Which Historical Character Would You Choose To Share A Bowl With?

[Chasing Embers]

George Orwell. His political satire was genius, though I think he was mostly a cigarette smoker.

 

[pappymac]

George Orwell would probably look at society today and say, "Man! This is more screwed up then even I could imagine."

 

[jpmcwjr]

Indeed! Though I bet he'd want an iPhone and a UHD TV.

 

[brian64]

He'd totally smoke a pipe.

I suspect you're correct about that...He'd love seeing the Pharisees pull their hair out over it.

George Orwell. His political satire was genius

It wasn't so much satire as Mr. Blair (aka Orwell) just knew what the general plan was...although Huxley's version is really more accurate.

Indeed! Though I bet he'd want an iPhone and a UHD TV.

He'd recognize those right away as being part of the surveillance grid.

 

[Chasing Embers]

It wasn't so much satire as Mr. Blair (aka Orwell) just knew what the general plan was...although Huxley's version is really more accurate.

Just used the word satire for his treatment of Russia and Stalin's rule in Animal Farm.

 

[brian64]

^ Ah, I see...I tend to immediately think 1984 when Orwell is mentioned.
EDIT: and when Animal Farm is mentioned I immediately think Pink Floyd. :mrgreen:

 

[sittingbear]

Wendell Berry... the Hidden Wound... great book and very relevant now.

+1

 

[kashmir]

I'd like to take JRR Tolkein to the LOTR and hobbit movies. And afterwards over tea and scones, and a pipe or three, discuss what he thought of them. My idea of the ideal weekend.

 

[thesmokindragon]

+1 - Albert Einstein, sitting around over a good smoke while having him enlighten me on the universe - now that would be a blast

 

[saltedplug]

On the one hand Sam Clemens, and on the other Abe Lincoln; and on the third hand Meher Baba

 

[Chasing Embers]

Ah, I see...I tend to immediately think 1984 when Orwell is mentioned.

EDIT: and when Animal Farm is mentioned I immediately think Pink Floyd. :mrgreen:

He was very forward thinking with 1984. As for the Pink Floyd reference, I'll now not be able to not see it. :mrgreen:

 

[badbeard]

While we are smoking with favorite authors, I think I'd have a bowl with Kurt Vonnegut. He could smoke a cigarette, since that was his thing. He seems like he'd probably be a trip to hang out with for an hour or so.
On a side note, his father (Kurt Vonnegut Sr.)also seems to have filed a patent for a very interesting pipe design.

US2395596

 

[btp79]

Might wanna get them bees looked at.

The bees are fine, they'll beard up sometimes if the temperature get's crazy.

 

[aldecaker]

I take it that's a hive. I thought it was the corner of your house.
Bless those little buggers; I love me some bee squeezin's!

 

[unkleyoda]

Samuel Clemens. He is my favorite author and I'd like to get his take on our current political climate.

 

[krizzose]

Shakespeare and Homer (assuming Bill of Stratford actually wrote the works attributed to him and that Homer was in fact a single individual who composed and/or aggregated the Iliad and the Odyssey)

 

[indianafrank]

Mel Fisher.

 

[dottiewarden]

Santa Claus - I'm sure he still smokes a pipe, he just keeps a lower profile so the soccer moms don't boycott him at the local mall during the Christmas season.

 

[davek]

My first thought was Samuel Clemens. Then an early post mentioned Tolkien and Lewis and I thought, "How could I not think of them?". Then, as the thread went on I saw that all the people mentioned were pretty interesting. I'll say that means all pipe smokers are pretty interesting.
Because she has not been mentioned, Ursula K. LeGuin.

 

[jguss]

Mr. Peabody