Who would you like to meet?

[Dion]

I love the game of golf and meeting Jack Nicklaus would be a treat. Best would be getting a few lessons from him as my game sucks big time.

[habernac]

interesting question.

For athletes: Patrick Roy, Larry Robinson, Tom Brady, Tedy Bruschi, Lance Armstrong,

musicians: Dave Bidini, Lemmy Kilmister, Paul McCartney, Angus Young, Dave Mustaine, Chris Cornell

others: Peter Mansbridge, Clint Eastwood, Arnold Schwarzenegger,

[Cowperson]

Originally Posted by Dion

Mitch Albolm. When my late father passed away in 2000 his book "Tuesdays With Morrie" help me deal with the death of my father and the cancer he suffered from.

Sorry to hear about your pop and glad those words helped you through it.

On the other hand, Albom is apparently a bit of an ******* in real life and more than a few people delighted in seeing this incident publicly revealed . . .

http://whateveralready.blogspot.com/...g-matters.html

As for myself, I'd probably find it interesting to meet certifiably evil and/or controversial figures . . . . the President of Iran, Robert Mugabe, the President of Sudan, Vladimir Putin, etc . . . . can't be a lunch though, has to be an entire afternoon.

I think Bill Clinton, Tony Blair and Farley Mowat would be interesting to talk with for an afternoon as well.

. . . . and sweater girl, er meterologist, Bonnie Schneider of CNN.

Cowperson

[BlackEleven]

I think it'd be fascinating to talk to Bill Clinton.

[TimSJ]

Thought of another one for me... David Feherty.. the guy cracks me up and i am sure a few beers with him would be entertainling as hell..

[Iowa_Flames_Fan]

Interesting thread!

If we could pick anyone living or dead, I'd pick Walter Benjamin. Most people haven't heard of him, but he's probably on of the greatest minds of the early 20th century, and died trying to escape Vichy france during WWII. I would have also LOVED to meet Edward R. Murrow.

As for living people... Bill Clinton, Jon Stewart, Dan Rather, Ted Koppel (for sure!).

I would like to meet George W. Bush, but not because I admire him. What I admire is his astuteness in the world of politics--basically how he has managed to convince everyone that he's "down to earth" and "one of them," when he's actually an old money blue-blood New Englander with an Ivy League education. Also, I'd like to know how he sleeps at night, but that's another story!

[the_only_turek_fan]

Originally Posted by Cowperson

. . . . and sweater girl, er meterologist, Bonnie Schneider of CNN.

Cowperson

Speaking of CNN, Rudi Bhaktiar would be fun to meet too!

[Cowperson]

Originally Posted by the_only_turek_fan

Speaking of CNN, Rudi Bhaktiar would be fun to meet too!

I think Rudi Bhaktiar is on FOX these days. . . . . not that I'm keeping track or stalking or anything like that.

If we can include dead people, then Hitler and Stalin would be interesting to talk with. And Lenin.

Cowperson

[return to the red]

Mike Richards for me, would be a very interesting guy to sit down and shoot the sh*t with over a couple brews

[Bertuzzied]

Originally Posted by return to the red

Mike Richards for me, would be a very interesting guy to sit down and shoot the sh*t with over a couple brews

Kramer?

[Flames in 07]

I'd like to beet George Dubya as well, but for different reasons. I'd like to scream through a megaphone, they aren't attacking freedom, they are attacking US foreign policy.

[V]

I would love to meet Jim Cuddy of Blue Rodeo. I practically worship the ground he walks on.

[TimSJ]

Cuddy is good friends with friends of mine. He usually spends a few weeks here in the summer.. 2 summers ago i got the chance to sit around a campfire with him. It was great.

[ericschand]

The Dalai Lama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Nelson Mandela, and Wozniak.
The former for their intelligence and interesting lives, and Woz because
there's just no way he's as strange as he comes across. Have to see
him for myself.

Mandela to see if I can gain insight as to what makes him tick. I don't
understand how he can blindingly forgive after all he went through.

ers

[BerubeHater]

Athlete: Pete Sampras
Politician: Bill Clinton or Gorbachev
Musician: Puff Daddy, P.Diddy, Diddy, whatever his name is.
Scientist or Smart Guy: Stephen Hawking

[Flash Walken]

Dennis Rodman

[RougeUnderoos]

This guy sounds like an interesting cat: Howard Bloom


Meanwhile, Bloom borrowed books on industrial formulae from his local library, made cold cream from scratch, learned about surfactants, became fascinated by the puzzles of surface tension, and learned about piezoelectricity by building a germanium diode radio.
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From a book on herpetology, Bloom learned how to raise a lizard from an egg
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His study of Aristotle and Nietzsche would prove a potent influence in his books. Then, at Roswell Park Memorial Cancer Research Institute, while working as a summer lab assistant in the biochemistry department, he aided in early research on the immune system. Though he was technically too young to enter Roswell Park's summer program, Bloom had been recruited by the biochemistry department's head, Dr. David Pressman.
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In 1971, he became the editor of Circus Magazine.
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Working closely with Prince's manager, and current Chairman of the Buena Vista Music Group, Bob Cavallo,[11] Bloom played a role in saving a Prince film Warner Brothers was about to trash, Purple Rain.
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Bloom was the organization's day-to-day work horse, battling a campaign by Tipper Gore, Susan Baker, and other wives of high-placed government officials, who had founded the Parents Music Resource Center.
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In theoretical physics, Bloom is the co-author and supporter of the hidden-time approach to quantum theory. This approach was developed by Pavel Kurakin and George Malinetsky, of the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics at the Russian Academy of Sciences. Bloom is a founding board member of both the Epic of Evolution Society and The Darwin Project, and is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, the National Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Psychological Science[14], the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, The International Society of Human Ethology, the Academy of Political Science, and the NASA-founded Aerospace Technologies Working Group.
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[Phaneuf3]

probably aurora snow.... lol

[White Snow Bear]

Robert Deniro

[Flash Walken]

Originally Posted by Phaneuf3

probably aurora snow.... lol

the question is 'meet', not 'meat'.