The VERY Dry Spell Meeting Point

JEC57 · Post by **JEC57** » Tue Jul 01, 2014 12:37 pm

CockHargreaves wrote:My guests could easily change, but I've gone for what I think would be a fascinating and entertaining mix of people:

1 Daniel Craig (he has to sit next to me, obviously)
2 Eleanor Roosevelt
3 Aneurin Bevan (a Welsh hero, founder of the National Health Service who believed everyone, rich or poor, should have access to medical help from the cradle to the grave)
4 Aphra Behn
5 William Shakespeare
6 Rachel Weisz
7 Stephen Fry

Interesting mix CH! I would definitely like to meet Aneurin Bevan. Sadly, we don't get politicians like him any more.

My list.........

Daniel - sitting opposite me so I can look at him without staring and can catch his attention.

Christopher Eccleston

Patrick Stewart

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVl

Martin Luther King Jnr

JRR Tolkien

Golda Meir

Mary Magalene

Eleanor of Aquitaine

Mary Wollstonecraft

Germangirl · Post by **Germangirl** » Tue Jul 01, 2014 6:11 pm

Cool list - are you a Formel 1 fan?
Are there films about Wollstonecraft? Her life seems like film material.

Comedies Américaines ‏@alericflair 20m View translation
Je me suis déguisé en chat et j'ai piégé Daniel Craig http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x20lnc ... -serie_fun … via @Dailymotion #lchatnoirducinema

JEC57 · Post by **JEC57** » Tue Jul 01, 2014 6:21 pm

Germangirl wrote:Cool list - are you a Formel 1 fan?
Are there films about Wollstonecraft? Her life seems like film material.

Comedies Américaines ‏@alericflair 20m View translation
Je me suis déguisé en chat et j'ai piégé Daniel Craig http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x20lnc ... -serie_fun … via @Dailymotion #lchatnoirducinema

I can't say I've ever heard of a film about Mary Wollstonecraft. I had to study her at university and got a real appreciation for her. I don't agree with everything she said, but she was an inspiring woman for her achievements.

Formula 1? Me? Noooo!!

Too boring and too noisy. Curious why you asked?

Watched the clip....my French is worse than my German, if that is at all possible!!....... so I probably missed the point.

SmittenDramaKitten · Post by **SmittenDramaKitten** » Tue Jul 01, 2014 6:24 pm

I note the sub heading has been changed to VERY Dry Spell....

I agree... this is hard. He's a naughty boy but what are we gonna DO about that? We could put him over our knee and give him a good spanking.

Like I said, not much we can do but wait for the good stuff to come along and hope he surprises us sooner rather than later....

Germangirl · Post by **Germangirl** » Tue Jul 01, 2014 6:52 pm

JEC57 wrote:
Germangirl wrote:Cool list - are you a Formel 1 fan?
Are there films about Wollstonecraft? Her life seems like film material.

Comedies Américaines ‏@alericflair 20m View translation
Je me suis déguisé en chat et j'ai piégé Daniel Craig http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x20lnc ... -serie_fun … via @Dailymotion #lchatnoirducinema
I can't say I've ever heard of a film about Mary Wollstonecraft. I had to study her at university and got a real appreciation for her. I don't agree with everything she said, but she was an inspiring woman for her achievements.

Formula 1? Me? Noooo!! Too boring and too noisy. Curious why you asked?

Watched the clip....my French is worse than my German, if that is at all possible!!....... so I probably missed the point.

Eccleston - he is Formel 1, no?

Germangirl · Post by **Germangirl** » Tue Jul 01, 2014 6:55 pm

Oops, he is not. I mismiatched it

Sorry...it was Bernie, I had on my mind.

Chris is of Friends and makes all sense.

JEC57 · Post by **JEC57** » Tue Jul 01, 2014 7:00 pm

Germangirl wrote:Oops, he is not. I mismiatched it Sorry...it was Bernie, I had on my mind.

Chris is of Friends and makes all sense.

Germangirl · Post by **Germangirl** » Tue Jul 01, 2014 7:03 pm

Yeah, lol....

Post by **Dunda** » Tue Jul 01, 2014 7:05 pm

Well there's not enough money in the world to make this one sexy

CockHargreaves · Post by **CockHargreaves** » Tue Jul 01, 2014 7:41 pm

I wouldn't want Bernie at my party. He'd probably try to charge me admission or something...
Why, oh why did I not think of Eleanor of Aquitaine?!

JEC57 · Post by **JEC57** » Tue Jul 01, 2014 7:46 pm

CockHargreaves wrote:I wouldn't want Bernie at my party. He'd probably try to charge me admission or something...
Why, oh why did I not think of Eleanor of Aquitaine?!

I have very few "heroines" but she is top of the list.

Alina · Post by **Alina** » Tue Jul 01, 2014 7:49 pm

Dunda wrote:

1. DANIEL (my left profile is better, I think

)
2. Judi Dench (they seem to get along very well together and she's fun)
3. Ian Fleming
4. Ernest Hemingway
5. Aung San Suu Kyi (Daniel admires her and so do I, it would be nice to have her sitting opposite us)
6. George Sand
7. Julian Sands ( I fancied him once, he's so withdrawn and aloof, which I like, and he used to be very generous with his body in his movies

And he was in a movie by one of my favourite Polish directors, Krzysztof Zanussi 'Wherever you are...')

I think it would be quite an 'explosive' and fascinating combination

Jana66 · Post by **Jana66** » Tue Jul 01, 2014 8:02 pm

...@BTW, Jec,
Eleanor of Aquitaine is a very interesting choice.
I am very interested in that part of European history.

Germangirl · Post by **Germangirl** » Tue Jul 01, 2014 8:04 pm

..also, yes, George Sands is one woman, I would have liked to BE...

Alina · Post by **Alina** » Tue Jul 01, 2014 8:13 pm

Anyway, that table is too small for my requirements

And to choose 7 people is a very hard task. I've just come up with quite a few more names, like Diogenes of Sinope, Marcus Junius Brutus, Virginia Woolf, Gary Sinise, Cary Grant, Bona Sforza, Adele Hugo, and a few more, but let's just leave it as it is.