Ultimate 10 guests to your dinner party

[exmouthcraig]

@class37025 I dont know what skills I have to pass on 

I could bring Lamb, Beef, potatoes and a few slabs of Carling if this years harvest goes to plan 

[dannyboy]

I am waiting for Mick @Newportnobby to come up with his list - Julia Roberts plus 9 clones maybe?

[Skyline2uk]

The talk of flowers  and turing makes me wonder what dinner would be like with those two along with babage and ada lovlace

Probably way above my head, but now you mention them Babbage and Ada were apparently quite the socialites in their day (especially Babbage when he was well connected, he held his own dinner parties with the likes of Brunel).

Skyline2uk 

[emjaybee]

Tommy Flowers (telephone engineer who actually made the theory of Turing real in the form of the colossus machines. £1000 of his own money and barely recognised by the nation he helped save).

Skyline2uk

He wasn't completely forgotten. On part of the old Bletchley Park site, they built a housing estate, and in there they built a care home specifically geared up for people with dementia. It was called 'Flowers House' after the man himself. My grandfather was a resident for a few years before he progressed to a nursing home.

Oh that's something I suppose (sorry about your Grandfather, hope he had as nice a time there as possible) and I am aware Tommy did get awarded £1000 by the government / nation. It's just that his story isn't as well known as Turnings and he wasn't allowed to talk about his work.

Skyline2uk

The place looked after my grandad very well. It was an amazing place.

[Skyline2uk]

The place looked after my grandad very well. It was an amazing place.

Glad to hear that 


Skyline2uk

[guest311]

I am waiting for Mick @Newportnobby to come up with his list - Julia Roberts plus 9 clones maybe?

no just 8 clones plus one other, he'd want some variety, I'd imagine

[guest311]

@class37025 I dont know what skills I have to pass on 

I could bring Lamb, Beef, potatoes and a few slabs of Carling if this years harvest goes to plan 

YOU ARE INVITED 

[Newportnobby]

I am waiting for Mick @Newportnobby to come up with his list - Julia Roberts plus 9 clones maybe?

@dannyboy Go to the bottom of the class. Julia Roberts indeed. Pah! Liz Hurley and her 8 clones (plus me makes the ten) would have something to say about that.
The prandial conversation would possibly be incredibly boring but the after dinner party would be to die for (probably literally)

Edit: Hold on, I've just realised I can have 10 guests so that's 9 clones then

[exmouthcraig]

@Newportnobby no Coxy then???

[Newportnobby]

Oh - all right then - 8 clones and a Coxy

[dannyboy]

@Newportnobby
My sincere apologies Mick. I had 'that' picture of Liz wearing 'that' dress in my head when I posted my comment - no idea where Julia came from. 

[acko22]

Hmm bit of fun although the idea of me hosting a dinner party......hope they like crisps for starters, microwave meal for mains and Haribo for desert 

So my 10:

1) Werner von Siemens (One of the founders behind the company)
2) David Stirling (Founder of what is today known as the SAS)
3) Dave Grohl (Of Foo Fighters and Nirvana fame)
4) Sir Sean Connery
5) Dr Richard Beeching (Yes that Dr Beeching)
6) Chris Tarrant
7) Roger Daltry
8 ) Prince Philip (Come on the bloke is mental you never know what he is going to say, its only a matter of time before he says something!)
9) Jodie Comer (enough said)
10) Scarlett Johansson (again enough said really)

It would be a complete shambles but a ready supply of booze makes every situation better!! 

[Skyline2uk]

Hmm bit of fun although the idea of me hosting a dinner party......hope they like crisps for starters, microwave meal for mains and Haribo for desert 

So my 10:

1) Werner von Siemens (One of the founders behind the company)
2) David Stirling (Founder of what is today known as the SAS)
3) Dave Grohl (Of Foo Fighters and Nirvana fame)
4) Sir Sean Connery
5) Dr Richard Beeching (Yes that Dr Beeching)
6) Chris Tarrant
7) Roger Daltry
8 ) Prince Philip (Come on the bloke is mental you never know what he is going to say, its only a matter of time before he says something!)
9) Jodie Comer (enough said)
10) Scarlett Johansson (again enough said really)

It would be a complete shambles but a ready supply of booze makes every situation better!! 

That MUST happen and it MUST be filmed!

I suspect I would die laughing, but would be worth it....

Skyline2uk

[Bealman]

At least you could talk model railways with Roger Daltry

[LASteve]

So, ten guests plus myself and the lovely project manager. I'll be cooking. Please advise of any dietary restrictions in advance.

Sean Connery (SWMBO would kill me otherwise). Olivier Giroud as a stand-in if Sean can't make it.
Audrey Hepburn
Anthony Bourdain. He can expedite if I get in the weeds in the kitchen.
Michelle Obama
Bill Bryson
Lady Gaga
Harold Evans, ex Sunday Times editor. His dad was a locomotive driver based out of Newton Heath, which is a bonus
Princess Margaret
Brian Greene, physicist and author, and the only person to explain quantum theory by reference to Homer Simpson and Springfield.

... which leaves a place spare for one of the forum members, to be decided by a drawing of straws. We're unbalanced on the distaff side, so I might rig the straws