if you could meet 5 people in history

[KY Native in IN]

if you could meet 5 people in history who would they be????

[baldcat]

1) Ernest Hemingway

2) Theodore Roosevelt

3) Abraham Lincoln

4) Nicoli Tesla

5) Martin Luther King Jr.

[Arkansas Cat Fan]

1. Jon Benet Ramsey

2 & 3. Jack & Jackie Kennedy

4. Oprah

5. Ben Franklin

[ElijahCraig]

Jesus

Teddy Roosevelt

Henry Clay

Thomas Jefferson

Robert E. Lee

[CatKroboth]

Iwould list Jesus, but I know I will see him in the future so don't need to go back...

So my list is....

1) My Grandfather. A brilliant man that learned Civil Engineering and ran a business with out a degree. Died when I was 6.

2) Martin Luther

3) The Apostle Paul

4) King David

5) A tie between Ab Lincoln andThomas Edison.

[surveyor]

1. Jesus and Mohammed (together - hash this thing out once and for all.:ggrin:)

2. The Apostle Peter

3. Judas (settle THAT once and for all, too.:thumbup)

4. Lee Harvey Oswald (ditto:thumbup)

5. Betty Crocker (or Sarah Lee, either would do)

[Littlemeyer]

1) John Lennon
2) FDR
3) Vince Lombardi
4) Adolph Rupp
5) My great-uncle Ross (a family legend, unfortunately he passed when I was 2)

Good topic. You'll notice there are 5 english-speaking people on my list. If I'm going to get the chance to meet them, by golly I hope to be able to communicate with them! :lol:

[Rollo]

1. Robert Mitchum
2. Harry Truman
3. Benjamin Franklin
4. Babe Ruth
5. Daniel Boone

[wildcatfaninnc]

In no particular order....

1. John Wilkes Booth (reading new book about the pursuit & capture of Booth. Fascinating)

2. Johnny Cash

3. Hank Williams Sr.

4. Robert E. Lee

5.Waylon Jennings

[Old Blue]

Again, in no particular order:

Abraham Lincoln

JFK

John Lennon

Socrates

and George Clooney (because that would be a really fun evening and he'd probably bring friends)

[ukfanman]

Jesus Christ (for the good)

Abraham Lincoln (for the person)

Adolph Hitler (to see within his evil mind)

JFK (because I was so young and would wlove to have seen his vision)

John Denver (his music said it all)

[WildcatRick]

Babe Ruth

Elvis

Wyatt Earp

Richard "Dick" Winters

Adolph Rupp

[Bluesong]

Larry
Curley
Moe
John Wayne
Marilyn Monroe

[KY Native in IN]

it's tough to narrow it to 5 obviously and the list could change, but i'd say at this writing and in no particular order:
1. Bill Monroe (a native Kentuckian that "invented" a style of music)
2. A.P. Carter (just cause it'd be cool to meet him)
3. Abraham Laborial or Jack Bruce(tie-my 2 favorite bass players)
4. Jesse James (preferably in his family man days)
5. John Prine (he seems like he'd be cool to sit with at Denny's over a grand slam or pancakes, talk about songs, guitars and life)
sorry, no presidents or astronauts...and as a previous poster stated, Jesus i hope to meet face to face!

[Littlemeyer]

KY Native in IN wrote:
1. Bill Monroe (a native Kentuckian that "invented" a style of music)


Bill Monroe! That's a good one, one that I wished I had thought of earlier. Being a VERY novice mandolin player myself, I'm sure he could show me a thing or two.

:thumbup

[KY Native in IN]

Littlemeyer wrote:
KY Native in IN wrote:
1. Bill Monroe (a native Kentuckian that "invented" a style of music)


Bill Monroe!Â* That's a good one, one that I wished I had thought of earlier.Â* Being a VERY novice mandolin player myself, I'm sure he could show me a thing or two.Â*

:thumbup


...or 3 or 4...:lol:...would've been cool just to hear him tell stories...i think he literally played onstage until he died up in his 80's, he never stopped playing bluegrass what he called "MY music"....there was one way to do it, HIS way!....funny story: bill would not allow any of his bluegrass boys to have facial hair, one of them commented, "uncle pen had a moustache!" and bill replied, "uncle pen wasn't a bluegrass boy!"...an OLD joke: a musician died and went to heaven. During a tour of paradise, he was passed by a silver-haired figure dressed impeccably in a white suit and Stetson and carrying a mandolin.
The musician asked St. Peter who it was. “Oh, that’s God,� he replied. “He thinks he’s Bill Monroe.�

[matt57]

rupp
cawood ledford
al capone
jackie robinson
cassius clay

[Terry L. Wildcat]

:cool:Mark Twain, John Lennon, Madalyn Murray O'Hair, Brian Jones and Gram Parsons.

[JohnJ]

CatKroboth wrote: Iwould list Jesus, but I know I will see him in the future so don't need to go back...

Okay.

Alfred the Great

Ben Franklin

Abe Lincoln

Teddy Roosevelt

Winston Churchill

[UKHAS7NCAA]

1. Jesus

2. JFK

3. Albert Eistein

4. Pope John Paul

5. Osama Bin Laden:>

[UedK]

1. Jesus

2. My Dad's Dad, he disappeared from Latvia during the Stalin purge of dissidents during the end of WWII and no one knows what happened to him.

3. Zinjanthropus boisei. The earliest east African human found to date. That's his scientific name.

4. Gandhi and Mel McCain (It's a toss-up)

5. Sister Theresa

[blueheretic]

Genghis Khan -- The First Truly Tolerant and Enlightened Internationalist

Jesus of Nazereth -- The founder of Christianity

Siddhartha Gautama Buddha -- The Enlightened One and founder of Buddhism

Zoroaster -- harbinger of the Nazerene

Thomas Jefferson -- The Founder of American Democracy



To follow that up:

Kubulai grandson of Genghis

Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee

Futher back, I'd like to sit and talk with Darius and Alexander

Ceaser Juliusand Ramses I and II and whomever were the models forOsiris, Isisand Amon Ra

Catherine the Great and Potemkin

Charlemagne at Vienna

Mohammad the Prophet of Allah, his sister Fatimaand Abu Bakr

Suleymaine and Salah adh Din and Muhammad Ali

I'd like to sit in a room with Longsstreet,Jackson, Sherman, Thomasand Sheridan

Joseph Wheelor in 1899.

Sit in a room and listen to Sam Clemons and U.S. Grant reminisce about life during and after Lincoln

I'd like to advise Truman on dealing with the Soviets and the Chinese

Be a fly on the wal during the deliberations of FDR and Churchill on Stalin

MacArthur, Marshall and Ike in the Phillipines in the 30s (I think) and later in Japan and England seperately

I wouldn't know where to start or continue with this conversation...

[johnkyblue]

Mary Magdelene (sp?) - there isn't a woman's perspective on Jesus.
Leon Trotsky
Alexander Hamilton
Thomas Jefferson
Bob Ross