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Kelly, ever sinse you posted this the first time I always try to think of who I would invite to my tea party.

Alright, just off the top of my head.

1) Rhett Buttler from Gone With the Wind
2) The Little Prince from The Little Prince
3) Audrey Hepburn
4) Ron Weasley from Harry Potter
5) Zach Braff
6) Peter Pan
7) Mark from RENT
8 ) King Arthur
9) Arthur Dent from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
10) That guy over there
11) Winslow from Questionable Content
12) Brutus
13) Artemis

(Edit: Thanks v-girl)

you skipped number 11.

and seriously, no one said ender yet?

i couldn't very well put Ender at a table with Draco Malfoy. Draco would inevitably say something smarmy, and things would escalate until Ender wound up hitting him round the head with the sugar bowl or some such nonsense.

as it is, Draco can shine onto Algernon and flirt with Thomasina. Ender will certainly get an invite to a different party.

1. Hermes Trismegistus
2. My Hermes-obsessed prof (name withheld )
3. Claudius Caesar
4. and 5. Claire and Jamie Fraser
6. Pope John Paul II
7. pre-Alzheimer's Jane (friend of mine who has advanced Alzheimer's)
8. C. S. Lewis
9. Ender (why not?)
10. Kaylee Fry (I'm sure she and Ender could have a great discussion about spaceships!)
11. Sir Gerard le Noir (He'd probably be interested in the spaceships, too.)
12. The guy who discovered cheese
13. My friend, R.

No one has invited me? I am shocked and appalled.

*steals all the tea and biscuits and runs away*

Maybe a Feisty People Need Tea, Too tea party? (I may have to come in and edit as I think of a better list.)

1. Prince Corwin (Roger Zelazny's The Chronicles of Amber)
2. Daria Morgendorffer (MTV's Daria)
3. reformed, post-prison Derek Vinyard (American History X)
4. Peter Wiggin
5. Malcolm Reynolds (Firefly/Serenity)
6. Anakin Skywalker
7. Han Solo
8. Sirius Black (Harry Potter)
9. Jane (Ender's series)
10.Mr. Darcy (Jane Austen's P&P)
11.Dustfinger (Cornelia Funke's Inkheart)
12.Bartimaeous (Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeous Trilogy)
13.Princess Blue (Herbie Brennan's Faerie Wars Chronicles)

No one has invited me? I am shocked and appalled.

*steals all the tea and biscuits and runs away*

John, you know you don't need an invitation. You just show up.

Tea Party for the People of both Fiction and History that Ithy always wanted to meet and doesn't care if there is any possible friction in them all eating together at one table, so there:

1. Jesus (providing that the end of the world doesn't come as well)
2. Ender
3. Elizabeth Bennet
4. Mr. Darcy (of course)
5. Frodo
6. C. S. Lewis
7. Peter (from CoN)
8. Aslan
9. Napoleon
10. Inigo Montoya (from Princess Bride)
11. Orson Scott Card
12. Christian Bale
13. King Arthur

I kind of regret not inviting OSC or any of his characters, but the people on my list are better suited for a tea party than some of his characters. Wow...I think I'm the only guy who has given a list so far.

The tea party for strong-willed women

1 Mara Jade (from Star Wars)
2 Margaret Thatcher
3 Petra Arkanian
4 Virlomi
5 Mirax Terik Horn (Star Wars)
6 Kittiara (Dragonlance)
7 Lessa (Pern)
8 Katherine Janeway (Star Trek)
9 Anne of Green Gables (Montgomery)
10 Jane Eyre (Bronte)
11 Iella Wessiri Antillies (Star Wars)
12 Winter Celchu (Star Wars)
13 Tendra Risant Calrissian (Star Wars)

4 Virlomi

For a second I thought she was talking about me, and I was really, really excited. ...And then it died.

The tea party for strong-willed women

1 Mara Jade (from Star Wars)
2 Margaret Thatcher
3 Petra Arkanian
4 Virlomi
5 Mirax Terik Horn (Star Wars)
6 Kittiara (Dragonlance)
7 Lessa (Pern)
8 Katherine Janeway (Star Trek)
9 Anne of Green Gables (Montgomery)
10 Jane Eyre (Bronte)
11 Iella Wessiri Antillies (Star Wars)
12 Winter Celchu (Star Wars)
13 Tendra Risant Calrissian (Star Wars)

If you're going to include Lessa in the strong-willed women, you have to include Menolly!

The Tea Party of Girls Who Will Not Hesitate to Put Boys in Their Places When Necessary

1. Faith from Joss Whedon's "Buffy" and "Angel"
2. Amy March from Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. (don't tell me you don't remember her "I despise you" speech to Laurie in the second half).
3. Silsby Chausée from Lorrie Moore's Who Will Run The Frog Hospital?
4. Franny Glass from JD Salinger's Franny and Zooey
5. Morgaine of the Fairies from Margaret Zimmerman's The Mists of Avalon
6. Valentine Wiggin from Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game
7. Sam (as played by Natalie Portman) from Zach Braff's "Garden State"
8. Mary Lenox from Francis Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden
9. Hermione Granger from JK Rowling's Harry Potter series
10. Georgia Nicolson from Louise Rennison's The Confessions of Georgia Nicholson series.
11. Elizabeth Bennet from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
12. Belle from Disney's Beauty and the Beast
13. Amy from Eleanor Estes' The Witch Family (which also happens to be hands-down my absolute favorite book of all time ever in the whole world) because, although she didn't put a boy in his place in the book, i am damn well sure she could.

I Was A Child Lunatic:

1) Achilles - Ender's Shadow, etc, OSC
2) Wolverine - X-Men
3) Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV - Cowboy Bebop
4) Jean Grey - X-Men (movie)
5) Arya Stark - Game of Thrones, George RR Martin
6) Delirium - Sandman, Neil Gaiman
7) Eve 9 or 10 - the X-Files
Claudia - Interview with a Vampire
9) Cole - The Sixth Sense
10) Regan - The Exorcist
11) Carol Anne - The Poltergeist
12) Charles Wallace - Wrinkle in Time, etc, Madeline L'engle
13) Ryan - Angel

3) Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV - Cowboy Bebop

Yay Ed! How did you find her full name? I could never remember it.

I just... remember it. My best friend and I were obsessed with Bebop for a few years, so eventually we got the hang of it. (Though I'm not sure I'm spelling her last name right.)

Janelle's "It's My Party, I Can Cry If I Want To" party

1. Maryanne Dashwood -Sense and Sensibility
2. Mary Lenox -The Secret Garden
3. Armaranta -One Hundred Years of Solitude
4. Franny Glass -Franny and Zooey
5. Berie Carr -Who Will Run The Frog Hospital?
6. Eponine - Les Miserables
7. Catherine (jr. Catherine sr. makes me either want to throw something or gouge my eyes out.) -Wuthering Heights
8. Mirabelle Buttersfield -Shopgirl
9. Meg Murry -A Wrinkle in Time series
10. Charlotte -as played by Scarlett Johanson in Lost in Translation
11. Wendy Moira Angela Darling - Peter Pan
12. Kelly R.
13. Alea P.

Geek Out:
- Bill Gates
- Steve Jobs
- Woz
- Sergey Brinn
- Larry Page
- Kevin Rose
- Steve Chen
- Chad Hurley
- Jawed Karim
- Linus Torvalds
- Alvin Maker
- Leonardo DaVinci
- Kevin Mitnick

Wikipedia confirms Ed's last name, Elena. [Edit: Just checked, the subtitles on my copy of Ep08 say the same, too.]

I must say I'm a little confused by a few on eri's. Gates and Mitnick? It seems like it would be hard not to be arguing with them all the time for me (though espeically in your case as well, with Gates).

Well, I'd at least wanna give him a chance. Who knows? Maybe he's a nice guy. Besides, it's my party, I can kick him out if I wanna.

3) Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV - Cowboy Bebop

Ed!!! Who is a girl!!!

And yeah, I forgot Menolly. But there are just so many good people to choose from. But Menolly could come. I just have always wondered about getting Mara, Kittiara, Lessa and a couple of the others together and seeing what happened. (As a mouse in the corner).

SARA

I'd be afraid Ramoth would eat me.

Jan's "I am (fictional) Woman, hear me roar" Tea Party

1. Buffy -the Vampire Slayer
2. Willow -from Buffy
3. Jo - from Little Women
4. Hermione -from Harry Potter
5. Anne -of Green Gables
6. Jane Eyre
7. Elizabeth Bennet -from Pride and Prejudice
8. Lucy -from the Chronicles of Narnia
9. Susan -from the Chronicles of Narnia (the early years)
10.Barbara Gordon -aka Batgirl/Oracle
11. Door -from Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere
12. Veronica Mars -from Veronica Mars
13. Claire Bennet -from Heroes

and, of course, me!

You're a fictional woman, Jan?

yes.

You are forever on the invite-list to my pretend tea-parties with famous people.

The above quote from DY gave me the instant, irresistable urge to bump this thread. (Is it me or does it seem like the first half of this thread is missing? Maybe my computer is being weird).

Rules (as I concieved of them when I was eight years old) for those who've never played the Tea Party game before:

You may invite anyone you like: living, fictional, or dead. You must invite precisely 13 guests (you are the host, and are not counted as one of the 13), no more, no less because we ALL know what happened in Sleeping Beauty when they didn't invite the 13th fairy because they ran out of golden plates. This is a classic tea party, with tea, and china plates, and mini quiches, and petit fours--not any other kind of party. Ladies ought to wear gloves. Perhaps hats. You will sit at the head of the table as host, and the order in which you list your guests are the order in which they will be seated.

That's it!


The Tea Party of Staving Off Boredom While I'm Home Alone For The Weekend

1. Dessa, singer/song writer
2. Julie, my best friend
3. Cher, from Clueless
4. Lucas, from Empire Records
5. Wash, from Firefly
6. Cat Deely, host of SYTYCD
7. Hurley, from LOST
8. Kurt Hummel, from Glee
9. Mia Michaels, choreographer
10. Allie Brosh, mastermind of Hyperbole and a Half
11. Max, from WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE (book, not movie)
12. Luna Lovegood, from HARRY POTTER
13. Lorelai, from Gilmore Girls

Yeah, probably part of it is missing. I know some threads had parts of them eaten during one of the minor crashes. There's about a page gone from the beginning of the "Smells in My Kitchen" thread.

My Party of Friends:
Mel
Nathan
Nicholas
Liam
Nuno
Beth
Emilie
Brent
Greg
M
Charlotte
Alea
Kirsten

The order of this is rather arbitrary since nobody ever stays put anyway.

I think I would like a cosmic tea party:

1. Hermes Trismegistus
2. Pseudo-Hermes Trismegistus
3. Alain de Lille
4. Bernardus Silvestris
5. Albertus Magnus (oh Mr. Magnus...)
6. Dante Alighieri
7. C. S. Lewis
8. Jesus (after all, he was there when the whole thing was designed)
9. Dr. Ransom (from Lewis's Cosmic Trilogy)
10. Ryan J. Stark (author of Rhetoric, Science, and Magic in Seventeenth-Century England)
11. Plato
12. Professor Kirke (from Narnia)
13. Roonwit, the Centaur (also from Narnia)

This would be an interesting one:

1) Jesus
2) Moses
3) Buddha (Siddhārtha Gautama)
4) The Prophet Mohammad
5) Vishnu (of Hindu fame)
6) Ayn Rand (as representative of the atheists)
7) translators as need dictates

6) Ayn Rand (as representative of the atheists)

srsly u guise

Yeah. Not Voltaire or Dawkins?

Psudo you have 6 empty seats at your table! Fill 'em up!

He said "translators as needed", so I guess he assumed there might be several.

Unlike Voltaire or Dawkins (or Carl Sagan, who I also considered), Ayn Rand thinks she is God. =] More seriously, she's said some interesting things about what she'd say to God if she met Him. Not ask. Say. You know that's gonna be good entertainment.

I suppose it's possible to make a list of atheists who wouldn't at all agree with each other about anything else.

Val: I don't know how many translators that would take, so I don't know that I have 6 seats left. Also, I ran out of founders of major world religions that I could name off the top of my head.

Hrm... technically, Vishnu is a deity rather than a founder... But if I ban deities, I can't include Jesus...

Okay, I'll put some research in, assume translation is taken care of, and finish the list. I'm banning deities.
1) Simon Peter
2) Moses
3) Rabbi Hillel
4) The Prophet Mohammad
5) Joseph Smith
6) Laozi (Taoism)
7) Buddha (Siddhārtha Gautama)
8) Confucius
9) Sri Shankaracharya (Hinduism)
10) Zoroaster (Zoroastrianism)
11) Guru Nanak (Sikhism)
12) Socrates
13) Ayn Rand (sorry, I gotta see it)

Hrm... maybe I should've included Paul rather than Peter and Martin Luther rather than Joseph Smith for quality debate, or Karl Marx rather than Ayn Rand for prominence. I also considered Paul Atreides, but decided he qualified as a deity. I like it as it is.

Really, I'm giving all of my guests a babelfish at the door. Although that may not really be needed, considering that Master Hermes will be there, and even in his kingly guise he may be able to impart linguistic unity (and wit!) to the table.