New Year Dinner Party - choose your guests

[Mandryka]

Norman Tebbit
George Gissing
Knut Hamsun
Paul Johnson
Malcolm Muggeridge
Bernard Levin
William Donaldson
Diana Rigg
Rod Steiger
Ian Anderson

[Panjandrum]

Norman Tebbit
George Gissing
Knut Hamsun
Paul Johnson
Malcolm Muggeridge
Bernard Levin
William Donaldson
Diana Rigg
Rod Steiger
Ian Anderson

I'm willing to bet you'd find them otherwise engaged.

[greenilex]

This is table-rapping with a vengeance. I do hope not too many Vienna Phil bods have passed over as a result of my virtual beanfeast.

[Ferretfancy]

How about

(i) a musician

(ii) someone not famous / local to you

(iii) a messageboarder

(iv) a wildcard for anyone else !

1. Alfred Brendel,

2. Lucinda from next door ( The best mother I've met, and a delight, I hope John won't mind being left out )

3. Amateur 51, just to find out if he's quite the gentleman he says he is

4. Simon Hoggart

[Mandryka]

I'm willing to bet you'd find them otherwise engaged.

Really hate to disappoint you, but I've already had dinner with four of the people mentioned (great company, so would be lovely to see them again), so yet another of your cheap digs falls flat.

Back to the drawing board, eh, panny?

[salymap]

Musician, Anthony Halstead.
Local cousin who loves early music.
Marthe from Rhode Island, if she can get here on magic carpet.
Wild card, Tom Robinson, whom I haven't seen for years.

[barber olly]

3. Ahinton. He's such good fun!

Make sure you email him, I understand the mail service is not good in his area!

[amateur51]

1. Alfred Brendel,

2. Lucinda from next door ( The best mother I've met, and a delight, I hope John won't mind being left out )

3. Amateur 51, just to find out if he's quite the gentleman he says he is

4. Simon Hoggart

Cheers Ferret!

I'll try to dig out what Woy Jenkins would call a few 'tollerwobble bottles'

[Lateralthinking1]

Very, very, difficult. My dinner party in heaven might have more guests than the one on earth:

Nan, Charlie Chaplin, Jackie Leven, Roger Scott (DJ), Les Dawson, Carmita Reid (Jamaican teacher), Gandhi

Octavia Hill, ee cummings, Alastair Cooke, Tony Hancock, Robert Robinson, Wassily Kandinsky, Willy Brandt

Kenneth Williams, Linda Smith, Jennie Lee, Nina Simone, Charles Darwin, Clement Attlee, Turlough O'Carolan

JD Salinger, Pierre Bonnard, Paul Robeson, Charlie Gillett, Minnie Riperton, Ruben Gonzalez, George Harrison

Joe Strummer, Kirsty MacColl, Vaughan Williams, Marconi, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Robert Doisneau, Alan Hull

Gil Scott-Heron, Uncle Charlie, Denis Compton, Arthur Ashe, Katharine Hepburn, Miriam Makeba, Stan Barstow

[marthe]

Musician, Anthony Halstead.
Local cousin who loves early music.
Marthe from Rhode Island, if she can get here on magic carpet.
Wild card, Tom Robinson, whom I haven't seen for years.

Aww saly! You're on my list too, along with other boardees. I'll just have to see if there are any trans-Atlantic magic carpets available. If I could, I'd invite you all to our Thanksgiving dinner this Thursday. However, we're planning our next visit to the green and pleasant land for Christmas 2012.

[Nick Armstrong]

what Woy Jenkins would call a few 'tollerwobble bottles'

Perfection, Ams !!!

[Anna]

So difficult to decide just on 4 people, particularly when it comes of boardees I think. Obviously top of my list would have to be Ams and Caliban so they could be the Jules & Sand Cabaret between courses. But then french frank would have to be there! Oh, and I must also have Mandy! Decisions!! Musician: Morrissey. Personal: My Nan. Wildcard: Bruce Chatwin

[amateur51]

Perfection, Ams !!!

To be absolutely fair that's not me, that's the late John Wells from his Anyone For Denis? show about Mr Thatcher.

[amateur51]

So difficult to decide just on 4 people, particularly when it comes of boardees I think. Obviously top of my list would have to be Ams and Caliban so they could be the Jules & Sand Cabaret between courses. But then french frank would have to be there! Oh, and I must also have Mandy! Decisions!! Musician: Morrissey. Personal: My Nan. Wildcard: Bruce Chatwin

Crikey Anna, what an honour!

[Nick Armstrong]

So difficult to decide just on 4 people, particularly when it comes of boardees I think. Obviously top of my list would have to be Ams and Caliban so they could be the Jules & Sand Cabaret between courses. But then french frank would have to be there! Oh, and I must also have Mandy! Decisions!! Musician: Morrissey. Personal: My Nan. Wildcard: Bruce Chatwin