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Post by Calamas on Mar 22, 2015 12:08:12 GMT -5
Hmmmm... Abraham Lincoln Alan Alda Bill Clinton Bob Costas My great uncle (died 2 years ago) I probably forgot somebody I'd rather have on there, but that's who I can think of right now. Bob Costas was one of my final cuts to get it down to five. Would make a list of ten. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 22, 2015 12:34:48 GMT -5
Oh, rats! I worked out a whole storyline for a "Rip Hunter, Time Master" story!
Some dude approaches Rip with a list of people he wants to have dinner with. Rip gathers the team - Ace, Bonnie and Chip - and they travel back in time to pick up Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, Horacio Quiroga, Lao Tzu and Annette Kellerman. Hilarity ensues as Rip and the gang fight Romans, mean English jurists, a boa constrictor, Kung Fu masters and the swimsuit police. Ace falls in love with one of Cleopatra's attendants, Bonnie is almost married off to the Dauphin, Chip is eaten by army ants and Rip spends a night in the hoosegow on public indecency charges.
Finally they come back to the present and Cleopatra, Joan, Horacio, Lao Tzu and Annette enjoy a nice dinner at the Olive Garden, where they are treated like family.
All concerns about a "universal translator" are irrelevant because it is a Rip Hunter story.
Note: I wrote this from memory and I've only read two Rip Hunter stories and it's been a while. So please forgive any inconsistencies if compared to a real Rip Hunter story. But I'm pretty sure "Rip Hunter, Time Master" is a real thing. I couldn't have dreamed that.
You didn't do too badly, Hoos. It's Jeff and Corky, not Ace and Chip, and Hunter's chrononauts carry "speech converters" (i.e. universal translators; cf. Rip Hunter #8) but otherwise your scenario isn't that much different than the story that gave us this epic clash: featuring Lucrezia Borgia, Helen of Troy, Cleopatra and Scheherezade. Cei-U! I summon the catfight for the ages! I can't believe I got Bonnie right. It's been a long time since I read those. I think it was in a World's Finest 100-Page Super-Spectacular.
I don't remember anything about a "speech converter." It's nice to know the writers were taking it seriously and not just having everybody speaking English with no explanation. Science!
That Rip Hunter panel is great! But they left out Salome!
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Post by Phil Maurice on Mar 22, 2015 12:44:47 GMT -5
This may interest you, rob: Attachment DeletedThose are the Maurice brothers (Phil on right) meeting Clayton Moore at a Southern California Builder's Emporium around 1980. This was during the period that an injunction was issued against Mr. Moore preventing him from appearing in his legendary costume in public or calling himself The Lone Ranger. Many people found this deplorable and turned out in scores at his numerous personal appearances to show their support. My mother was one of those people and she brought my brother and me with her that day. Mr. Moore was kind, jovial, gracious, and every inch the living embodiment of The Lone Ranger. He expressed his gratitude again and again to us for our support. He patiently shook hands, signed autographs, and posed for photos, making everyone there feel extremely special. This photo is somewhat blurry because my mother was trembling with excitement at meeting one of her childhood heroes.  |
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 22, 2015 13:46:00 GMT -5
Clayton Moore is the hero in one of my favorite low-budget World War II era thrillers - Black Dragons!
The villain is Bela Lugosi!
I call it "The Lone Ranger Meets Dracula."
Highly recommended if you like profoundly silly low-budget movies of the 1940s.
Warning: World War II anti-Japanese propaganda.
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Post by Phil Maurice on Mar 22, 2015 14:39:48 GMT -5
Clayton Moore is the hero in one of my favorite low-budget World War II era thrillers - Black Dragons! The villain is Bela Lugosi! I call it "The Lone Ranger Meets Dracula." Wow! That's very cool. I have a fondness for Lugosi that borders on mania and I'd never heard of this. Turns out it's on youtube, it's raining here, and I have a few hours to kill. Thanks, HoosierX! |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Mar 22, 2015 15:10:06 GMT -5
I've seen Jesus on many people's lists. And why not? So I'd like to have dinner with
1- Jesus
2- Muhammad
3- Moses
4- Paul of Tarsus
5- George Carlin
and enjoy the show.
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 22, 2015 15:46:58 GMT -5
Clayton Moore is the hero in one of my favorite low-budget World War II era thrillers - Black Dragons! The villain is Bela Lugosi! I call it "The Lone Ranger Meets Dracula." Wow! That's very cool. I have a fondness for Lugosi that borders on mania and I'd never heard of this. Turns out it's on youtube, it's raining here, and I have a few hours to kill. Thanks, HoosierX! Let us know what you think! In my opinion, it's right up there with The Devil Bat as one of Lugosi's looniest low-budget movies. |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Mar 22, 2015 16:17:16 GMT -5
I've seen Jesus on many people's lists. And why not? So I'd like to have dinner with 1- Jesus 2- Muhammad 3- Moses 4- Paul of Tarsus 5- George Carlin and enjoy the show. George Carlin very nearly made my list, as did Muhammad. |
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Post by Phil Maurice on Mar 22, 2015 16:22:49 GMT -5
Let us know what you think! In my opinion, it's right up there with The Devil Bat as one of Lugosi's looniest low-budget movies. Don't want to derail this thread. I'll post a comment in Classic Movie Discussion. |
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Post by DE Sinclair on Mar 23, 2015 9:40:54 GMT -5
I've seen Jesus on many people's lists. And why not? So I'd like to have dinner with 1- Jesus 2- Muhammad 3- Moses 4- Paul of Tarsus 5- George Carlin and enjoy the show. I'd imagine that to be quite a show with George Carlin thrown in with all those religious figures. Extremely funny and irreverent guy. He had a unique way of looking at things that I always marveled at. I've stolen his jokes many times. One that I always enjoyed (because I was an enlisted man in the Navy) involved one enlisted guy farting and the other one asking "Captain who?" |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2015 8:53:42 GMT -5
1)My Dad (lost him when I was 11)2)My Grandfather(Was too young and dumb with an attitude to really appreciate or understand all of the things he did for me when he was here) 3)Nostradamus 4)Leonardo da Vinci 5)Moses Come to think of it, I'd add my own father to the assembly as well. He died 11 days before I turned 8, & even before then he was hardly ever around. I'd like to meet my mother's parents as well; her mother died about 16 years before I was born (not sure of the exact date of her demise; heck, her headstone not only includes only the year, it misspells her first name), her father more than six years before my advent. Also the great-aunt on my mother's side who was fatally injured in the car wreck (she died on the 9th anniversary of my aforementioned grandfather's death; I got married for the 2nd time 24 years later to the day -- probably not a good choice, in retrospect) we were in when I was 3. Back among the prominent, I wouldn't mind passing time with Leon Trotsky & Mahatma Gandhi, either. |
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Post by Cei-U! on Mar 24, 2015 10:35:13 GMT -5
Remember, you can't have met your guests in real life... otherwise my parents would've topped my list.
Cei-U!
I summon the too long an absence!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2015 12:20:20 GMT -5
I've met PKD, HPL & John Severin in dreams. Does that count?
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Post by berkley on Mar 24, 2015 12:28:56 GMT -5
I'm imagining you, Shakespeare, Sondheim and Hitchcock all watching in horror at the Babe's eating habits. In awe. Though Hitchcock was no slouch, either. And I imagine that Shakespeare was used to some pretty rough company, working for the Elizabethan stage. That's just a guess, though - I don't actually know anything about Elizabethan table manners. |
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Post by berkley on Mar 24, 2015 12:35:30 GMT -5
Thinkers: Nietzsche - I'd be curious to see what he thought of certain scientific discoveries like Relativity and Quantum Theory, which I think he would have found extremely thought-provoking. I think he's be more excited about things like that than about the philosophy that's been done since his death. Also, of course, how he felt about the course of world history after his death, the World Wars, the Nazi period in Germany (and their co-opting of his name), etc. One of the people thst came to my mind and one of the most interesting philosophers I've ever read. None have kept my attention and keep me in awe like Nietzsche. I very much like "God is Dead" and most of all of "The Madman" as it's often quoted and used, much like some do the bible, for their own purposes. The Gay Science is probably my favorite in that it's just chalk full of interesting observations and estrapulation on the human race and our place in the universe. My second favorite would probably be Thus Spoke Zarsthustra. A great piece of writing that as much entertaining as a novel as it is a piece of philosophy. I haven't read his complete works, but most all his latter writings. I don't think I could even match him in conversation with his intellect. However if Bukowski bowed out ( he was never really a people person, especially media and interviews) I'd probably give it a shot. One would of course want to hear his thoughts on the current state of religion as a social construct, but I have a feeling he'd get bored with that pretty quickly as I think it's panned out pretty much as he would have expected. I think that, in addition to the things I already listed, I'd be most curious to find out his thoughts on the arts, especially the literature and music that's been made since his death (assuming I suppose that he had a few years to catch up on some of this stuff before the dinner). How would he have felt about Kafka, Schoenberg, stuff like that. |
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