Xanthippa's Chamberpot

A few days ago, I had asked who are the 12 people (famous enough for the rest of us to have heard of them) whom you’d like to spend a day/have dinner with.  Some very, very intriguing people got nominated in the comments – some of whom did make it to the early versions of my list, but did not make the cut of being in the top 12.

And, I promised I’d post mine (I wrote them down before asking posing this question in the above-mentioned post), along with some others:  well, this is that post!

My list is as follows:

1. Richard Feynman
2. Xanthippe
3. Hypatia
4. Hatshepsut
5. Cixi
6. Archimedes
7. Giordano Bruno
8. Ludwig Von Mises
9. Samo
10. Mika Waltari
11. Margaret Thatcher
12. Mark Twain

My hubby’s list:

1. Galileo Galilei
2. Thomas Jefferson
3. Albert Einstein
4. Neil Armstrong
5. Leonardo da Vinci
6. Pete Townshend
7. Chris Hadfield
8. Julius Caesar
9. Alexander the Great
10. C. D. Howe
11. the first human
12. the last human

My younger son is in his early teens, so, citing the inexperience of his youth, he only picked 6:

1. Richard Feynman
2. Notch (Markus Persson)
3. Albert Einstein
4. Nicola Tesla
5. Robin Walker
6. Gabe Newell

Interestingly, my older son’s list starts with the same man as mine and his brother’s:

1. Richard Feynman
2. Euclid
3. Leonhard Euler
4. Archimedes
5. Plato
6. Isaac Newton
7. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz  (on the grounds that he’d like to get the two of them in one room, then bring up Calculus…)
8. Georg Cantor
9. Edsger W. Djikstra
10. Douglas Hofstadter
11. Alan Turing
12. Alonzo Church

His girlfriend’s list is also very interesting:

1. Empress Wu
2. Zhuge Liang
3. Emperor Qing Shi Huang
4. an early hominid
5. Richard Feynman
6. Beyonce Knowles
7. a common Japanese soldier who participated in the Nan Jing massacre
8. Karl Marx
9. the Buddha
10. an African pygmy before contact by European explorers
11. a Mayan ruler
12. a native of the Easter Islands

Here is the ever-enigmatic CodeSlinger’s list:

Alexander the Great
Genghis Khan
Julius Ceasar
Jesus Christ
Imhotep
The architect of Göbekli Tepe
Thomas Jefferson
Mayer Amschel Rothschild
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Albert Einstein
Paul Dirac

And, young Juggernaut has a short list:

1. Jim Morrison
2. Friedrich Nietzsche

My mom also contributed ‘her 12’:

1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
2. Claude Monet
3. Edgar Degas
4. Napoleon
5. Jesus Christ
6. Mary, mother of Jesus
7. Obama
8. George W. Bush
9. Jack Kennedy
10. Marilyn Monroe
11. Jan Evangelista Purkyne
12. Ray Charles

My dad, however, gave perhaps the most Aspie answer possible:

Totally alone!

Though, he did say he’d like to bring this book.

Now, I’m going to have fun looking up and learning about all these people!