TOP FIVE - people you'd like to meet (living)
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Saint posted:TOP FIVE - people you'd like to meet (living)
Baz
Yogi
Ros
Twickers
Saint
...of course, this was just a humorous response, and no offence to all those who did not get into my list.
1. Stephen Fry (of course)
2. Miriam Margolyes
3. Sir Ranulph Fiennes
4. Rev Jesse Jackson
5. Queen Elizabeth
Baz posted:Saint posted:TOP FIVE - people you'd like to meet (living)
Given my age , that’s a bit hard
1. George Clooney
2. Harrison Ford
3. David Attenborough
4. The Yorkshire Vet
5. Marcus Waring
Cheeky 
Interesting list of people we'd 'like to meet'
https://www.ranker.com/crowdra...ke-to-meet-in-person
Joan of Arc only makes it to 94 and Emily Wilding Davison is not there at all never mind Paul Dirac or Alan Turing or the Queen.
Neither Hitler nor Stalin or Pol Pot make the cut
Saint posted:Interesting list of people we'd 'like to meet'
https://www.ranker.com/crowdra...ke-to-meet-in-person
Joan of Arc only makes it to 94 and Emily Wilding Davison is not there at all never mind Paul Dirac or Alan Turing or the Queen.
Neither Hitler nor Stalin or Pol Pot make the cut
You can keep Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot
Difficult, because sadly quite a few people who I'd have considered for my list have died in recent years. 
That said: I've been sure for a long time of my No. 1 choice, but the others are fairly interchangeable...
1. Desmond Tutu
2. Buzz Aldrin
3. Jocelyn Bell Burnell
4. Paul McCartney
5. Meryl Streep
I was going to include David Attenborough, but I was a little embarrassed at only having one female on my list, so seeing as Baz also picked Sir David, I promoted Meryl. 
The Queen and Tanni Grey-Thompson were also on my shortlist...
Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:Saint posted:TOP FIVE - people you'd like to meet (living)
Baz
Yogi
Ros
Twickers
Saint
Loving your list 
Eugene's Lair posted:Difficult, because sadly quite a few people who I'd have considered for my list have died in recent years.
That said: I've been sure for a long time of my No. 1 choice, but the others are fairly interchangeable...
1. Desmond Tutu
2. Buzz Aldrin
3. Jocelyn Bell Burnell
4. Paul McCartney
5. Meryl Streep
I was going to include David Attenborough, but I was a little embarrassed at only having one female on my list, so seeing as Baz also picked Sir David, I promoted Meryl.
The Queen and Tanni Grey-Thompson were also on my shortlist...
Saint posted:1. Stephen Fry (of course)
2. Miriam Margolyes
3. Sir Ranulph Fiennes
4. Rev Jesse Jackson
5. Queen Elizabeth
Stephen Fry's partner choice put me right off him 
Revealing.
twickers posted:Saint posted:1. Stephen Fry (of course)
2. Miriam Margolyes
3. Sir Ranulph Fiennes
4. Rev Jesse Jackson
5. Queen Elizabeth
Stephen Fry's partner choice put me right off him
Revealing.
Do we ever really know people's motivations?
Interesting none-the-less 
In reality, I don't want to meet anyone famous or infamous. I would probably have very little to say and I may also risk being disappointed by them on some level.
Let me know when we do Top Five Planets.
Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:
Let me know when we do Top Five Planets.
Choose a title yourself
You're more than welcome
What happened to the top fives @Saint ??
Here is another for your list, which I think might work for all the foodies on the forum. Top Five Cuisines from around the world. 
The Queen........(just to chat one to one)
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Mick Jagger......(just to chat one to one)
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Henry the Eighth .....(just to chat one to one)
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My Great Grand mother and Great Grand Father....X 2.....(I know that is greedy but I am sure I got it from them).
Saint posted:Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:
What happened to the top fives @Saint ??
Here is another for your list, which I think might work for all the foodies on the forum. Top Five Cuisines from around the world.
Doesn't seem to have much forum interest - sadly
Your God blessed Sainty.
Not many people will tell you that
Saint posted:Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:
What happened to the top fives @Saint ??
Here is another for your list, which I think might work for all the foodies on the forum. Top Five Cuisines from around the world.
Doesn't seem to have much forum interest - sadly
The forum is very quiet nowadays.
I like British, Italian, Chinese, Thai and some (mild) Indian food.
Saint posted:Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:
What happened to the top fives @Saint ??
Here is another for your list, which I think might work for all the foodies on the forum. Top Five Cuisines from around the world.
Doesn't seem to have much forum interest - sadly
Awwww I like them 
My 5 are British, Italian , Chinese, French, and , for my sins , American South
The Forsyte Saga
Pride and Prejudice (with Colin Firth natch)
The Night Manager
The Crown
Only Fools and Horses
For tv programmes, I’d need more than 5 so, I’ll just do comedy
As Time Goes By
Ever Decreasing Circles
The Good Life
Butterflies
Outnumbered
Banana Splits
Fawlty Towers
Morecombe and Wise
7UP
The Good Life
. . . . and can I just add - Crime Watch - thanx
My five TV series selected on being Canadian or American and being relatively unknown.
Poltergeist: The Legacy (1996 to 1999)
Beauty and the Beast (1987 to 1990) (crime fantasy, no connection with the Disney films)
Warehouse 13 (2009 to 2014) and Eureka (2006 to 2012) - separate series but connected
Haven (2010 to 2015)
and the best of all and the obscurest - Key West, only the one series of 13 episodes from 1993. It was shown in the middle of the night here, isn't available on DVD. Fisher Steven and Jennifer Tilly.
Miami Vice
The Young Ones
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
The Persuaders
The Big Bang Theory
(although that list will be different next week as I have missed off Fawlty Towers, Open All Hours, The Man From Uncle, The Six Million Dollar Man to name a few).
...OH I forgot Blakes 7. As a kid I loved it.
Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:
...OH I forgot Blakes 7. As a kid I loved it.
which reminds me of that Gerry Anderson series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons. The last but one episode was called Attack on Cloudbase. I missed quite a lot of the start of that episode.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5uz2o2
25 minutes long, I would have missed the first 10 minutes.
Other than the ending of that, you can see why I was reminded.