If You Could Meet 3 People.....

[LonghornCatholic]

One from the 19th, 20th and 21st century, who would it be?

1) Lincoln
2) JP II
3) Santana (don't hate)

 

[WorsterMan]

My choices have a TEXAS flavor.... there are other great people I would like to have met, but these came to mind first:

1. William Barrett Travis
2. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
3. William F. Buckley

 

[Crockett]

1. Sul Ross, 2. Chester Nimitz, 3. James Hornfisher. Two really interesting, down to earth Texans who had a tremendous impact and an author who can ask great questions and weave a marvelous narrative.

 

[CanaTigers]

Thomas Jefferson
Nikola Tesla
Brian Greene- Still have chance on this one and plan on catching a speech sometime.

 

[Dionysus]

Friedrich Nietzsche
Albert Einstein
Steve Jobs

 

[texas_ex2000]

John Singer Sargent
Paul Newman
Cormac McCarthy

 

[BurntOrangeOnly]

Nice idea for a thread.

1. Winston Churchill
2. Dwight Eisenhower
3. George C. Marshall

I'd love to put them all in a room and just listen to the stories...

 

[SunBurntOrange]

John F. Kennedy
Richard Pryor
Alex Morgan

 

[Crockett]

BOO -- Nice group, but if you met them all at once, you wouldn't hear much from Ike.

 

[l00p]

Marcellus Cassius Clay

Timothy Leary

HHTDL, aka The Dalai Lama

 

[WorsterMan]

3 more (you had no limitations on time posted):

1. Robert E. Lee
2. Winston Churchill
3. Darrell K Royal

4. Roger McGuinn (bonus choice)

 

[RomaVicta]

Lilly Langtree
Ava Gardner
Sofia Vergara

I can read about the other guys. The presence of a fabulous woman electrifies for life.

 

[Dionysus]

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[South Austin]

1. Abraham Lincoln
2. John Lennon
3. Vince Young

 

[Texanne]

19th C: Jane Austen
20th C: Albert Einstein
21st C: Joseph Gordon-Levitt

 

[Statalyzer]

I'd definitely want to vary it up, ie not 3 politicians or 3 authors or 3 generals or whatever ... I'll have to think more about the specifics.

 

[dillohorn]

Lewis "Chesty" Puller, John Wayne, John Henry "Doc" Holliday.....century doesn't matter

 

[Badass]

19th C: my great great great Grandfather
20th C: Jim Lovell - Apollo 13
21st C: Prince Harry - in Vegas of course!

 

[OldHippie]

Young Elvis Presley
Muhammad Ali (I'm stealing yours l00p)
Joseph Campbell

 

[l00p]

Actually, Hippie, you are only partially stealing mine. Mine is a predecessor to him and who he was named for. Mine is the Lion of Whitehall.

 

[OldHippie]

Well I'll be. I learned something new today.

 

[accuratehorn]

Davy Crockett
W.C. Fields
Phoebe Snetsinger

 

[CanaTigers]

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[huisache]

franz kafka
ken delay
martha stewart

Martha would have Ken help Franz with his cockroach problem and then repair to the kitchen, fix him a nice meal and tell him about life in prison. I would get a chance to ask Franz what he was really getting at in The Hunger Artist and get a good meal from Martha

 

[l00p]

Unless his dad was alive a hundred years earlier, nope. Now, he could have taken his Dad's name who took his Dad's name who took his Dad's name. Lion of Whitehall was kind of special and very much a bad *** who liked to fight. He wrote a book titled something like How to Fight and Kill with a Bowie Knife.

He is a hero on many levels.

 

[huisache]

the white cassius clay was a leading abolitionist and earned the lion nickname.

I read somewhere back in the sixties that the black clays of Louisville, his hometown, were descendants. Ali was named after his dad and his brother Rachman was named rudolph valentino clay after the actor

 

[BurntOrangeOnly]

Badass, I lived down the street from Lovell, you really might want to rethink that.