Table talk.

[fortworthgal]

The men could sit back and watch as Marlene Dietrich tries to pick up on Rosemary Clooney.

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At the very least, I am assured we would have interesting dinner conversation!

 

[Viola]

Ben Franklin. I think he'd be a hoot. He's always seemed to me to be the most fun of the founding fathers to drink a beer with.

Teddy Roosevelt. A man of enormous energy and vision and probably not a boring conversationalist either.

Robert Heinlien. Preferably before he went crazy, but I'm not picky.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Ben Franklin would try to pick up on you A randy devil, he was.

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[Viola]

Ben Franklin would try to pick up on you A randy devil, he was.

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I can't decide if that image is really funny or kind of disturbing, but its certainly not boring. I bet he could dish the dirt on the other founding fathers as well.lol

How did I leave Samuel Clemmens off my list?!

 

[MelissaAnne]

Ben Franklin! Now why didn't I think of him? He would be fun to party with, I think.

 

[CharlieH.]

Some notables:

Carole Lombard (plus Gable)
Bert Lahr
William Powell
Claudette Colbert (and I'll sit right next to her!)
Joan Blondell
Mickey Rooney (wait a minute, is he still alive?)
James Cagney (We won't serve grapefruit)
The Marx brothers (And we'll bring Margaret Dumont for a little extra fun!)
Robert Clampett
Walt Disney
Ginger Rogers
Dorothy Parker
Robert Benchley
Bob Hope
Bing Crosby

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Just to hear all the intonations at once:

Betty Boop
Elmer Fudd
Popeye
Marvin the Martian

Not invited: Krazy Kat and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. They're just not talkers.


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[fortworthgal]

Ginger Rogers

I've heard some pretty nasty things about Ginger Rogers, but boy I bet she'd have some stories!

Interesting note - she got her start right here in Fort Worth when she won a Charleston contest at a local hotel. Her mother wrote for the local paper, and her childhood home still stands not far from my office, it housed a local charitable organization for a while, I'm not sure what it is now. I saw an old bathtub from the home at an estate sale about a year ago, it had paperwork and such certifying that it really had been used by Ginger Rogers. lol

 

[Atterbury Dodd]

Some notables:

Carole Lombard (plus Gable)
Bert Lahr
William Powell
Claudette Colbert (and I'll sit right next to her!)
Joan Blondell
Mickey Rooney (wait a minute, is he still alive?)
James Cagney (We won't serve grapefruit)
The Marx brothers (And we'll bring Margaret Dumont for a little extra fun!)
Robert Clampett
Walt Disney
Ginger Rogers
Dorothy Parker
Robert Benchley
Bob Hope
Bing Crosby

Mickey Rooney sure is alive. www.mickeyrooney.com
My list would be:
Leslie Howard
Humphry Bogart
William Powell
Charles Lindberg
Carole Lombard
Joan Blondell
Joan Crawford
David Niven
Bing Crosby
Bobe Hope

 

[Cabinetman]

absolutely...but don't you ever wish He was right there sitting with you at your kitchen table...in the flesh? With kids and pets...sometimes it's hard to hear myself think!lol

Agreed.

Dad gum! Who are all those women above? Some striking...well, they're quite lovely, for the most part.

I like this one best, though:

 

[mysterygal]

You are one smart man Cab! :eusa_clap way to get the brownie points going!

 

[Jack Scorpion]

John Dos Passos
Robert Mitchum
Leon Trotsky
Nikolai Gogol

 

[Marc Chevalier]

And who, pray tell, is this "Carrie" woman?

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[scotrace]

Agreed.

Dad gum! Who are all those women above? Some striking...well, they're quite lovely, for the most part.

I like this one best, though:

Agreed. Obviously The Class Hottie.

 

[mysterygal]

the pic Cab posted? It's his wife

 

[Marc Chevalier]

:eusa_clap

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Gogol might be interesting. If he'd take off the overcoat and cease with the damn diary.

Albert Camus
Franz Kafka
Neville Chamberlaine (to find out just what he was thinking!)
Karl Marx (see what he thinks of these so-called Communists)

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[Marc Chevalier]

LEO TOLSTOY !
MAXIM GORKY !
FEODOR DOSTOEVSKY !

Wait a minute ... those three really did have dinner together.

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[Tony in Tarzana]

Joseph of Arimathea
Erwin Rommel
Howard Hughes
Ian Fleming
Edward G Robinson

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Jimmy Hoffa. So I can ask him, "What have you been hiding under?"

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