List of Five

[Paulhoff]

OK, this is not really an easy one, not if you try to come up with an honest list. I thought at first it should be one, but with farther thought the number went to five. The person on the list must not be a loved one gone, or a friend, which also in some ways can be a loved one; you can make that list for yourself. It has to be at least someone well known to most people, and I will not argue with whom the most people are, that way more people will be able to come to our attention. So here goes, as someone first said “nothing� witch then becomes something.

Give a list of five people, who you would like spend a time with, and have their ear, and soul possession of their time. The bad part is they must be died at least 50 years. One month for each one, time to learn from, and I hope, to learn more about yourself. Who would they be? Also if you would or could, explain why, but it is not necessary for this list. Also the order of the five is not important.

Paul

:) :) :)

[chrisqqgx4]

It's difficult to understand your words. I'm guessing English is not your first language. Still, I got enough to give it a try:

Kipling
Wagner
Britten
Conan-Doyle
WC Fields

Writers and musicians, I guess.

Edited to say: sorry, missed the fifty year rule

[LibraryLady]

Strangely, I had to do a similar exercise a while ago in a workshop "ice-breaker."

Lewis Carroll
Elizabeth I
Abraham Lincoln
William Shakespeare
Anne Frank

[H3LL]

You might detect a subtle pattern here. See if you can spot it:

Julius Ceasar
Augustus (Octavianus)
Tiberius
Caligula (Gaius Germanicus)
Claudius

[CptColumbo]

Harry Houdini
Plato
Abraham Lincoln
Albert Einstein
Henry Wallace

[Paulhoff]

My list:

Benjamin Franklin
Mark Twain
Abraham Lincoln
Will Rogers
Galileo Galilei

:) :) :)

[CptColumbo]

I'm sorry I meant Wallace Hartley, not Henry Wallace.
I always screw-up that name.

I assume that I would be able to understand those who don't speak English.

[H3LL]

Just to add a little twist (if it's a thread hi-jack I'll open another).

Add the advice you would give each person in your list (you don't have to be nice). e.g.

Julius Caesar - "About Britain. More soldiers and definitely elephants."
Augustus - "Teach Germanicus to be sceptical."
Tiberius - "Macro - BIG problem. Pontius Pilate - Not tough enough and needs to know that dirty hands can be a good thing."
Caligula - "Have the whole senate as horses...Much better."
Claudius - "Nero - Ban him from theatres and send him to the German front on recon' missions."

[CptColumbo]

Harry Houdini-get that stomach ache checked out.
Plato-back-up all your files.
Abraham Lincoln-watch your back, and wouldn't a concert be nice tonight.
Albert Einstein-no advice. He got out of Germany, he worked in a patent office (where he got his best ideas, if you know what I mean), and changed the world.
Wallace Hartley-get a different agent, and get off the damn boat.

[Magyar]

my five

Leonardo deVinci
Sun Tsu
Alexander the Great
Akhenaten (sp)
Lord Byron

[Ducky]

My five:

1) Robert Oppenheimer. I would like to spend the month leading up to the development of the bomb with him at Los Alamos.
2) Thomas Edison. I would love to have been in his lab at any time for a month.
3) Teddy Roosevelt. Pick a month - ANY month - of that man's life.
4) Johnny Ace. I would like to be around for the last month of his life to see why someone would ever consider playing russian roulette.
5) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I would like to spend a month with him at the break of that Cottingly Faeries crock to see how such a brilliant man could be duped.

[Bull13]

Ben Franklin.

James Madison

Curly from the Three Stooges.

Torquemada.

My paternal Grandfather.

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Moe
Larry
Curly
Jesus
Jesus Jr.

[SixSixSix]

I'd check the obituaries of anyone who died leaving a lot of wealth unfound. Bank robbers, pirates, media magnates - I don't really care who.

Then select the 5 most well known and recent of these, and find out where they hid their stash.

Sure, someone might have found it already - but maybe I'll get lucky one time out of five?

[Paulhoff]

Maybe it was good that I said 50 years dead. ;)

Paul

:) :) :)

[ungoliant]

i hope these are all dead 50 years.

1) henry ford - to find out how to get rich

2) paul of tarsus - to find out how to start my own religion

3) l ron hubbard - see 1 and 2 above

4) my grandfather - to find out what my dad was like as a kid

5) samuel clemens - for the comedy

[Igopogo]

Ben Franklin
George Gershwin
JS Bach
Isaac Newton
Charles Darwin

[Boo]

Eleanor Roosevelt

John Adams

Marie Curie

The Oracle at Delphi

Black Elk

[Plognark]

Mark Twain
Charles Darwin
Benjamin Franklin
Leonardo Davinci
Teddy Roosevelt

[BracesForImpact]

Albert Einstein

Alexander the Great

Mark Twain

Benjamin Franklin

Nikolai Tesla

[Luke T.]

Abraham Lincoln - I don't know why, but I have a strong emotional attachment to this man.

Napolean Bonaparte - To discuss military matters of tactics and strategies.

James Madison - One of the clearest writers of political thought I have ever read. I chose him over Alexis de Tocqueville only because Madison put his thoughts into action.

John Steinbeck - He wrote my favorite book.

Jesus Christ - To see if he speaks English and knows my name on sight.

[Ove]

Kipling - Brilliant writer
Arthur Conan Doyle - same
Mark Twain - FUNNY !!!!!!!!!!!
George Gershwin - Great composer
Sigmund Freud - Amazing intelligence.




could go on and on and on and ........:D

[Metullus]

Bacon, Both of them

Alexander the Great

Claudius

Richard Burton (not the actor, the other one)