Top 5 people who you want to meet.

[Melusine]

Originally posted by Faceman: 1.) Erich Kästner

Nice list! [img]smile.gif[/img] There's a poem by Kästner that I really like, it's called "Ein Kubikkilometer genügt" - do you know it?

Anyway, here's mine... I think

1. Mozart
2. Whoever it was that wrote Beowulf, or whoever it was that wrote Wulf and Eadwacer
3. John Donne
4. Oscar Wilde
5. Well, I met some of my best online friends at Claude's get-together and I thoroughly enjoyed it, met Yorick before that too, and have met Groj about 6 or 7 times I think. But there are still some people I've known for two years here that I've never met, mostly because they're so far away (Australia, America etc) and I think it'd be great to meet them. Maybe after I've become a learned professor and actually get paid to visit universities there... well I can dream, can't I?

I wish this was a top ten BTW

[ 06-29-2003, 03:41 PM: Message edited by: Melusine ]

[Cristian]

ok i decided 100%

1.Shakira
2.Shakira
3.Shakira
4.Shakira
5.Shakira

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[Faceman]

Originally posted by Melusine: quote: Originally posted by Faceman: 1.) Erich Kästner

Nice list! [img]smile.gif[/img] There's a poem by Kästner that I really like, it's called "Ein Kubikkilometer genügt" - do you know it?
[/QUOTE]I know and like that one as I can say for most of his poems. It's sad that he's always ridiculed as a children's books author although his books for children are great (entertaining and wise).

My favourite poems are in no intended order
"Jahrgang 1899"
"Wenn wir den Krieg gewonnen hätten"
"Dem Revolutionär Jesus zum Geburtstag"
"Kennst du das Land wo die Kanonen blühn"

I'm sure I missed some great ones but the first three of my list regularly make me cry (which is extremely hard to achieve).

[Shadowfax]

Hullo everyone! I don't hang out in this forum a lot, but I thought that I'd pop by and disturb the peace and whatnot.

The top five who I'd like to me are (in no particular order):

1) Winston Churchill
2) Edgar Allan Poe
3) William Manchester
4) Mozart
5) My grandfather, Sydney, who died before I was born.

1) My future wife
2) My future kids
3) My future pets
4) Benevolent extraterrestrial beings - to sit and chat about this world, the universe and anything else

That's enough meetings for me. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Chewbacca]

Martin Luther King JR. -To see him speak live.

Jimi Hendrix -To see him perform live.

Gary Gygaxx -To play D&D with him, he's the guy who invented D&D.

Thomas Jefferson- To find out what he thinks of hemp prohibition, he did grow the stuff.

Zacharia Sitchen- To discuss all the evidence of ancient astronauts he reveals in his many books

[ 06-30-2003, 12:47 AM: Message edited by: Chewbacca ]

[Thoran]

1) Jesus - just to hang out and pound a few bottles of free wine, I'll even bring the water. (betcha miracle wine is REALLY good)

2) Julius Caesar - to tell him his biggest legacy was a salad and warn him about the ides of march.

3) Napoleon - so I could play the "short people" song for him and tell him "Never get involved in a land war in Asia, and especially never go in against a Sicilian when DEATH is on the line".

4) Richard III - just before Bosworth field, so I could find out what happened to those poor kids and get a ringside seat to the battle.

5) Budda - so I could rub his belly.

6) Ghengis Khan - Anyone who can whip up on pretty much EVERY civilization of his period is someone I'd like to meet.

7) J. R. R. Tolkien - just to shake his hand and say "thanks".

8) Washington & Jefferson - to talk politics of course.

9) Mozart - I'd give him a Steinway and see what he could do with it.

10) Robert Jordan - to give him a slap upside the head and tell him "GET ON WITH IT MAN!"

[Ryanamur]

No particular order:


Living:
1- Jimmy Carter
2- Pope John Paul II
3- Dalai Lama (sp)
4- a German or Japaneese soldier who fought in WWII (I've met many Allied ones)
5- John Nash


Dead:
1- George Patton
2- Einstein
3- Plato
4- Socrates
5- Beethoven

[ 07-01-2003, 03:42 PM: Message edited by: Ryanamur ]