus was found by a peasant who took him to his master, who adopted him as his own son.

Many years later Oedipus was traveling in a chariot to Thebes. At a crossroads he met another chariot, which in fact was driven by his true father Laius. A dispute arose about who would pass first, and the outcome was that Oedipus killed Laius.

Continuing on the way to Thebes, Oedipus encountered the Sphinx, who stopped any traveler and asked him a riddle that no-one had yet been able to solve (c.f. Sphinx). If the traveler failed, he was killed by the Sphinx. Oedipus solved the riddle, and the Sphinx instead perished.

The gratitude of the Thebans led to them appointing Oedipus their king. Oedipus then married the widow Jocasta, who unbeknowst to anyone was also his mother, by whom he then had four children.

Soon after, on account of these happenings, a plague struck the city of Thebes. No soothsayer could find the reason. Oedipus, with typical hubris, asserted that he could and would. He ultimately found a prophet Tiresias, who warned him not to try.

Undaunted, Oedipus continued. He then found the very same herdsman who had left Oedipus to die as a baby. From that peasant Oedipus learned that his nominal father was not his true father, who was Laius. Thus, at the crossroads at which he had killed Laius, he had killed his own father; and then he had married his own mother Jocasta.

At this realization, Jocasta killed herself, and Oedipus blinded himself. The Thebans then drove Oedipus out of the city, and his daughter Antigone acted as his guide as he wandered blindly though the country, ultimately dieing at Colonus.

Okay, now imagine him telling the tale over dinner

haha, yeah, I see where you're coming from here

HAHAHAHAHAHAH

That's the funniest thing I've come across in a while!
 

i believe i posted this in another topic but i saw a hilarious mock tabloid headline regarding oedipus.

"Sex With Mum Was Blinding"

hahahaha Oh dear....

Nigella Lawson.

See, I don't get that.... I see men drooling over her, but watching her show only irritates me

Bleh

Bleh @ all cooking shows too

Bandwagoners

I liked him for a while.... now it's just marketing overdrive

Yeh, I haven't seen him since his early days.  I used to like it cos it was simple, tasty food that any nong could slap together.

Now he's just a whore like the rest of them.
 

hahahah

Well, I still like him, but enough is enough! How many more $100 cooking books is he gonna come up with?!

add andrew denton to my list too....he can interview everyone...

oh, apologies to getting "back on topic"   hehe

hehehe Yeah, denton promises to be good company

See, I don't get that.... I see men drooling over her

Second thoughts ... I would rather not have drool in my dinner.

hahahahah

Assuming we have to chose from the well known or celebrity (so everyone dosn't have to take the trouble of researching the choice) my dinner table would be:-

Spike Milligan

Tommy Cooper

Louis Armstrong

Dennis Thatcher

John Cleese

Murray Walker

Ruby Wax (she'd also make a great surrogate mother)

and for the entertainment...  Any Pope along with Iain Paisley...

hehehehe I'd still need to research some of those names

Surely not old Murray Walker...???

heheheh Him I know

Wonder if he'd say 'Go go go!' when the food arrives
 

(spoken in a very loud M.Walker voice ...) 

... and Arthur Dent has spun out on the lazy Susan, the salt and pepper try to get past but they can't, and it's stacks on the mill as plates and cutlery are strewn all over the table ...
 

hahahahah

with anyone that pays!

LOL!!! Good one!

999 days ago? My tardis must be malfunctioning again...

Hay WTF....why have dinnner.....just go upstairs for the Coffee

Dead: Isaac Newton (physics, astronomy, alchemy, and philosophy), Isaac Asimov (biochem and sci-fi), Nikola Tesla (physics, mechanical and electrical engineering).

Not Dead: Delta (Just because)
 

I think the 5 of us would have a great dinner party

GAHH! Delta?!

she's beautiful... and she seems to be a very sweet and sincere person.

Notice how much trouble she takes to dye the roots of her hair...

And yes, its amazing how many blonde chicks go to the trouble of dying their roots a shade of dark brown

There's something that doesn't make sense there.... give me a minute... I'll get it

You should try Basildon, Romford or Southend on a Saturday afternoon.  Thousands of blond girls with the roots dyed dark brown.

"but intellectually, she's just not up there."... are you sure, have you had a conversation with her?, she seems pretty business savvy to me.

And I didn't select her to come to dinner for her intelligence, I've got enough of that at my table with all the dead guys... Delta is there for aesthetic reasons, and to break up the heavy intellectual conversation with a bit of light refreshing conversation.

"And yes, its amazing how many blonde chicks go to the trouble of dying their roots a shade of dark brown

There's something that doesn't make sense there.... give me a minute... I'll get it"

HAHAHAHA

wtf... can I just ask, a want to see if the stereotypes are true, Are you blond by any chance? or under the age of 15?
 

sorry to break it to you wtf, but Deltas real hair colour is mouse blond (which is like light brown) similar to the colour of her roots

in which case, she has a lot of colours on her head!

I have red hair (reddish brown, but still, red) and I'm 16.

I was also joking 
 

SK, you're welcome at my dinner table any time!

I had red hair several years ago...

And now? Have you dyed your hair, lost your hair, or did it change colour?

Delta is there for aesthetic reasons

I think your being a little harsh on Tesla

LOL!

What a stunner 
 

He's got hair as interesting as Delta's

And now? Have you dyed your hair, lost your hair, or did it change colour?

My hair looks like a cross between Daniel Radcliffe and James May.

*brain explodes due to visualisation attempt*

let me rephrase... Delta is there for Female aesthetic reasons, Tesler is there for Male aesthetic reasons

Anyone agree with me that Stephen Sackur would be a very interesting person to have at our dinner table? I mean, he is just genius on Hard Talk..

errrmmm... who is that?

I just thought of another person - Salman Rushdie

Yeah, as long as he brings his wife

Ex-wife

yes... very true... but still just as beautiful as ever

But the point is I'd rather not have to put up with WW3 at my dinner table

well you've still got that chance whether he brings his ex or not, he does have a fatwa on his head.

Wasn't that taken away? I remember reading something about it

Who would I like to have dinner with........................... I would have to say Jesus

...if he exists that is, but I dont wanna start a whole Religious/Scientific debate about it.

Might be too late for that....

I believe I already extended an invite to Jesus, on the basis that'd it be interesting to see if anyone turned up (and because the water to wine miracle would be a good party trick)

Master Chief John S117

Who's that?

Is he Jesus?

Fry & Bender, Homer Simpson, Hagar the Horrible, Shrek and Eric Cartman.

If we're going that route, I want Pinky and the Brain, Freakazoid, Captain Caveman, Goofy and Batman, who'll be my escort

Oh, and Fry and Bender!

Captain Planet.....Just so I could punch him in the face

oooh... I was in love with Wheeler!!!

so many people were.....I can still remember the theme song.....and every now and again on TV they play random reruns from the 80's and 90's.

90's TV was so bad!! but I love it SO MUCH!! Power Rangers, Captain Planet, those stupid high school shows (Sweet Valley High, Saved by the Bell)  and all the crazy cartoons.

and the 80's.....The Jetsons, Thunderbirds, The Smurfs......

Oh, Nostalgia......

*starts singing*

Captain planet, he's a hero!

Gonna take pollution down to zero
 

I loved Linka

Oh yeah! She was cool!

Oh! I forgot about that bit where they say 'earth! Fire!'... My bro and I used to have so much fun with that. He had the toy rings n everything!

hmmm... what ever happened to DiC? They used to make a lot of cartoons from what I remember

Hehe....I used to love saying it as a kid because it was considered "rude" and my parents could do nothing about it!

Heh... I didn't even know it was rude!

I think we should have an International Tangler BBQ  Week where we all bum around on a warm beach for a week, waited on  by the  Tangler staff, trying to guess who everyone is.

This should come in handy.

Link
 

Im quite sure Thunderbirds was the late sixties. Gerry Anderson rocks! I mean he made series' that were engineered to scare young children to death in the first 5 seconds. Turn the volume up to the max. I dare you...

Oh Im adding him to my dinner guests. Who says I write irrelevant posts?

Hey, what's with the 'waited on by the Tangler staff' eh?

If anything, I need a holiday

"Heh... I didn't even know it was rude!" - Um, sorry to draw the comparrison for your child like mind Dek, and I hate to be the one to spoil your innocence... actually, no I don't: DiC = Dick , no way.

Dude, I know that now

I was talking about then

LOL simple childhood innocence.....if you didn;t know that then I would have loved to have heard some of the things out of "young dek's" mouth!!

Eggactly!!

Mind you, I've met some really potty-mouthed young'uns....

Never know how to react to them

I just look at their parents....sure it might not be their fault - a lot of youngsters pick up shocking language from school, but I think ultimately it's up to the parents to keep a lid on these things and make sure thay can distinguish between what is acceptable.

Yeah.... agreed

me too... My father always used to say, "The child is a true reflection of the parent"... meaning that the parent might not have taught the child the language or behavior, but reflectively the parent did not teach the child manners or appropriate behavior.

A fathers discipline is his gift to his children.

 

don't confuse with anger... discipline can be loving

No, I agree.... discipline doesn't have to be physical at all.

I've seen all kinds being put into use, and the most effective one is when the parent empowers the child to make the right decisions, as opposed to scaring the child into the right behaviour

indeed