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Let's say you could invite one notable/famous person from the past/present to your home.They can help you with one specific task, who would you pick & what would you have them do?

Asked by ucme (50047points) September 3rd, 2010

Yeah. one of those questions. Long winded, hypothetical & speculative. Still, worthwhile asking on occasion if only for a laugh. So anyway back on track. Who’s it going to be & what “job” have you lined up for them?

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sakura's avatar

Gok wan to sort me out with a new wardrobe

aprilsimnel's avatar

Dale Carnegie

He’d walk around with me and help me with what to do, how to carry myself and what to say so that I could put myself out there, help me to remember to focus on the other person I’m interacting with and not worry so much about how I’m coming off.

Cruiser's avatar

I would get Johnny Weismuller to do his signature yell over the fence towards the A-hole neighbor between 2 and 5 am.

Winters's avatar

Paris Hilton (or another celebrity that’s more of a just a popular nuisance than an actual celeb), moving stuff from the attic to the basement. Why? So I could trip her or “nudge” her down the stairs in hopes that she breaks her neck. That’d be the last we’d hear about her.

ucme's avatar

@Cruiser Oh yeah! Any excuse to play this again….turn down the volume!! Can’t get enough of hearing that shit. Always has the kids laughing too :¬D Ooh you snuck that in there a bit late didn’t you?

WestRiverrat's avatar

Michelangelo, I have to paint my living/dining room this weekend.

muppetish's avatar

I want Jim Henson to teach me how to puppeteer.

harple's avatar

Thomas Edison – I’d get him to go out and buy all the different types of bloody lightbulbs I now have to have to light up my home!

jazmina88's avatar

Jerry garcia – to help me songwrite.

TexasDude's avatar

I’d have Theodore Roosevelt help me write my senior thesis.

lucillelucillelucille's avatar

I want Abraham Lincoln to give me a manicure.

ucme's avatar

I did my link before @Cruiser….... he no play nice, boo hoo :¬(

Rarebear's avatar

I would ask Brian Greene, theoretical physicist from Columbia, to come over and give a lecture and discussion to my friends and me on the similarities and differences, and the pros and cons between loop quantum gravity and string theory for unifying quantum mechanics and general relativity.

(You might think I’m being a smart ass, but that’s my real answer, actually).

deni's avatar

michael jackson teach me to moonwalk obviously.

marissa's avatar

Mother Theresa – Get rid of all the clutter in my house. I’m sure I think more things are a necessity than she would.

daytonamisticrip's avatar

I would…. If this really happened, having this choice I’d think longer about it but for now I’ll say I’d invite the Zodiac Killer and his job would be to answer all my questions.

Austinlad's avatar

I hereby extend invitations to the following:

Albert Einstein, to spend time explaining his theories about time.
Tom Edison, to shed some light on his inventions.
JFK, to tell me what I could do for our country.
Frank Sinatra, to sing me a few bars.
Orson Wells, to drop in and raise a little Kane.
Ernest Hemingway, just to get a chance see the old man.
Napoleon, as long as he keeps his hands in plain sight.
George Washington, with whom to have an honest exchange.
Robert J. Oppenheimer and his nuclear family.
J. Edgar Hoover, to deep, dark secrets.
And Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, though why he’d want to spend an evening at Holmes with me is a complete mystery.

Simone_De_Beauvoir's avatar

I would invite Hugh Laurie and his task would be to fuck my brains out.

TexasDude's avatar

@Simone_De_Beauvoir, best answer… and nice new avatar…

Brian1946's avatar

Jimi Hendrix to tune and play my guitars.

lillycoyote's avatar

To start with, I would be very happy if Michelangelo would be willing to stop by and paint my ceilings.

Akua's avatar

@Simone_De_Beauvoir You can have Hugh when I’m done with him!
I’d invite Elvis to wipe my ass and Carlos Santana to teach me to play acoustic guitar.

lillycoyote's avatar

@Akua You would trust Elvis to wipe your ass? Wasn’t being seriously impacted a major contributor to his death? I just have some vague memory of that, I don’t have anything to “back it up,” so to speak, right now.

Akua's avatar

@lillycoyote you killing me over here!!! HAHAHA. But now that you mention it scratch the ass wiping. I’ll find some other demeaning job for him.
“back it up” HAHAHA, you crazy.

lillycoyote's avatar

@Akua Just an FYI kind of thing: I wanted to make sure you were covering your ass, so to speak. I’m sure there are plenty of things you can find for Elvis to do that don’t involve areas outside his fields of expertise.

hobbitsubculture's avatar

I want Nikola Tesla to do my wiring, especially if he’s willing to put in some of his crazy experimental stuff that modern science still hasn’t figured out.

Frenchfry's avatar

I would like Jim Morrison to play at the backyard BBQ this Labor day.

rebbel's avatar

I would like Mike Tyson to come by and shoosh away the effing pigeons that shite my balcony.

ucme's avatar

@rebbel Surely “iron mike” would be best suited to help with the ironing!

harple's avatar

—@ucme you iron?...

ucme's avatar

@harple well to be fair, only if the wife’s incapacitated….I mean, she does it so much better than me :¬)

harple's avatar

ha ha, fair ‘nuff, good job you added that last bit!

rebbel's avatar

Your Iron Mike, @ucme…..., hilarious!

ucme's avatar

@rebbel HA HA!! You’re fucked now! Whaddya mean funny? What I amuse you, like a fuckin clown? Is that what ya sayin? :¬D

rebbel's avatar

…...... Get the fuck out of here, Tommy!

ucme's avatar

…...just a couple of goodfellas messing around :¬)

DarlingRhadamanthus's avatar

Two people: I would ask Eugene O’Neill to show me how to craft a good play.
I would ask Paul McCartney to show me how to craft a good (silly love) song.

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