Dinner Party Guests:-

[cornish tigress]

Hey I just picked Julian and a couple of dish pigs. I was fair and even

[chris4xy]

Terry Pratchett, Kiera Knightley and Mrs chris4xy

[POSTIGER]

I'd invite David Cameron himself.....

.....then smash him repeatedly with a frying pan. Or a text book.

I'd then chat to my other guests. Probably Nelson Mandela and Winston Churchill. Maybe John Lennon. My female guests would be Mother Teresa and Tracey Emin (just so the others don't get too comfortable).

[Kinoulton]

I'd invite David Cameron himself.....

.....then smash him repeatedly with a frying pan. Or a text book.

I'd then chat to my other guests. Probably Nelson Mandela and Winston Churchill. Maybe John Lennon. My female guests would be Mother Teresa and Tracey Emin (just so the others don't get too comfortable).

I think if Nelson Mandela thought he'd even have to share a continent with Tracey Emin he'd be asked to be put back in prison rather than face the hideous talnetless gargoyle.

These bigotted opinions are purely mine and do not reflect those of Leicester Tigers or anyone else!

[POSTIGER]

Think you're being unncessarily harsh on gargoyles there Kin...

[DickyP]

Think you're being unncessarily harsh on gargoyles there Kin...

Surely as there is no evidence that she is a water spout, she is not a gargoyle but a grotesque?

[Kinoulton]

The Results

Overall we're a thinking bunch, with plenty of heavyweights and big thinkers on the list, but nerry a Rooney or a Jordan.

Politicians and campaigners (anyone from Winston Churchill to Martin Luther King), accounted for 33% of all guests.

Musicians and singers (more of the former, interestingly) came next with about 18%.

TV Presenters (not actors) provided an odd mix stretching from Kim and Aggi to Jeremy Paxman.

Scientists and natualists also featured well, and of course many of them appear in the TV Presenters list too.

There were 4 actors and 3 authors/playwrites.

Surprisingly only 1 sportsperson (Julian White!), and 1 Comedian which was Jerry Sadowitz. So all those hours on QI, Mock The Week, Would I Lie To You, Buzzcocks has failed to land any of Britain's contemporary comics a place at our tables.

Individually only Nelson Mandela and David Attenborough got more than one vote, so I think they are automatically in the final line up.

Demographically we picked 30 men and ony 9 women. 24 living people and 15 dead. 25 Brits, 7 Americans and 7 people of other nationalities.

So if we go for a final four, then I reckon Mandela and Attenborough should be joined by a mixture of dead / American / female / musician!

So maybe we go for Jimi Hendrix and Diana Rigg?

[sam16111986]

Rory Gallagher, Terry Pratchett and Bill Hicks.

Think I'd have to really stock up on the booze with Rory and Bill coming. Nearly included Douglas Adams over Sir Terry and was tempted with Jimmy Page but Rory is just a more interesting character.

[Kinoulton]

Blimey. I didn't expect Rory Gallagher to appear on anyone's list except mine.

I saw him at The Boat Club and De Montford Hall in the 60s, then the Isle of Wight Festival, and kept going to his concerts ever since. The last one I saw was at Rock City, not all that long before he died.

[sam16111986]

Unfortunatley I never got to see him live as he died when I was 8 or 9. The guy is a seriously underrated musician outside of Ireland.

[Kinoulton]

Not underrated amongst rockers though.

When I went to Rock City it was absolutely packed and I felt really old!

Everyone except me and my bro were in their teens and 20s and going completely bonkers.

If only the XFactor hopeless ones could have seen someone with so much genuine charisma, stage presence and what's that other thing?

Oh yes, exciting musical ability.

[fleabane]

When asked "What's it like to be the best guitarist in the world?", Jimi Hendrix replied, "Ask Rory Gallagher".

So, the two of them, plus Bob Harris.

[Ben the Tiger]

If I had to choose three then I would go for, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Benazir Bhutto.

However if the list were endless then I'd like people such as the three above, Queen Elizabeth I and Victoria, Rosa Parks, Alice Paul, Paul Britten, Colin Firth, Keira Knightley, Kate Winslett, Nelson Mandella, Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, WInston Churchill, Gary Barlow and Freddie Mercury. It could go on and on and on.

[Kinoulton]

When asked "What's it like to be the best guitarist in the world?", Jimi Hendrix replied, "Ask Rory Gallagher".

I didn't know that. Good quote.

[fleabane]

I saw them both on the same bill at the Woburn Festival in 1968. Fab!