Dinner Party Meme

[wellinghall]

Oh let's resurrect the dinner party meme.

The rules:
- pick six guests for a dinner party
- assume they'll bring partners, so you don't need to worry about a balance between the sexes
- can either be living, dead or fictional, or a mix of these.

Living
1 David Gower
2 Brian May
3 Al Stewart
4 Rory Underwood
5 Nicole Kidman
6 Nelson Mandela

Dead
1 Isaac Asimov
2 JRR Tolkien
3 Marie Curie
4 Grace Kelly
5 Cary Grant
6 The Marquis of Granby, son of the 3rd Duke of Rutland

Fictional
1 Galahad Threepwood
2 Miles Vorkosigan
3 Faramir, son of Denethor
4 Prince Caspian
5 Honor Harrington
6 Richard Hannay

Comments

[camillofan.livejournal.com]

I like the way you play this game! Every time I've done it, I've needlessly agonized over the mix-- of course one should just let them all bring dates! :-)

It was also clever of you to segregate your lists-- that way you get three parties!

Finally, I am happy to see David Gower there. I got no end of grief from an English friend (who prefers football to cricket, I should add) the last time I sat DG at my fantasy table ("the most boring man on television"... "the lone anorak-clad guest"...).

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

"The most elegant batsman I've ever seen" ;-)

[camillofan.livejournal.com]

Okay, and what my friend found even more hilarious was that I'd also invited Kierkegaard. The juxtaposition of DG and SK struck him as borderline surreal.

[inamac.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I asume you only picked Miles because then you'd get Ekaterin, (though I'd prefer to play hostess to his parents).

Come to think of it, the partners of your fictional list would make a pretty good dinner party on their own.

An interesting fanfic too...

[findabair.livejournal.com]

Honor Harrington and Faramir seems like a good combination - would have loved to hear them chat :)

(Book-Faramir and not film-Faramir though.)

[jane-somebody.livejournal.com]

assume they'll bring partners, so you don't need to worry about a balance between the sexes

...what a dreadfully heteronormative assumption.

[deepbluemermaid.livejournal.com]

- assume they'll bring partners, so you don't need to worry about a balance between the sexes

You realise that you're assuming that they'll bring partners of the opposite sex...

[deepbluemermaid.livejournal.com]

Heh, snap - I posted the same thing at the same time :)

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Truly effortless in his vague wafts outside off stump before being caught behind...


(Kidding...kidding...)

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

I recognise all of the fictional ones except Galahad Threepwood. Who he? Is he related to Guybrush?

[king-pellinor.livejournal.com]

Either that, or else that they won't care about the balance of sexes so you don't need to worry :-)

[jane-somebody.livejournal.com]

Hah! But then if it's worth saying, it's worth saying twice ;-)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

"Gally", fromt he "Blandings Castle" books by PG Wodehouse; the Earl of Emsworth's younger brother.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Quite ...

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I know, I know ...

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Ah, but see my comment to Pellinor below ;-)

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Ah. Not related to Guybrush then.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Guybrush who?

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Oh definitely!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Feel free to write it ...

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Hm-mm ... :-)

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Threepwood.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guybrush_Threepwood

[brightlywoven.livejournal.com]

I presume Nicole Kidman is there as adornment? Because I'm not aware she's ever expressed a thought or made a facial expression in the last 20 years! (rroaw.)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Eeyow!

[brightlywoven.livejournal.com]

I know, you should have heard me rant about her presence in The Golden Compass (wrong hair colour, wrong look, absence of personality and charisma - being central aspects of the character, that infuriatingly self-aware 'coy' look...)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I rather passed over "Golden Compass" rants, as I don't know the books at all.

[tree_and_leaf]

*boggles quietly at the fictional characters list*

Though I can see Miles, Faramir and Caspian, in their different ways, fitting right in at the Runagates' Club. Gally, much as I love him, not so much. But he'd be a charming dinner guest and it would be interesting to see who he'd turn up with.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

boggles quietly at the fictional characters list

*sniggers evilly*

Runagates' Club

???

[tree_and_leaf]

Dining club in Buchan for 'people who've knocked about the world a bit and seen odd things'; invented as a peg for a series of short stories, some of them supernatural, featuring among others Hannay, Sandy Clanroyden and Leithen.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Having just googled it as well, I might look out for a copy.

[tree_and_leaf]

I think it also makes an appearance in 'The Three HOstages', but I may be mixing that up with another fictional club.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Don't think Ive read that one.

[tree_and_leaf]

It's the hypnotism one. Good fun, but not as good as 'Greenmantle' or 'Mr Standfast'.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Both of which are very good.

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

Can't say as I know but several pubs are named after him

[tree_and_leaf]

Well, yes!

Marquis of Granby

[elaine-saunders.livejournal.com]

The Marquis of Granby was a much admired British general and has several pubs bearing his name. In the 18th Century Granby was commander of the British forces and loved by his men. He exhibited outstanding bravery in the field and had an intense concern for the men under his command. At the time, there were no army pensions so, rather than let his men starve, he bought pubs for every one of his disabled non-commissioned officers. He died £37,000 in debt (£4m today) but the pubs are a lovely tribute.

Elaine Saunders
Author: A Book About Pub Names
www.completetext.com