| Your ideal Dinner Party 12 11:00 - Mar 11 with 645 views | onehunglow |
Hitler
Lincoln
Churchill
De Valera
Gandhi
Bob Marley
Gladstone
Brunel
Mandela
Eugene Terreblache
Lana Turner
Ustinov |  |
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| Your ideal Dinner Party 12 on 11:52 - Mar 11 with 615 views | 1983 |
Blimey you have a big house...
Just 4 for me because I have a small house
Craig Charles for the music
Billy Connolly for the shits & giggles
Sir Micheal Caine for the stories
Sir David Attenborough for the serious stuff |  |
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| Your ideal Dinner Party 12 on 13:23 - Mar 11 with 580 views | britferry |
Markle
Harry
Wills
Kate
Markles ex-husband
Markles half-sister
Markles father
Piers Morgan
4 of Harry's ex-girlfriends (I couldnt be bothered to go on) | |
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| Your ideal Dinner Party 12 on 14:38 - Mar 11 with 564 views | Boundy |
| Your ideal Dinner Party 12 on 13:23 - Mar 11 by britferry |
Markle
Harry
Wills
Kate
Markles ex-husband
Markles half-sister
Markles father
Piers Morgan
4 of Harry's ex-girlfriends (I couldnt be bothered to go on) |
My Dad , because we'd have so much to catch up on
Dylan Thomas His novel Portrait of the Artist as Young Dog was very much a part of my reading material in my youth , very evocative and he'd be more than entertaining after a few .
Churchill purely because I enjoy history even dare I say it British history
Brunel he basically help create the means for mass transportation and he's left a wonderful legacy
Siegfried Sassoon .Another who was part of my youth in terms of reading material
Ustinov Extremely funny guy
Hitler only to ask him why ?
Ali one of my sporting hero's of all time
Geoff Hurst , well did it ?
Twm Siôn Cati just to prove he did exist and does he know Trampie
King Arthur as above
Laurence Binyon , just to ask what gave him the inspiration to write one of the greatest war poetry of all time considering he never served [Post edited 11 Mar 2021 19:09]
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| Your ideal Dinner Party 12 on 14:57 - Mar 11 with 555 views | Professor |
A few vegetarians to cater for there. | | | |
| Your ideal Dinner Party 12 on 15:07 - Mar 11 with 548 views | Lohengrin |
| Your ideal Dinner Party 12 on 14:57 - Mar 11 by Professor |
A few vegetarians to cater for there. |
” Laurence Binyon , just to ask what gave him the inspiration to write one of the greatest war poetry of all time considering he never served.”
It was reading the newspaper reports of the rearguard action covering the retreat from Mons in August 1914, mate. |  |
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| Your ideal Dinner Party 12 on 15:59 - Mar 11 with 535 views | pencoedjack |
Mary Berry to do the cooking
Halle Berry
Marilyn Monroe
Holly Willoughby
Wendy James (Transvision vamp)
Blondie
Carol Kirkwood
Maya Jama
Kylie
Ulrika Johnsen
Kelly Brook
Olivia Newton John |  | | |
| Your ideal Dinner Party 12 on 17:00 - Mar 11 with 522 views | Boundy |
| Your ideal Dinner Party 12 on 15:07 - Mar 11 by Lohengrin |
” Laurence Binyon , just to ask what gave him the inspiration to write one of the greatest war poetry of all time considering he never served.”
It was reading the newspaper reports of the rearguard action covering the retreat from Mons in August 1914, mate. |
Thanks for posting. Considering the level of censorship at the time and the timing of the publication he managed to convey accurately but without appearing to convey any form of jingoism (which was prevalent at the time) the true affects of the conflict.
With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,
England mourns for her dead across the sea.
Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,
Fallen in the cause of the free.
Solemn the drums thrill; Death august and royal
Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres,
There is music in the midst of desolation
And a glory that shines upon our tears.
They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted;
They fell with their faces to the foe.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;
They sit no more at familiar tables of home;
They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;
They sleep beyond England's foam.
But where our desires are and our hopes profound,
Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight,
To the innermost heart of their own land they are known
As the stars are known to the Night;
As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,
Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain;
As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness,
To the end, to the end, they remain. | |
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| Your ideal Dinner Party 12 on 17:37 - Mar 11 with 513 views | Catullus |
Ooh 12, lots of thinking here,
Nye Bevan, to ask whet he made of the NHS today
My Grandpa, to see if he really is the man I think he is.
Spike Milligan
Rob Brydon
Sandi Toksvig, all 3 for the laughs.
Jimmy Stewart
Alan Curtis
Owain Glyndwr, to find out what actually happened.
Catullus, seems rude not to!
Julius Caesar
Cleopatra,
Bert, my father in law. Because my wife misses him so much. | |
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| Your ideal Dinner Party 12 on 17:43 - Mar 11 with 512 views | Lohengrin |
| Your ideal Dinner Party 12 on 17:00 - Mar 11 by Boundy |
Thanks for posting. Considering the level of censorship at the time and the timing of the publication he managed to convey accurately but without appearing to convey any form of jingoism (which was prevalent at the time) the true affects of the conflict.
With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,
England mourns for her dead across the sea.
Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,
Fallen in the cause of the free.
Solemn the drums thrill; Death august and royal
Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres,
There is music in the midst of desolation
And a glory that shines upon our tears.
They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted;
They fell with their faces to the foe.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;
They sit no more at familiar tables of home;
They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;
They sleep beyond England's foam.
But where our desires are and our hopes profound,
Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight,
To the innermost heart of their own land they are known
As the stars are known to the Night;
As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,
Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain;
As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness,
To the end, to the end, they remain. |
Not jingoism exactly but it’s certainly redolent of Euripides and what the ancient Greeks celebrated as the ‘kalos thanatos ’ - the brave and beautiful death.
Poetry of the early period was like that. The horrors of Loos, the Somme and Paschendaele lay ahead. | |
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| Your ideal Dinner Party 12 on 17:44 - Mar 11 with 512 views | onehunglow |
| Your ideal Dinner Party 12 on 15:59 - Mar 11 by pencoedjack |
Mary Berry to do the cooking
Halle Berry
Marilyn Monroe
Holly Willoughby
Wendy James (Transvision vamp)
Blondie
Carol Kirkwood
Maya Jama
Kylie
Ulrika Johnsen
Kelly Brook
Olivia Newton John |
Carol,,! | |
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| Your ideal Dinner Party 12 on 21:22 - Mar 11 with 482 views | Kilkennyjack |
Nye
Barak
Ali
JFK
Nelson Mandela
George Best
Marilyn Monroe
Constance Markievicz
Katie Taylor
emily pankhurst
Princess Gwenllian
CZJ |  |
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| Your ideal Dinner Party 12 on 21:23 - Mar 11 with 479 views | pencoedjack |
| Your ideal Dinner Party 12 on 17:44 - Mar 11 by onehunglow |
Carol,,! |
Indeed. | | | |
| Your ideal Dinner Party 12 on 21:30 - Mar 11 with 470 views | Groo |
| Your ideal Dinner Party 12 on 15:59 - Mar 11 by pencoedjack |
Mary Berry to do the cooking
Halle Berry
Marilyn Monroe
Holly Willoughby
Wendy James (Transvision vamp)
Blondie
Carol Kirkwood
Maya Jama
Kylie
Ulrika Johnsen
Kelly Brook
Olivia Newton John |
A naked dinner I presume |  |
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| Your ideal Dinner Party 12 on 21:32 - Mar 11 with 470 views | Flashberryjack |
Churchill
Stalin
Hitler
Thatcher
Queen Victoria
Mark Twain
Tommy Cooper
Bob Monkhouse
Bill Shankley
George Best
Jimmy Tarbuck
Lisa |  |
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| Your ideal Dinner Party 12 on 21:33 - Mar 11 with 466 views | pencoedjack |
| Your ideal Dinner Party 12 on 21:30 - Mar 11 by Groo |
A naked dinner I presume |
I wouldn’t get past starters if they were | | | |
| Your ideal Dinner Party 12 on 19:14 - Mar 12 with 390 views | theloneranger |
1. My grandfather. He died young, a couple of years after being gassed in WW1.
2. My wife's grandfather. He died before I met my wife. He never really talked how he won the DCM and MM on the Somme etc.
3 Nelson Mandela.
4. Jackie Robinson
5. Audie Murphy
6. Rosa Parks
7. Alan Turing
8. Peter Sellers
9. Kirk Douglas
10. Spike Milligan
11. Sir Don Bradman
12 Muhammad Ali |  |
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| Your ideal Dinner Party 12 on 20:23 - Mar 12 with 368 views | Catullus |
| Your ideal Dinner Party 12 on 19:14 - Mar 12 by theloneranger |
1. My grandfather. He died young, a couple of years after being gassed in WW1.
2. My wife's grandfather. He died before I met my wife. He never really talked how he won the DCM and MM on the Somme etc.
3 Nelson Mandela.
4. Jackie Robinson
5. Audie Murphy
6. Rosa Parks
7. Alan Turing
8. Peter Sellers
9. Kirk Douglas
10. Spike Milligan
11. Sir Don Bradman
12 Muhammad Ali |
I think the problem is, there are so many great and very interesting people, just picking 12 is hard work.
There are so many questions to ask historical figures! | |
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| Your ideal Dinner Party 12 on 20:28 - Mar 12 with 368 views | onehunglow |
| Your ideal Dinner Party 12 on 20:23 - Mar 12 by Catullus |
I think the problem is, there are so many great and very interesting people, just picking 12 is hard work.
There are so many questions to ask historical figures! |
Brilliant thread though innit.
No wonder I am a legendary poster.
Next week, the best Funeral party .
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