LMAO!!!

There's no reason you can't have Dracula at the table - just saying

@Palindromeman lol

@Palindromeman No Dracula - my daughter is anemic

@pixiedust You must check out a New Zealand film called What We Do In The Shadows:

@Palindromeman OMG!! I HAVE to see this! That last line is exactly why I've always wanted to be a vampire LOL

@pixiedust You will love it! Such a Kiwi film.

@Palindromeman I am being haunted by kiwis this week. My daughter made me some jewelry that incorporates kiwi stones..

@pixiedust Kiwis are cool. Kiwi vampires are very cool

Prince - oh yes!

And I want to watch Robin Williams make the sides.

That is lovely.

Hugs and a raised glass to you and yours

@pixiedust Love and tenderness to you.

That is a good question. I'm guessing that dead women still restrict their carbs

@AMGT LOLOLOLOL !!! Zing! (I'm emoticonally challenged on this site! )

Clever!

@Petter A Jesus for everyone, whoever thought that one up was probably made a saint for maximizing profits. It's right up there with Purgatory and Absolution for raking in the money for the most profitable business on the planet.

@Surfpirate What about holy relics? (With no provenance.)

@Petter with all the splinters that have been sold from the One True Cross over the centuries I would guess that it had to have been 10 ft thick and 500 ft tall.

My personal - and fictional - Jesus is a swearing, knife fighting tradesman from Nazareth. I'd love to have him around.

@Palindromeman Good guy to have at a party, you'd never run out of wine unless you ran out of water.

@Surfpirate An excellent point!

Oscar Wilde - right there you have conversation covered. It is said that he could make any person feel like they were the most interesting person in the room. It's a mantra that I try to use.

Herrmann Hesse - a controversial choice for some. Not me, to be clear.

If your going to have Herman Hesse. It would be cruel not invite Jim Morrison

@273kelvin Hesse is a set confessed German combatant in the Second World War. According to his account, he didn't fire a shot in anger. But that still raises a red flag for some people. Morrison just front a rock band. Personally, I don't see a difference.

@Palindromeman That was Rudolf Hesse. Herman won the nobel prize for literature in !946. Wrote amongst others "Steppenwolf" from which the band took their name. All the hip dudes read Hesse in the 60`s him and Huxley

Two things there. 1) you are speaking about Rudolf Hess, who spent his life after the war in Spandau prison. I know the difference; 2) I stand corrected. I was thinking of Gunther Grass, who has revealed that he was a combatant in the Second World War.

I offer my apologies.

@Palindromeman Hermann Hesse did no such thing. He was anti-war and won the Nobel Prize for literature. Get your facts straight before you embarrass yourself.

@wordywalt I usually do. Which is why I corrected myself.

It's theoretical. But probably not oysters.

@McVinegar Which makes them more hungry...

I gotta get back into the kitchen. Bill Shakespeare eats like you would not believe.

That is a big arsed dinner party. You and I are going to be super busy in the kitchen.

@Palindromeman I cut my original list by 50%!

Incidentally, all the people on my list were cyclists. Cyclists eat a lot more than normal humans - it might actually require a full-scale army field kitchen to feed this lot!

@Jnei Right - send in the Marines!

@Palindromeman They'd probably eat them, too!

Lovecraft would be fascinating. I love the HP.

And my contribution will be making the risotto and getting them all drunk.

Well, technically you can invite dead people. Whether they receive your invitation and show up at the party is a different matter.

You say that like masturbation is a bad thing.....

@Palindromeman rofl

It's an exercise in imagination!

Besides, I really don't to work with those intolerances and allergies.

I'm just there for the conversation!

For me? Elvis - yes.

Lennon - maybe. He was an awkward bugger, apparently.

I missed Coco Chanel there.

Hells yes!!!

@Palindromeman Lennon did have GSOH

@273kelvin Exactly.

Lovecraft in Brooklyn:

@Mortal That would be a bummer, yes.

Holy shit - David Foster Wallace and Harvey Milk at the table would be awesome.

Franklin might surprise me after a few brandies, but I reckon da Vinci would get the party started.

@Palindromeman Franklin was a great wit and a world class scientist. Probably have a language problem with da Vinci, but Voltaire and von Humboldt spoke English.

Yeah, but I'll be in the kitchen, so the food will be awesome

@McVinegar At least at a dinner party you can hear yourself think - going to a bar for a conversation is usually a disaster; sound levels turned up to 11 (yes, that is a Spinal Tap reference).

@Palindromeman Make the food ahead of time, just have one or two carefully chosen guests and enjoy the conversation.

@CeliaVL I want them to talk to each other. Bill Shakespeare and Andy Warhol sharing a bottle of wine. How cool is that?

@Palindromeman Be interesting if the truth about who wrote the works of Shakspere came out.

@CeliaVL If Bill and Christopher Marlowe are in the room, it's gonna be fight!

@Palindromeman Do you think so? I lean towards the 'group' theory, which I think Marlowe would be quite amused by.

@CeliaVL I studied Shakespeare at university, and the rumour/myth/suggestion that Marlowe wrote a lot of those plays were strong.

Personally, I think bullshit - Marlowe was good in his own right; Shakespeare was amazing. And remains so.

@Palindromeman Maybe there is room for a 'Who wrote Shakspere?' Group on this site!

Oh, yes!

Hemmingway - yes.

But I would need to have the liquor cabinet stocked....

Louis Jourdan would be difficult coz .....he ain`t got no body

Cary Grant - I like the way you think!

I totally see a Tasmanian Tiger prowling around your table

@Palindromeman That would be awesome!
I've read articles about credible sightings of the tiger in extremely remote areas, but hopefully nobody photographs it and causes a sight-seer stampede.

@birdingnut I have some friends in Taz. Apparently the Tasmanian devil is going the same way. They did ask Warner bros to stump up a bit of money to help (considering how much they made of the name) but they refused. After a whole lot of shaming they donated $180,000

@Palindromeman I was going to say just that before scrolling! Yes a Tasmanian tiger!!!

@birdingnut Indeed. A parallel example - the Wollemi pine.

It was considered an extinct flora. And then one was discovered somewhere here in New South Wales. Its cones were successfully harvested and you can now buy one. But the original - the source code - is a well kept secret for exactly the reason you describe.