Who In History Would You Most Like To Share A Bowl With?

[morgansteele]

The answer is: Me. I'm not a narcissist, but the personal growth that I would gain from the experience would be too valuable to pass up.

 

[cossackjack]

Albert Einstein - on our shared birthday, Pi Day.

J.R.R. Tolkien - I began pipe smoking when first reading The Hobbit.

Capt. James Cook - fascinating firsthand accounts from the Age of Exploration.

Sir Ernest Shackleton - much to learn from his leadership in the most austere conditions.

Sir Anthony Hopkins - perhaps the greatest living actor

Mervin Peake - author, Gormanghast trilogy; perhaps the greatest modern wordsmith (at least on par with Charle Dickens).

Ivan Sirko, Kosh Otaman of the Zaporozhian Cossack Host - great insulter of Turkish Sultan Hehmed IV

(of course Churchill, Abe Lincoln, George Washington, Ben Franklin & all of the Founding Fathers, & many mentioned above).

 

[mawnansmiff]

Wow guys, some very interesting names popping up pretty much just as last time though with (if memory serves) many more of the American 'Forefathers' this time around which I totally get this being a basically American site.

I have to confess I needed to look up some of the names but generally most made sense to me.

An addition to my initial three, and this may not be popular, would be Adolph Hitler.

Mad as it sounds, I would dearly like to know why he held so many folks with such utter contempt and knowingly wasted so many good and innocent lives just to satisfy his delusions. I suspect I might chew through my pipe bit in so doing but I'd love to know what made him tick.

Regards,

Jay. ?

 

[Chasing Embers]

An addition to my initial three, and this may not be popular, would be Adolph Hitler.

He reportedly despised smoking of all forms. If I remember correctly, "Mein Kampf" is still available in English.

 

[Tommy Boy]

I can think of a few people. Robert the Bruce (Braveheart), Leif Erickson, Lewis and Clark and whoever hid the treasure on oak island. I think i could think of a few questions to ask all those guys.

 

[Peter Peachfuzz]

Sparky Anderson, Ginger Baker, Billy Martin..

 

[lochinvar]

Military/Statesmen
Alexander, Alfred the Great, Charles Martel, Somerled, Robert the Bruce, Washington, Churchill, Patton.

Literary
David Hume, Dostoevsky, Robert Louis Stevenson, Tolkien, Hemingway, Louis L'Amour, Jim Harrison, Umberto Eco.

 

[Dallas Wynn]

John Harden a.k.a. Matches860. I have a list a mile long from the great thinkers to the military greats but, John helped me through my dark night of the soul and meant more to me than all the others.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Adam & Eve, Noah, Moses, Jesus and Einstein.

 

[captainsousie]

Just because I'm going back through his books right now, Robert Jordan. Hopefully before he started to deteriorate.

 

[mawnansmiff]

"He reportedly despised smoking of all forms. If I remember correctly, "Mein Kampf" is still available in English."

Duane, I read it many years ago.

Regards,

Jay.

 

[mikethompson]

My Opa.

 

[karam]

He reportedly despised smoking of all forms. If I remember correctly, "Mein Kampf" is still available in English.

Reportedly when he blew his brains out everyone in the bunker instantly lit up with some relief. I like to think relief that the nightmare was over, but in huge moments people find solace in the small things, so it may have been the first smoke some of them had in weeks stuck inside the bunker, under a collapsing city, with two enemy armies closing in, and the weight of some of the worst crimes committed in the history of mankind on their shoulders.

To the question, I find it hard to say, there are so many people I admire and would love to talk to, but my realism kicks in and wonders, what are you going to talk to them about? Themselves and their work most likely, but then they know themselves, and their work better than I ever could. The big scientists like Einstein would probably be impenetrable to me. The military and political figures would share their worries ad their tough decisions, or maybe not. And they can't comment on today because they don't know today. I'm spoiling the fun, as usual!

I'd talk to Jules Verne, Stephen King or Anne Rice (maybe they don't count?), and possibly by stepfather who passed away 23 years ago. Possibly Bach, though in the flesh he may have been incredibly boring, pious, and serious. Neil Peart, Oppenheimer, Freud, Nietzsche.

 

[TinCup]

To share some baccy with these two fellas would cheer me up no end :

 

[coming to_falling too]

Just because I'm going back through his books right now, Robert Jordan. Hopefully before he started to deteriorate.

I was going to say him. I'm about to finish book six of The Wheel of Time. Excellent reads. I've heard his Conan works are good, too.

 

[tobefrank]

In no particular order:
Jeff Bridges
Bill Murray
Christopher Walken
Because they are quirky dudes both on and off camera.

 

[Mr.Mike]

Assuming he smoked, I would go with Nikola Tesla.

 

[chilipalmer]

asked this question about four years ago and it elicited some very interesting replies so thought with the recent influx of new members, perhaps it was time to ask the question again.

The person can be real or fictional, so who would you choose to share a bowl (and perhaps a wee dram) with?

I would choose in no particular order Dr. Samuel Johnson, Sir Winston Churchill and Charles Darwin.

It's not even a contest. Winston Churchill.

Cheers,

Chili

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

Hugh Heffner

 

[didimauw]

My great grandpa Woerfel. I have his Linkmans Grabow, and by the looks of it, it was his only or favorite pipe. The way I clench reminds me of the chunk taken out of his stem!