fishcumnock Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 mike tyson jim murphy and david cameron ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan cake Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 pablo escobar bob marley albert kidd kylie minogue and chaka khan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AberdeenAngus Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 Jack Nicklaus Bill Clinton Neil Simpson Halle Berry Michael Palin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tin Shed Jaggie Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 Tom Weir Fred Dibnah Guy Martin Ray Mears Helen Mirren Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stapes Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 Bruce Springsteen Woody Guthrie Steve Earle Pete Seeger John Steinbeck or if the wife away for the weekend Kylie Minogue Isla Fisher Jennifer Aniston Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flure Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 Daniel Defoe Fletcher of Saltoun Iain Hamilton QC Robert Burns Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 Daniel Defoe Fletcher of Saltoun Iain Hamilton QC Robert Burns Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart You've just picked folk who are deed so they don't empty your wine cellar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flure Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 You've just picked folk who are deed so they don't empty your wine cellar. Inadvertently and fortuitously. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scouse Eddie Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 Kenny Dalglish Rod Stewart Denis Skinner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huddersfield Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 My first choice would be a guy called Victor Grayson who has fascinated me since I studied him as a teenager (http://spartacus-educational.com/TUgrayson.htm); the first (possibly only?) person ever elected to Parliament with the word 'Socialist' on his ballot paper...& who disappeared in mysterious circumstances. I'd love to know what he knew that apparently made him so dangerous. Also: Beethoven, but not for his table manners Oscar Wilde Jack London Richard Dawkins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mariokempes56 Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 You've just picked folk who are deed so they don't empty your wine cellar. Or just picked folk who cannae escape when he opens the joke book... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErsatzThistle Posted October 28, 2014 Author Share Posted October 28, 2014 My first choice would be a guy called Victor Grayson Grayson's a really interesting person alright. He knew exactly what Lloyd George and Maundy Gregory were up to with the peerages for sale. It's so hard to believe that a man who was fairly well known in his day like Grayson could just vanish like that ! The three explanations I've read are that Grayson seized the opportunity to escape from mounting debts and a shambolic private life by vanishing/faking his own death. Another possibility is that he was "bought off" and started a new life elsewhere. The sad truth probably is that Gregory had him murdered and the body successfully disposed of, he had shortly before his disappearance been set upon and roughed up by a gang of men for seemingly no reason. Very dark, mysterious stuff indeed. Victor Grayson could well be in the same unfortunate company as Hilda Murrell and Willie McRae. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kumnio Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 Alternative dinner party for me.. Evo Morales Che Guevara Pablo Escobar Jennifer Esposito Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huddersfield Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 Grayson's a really interesting person alright. He knew exactly what Lloyd George and Maundy Gregory were up to with the peerages for sale. It's so hard to believe that a man who was fairly well known in his day like Grayson could just vanish like that ! The three explanations I've read are that Grayson seized the opportunity to escape from mounting debts and a shambolic private life by vanishing/faking his own death. Another possibility is that he was "bought off" and started a new life elsewhere. The sad truth probably is that Gregory had him murdered and the body successfully disposed of, he had shortly before his disappearance been set upon and roughed up by a gang of men for seemingly no reason. Very dark, mysterious stuff indeed. Victor Grayson could well be in the same unfortunate company as Hilda Murrell and Willie McRae. My theory was always that he was murdered, but it's plausible that he was blackmailed by Gregory. I interviewed Peter Tatchell in the mid-80s as part of my dissertation & he was familiar with the case (his selection story was very similar). Tatchell's theory was that he was gay (& some contemporary writers refer to him as being "attractive to men & women"), which would have given the secret service the material they needed. One way or another though you have to conclude that Gregory, & probably Lloyd George had a hand in his disappearance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErsatzThistle Posted October 28, 2014 Author Share Posted October 28, 2014 (edited) My theory was always that he was murdered, but it's plausible that he was blackmailed by Gregory. I interviewed Peter Tatchell in the mid-80s as part of my dissertation & he was familiar with the case (his selection story was very similar). Tatchell's theory was that he was gay (& some contemporary writers refer to him as being "attractive to men & women"), which would have given the secret service the material they needed. One way or another though you have to conclude that Gregory, & probably Lloyd George had a hand in his disappearance. Aye, the early intelligence services had a lot of extreme right wing, anti-socialist, military types at the top who made the rules up as they went along. Grayson was definitely on the verge of something big, how they got rid of him we'll never know. Whatever happened, Victor Grayson was a real English working class hero Edited October 28, 2014 by ErsatzThistle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallaght24 Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 For Thursday night(pre-match) in Edinburgh I'd like to dine with: Gary Mackay Jeanette Krankie Irvine Welsh Bobby Gillespie Frank McAvennie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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