h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

...living or dead, which would you choose?

Living. (ha ha ha).

What a fun question this has been over the years, and is an excelent antidote to revision.

Seriously though, after much deliberation mr five are Mae West, Oscar Wilde, Dorotthy Parker, Dr Samuel Johnson and Mark Twain.

Darwin, Peel, Disraeli, Jimi Hendrix and Mark Steel would be a nice, strange, twisted mix.

Douglas Adams, Darwin, Donna Tartt, James May (the guy in Top Gear) and Bridget Jones

Limiting it to living and dead, omitting the fictional:

Richard Dawkins and a bishop (any). Groucho and Harpo Marx, and Margaret Dumont.

I have a taste for controversy...

I think I'd probably send one invitation to Jesus, one to Master Yoda, one to Ama (that Indian female guru who does not teach, does not preach, and just take people in her harms for a soul-healing hug), and one to Douglas Adams, of course, so I am sure at least someone will say something...

And to my boyfriend, to hear him ask "but... who are these people ? where do you know them from ? and are you sure that pork chops in cream is fine ?"

C.L.

F Scott Fitzgerald, Napoleon Dynamite, Epictetus, John Lennon, Howard Dean. I'm not sure what would happen, but I think it would be sensational.

Oscar Wilde, Groucho Marx, Jonathan Winters, Robin Williams and Timothy Leary.

Let's see... okay here they are: Douglas Adams(of course), Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, Hawkeye Pierce (from M*A*S*H), and Elwood Blues

dress up in the respective appearances and that is a good reason to celebrate