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Thursday, October 12, 2006

Clean room companions - best and worst

Oct 12 2006 8:24AM | Permalink |Comments (38) |

Ok, let's have a some fun. Who would you most like to be locked alone in a clean room with for 12 hours? And who would you least likely liked to be locked in a clean room with alone for 12 hours? I have been tempted to ask this question for some time which comes courtesy of EB senior editor Barb Jorgensen. She promises to respond....and I will too...in our comments section.

Clever CLEAN room humor is strongly encouraged!

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at 10/12/2006 8:45:17 AM, Barb Jorgensen said:
I've been ruminating on this question ever since suggesting it to John..do I say the politically correct thing, such as husband/child/boss?) Or say what first popped into my mind? In the spirit of Mel Gibson (and no, I was not drunk at the time) I must say my answer is Johnny Depp. Yes, I am shallow.
Deal with it.

at 10/12/2006 9:28:30 AM, Liz said:
Most prefer: Marc Anthony (JLo's hubby). Most folks don't realize that Marc is quite a warm, funny and humorous guy. After the first 4 hours- if I'm not laughing I'll be simply miserable. Least prefer: JLo herself. She's got quite a powerful disposition about her, (appropriately so) which would feel a rather intimidating- making for a terribly uncomfortable 12 hours of polite small talk and nervous smiles. Lot's of staring at the door...are blackberries allowed?

at 10/12/2006 9:46:19 AM, Dr. Ricardo said:
That's easy - my Dad (yes) and my boss! (ugh..)

at 10/12/2006 9:53:49 AM, Barb Jorgensen said:
Hey Liz--totally agree on the JLo thing (for the record) I would be remiss, though, to not post my more serious business answers (we are a business pub after all). I'd most like to spend some time with Tom Friedman, who wrote "The World is Flat." That book has resonated throughout the industry. I'd least like to spend time with Patricia Dunn--what journalist could trust her after the recent debacle?

at 10/12/2006 9:56:19 AM, Chris said:
Definitely my wife. Although, if it were uninterrupted (no phone or email), I can think of a few good books I'd like to catch up on...

at 10/12/2006 9:56:53 AM, DLB said:
Who would I most want to be locked up with in a clean room? Bill Clinton.
Least?? George Steinbrenner!!

at 10/12/2006 10:08:04 AM, Carla M said:
I'd have to say Robin Gray would be my pick for the clean room. Are water balloons allowed? :)

at 10/12/2006 10:10:04 AM, John Dodge said:
Ok...hmmmm...I'm going a different route.

Most likely: Kim Jon Il cuz I wanted to know what he's thinking or if he does anything like that at all.

Least likely: President George W. Bush unless he takes an intensive course in elocution and public speaking. I'll take it with him. His babble is considered torture under the Geneva Convention guidelines he so liberally flouts.

at 10/12/2006 10:10:58 AM, Hill Rat said:
Most? Thomas Jefferson. (Is that allowed? I've always wanted to meet the guy)

Least, Mark Foley.

at 10/12/2006 10:19:24 AM, Robin Gray said:
Did anyone tell Carla that as a robin, I might be a carrier of the avian flu?

at 10/12/2006 10:24:23 AM, Susan J said:
I'd like to have 12 hours with Leonardo da Vinci. Good god! Where did the man get all those ideas?!?!?! Was he just super smart or an alien? Hmm. I'd shove as much technology into that room and show him all there is to show him in the Tech field for the first six hours. Then, for the remaining six, I'd ask him to come up with some more up-to-date inventions so that I could cash in on them! :) Least preferred...hmm…I can't decide between somebody else's two-year-old asking "why" for 12 hours or a crazy and obsessed baseball fan.

at 10/12/2006 10:26:38 AM, BarbJ said:
I guess that would make you the smartest person in your cleanroom, John ;-)

at 10/12/2006 10:30:46 AM, BarbJ said:
Hey Robin--what if that cleanroom was in Nebraska?

at 10/12/2006 11:40:23 AM, John Dodge said:
Smartest, Barb?! I was just too gutless to say who I'd really like to with. I'm sure I can think of someone other than Kim Jon Il. I don't like westerns that much anyway. He makes feel sorta il.

at 10/12/2006 11:46:13 AM, Chris said:
John, I've never seen George W. Bush and Liberal in the same paragraph, much less describing him. I'm impressed.

I can think of dozens of historical figures I'd love to interview along side Da Vinci - from Thomas Jefferson to my own great grandfather. That list would be hard to narrow down.

at 10/12/2006 11:50:41 AM, RobO said:
Most prefer: Tiger Woods with a set of clubs and a bag of practice balls. Least prefer: anyone fresh off the breakfast buffet at Burritoville

at 10/12/2006 11:57:51 AM, John Dodge said:
Chris - I thought of that regarding liberal Bush....great grandfather?? Which one?

at 10/12/2006 12:22:54 PM, BMRH said:
God, so many possibilities and I have to choose just one...Most prefer Mohamed Elamir awad al-Sayed Atta to see if there was anyway to understand what he was thinking. Least prefer George W. unless I could have left him alone in the room with Atta 9/10/01 and see if that might have changed anything!

at 10/12/2006 1:08:08 PM, Sonia said:
Most: the Dali Lama. I can imagine it would be a very peaceful experience.

Least: Axel Rose. I'm guessing he smells bad.

at 10/12/2006 1:08:39 PM, craig conrad said:
That's easy. Warren Buffet along with a recorder and paris Hilton or anyone else like her.

at 10/12/2006 1:09:39 PM, Chris said:
I have great grandfather named Parley Parker Pratt - Born in New York, spent a large amount of time in Great Britain, Ohio and Missouri and then moved west. A large number of locations in the Western US were named after him. Was killed by his wife's ex-husband in Arkansas. According to various books I've read, he was quite the pioneer, missionary and explorer - he's become somewhat of a hero of mine.

at 10/12/2006 1:19:11 PM, BarbJ said:
John--my bad. I was picturing you in the cleanroom with BOTH Kim Jon and George W. Flaked out on the question--

at 10/12/2006 3:16:15 PM, Piense El Tanque said:
WOW!!!!!! I missed all the fun today! Oh well, I will answer anyway. I would like to be in there with George W, Kim Jong Il, Osama Bin Laden, the Pope, Chuck Norris, Stephen Hawking, Todd Bertuzzi, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Alan Greenspan, a kangaroo and Mighty Mouse. A no holds barred, winner take all bout! The prize? World domination!!!!! I am guessing after this was all said and done you probably couldn't really refer to it as a clean room any more. If I can't have all of that, I will take Katie Holmes. Not her now but before Tom Cruise planted his demon seed and poisoned her with Scientology!!!!!

at 10/12/2006 6:11:21 PM, Bill Roberts, The Contrarian said:
Most like to be locked up with: Carly Fiorina
Least like to be locked up with: Carly Fiorina

at 10/12/2006 6:21:20 PM, John Dodge said:
Bill,

I like you're Carly answer. You probably didn't see 60 Minutes last Sundayt, but she related she how unceremoniously it was when she fired. I almost felt bad for her until I recalled that the Compaq HP merger resulted in 23,0000 layoffs.

at 10/12/2006 6:33:42 PM, Bill Roberts, The Contrarian said:
I watched her interview with Charlie Rose over the Internet. (great world we live in, ability to see TV broadcast over the Internet.) She makes a compelling case that she should NOT have been fired, and that HP has a totally dysfuncctional board. That is the bigger story, really. The dysfunction of the HP board. it is sad because the HP employees and shareholders deserve much better leadership in the board than they currentlhy have. Clean house, I say.
Hey, I change my opinion: Who would I LEAST like to spend time with in a clean room? The current HP board....

at 10/13/2006 7:53:49 AM, Ken Hewitt said:
Definitely my wife, of course; but if not her, then Ann Coulter. I'd love to hear how much political lashing she could come up with, away from the world for 12 hours.
Least likely would be ANY Yankee fan, for all they do is talk smack without any validation over the past several years.

at 10/13/2006 7:56:19 AM, DMN said:
No one specified alive or dead, so the person that I would most like to spend 12hrs with Einstein; the person that I would least like to spend time with Bill Clinton

at 10/13/2006 8:31:31 AM, Darren Coulter said:
Ken Hewitt's wife.

at 10/13/2006 8:54:41 AM, S.Quershy said:
You still got it, Don! Let's see...12 hours in a clean room. Very compelling. I would have to say, Mike Swavely. He was a pioneer of PC sales. I would love to pick his brain for 12 hours and hear him wax nostalgic about the challenges he faced selling PCs at 50% margins. Compelling enough for you? I think so. Not only that, what other opportunity affords you the chance to say the name Swavely in such an intimate setting? I mean, I could spend 12 hours by myself saying the name Swavely. Over and over again. It would be quite pleasurable. Swavely. See, I just did it again. Try it with me. Swavely. Feels good, right? Gimme jingle sometime.

at 10/13/2006 8:57:26 AM, pvb said:
As much as I dislike the man, I would actually like to spend some time with the Bushie. No one else there, no earphones on him, or any other devices. I would really like to hear what this guy *really* thinks (if he does). As a Viet Nam vet, I have no problems asking why it is so easy to kill our kids when he was so well hidden when it was his turn. Why does he feel that NK must follow the world’s rules when he doesn’t need to, etc, etc, etc.
Don’t know which of us will leave the room alive.

at 10/16/2006 6:58:02 AM, John Dodge said:
After visiting Arlington National Cemetary and the Eternal Flame, I would like to spend some time with JFK and to see what he actually planned for the country. Would he have escalated in the conflict in Vietnam? How would the country have been different? Would eight years in office meant that Tricky Dick would never have been elected? There's lots of what if scenarios that are fun to ponder.

at 10/16/2006 9:48:41 AM, Piense El Tanque said:
What if JFK had escalated the conflict in Vietnam? What if Richard M Nixon had not been elected? Who would have stepped up and had the guts to end our involvement there? The positive things that Richard Nixon did far outweigh the mistakes he made. Was he paranoid? Certainly, this was a negative effect of an extremely high IQ (I have read it was measured as high as 155). I realize that I have digressed from the topic at hand, however, I had to take an opportunity to defend someone that I believe was a great man dispite his short comings.

at 10/16/2006 11:02:10 AM, John Dodge said:
Piense,

He was a crook, for crying out loud. Yes, he did some good things (keeping social programs like Office of Ecnomic Opportunity). As for Veitnam, his Vietnamization policy was a failure. It got us out, yes, but the Communists took over. All that said, I'd take a pragmatist like Nixon over what we have today.

at 10/16/2006 11:50:09 AM, Piense El Tanque said:
I forgot to mention the fact that I did admire JFK. Economically conservative and socially liberal...the perfect combination for America. I wouldn't mind spending some time with him. I have some other questions that I'd like answers to as well though. Things like: what was Marilyn Manroe like? or Was the Cuban missle crisis really a crisis or a clever ploy to sway the public's attention?

at 10/17/2006 11:56:10 AM, John Dodge said:
Piense,

I think Marolyn Monroe was a basket case for her last 10 years. Very sad. Agree on your socially liberal and economic consrevative statement...but I am not sure JFK was the latter. That said, he signed one of biggest tax cuts ever into law, which put the economy into overdrive!!

at 10/19/2006 7:03:25 AM, Barbj said:
Another idea--yes, I voted already, but I'd like to hear from liberals, conservatives and moderates on the following: Jon Stewart
Most preferred? Least preferred?

at 10/19/2006 11:50:32 AM, Piense El Tanque said:
I like to think of myself as a libertarian or "South Park conservative", I think John Stewart is funny! I could hang out with him for 12 hours. I would certainly like to challenge him to a paper, rock, scissors match!

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