The Five People You Most Want to Have a Beer With at the Same Time and Why

[SuuT]

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]

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]

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

[Loki]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.

[Ulf]

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]

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]

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]

Hitler, Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt, and Tojo getting drunk at the same table would be quite fun :D

[Goidelic]

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]

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]

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!}