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If you could talk to one person who would it be...
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If you could talk to one person from the following categories who would it be and why?

Politician
Historical Person
Sports person
Criminal
Anyone else
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Winny Churchiano
Charlie Dempsey
The Don
Guy Fawkes
Roy of the Rovers.
E + R + O

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Gangsta! wrote:
If you could talk to one person from the following categories who would it be and why?

Politician

Fidel Castro

Historical Person

Karl Marx

Sports person

Muhammad Ali

Criminal

John Dillinger

Anyone else

Che Guevara

Three for me, and two for them.

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The cute Maori chick with the huge norgs on "NZ's Next Top Model".
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King Henry VIII
Hitler
Muhammad Ali
David Bain
Da Vinci
You know we belong together...

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Politician - Eamonn de Valera
Historical Person - Alexander the Great
Sports person - Patrick Kluivert
Criminal - Padraig Pearse
Anyone else - Hansi Kursch
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Oska wrote:
David Bain


Controversial... Not that I disagree with you.
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Not a criminal.  Try again.
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Henry the 8th or Julius Caesar.
Hitler (Is he historical enough?)
Roger Federer, easy choice for me.
Jack the Ripper (Or the Zodiac killer)
Person who killed JFK maybe?wellyphoenixfan2009-10-13 23:47:28
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I might change my criminal to Jack the Ripper as well actually.
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loyalgunner wrote:

Sports person - Patrick Kluivert
 
 
Even more controversial...
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Gangsta! wrote:
If you could talk to one person from the following categories who would it be and why?PoliticianHistorical PersonSports personCriminal Anyone else


George W. Bush (just to see if he's really as stupid as he comes accross)

Ante Pavelic (just what, exactly, were you thinking you numpty...)

Drew Brees (biggest man-crush ever)

Al Capone (for re-defining organised crime as we know it)

Will Ferell (for his sheer comic genius)
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Politician - Bill Clinton
Historical Person - The guy who invented the wheel.
Sports person - Perry Groves
Criminal - Charles Manson
Anyone else - Dave Grohl
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Gangsta! wrote:
If you could talk to one person from the following categories who would it be and why?

Politician - Silvio Berlusconi - just to find out how he gets away with all the dodgy stuff he does.

Historical Person - Andy Warhol - just to know if he was taking the piss or for real.

Sports person - Dennis Bergkamp - As close to divinty on earth as you can get.

Criminal - O J Simpson - Ask him if he thinks everyone really is that stupid to believe him.

Anyone else - Ron Jeremy- Because he would have the most awesome stories & would make an awesome drinking buddy.
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Paulinho wrote:
loyalgunner wrote:

Sports person - Patrick Kluivert
 
 
Even more controversial...


I beg to differ.  The man was one of the best attackers in his prime.
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I would also love to go be able to show Alan Turing an i-phone and watch his head explode.
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Politician - Nelson Mandela
Historical Person - Benjamin Franklin
Sports person - Jackie Robinson
Criminal - I'm Australian, I've already got criminals in my family tree
Anyone else - David Bowie
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Politician - Mikhail Gorbachov - The man responsible for stopping the cold war on it's feet, if only he was allowed to finish his vision, Russia might have succeeded in its reforms. Link

Historical Person - Galileo - Astronomer who challenged the Churches belief about the heavens. Link

Sports person - Shoeless Joe Jackson - US Baseball player Link

Criminal - Robert Stroud - The Birdman of Alcatraz. Link
 
Anyone else - Any friendly extraterrestrial  being from another planet. Unfortunately Dr Carl Sagan is deceased so that counts him out. Link
Lonegunmen2009-10-16 17:25:26
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The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!

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Politician - Marius Lacatus (ask him about the kick-oi at parliment he wanted to organise)

Historical Person - Cnut (find out if he ever got a response from Harry Ngata on his questions)

Sports person - Hard News (ask him if he thinks he is likely to put on weight after he retires from football)

Criminal - Feverish (ask him about the time the police took him home from a Phoenix game)

Anyone else - James Dean (ask him why he wasn't in Bahrain)

All I do is make the stuff I would've liked
Reference things I wanna watch, reference girls I wanna bite
Now I'm firefly like a burning kite
And yousa fake fuck like a fleshlight

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Politician: Nestor Makhno -"Any tips on growing a moustache for Movember?" or "what was it like being the commander of a revolutionary army one minute the next a Paris stage hand?"

Historical Person: Einstein - "Fixie or Gears on the bike Al?"

Sports Person: Geoff Capes - "What's the best advice you've heard for raising Budgies?"

Criminal: Robin Hood - "What made your men so merry?" or "what was it like wearing tights all the time in Nottingham Forest, did you ever get cold?"

Anyone else: I'd have to revert back to being 19years old, build a time machine and go and try and pull Kate Bush around the time she recorded Lionheart.

others Kurt Vonnegut, ("fancy a gin and tonic? No? So it goes..."). W.B. Yeats, (" Look mate I've been there, you gonna have to stop this whining over Maud"). King Athelstan of England ("mate you were sooo underrated") .



Edit: I FORGOT Criminal: Winston Churchill - "So you wanted to do WW2 just so you would never be forgotten you sick megalomaniac"?

ForteanTimes2009-10-17 13:12:15

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