Please read the title of this post like you were the Knights Who Say Ni getting excited about a shrubbery or a herring... but substitute "shrubbery" and/or "herring" with the word "list".

Good, that's the effect I wanted.

As regular readers know, Sue bought me latest Book of Lists which, yes, I love... and also, of course, gives me GREAT fodder for blogging lists.

NOW, THIS IS NOT A MEME... but if you're interested, please, do the same list on YOUR blog...

You can have ELEVEN dinner guests (you would be the twelfth at the table)... yup... dinner and conversation with eleven people... but you can choose ANYONE from history! (Sorry, no family members allowed in the list.) ...and yes, you'd be able to understand and communicate with them. So, who would it be?

Here's my list...

#1: Jesus Christ Now, I'm not a strong Christian... and honestly, as such, don't take this as bad taste. I'm proudly agnostic, It strikes that this would be one fellow who might be able to answer some of the more burning questions out in the universe as we know it... not to mention get his views on how modern people look on him and interpret his efforts.

#2: J. Robert Oppenheimer Father of the atomic bomb. I'd love to discuss with him what it must feel like to know that you created something that could destroy all life on the planet. I know Dr. Oppenheimer actually did have major regrets... and I'd love to hear his take on this.

#3: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Although a creative genius... and really the prototype of the modern (albeit, starving) "rock star"... I'd want to ask him about his childhood... the experience of being a boy genius and being trotted about to courts to show his talents.

#4: Jacques de Molay Last grand master of The Knights Templar. I'd like to get his take on why his order and all it's followers were REALLY put to death... I don't think it has much to do with my first guest but, hey, you never know.

#5: Harry Price In many ways, Price was the grandfather of modern ghost investigation... but his reputation is a bit tarnished with some. I'd like to ask him what he thinks happened and why, and what his favourite cases were and what revelations, if any not documented, he came to and how.

#6: James Fitzgibbon Soldier, Civil Servant, Important Player in my country's early history. Gosh, where to start with him? The War of 1812? The Family Compact? Being "Raised from the Ranks"? The Rebellions of 1837?

#7: Leonardo DaVinci In my opinion, he was the one truest genius on this planet. A true Renaissance man with abilities in art and science. DaVinci was ahead of his time and the man of his time.

#8: Harriet Tubman Davis I'd hope she'd share stories and tales of her flights from the South... the Freedom Railroad... her daring do... Truly, an inspirational hero!

#9: Robert the Bruce Monarch of Scotland who took on England... but I'd be wanting to ask how much "back room chicanary" went on. I know SOME did with Isabella, Edward II's wife... and not romantically (sorry Mel...)

#10: Marilyn Monroe Not as dumb a blonde as many might think... and many tales of gangsters and politicians to boot!

#11: Queen Elizabeth I This SHOULD be the #1 choice as it would most definitely be Sue's... and she would HAVE to be in on this dinner (so, SETTING FOR THIRTEEN, PLEASE!) and would let Sue sit next to her... I know she has much to talk to her about.

HEY! I did say leave family OFF the list! Didn't say you couldn't have them join you for dinner with your choices!

Awright, blogsphere... who would be your eleven guests... and why?

For the record, I thought long and hard about bringing to the table Nikola Tesla, Chuck Yeager, Amelia Earhart, Douglas Adams, Lee Harvey Oswald, Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens, Oscar Wilde, Marshall McLuhan, Wop May, J. Allen Hynek, and Stephen Leacock...

Heck, I could do TWO dinners!

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