Guinness recently launched a competition to see who are the people dead or alive you’d like a pint of Guinness with.
It certainly made me think, but here’s my top ten.
1. W.B. Yeats: The older I get the more incredible a poet he seems. He’d probably be obscure and drive me nuts but I’d love to get a window into his genius
2. Stephen Hawkins: He seems to know something about this earth and why we’re here that no one else can explain.Though I couldn’t understand a word of his books I’d still love to meet him.’’
3. Steve Jobs: Sure he has passed, but what a one of a kind genius. Dropped acid, dropped out and returned as the greatest mind in Silicon Valley
4. Mary Magdelene: Just to learn the truth about her and that Jesus fellow and lay the whole thing to rest, like.
5. Marilyn Monroe: Jack, Bobby, Frank Sinatra, tell us the whole story Norma Jean, baby.
6. JFK: Because he was the brightest light in my young life, a hero to all Irish.
7. Emily Dickinson: Incredible poet, I mean, “I felt a funeral in my brain.” How do you match that line, love.
8. Maureen O’Hara: So what were John Wayne, John Ford, Bogart, etc really like?
9. Abe Lincoln: How did he have the courage to persevere when this country was headed for a split and endless war. Pull up a chair honest Abe and let me pour you a good one.
10. John Lennon: All that beautiful anger and talent. And please, a few bars of ‘Jealous Guy.’ No Yoko though.
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.billie061 | Apr 15, 2012, 06:46 PM EDT
My Grand-dad Jim Dunne, I regret you left us when I was only 8, Dad drinks Smithwicks not the same. (shame on him) mind you can't stand the stuff, Little ole wine drinker me.
warlocks | Apr 01, 2012, 12:09 AM EDT
me myself and I WOULD LOVE TO LIFT A PINT OF Ginness with Jesus Christ Himself lol if he would have it. lol hey he loved his wine didn't he ?
PatriciaMarya | Mar 31, 2012, 01:58 PM EDT
Rather good list! I would to add Joan of Arc and Judy Chicago for their audacity in what they did as well as Gene Kelly just to be around that voice for a while! Oh, and Tony Bennett - what an amazing person. Thank you Guinness for coming up with this idea! So nice to get away from The Real World for a while.
bradybradyisaid | Mar 31, 2012, 12:24 PM EDT
First, my granpa, Arthur Brady who died in an explosion at the Ellicott Square building, Buffalo, NY 1911, when my Dad was 5 yrs old. Second, JFK My hero! Please excuse his faults and remember he would have changed the United States for the better.
Samishere | Mar 31, 2012, 08:48 AM EDT
William Livingston who left Ireland in 1857...what was he thinking?
Murph46 | Mar 30, 2012, 09:37 PM EDT
uc47163 My Da' passed 50 yrs ago,your post was still meaningful,next time I down a pint,I will toast them both!
uc47163 | Mar 30, 2012, 08:02 PM EDT
My Dad, Owen Roe ONeill. Sadly he passed 17 years ago and I learned I liked Guinness in September when I went to Ireland !
Cufleadh | Mar 30, 2012, 06:45 PM EDT
Captain George Augustus Graham, he saved the Irish Wolfhound, a living symbol of Irish Culture and of the Celtic past, from extinction.
alisaann | Mar 30, 2012, 06:16 PM EDT
michael flatley....enough said, imo.
Curitiba | Mar 30, 2012, 04:29 PM EDT
I think we should all have pint together. See you down O'Neills at Leicester Square tomorrow evening, then?
Macrooster | Mar 30, 2012, 02:06 PM EDT
Why don't you invite Maureen O'Hara to have a pint with you? I am sure she would love it!
Murph46 | Mar 30, 2012, 12:35 PM EDT
johnshiel -you knew of course that Jesus was Irish! Was 33 and lived with Ma,ran with the Boyo's, liked to play tricks(turnin water into wine,walkin on water)liked to drink -he didn't turn it into wine to just look at it.Sure as I'm tellin ya theres the proof-Jesus was Irish!
pounder | Mar 30, 2012, 12:08 PM EDT
Arthur Fonzarelli.
TheOldPerfessor | Mar 30, 2012, 11:42 AM EDT
Not a role model but he had a reputation as a fascinating conversationalist.
Sparklet | Mar 30, 2012, 11:20 AM EDT
Oops, sent too soon. Grace Gifford.
Sparklet | Mar 30, 2012, 11:19 AM EDT
As it turns out, JKF was no role model.
johnshiel | Mar 30, 2012, 11:10 AM EDT
brendan dunphy -- that was pretty funny... yeah, I was thinking gerry adams, and martin himself as well...
BiffSissy | Mar 30, 2012, 11:04 AM EDT
If in Ireland....Michael Collins and/or Kitty Parnell
BrendanDunphy | Mar 30, 2012, 11:03 AM EDT
But seriously, Brendan BEHAN would be on my list. And Bobby Sands and Gerry Adams (the last of which I have already accomplished ... one down).
BrendanDunphy | Mar 30, 2012, 11:02 AM EDT
I'm surprised that Brendan Dunphy didn't make your list. Yes, Brendan Dunphy. A fine lad to have a pint with ...
TheOldPerfessor | Mar 30, 2012, 11:01 AM EDT
Jesus might be intimidating for some, but it would certainly be interesting to get his take on what has gone down in his name.
johnshiel | Mar 30, 2012, 10:56 AM EDT
oh yeah, gotta add brendan behan and duke ellington... wouldn't be right not to have them in on the caper...
johnshiel | Mar 30, 2012, 10:54 AM EDT
murph: don't forget, we're talking about having a pint here... with Jesus? wouldn't be right... some jameson, maybe... and while were at it, why not hold the festivities down in that musty old pub in Dingle town, the one with julia robarts' name in the sidewalk outside???
Murph46 | Mar 30, 2012, 10:39 AM EDT
Not one Jesus!
Francis3 | Mar 30, 2012, 10:19 AM EDT
JFK, J.S. Bach and Charles Dickens
christilcaugh | Mar 30, 2012, 10:11 AM EDT
I'm with you on 7 and 8. Beyond that Harry Truman,Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens - does that count as 2? LOL!), The Chieftains should count as the rest for me!
TheOldPerfessor | Mar 30, 2012, 10:02 AM EDT
Okay: Mark Twain Samuel Beckett Robert F. Kennedy Barack Obama Peter O'Toole Keith Olbermann Harry Truman Babe Ruth Casey Stengel Jon Stewart
johnshiel | Mar 30, 2012, 10:00 AM EDT
thoughtful list, jimmy... what about bob dylan, michael collins, buddy guy, julia roberts, cormac macconnell, mark twain, george washington, ben franklin, aldo leopold, and charlie musselwhite?