Non-motoring > Five people you'd like to have met.	Miscellaneous
Thread Author: Ted	Replies: 41

New Fri 3 Sep 10 11:31   Five people you'd like to have met. - Ted

Carrying the theme on a little further. 5/6 moderately famous people from history you could have enjoyed afternoon tea with. Richard Strauss, composer. if he couldn't come, then Gustav Mahler. Enoch Arnold Bennett, Potteries author. Declined a Knighthood. Sir John Aspinall. Locomotive designer and General Manager. H.V.Morton, Travel writer, Will Hay. Comic actor and astronomer. My maternal grandpa, died in 1922, not famous but a merchant seaman so should have some good tales to tell. Never even seen a photo of him. Plenty more, of course, and lots of ' world famous ' still with us who would be interesting. Ted Last edited by: Pugugly on Fri 3 Sep 10 at 11:35 Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 3 Sep 10 11:38   Five people you'd like to have met. - R.P.

Usually disappointed with the ones I've bumped into - a tired and emotional Sting was the most interesting..... At a push I can make one - Neville Chamberlin - the first shuttle diplomat, and arguably the guy responsible for us not being defeated by the Germans before we were out of the starting blocks in WW2. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 3 Sep 10 11:41   Five people you'd like to have met. - Robin O'Reliant

Tom Simpson, who died during the 1967 Tour de France. My first sporting hero outside of football. My paternal Grandfather who died when I was a couple of years old. We shared the same name, he was one of the first people in Ireland to own a car and ran a taxi business and later a garage in Cork. Sony Barger, president of the Hells Angels. Adolf Hitler, just to see what made him tick. Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 3 Sep 10 12:06   Five people you'd like to have met. - Dog

Jesus of Nazareth. Muhammad ibn ‘Abdullāh. Siddhārtha Gautama. Jiddu Krishnamurti. Mahatma Gandhi. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 3 Sep 10 12:11   Five people you'd like to have met. - RattleandSmoke

Morrissey (still possible as he is still living, I am one of the few people out of my mates never to have spoken to him). Ian Curtis (long time dead). Brunnel - I would speak to him about his wonderful designs but I will say oi you, why Bristol! George Stephenson Alan Touring - Its a shame he died so young, if he was still living it would be interesting to see what he makes of modern computers today. My great great great grandfather, he had a jam factory in Chelsea and there is still a lot of unsanswered questions about where that wealth came from. He owned lots of property down Royal Hospital Road and all thats been sold off. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 3 Sep 10 12:18   Five people you'd like to have met. - Pat

Sir Douglas Bader Sir Terry Waite Sir Francis Drake Sir Robin Knox-Johnston Ellen MacArthur Pat Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 3 Sep 10 14:13   Five people you'd like to have met. - R.P.

I met Douglas Bader when I was in the ATC. Also spoken to Terry Waite at one of his talks shortly after he trod on my toe ! Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 3 Sep 10 14:15   Five people you'd like to have met. - Zero

>> I met Douglas Bader when I was in the ATC. Also spoken to Terry Waite >> at one of his talks shortly after he trod on my toe ! I have punched Ron Atkinson. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 3 Sep 10 14:16   Five people you'd like to have met. - rtj70

But who did you accidentally shoot ;-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 3 Sep 10 14:19   Five people you'd like to have met. - Zero

A boy I knew in essex. I was up a HV electricity pylon, and he was in a field below me, he must have been 50 yards away, it was a good shot. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 3 Sep 10 14:28   Five people you'd like to have met. - R.P.

Surprising you weren't "charged" zeddo ! Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 3 Sep 10 14:32   Five people you'd like to have met. - rtj70

Thought you said it was an accident ;-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 3 Sep 10 15:01   Five people you'd like to have met. - Zero

>> Thought you said it was an accident ;-) It was, thats what I told him. At 50 metres he was only bruised. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 3 Sep 10 14:19   Five people you'd like to have met. - BiggerBadderDave

"I met Douglas Bader when I was in the ATC. Also spoken to Terry Waite at one of his talks shortly after he trod on my toe !" Douglas Bader trod on your toe? I don't think so! Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 3 Sep 10 14:20   Five people you'd like to have met. - Zero

why not? he would never have known. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 3 Sep 10 14:32   Five people you'd like to have met. - Ian (Cape Town)

>> why not? he would never have known. >> No he wouldn't. Read Reach for the Sky - he trod on Thelma's foot, and didn't know. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 3 Sep 10 12:10   Five people you'd like to have met. - helicopter

Winston Churchill Jim Clark Igor Sikorsky Marilyn Monroe The guy who still owes me £50 I lent him from 1972... Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 3 Sep 10 12:16   Five people you'd like to have met. - Clk Sec

Winston Churchill Margaret Thatcher Queen Mother J F Kennedy Charles Lindbergh Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 3 Sep 10 12:32   Five people you'd like to have met. - Bagpuss

My wife's maternal grandmother. She lived through the horrors of the Stalin regime in Soviet Russia before, during and after WW2. I was supposed to meet her during a visit to Russia one Christmas but family politics prevented it. She died before my next visit. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 3 Sep 10 12:34   Five people you'd like to have met. - Snakey

Spike Milligan Peter Cook My wifes Dad (who died just before I met her) Not famous I know but its important to me! Lemmy from Motorhead Bruce Dickinson from Iron Maiden Last edited by: Snakey on Fri 3 Sep 10 at 12:34 Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 3 Sep 10 12:46   Five people you'd like to have met. - tyro

Dog clearly has greater linguistic skills than I have! :-) To be honest, I don't have much interest in meeting celebrities from the past, or from the present. At the moment, the person from the past that I would have most liked to meet was the gent who lived in my house during the first half of the 20th century. I'm curious about aspects of the history of the house and garden. And the person who comes in at number two is the gent who lived in the house in the closing years of the 19th century - for the same reason. Oddly enough, if the question was "Who would you most like to meet?" - i.e. people presently alive, I would have to name people that I've "met" on the internet over the past few years - in the blogosphere and on various forums. But I'm not going to name names! Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 3 Sep 10 13:02   Five people you'd like to have met. - Zero

Tommy Flowers Gene Amdahl Shakespeare Isambad Kingdom Brunell Barnes Wallace. Segovia. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 3 Sep 10 13:27   Five people you'd like to have met. - Dog

>>Segovia<< www.youtube.com/watch?v=9efHwnFAkuA Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 3 Sep 10 14:13   Five people you'd like to have met. - Zero

Looks like that was filmed at the AlHambra. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 3 Sep 10 17:37   Five people you'd like to have met. - Dog

>>Looks like that was filmed at the AlHambra.<< Ah! that's what my learned friend in Plymouth said when I sent it to him, He also said ... "Good to see that he wasn't slowed down any with arthritis as he got older - must be the Spanish climate" Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 4 Sep 10 11:15   Five people you'd like to have met. - DP

>> Bruce Dickinson from Iron Maiden Thoroughly nice bloke. I worked with Janick Gers' sister in law for a while, and both Janick and Bruce turned up to her leaving do in the local pub. Chatting to everyone, had a few beers, and although I've not met many bone fide rock stars, I can't imagine many others being so unlike rock stars. Queued at the bar with everyone else, cracked jokes, and chatted to people they'd never met before like old friends. Genuinely nice people. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 3 Sep 10 14:48   Five people you'd like to have met. - ....

None of them. I don't like boy bands. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 3 Sep 10 20:11   Five people you'd like to have met. - Mike Hannon

Isambard Kingdom Brunel Sir Thomas Beecham Anthony Howard Reginald Bosanquet William Gilbert Grace Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 3 Sep 10 21:34   Five people you'd like to have met. - Tigger

Like many others on here, I have a bias towards engineers ... IK Brunel RL Stephenson A Turing I'd also like to have met my grandfather, and his grandfather (I've been fascinated by what I've been learning about their occupations as I've been researching the family tree). Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 3 Sep 10 22:40   Five people you'd like to have met. - Aretas

Nicola Tesla Ada Lovelace Colin Chapman Winston Churchill Phil Hill Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 3 Sep 10 23:25   Five people you'd like to have met. - Londoner

Winston Churchill Benjamin Disraeli Fred Dibnah Richmal Crompton The Emperor Charles V (Imagine what it must have been like, being ruler of what is now Spain, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Western Poland, Southern Italy and most of South America - no wonder he gave up) Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 3 Sep 10 23:59   Five people you'd like to have met. - Avant

Jesus Christ Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) P.G. Wodehouse Ronald Reagan Denis and Edna Healey I know what PU means about celebrities who disappoint: none of the above would have. I've met Princess Diana, who was very good company, and Ted Heath, who wasn't. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 4 Sep 10 11:01   Five people you'd like to have met. - CGNorwich

" none of the above would have I rather think the first might. Been a bit over-hyped over the centuries Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 4 Sep 10 11:08   Five people you'd like to have met. - Zero

I doubt the first was even who you thought it was. Theres even a chance he never was. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 4 Sep 10 11:34   Five people you'd like to have met. - BiggerBadderDave

This is all just a variation on the ultimate dinner party game isn't it? I'd definitely have Kate Bush there - sitting next to me. Definitely Lee Hazlewood, coolest guy that ever lived, takes "laid back" to a whole new level. Ian Brown - godlike genius. Richard Dawkins and I'd sit him next to some religious fruitbat, perhaps the pope himself, and goad them into arguing. Actually, I've met Dawkins twice, he signed two of his books for me. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 4 Sep 10 11:48   Five people you'd like to have met. - Zero

>> I'd definitely have Kate Bush there - sitting next to me. with her wailing in one ear, and her brothers punching you in the other, that sounds like the diner party from hell. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 4 Sep 10 11:56   Five people you'd like to have met. - BiggerBadderDave

All good dinner parties end in a food fight Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 4 Sep 10 11:35   Five people you'd like to have met. - tyro

"I rather think the first might. Been a bit over-hyped over the centuries" You speak from first hand experience, I take it? And I thought L'escargot was ancient. ;-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 5 Sep 10 21:12   Five people you'd like to have met. - Roger.

Belle du Jour! Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 5 Sep 10 21:47   Five people you'd like to have met. - Robin O'Reliant

>> Belle du Jour! >> Who do you think you are, Wayne Rooney? Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 5 Sep 10 22:06   Five people you'd like to have met. - Runfer D'Hills

Bill Gates when he needed someone to invest a few quid in his new business.... Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 6 Sep 10 13:43   Five people you'd like to have met. - Enoughalready

Adrian Warburton (Google Warburton's War) Reply to this message | Report message