There are things called "memes" which I have not figured out yet. However, I think memes involve my creating a list and then provoking others to respond with their own lists.
Here is a meme. If I get this wrong, so what….
Imagine you are hosting a weekend at, say The Sabine Farm (some newcomers to the blog might not know that that is my place in the USA), beginning with cocktails on Friday night, continuing with gatherings and activities on Saturday, Sunday Mass, and Sunday events.
Meals are leisurely and the period equivalent of white tie (as you would have at The Sabine Farm).
You may invite FIVE pairs of FICTIONAL ENEMIES for the weekend.
There will be no murders.
Here are my five.
Lex Luthor
SupermanJean Valjean
Inspector JavertAthena
JunoArthur
MordredSam
Gollum
My mind reels with possibilities, but, here is one list I could make. Perhaps other bloggers can take up the issue and post their lists.
Weekend with informal activities, formal meals… fictional enemies mixing… like Agatha Christie without the murders.
UPDATE: The image at the top right is from blog participant Vincent (in a comment below).
Holmes
Moriarty
Bishop Cranmer
Thomas More
Pat Buchanan
Bill Clinton
Pope Pius X
John Paul Sartre
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Sorry Father I didnt read the fictional part.
Darn.
Fernand Mondego
Edmond Dantès
Ernst Stavro Blofeld
James Bond
Davey Jones
Jack Sparrow
Jafar
Aladdin
Doctor Claw
Inspector Gadget
Ah! Memories of my youth!
Sherlock Holmes
Professor James Moriarty
Sam Spade
Casper Gutman
Alex Cross
Gary Soneji
Underdog
Simon bar-Sinister (one of the most classic names for a villain I’ve ever heard; plus he had a nephew named “Cad”)
Tom-Slick
Baron Otto-Matic
H.R. Puffenstuff
Witchey-poo
Batman
The Bookworm (or King Tut; or the Riddler; or Mr. Freeze…all from the t.v. series, of course)
Carlo Jonzi, tenore (voice of Nelson Eddy, baritone)
Bugs Bunny (as Leopold Stokowski in the cartoon “Long Haired Hare.”)
Floria Tosca
Baron Scarpia
D’Artagnan
Milady de Winter
André-Louis Moreau (Scaramouche)
Marquis de la Tour d’Azyr
Robert of Locksley, a.k.a. the Earl of Huntingdon, a.k.a. Robin Hood
The Sheriff of Nottingham
Doctor Faustus
Mephistophilis
Father Z,
Where are you saying Mass for the Triduum? My family and I have grown accustomed
to seeing you occasionally at St. Agnes and certainly the Easter Vigil Mass will
will not be the same without you singing the exultet – you have been gifted with
a beautiful singing voice. Even my 8 and 7 year old daughters have enjoyed your
exultet.
I also thought of Tom and Jerry, but one wouldn’t get much conversation out of them, of Lt Ellen Ripley and the Alien, but all the other guests would get killed in gruesome ways, of Popeye and Bluto, but they’d break the place up, of Brünnhilde and Hagen, but couldn’t vouch for their table manners, and of (former enemies, now happily married) Beatrice and Benedick, but nobody else would be able to get much of a word in edgeways …
James Bond & Dr. No
Obi-Wan Kenobi & Darth Vador
Jean Luc Picard & the Borg Queen
Flash Gordon & Ming the Merciless
Auntie Mame & Dwight Babcock
Augustus McRae
Blue Duck
Beowulf
Grendel
Gandalf the Gray
Saruman the White
Harry Flashman
Rudi Von Sternberg
Seinfeld
Newman
Prof. Charles Xavier
Magneto
Luke Skywalker
Darth Vader
Prince Myshkin
Parfion Semyonovich Rogozhin
Odysseus
Polyphemus
Jean Valjean
Inspector Javert
Although, I must say that it would be a strange mass with two mutants, a Sith, a Jedi, a Greek, a cyclops, two Frenchmen, and two Russians.
Gandalf and Saruman
Harry Potter and Voldemort
Eliza Bennett and Miss Bingley
Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny
Captain Ahab and Moby Dick
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Vincenzo:
I just about spit my coffee out. That’s too funny!!!
Nicely done.
:) Thanks.
The other part about a “meme” is that you, Father, need to “tag” six or seven other bloggers — e.g., Amy or Gerald or the Whapsters — in the post, and say, OK, you’re it, which fictional pairs would you invite to dinner?
Your call, of course, but I would also recommend a very sharp Episco-blogger, Chris Johnson.
With the help of my kids, ages 16, 15, 13 and 10…
Aslan and Tash
Dr. Who and the Dalek Emperor
Paul Atreides and Baron Harkonnen
Thor and Loki
Ransome and Weston
Mr. Incredible & Syndrome (“The Incredibles”)
Adm. William Adama & Dr. Gaius Baltar (“Battlestar Galactica”)
Don Quixote de la Mancha & Dr. Carrasco (“Man of La Mancha”)
Ozma of Oz & the Nome King (“Emerald City of Oz”)
David Dunn & Elijah Price (“Unbreakable”)
Everyone has made some REALLY good suggestions! Some of my favs are:
Beowulf & Grendel
Jean Luc Picard & the Borg Queen
Holmes & Moriarty
MacBeth writes:
Paul Atreides and Baron Harkonnen
I don’t think there has ever been a book written with better villains than Dune.
Admiral Kutuzov & A Random Motie
Bugs Bunny & Yosemite Sam
Elwin Ransom & Richard Devine
All the rest have certainly been mentioned.
Elektra and Klytemnestra
Caliban and Prospero (the language would be so incredible)
Dmitry Karamazov and The Grand Inquisitor
Faust and the Devil (Goethe’s fictional characters, not the real ones)
The Guelphs and the Ghibellines (that’s more than five, but we can put up a tent in the back yard)
Imagine the costumes and the linguistic babel!