Who Would You Most Like to Have a Beer With?

[Monk]

God, I wonder what kind of beer God would want?

I gotta think that He brings his own. Wouldn't you?

 

[Brewpastor]

I gotta think that He brings his own. Wouldn't you?

I just glad he is so into sharing!

 

[Brewpastor]

God would be the one, but God doesn't really work because of the whole "person" thing.

 

[Darth Konvel]

Tough one. Aside from a number of the good ones already listed, I'd say Johnny Carson. Just because I'd know it'd be an interesting night.

 

[Monk]

God would be the one, but God doesn't really work because of the whole "person" thing.

Depends on how you look at it, I suppose. If you're a Christian, you've got 1 God and three divine "persons". So...maybe all three "persons" come, but since only Jesus has a body, the other two aren't drinking?

Then perhaps for the Hindu, since God is all, and each of us is really just part of the all, then God's already here, and we save some beers.

I don't know what I'm talking about.

 

[Brewpastor]

Depends on how you look at it, I suppose. If you're a Christian, you've got 1 God and three divine "persons". So...maybe all three "persons" come, but since only Jesus has a body, the other two aren't drinking?

Then perhaps for the Hindu, since God is all, and each of us is really just part of the all, then God's already here, and we save some beers.

I don't know what I'm talking about.

If to a Hindu God is all, then a Hindu would need to have a whole lot of beer if they had a session with God since the whole world would be invited!

 

[Walker]

I don't know what I'm talking about.

but it sounds good, and that's what matters.

 

[Cheesefood]

ROTFL! If that's the case why not just have him do a trick where he turns water into beer?

Miller and Budweiser tried that. Suffice to say, they ain't God.

 

[Cheesefood]

I would pick Burroughs over Kerouac but he would be interesting to talk to as well.

I would have to pick Hermann Hesse though as my #1.

Burroughs doesn't care for the drink. His fancy came in syringes.

 

[Cheesefood]

Truth of the matter is that, even though I'm an Atheist, I like to think God is with me. That way, I'm not drinking alone.

 

[Caplan]

Truth of the matter is that, even though I'm an Atheist, I like to think God is with me. That way, I'm not drinking alone.

Eh? That's not Atheism!

 

[Cheesefood]

Eh? That's not Atheism!

I never said I followed Atheism religiously. I just don't like to admit to drinking alone.

Besides, you're never drinking alone if a re-run of Cheers is on.

 

[Walker]

I never said I followed Atheism religiously.

Ohhhh. that's another decent candidate for Post of the Year.

-walker

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

I never said I followed Atheism religiously.

My head just exploded! I'm going home.

 

[Caplan]

Besides, you're never drinking alone if a re-run of Cheers is on.

Haha! I never really followed it! Which Character said that? I guess Cliff or Norm?

 

[El Pistolero]

Burroughs doesn't care for the drink. His fancy came in syringes.

Not entirely true...he was pretty fond of cough medicine, tho come to think of it he did that with a syringe too.

 

[TxBrew]

Burroughs was just a general addict. He fancied the opiates but did lots of other drugs. For awhile he ran a pot farm.

 

[david_42]

Asimov was certainly an interesting person, but you'd never get a word in edge-wise with a hammer and a chisel. Even Carl Sagan didn't stand a chance in a debate.

Poul Anderson (RIP), one of the most highly intellegent life forms on the planet. Never shared a beer with him, just dinner once.

 

[SwAMi75]

My sister dated Brad Pit in High School and he asked me to buy him some beer. I told him I wasn't about to get him booze for a date with my little sister.

Was that in Oklahoma? Seems I read somewhere he was born an Okie. I don't know if he grew up there, though. Us Okies are such a good looking lot.

 

[Alembic]

Very thought provoking question!!

If I had to pick only one person I guess it would have to be Winston Churchill.

From everything I have read about him he just seems to me to be one of the most interesting people of the 20th century. And plus the fact that he KNEW how to drink! I would like to mention FDR as well because it seems like the two of them go together - like peanut butter and jelly.

 

[todd_k]

I can't believe no one said this one yet (or maybe I missed it)

Sam Adams, Brewer/Patriot

Also in no particular order; Chris Farley, Bill Walton, Babe Ruth, Roger Waters AND David Gilmour at the same time (wow, that sounds dirty), George Lucas, the Three Stooges, John McCain, Stan and Jason Lee (no relation).

I reserve the right to add to my list!

 

[downreactor]

I guess the person I would most like to have a beer with is Willie Nelson.

 

[Catfish]

I suppose it is cheating if I choose more than one person.
Bourbon Porter with Tom Waits
Porter with Mark Sandman
and Bourbon with William Faulkner

I'd really like to drink some homebrew with my wife, but she's all to pregnant right now, so I'll settle for Tom Waits if need be. I don't suppose Faulkner of Sandman would be good company, since they're kinda dead.

 

[dancingbarefoot]

Number 1 for me would have to be Samuel Clemens, a.k.a. Mark Twain.

Good choice! He'd be full o' piss and vinegar. Very entertaining.

 

[Sasquatch]

Sam Clemens would be good (have you guys read Jose Philip Farmer's "Riverworld" series? He's a main character). I'd personally like to have a beer with Winston Churchill. Or six.

 

[Kevin K]

Sam Clemens would be good (have you guys read Jose Philip Farmer's "Riverworld" series? He's a main character). I'd personally like to have a beer with Winston Churchill. Or six.

Fantastic series! Love those books. I re-read them last year, (I think I was 15 when I first read them) and they were great to read again!

 

[Ivan Lendl]

Brett Favre

Woody Allen

Alexander the Great

 

[Ize]

Hmmm..... Tolkien, Poul anderson and Philip Jose Farmer all mentioned in one thread... (and all the others of course, superb choices)

Dig out Julian May and all bets are off....


Ize

 

[sudsmonkey]

Turning water into beer... Doesn't everyone do that ?


Whoever mentioned having a beer with their senile mother.... My Dad is a vegetable now from a series of strokes. He got progressively worse over the last couple of years. I spent the summer before last working a job in the town near him and stayed at his house during the week. He was starting to slip then. I'd get up in the morning and make him breakfast, then return in the evening and start dinner. I'd be working on my nightly beer treatment, and sometimes he'de ask me for one. Some nights, he'd ask for another and another, On those nights, after he'd had 2 or 3, he'd clear up. " Do you remember when you were little and you picked the sea oats at the beach and we hauled ass because we thought the Ranger saw you ? ". Things like that would start coming out, and it was like having him back again. Alcohol is a wonderous thing, boys and girls!

He's gone to a place where even my 8% Amber Ale can't reach him.
If I could brew one strong enough, I'd drink the whole batch with him just to hear one more story of me peeing down the stairs when I was two, or another Korean War story.

Mark Twain would be cool as a second choice, but not the same.

 

[SwAMi75]

Turning water into beer... Doesn't everyone do that ?


Whoever mentioned having a beer with their senile mother.... My Dad is a vegetable now from a series of strokes. He got progressively worse over the last couple of years. I spent the summer before last working a job in the town near him and stayed at his house during the week. He was starting to slip then. I'd get up in the morning and make him breakfast, then return in the evening and start dinner. I'd be working on my nightly beer treatment, and sometimes he'de ask me for one. Some nights, he'd ask for another and another, On those nights, after he'd had 2 or 3, he'd clear up. " Do you remember when you were little and you picked the sea oats at the beach and we hauled ass because we thought the Ranger saw you ? ". Things like that would start coming out, and it was like having him back again. Alcohol is a wonderous thing, boys and girls!

He's gone to a place where even my 8% Amber Ale can't reach him.
If I could brew one strong enough, I'd drink the whole batch with him just to hear one more story of me peeing down the stairs when I was two, or another Korean War story.

Mark Twain would be cool as a second choice, but not the same.

Damn man, you about got me crying. My old man is 73, and despite his past, is doing well. He served in the Navy during the Korean War as well. I don't think I'll ever get sick of his stories, no matter how many times he tells them. He's also the one who turned me onto Twain.

I've dreaded the day the same thing happens to my old man, but so far he's doing well. I hope your dad is in a good place now.