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1.] Tyr:
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/germans/religion/pictures/tyr.jpg
Because I can't figure him out. But mostly I want to see him debate Justice with...
2.] Jesus:
http://kiddmillennium.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/jesus-thumps-up1.jpg
Because I'm fairly confident that I'm wily enough to get him to armwrestle...
3.] Ben Bailey:
http://www.comedycentral.com/images/shows/ccp/videos/s10/bailey_m5.jpg
Not only because we all will be drinking our beers in the Cash Cab, but because I want to see ...
4.] Bertrand Russell...
http://www.nndb.com/people/954/000044822/Russell-2.jpg
and...
5.] Matthew Mcconaughey...
http://www.exposay.com/celebrity-photos2/matthew%20mcconaughey.jpg
...attempting to answer the same banal trivia questions.
Who are your five? :)
Murphy
10-20-2009, 12:11 PM
Hilaire Belloc.
http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/2440/72341768.jpg
Gilbert K. Chesterton.
http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/815/73369984.jpg
Father Haydock.
http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/659/14951359.jpg
Daniel O'Connell.
http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/2589/63489774.png
Cardinal Sheen.
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/6154/50651142.jpg
Regards,
Eóin.
Allenson
10-20-2009, 01:03 PM
Bill Clinton--because that dude knows how to party.
http://www.corrupt.org/drupal/files/images/bill_clinton.jpg
Jerry Garcia--because I love listening to him pontificate.
http://i.realone.com/assets/rn/img/6/1/2/3/26093216-26093218-large.jpg
JRR Tolkien--because he is the master:
http://aesthetictraditionalist.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/tolkien-smile-pipe.jpg
Henry David Thoreau--because that fellow got jiggy in the deep woods of Maine:
http://virtual.clemson.edu/caah/history/FacultyPages/PamMack/lec124/thoreau.jpg
My paternal grandfather--because I never knew him. :....
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3506/4028661947_b966634e48.jpg
1. Osama Bin Laden
http://nicedeb.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/osama.jpg
2. Pope Benedict
http://www.gambianow.com/news/files/pope_benedict_gambia.jpg
3. George Bush
http://norway.usembassy.gov/uploads/BX/rW/BXrWxaTarSyT1MrTiib78g/Bush.jpeg
4. Varg Vikernes
http://brutalno.org/media/2/20071102-Varg.jpg
5. Richard Dawkins
http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/05-11-23images/dawkinsRichard.jpg
All at the same time around a table, having a pint of Guinness in relaxed discussion. :guinness:
Germanicus
10-20-2009, 01:10 PM
My Father who has passed away.
http://i339.photobucket.com/albums/n449/ruffusruffcut/img009.jpg
Marina Sertis
http://i339.photobucket.com/albums/n449/ruffusruffcut/marinasertis.jpg
Clint Eastwood
http://i339.photobucket.com/albums/n449/ruffusruffcut/CLINTEASTWOOD.jpg
Michael Winner
http://i339.photobucket.com/albums/n449/ruffusruffcut/winner-1.jpg
Michael Palin
http://i339.photobucket.com/albums/n449/ruffusruffcut/palin.jpg
Gwynyvyr
10-20-2009, 10:46 PM
Oh, since we get to have the dead as well as the living....my choices gotta be:
Oscar Wilde
http://studentmag.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/oscar_wilde.jpg
Jim Morrison
http://rockmuziek.web-log.nl/rockmuziek/images/jim_morrison_big.jpg
Sappho
http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m49/clbruno/sappho.jpg
Boadicea
http://lowndeslibarchives.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/pageant-1907-boadicea-61.jpg
and just for shits and giggles...
Jack Black
http://larryfire.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/jack-black-708.jpg
Psychonaut
10-20-2009, 10:53 PM
I'd love to sit in on a chat between...
http://brucekrajewski.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/heidegger2.jpg
Uncle Marty (http://brucekrajewski.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/heidegger2.jpg)
...and...
http://stanford.library.usyd.edu.au/archives/win1999/entries/whitehead/whitehead.jpeg
Uncle Alfie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_north_whitehead)
...proctored by...
http://elainemeinelsupkis.typepad.com/culture_of_life_news/images/2008/01/30/the_norns_unwind_fate_2.jpg
The Three Sisters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norns)
...about the nature of time.
Piparskeggr
10-20-2009, 11:16 PM
1. Jim Koch...because I hear he's very funny when shit-faced...
http://bumbasymposium.net/img/2007/JimKoch_big.jpg
2. Sam Caglione...because he pushes the envelope in brewing...
http://thecolumbuswench.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/sam_calagione.jpg
3. Fritz Maytag...for pioneering craft beer in the US of A...
http://imgs.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2004/01/29/wi_maytag_2.jpg
4. Charlie Papazian...for lighting the burners that got the Home Brew movement really going...
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh147/megarob1982/BrewingCelebrities/Charlie_Papazian_01.jpg
5. Michael Jackson...for his love of beer, which came out in every word he wrote or spoke about it...
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh147/megarob1982/BrewingCelebrities/MJackson1981-6.jpg
Barreldriver
10-21-2009, 12:17 AM
1. Pwyll of Dyfed:
http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/dyfed/fates-2b.gif
Would be interesting to have a drunken chat with the man who became king of the other world. :P
2. Orson Welles:
http://mullenkerri.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/orson_welles_19371.jpg
We would plan the greatest hoax ever to grace this earth. :D
3. Ceretic of Elmet, lord of my ancestral region. :D
4. Gwallog ap Llaennog, because I want to know why he waged war on Rhegedd. :P
5. Satan
http://unsportsmanlikecomment.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/the-satan-pit-doctor-beast3.jpg
because I want to know why let himself get his ass kicked by a grouchy old plonker lol. :D
Osweo
10-21-2009, 01:07 AM
Hmmm... Easy enough;
Abs
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/image.php?u=93&dateline=1254590121
Tabs
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/image.php?u=290&dateline=1255337878
Als,
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/image.php?u=557&dateline=1253932607
Revs
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/image.php?u=1&dateline=1241705052
And maybe Trogs...
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/image.php?u=702&dateline=1255823281
Actually, though, that'd be pretty awful. I'd probably have a seizure or summat. Maybe one at a time? ;)
anonymaus
10-21-2009, 01:27 AM
Moses:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/MichaelangeloMoses20020315.jpg
Hitch:
http://exiledonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/cusl01_hitchens0710.jpg
G Dubs:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Bush-un-darfur.jpg
Maimonides:
http://throughyourbody.com/news/images/maimonides.jpg
Myself, as if I were a stranger:
http://i35.tinypic.com/rw029k.jpg
Óttar
10-21-2009, 02:19 AM
1. My maternal grandfather. Requiescat In Pace.
2. Siddhartha Gautama
http://burningbosom.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/buddha3.jpg
3. Sankaracharya
http://www.stillnessspeaks.com/images/uploaded/adi%20shankaracharya.jpg
4. Yaohushua Ben Miriam (Jesus)
http://www.us-suryoyo.com/JesusSyriac.jpg
5. Alexander the Great
http://www.history-of-macedonia.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10001/normal_Alexander_the_Great_Bust.jpg
Honourable Mentions: (Because I can never seem to stay within the parameters)
Genghis Khan
http://www.abolitionist.com/darwinian-life/genghis-khan.jpg
Alduous Huxley
http://www.huxley.net/ah/aldous-huxley.gif
A castrato priest (Gallus) of the goddess Cybele
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6LixuYy201I/R_qIR6mFCAI/AAAAAAAAAD4/uSc0KXhIZCM/s320/Gallus.jpg
Emperor Julian "the Apostate"
http://www.nndb.com/people/846/000101543/julian-the-apostate-1-sized.jpg
Although I fear the Buddha and Shankara in a debate would come to the conclusion that their notions were the same, though they appear in opposition.
Jesus so we could know what he really taught, and so he could lay the ultimate smack down on the Church.
F.W. Nietzsche
http://home.planet.nl/%7Ebrouw724/images/nietzsche2.jpg
H.D. Thoreau
http://www.uunhf.org/unitarian/famous/Thoreau.jpg
Marcus Aurelius
http://academic.shu.edu/honors/Marcus_Aurelius_equestrian_2d.jpg
Jacob Grimm
http://www.denstoredanske.dk/@api/deki/files/66372/=Jacob_Grimm_1785-1863_b.jpg
Thomas Jefferson
http://www.solarnavigator.net/history/explorers_history/Thomas_Jefferson_by_Charles_Willson_Peale_1791.jpg
With Socrates as a proctor/bartender
http://docwalk.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/socrates.jpg
Why? Because, I'd just sit there and listen I wouldn't get drunk for fear I'd forget some word one of them would say.
Loxias
10-21-2009, 04:29 AM
Proclus
http://plato2051.tripod.com/Proclus_bust.jpg
Nietzsche
http://www.eze-riviera.com/village/ang/images/nietzsche_portrait.jpg
Da Vinci
http://maquetland.com/v2/images_articles/Leonardo_self.jpg
Paul of Tarsus
http://www.savitridevi.org/images/Paul.jpg
and finally, probably my biggest idol (omg he is not white)
Mishima
http://transientwriting.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/mishima3.jpg
A beer would be too short.
I'd rather spend a week or month long seminary with them in a cool place like Mount Athos or something. Lots of stuff to discuss.
Óttar
10-28-2009, 01:12 AM
Mishima
http://transientwriting.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/mishima3.jpg
:thumb001: Mishima kicks ass.
I'd really like to see the conversation between
http://www.us-suryoyo.com/JesusSyriac.jpg
and
http://www.savitridevi.org/images/Paul.jpg
SwordoftheVistula
10-28-2009, 05:27 AM
Hitler, Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt, and Tojo getting drunk at the same table would be quite fun :D
Goidelic
10-28-2009, 06:02 AM
1. My great-great-grandfather from Connecticut born to the Irish Civil War parents :thumb001:
2. My grandpa & great-great-grandfather from Ireland :thumb001:
3. Alestorm! :thumb001:
4. My Irish great-great-great-grandfather from the Civil War :thumb001:
5. Our respectable British Isles, Colonial & Balkan members - Prost! :thumb001: ;)
http://www.insiderspassport.com/images/hefeweizen.jpg
Electronic God-Man
10-28-2009, 06:42 AM
PLATO
http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/History/Carnegie/plato/plato_bust.jpg
DAD (Yes, he did shoot the buck through the eye.)
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=3073&d=1256712076
SHAKESPEARE
http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/shakespeare.jpg
Thomas Jefferson
http://jrenseyblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/thomas-jefferson-big.jpg
Nietzsche
http://thezaz.nationallampoon.com/files/2009/08/04-friedrich-nietzsche.jpg
Osweo
10-31-2009, 10:09 PM
1. My great-great-grandfather from Connecticut born to the Irish Civil War parents :thumb001:
2. My grandpa & great-great-grandfather from Ireland :thumb001:
4. My Irish great-great-great-grandfather from the Civil War :thumb001:
Interesting idea...
I envy your genealogical knowledge, but here's my Greats:
1. Jimmy MacOssu
http://northoftheriver.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/jameson_whiskey.jpg
2. Tom Brennan
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2349/2372757432_0a1fe3cd08.jpg?v=0
3. Billie Lamb
http://thespiritworld.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/newcastle_brown_ale.png
4. Sammy Shields
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Holts_bitter.jpg/800px-Holts_bitter.jpg
AND this guy, just in case:
5.
http://simonhewittjones.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/riot-police.jpg
Now... Let me get into my position...
:hides:
... alright... Ready, Great-Grandads? FIGHT!!!!!!!
{actually, an interpreter might have been of use, but we were asked for five people!}
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