The 4 things I would do if almighty:

1. I'd dine on quince and slices of mince which I'd eat with a runcible spoon (but every time the meal would taste different);
   
2. my dinner guests would be whoever I wanted, since we'd all be in Heaven, anyway;
   
3. I'd be able to give love, plenty and happiness to everyone and everything, unlike the current reigning asshole known as God;
   
4. and in three wishes I'd have done everything - but to wish you a Merry Christmas, Agnes (and it'll work thanks to my omnipotence!).

Course 1  Roasted Camenbert, with a sharp fruit sauce.
Course 2 Home made Mushroom, soya and onion gravy with fresh vegetables
Course 3  Christmas Puddingg with Brandy butter
Course 4 Well  I rather think it's going to have to be limited to a brandy cofee

Gifts, well My personal present would be a tower on the side of my house. My girlfriend would get a car, so I could have mine back. I'm afaraid it's going to be a modern high eficiency diesel. My nephew is going to get the expensive present, A decent defence for newcastle United.(Theres a boy who has signed himself up for a lifetime of pain and disapointment). My neice however only wants a doll.

Guests

Socrates, Lord Byron, Marie Curie, Emily Pankhurst

4 things to change in the world
I'd like one day a year to exist when politicians couldn't lie. and on that day they had to make themselves available to answer public questions, and couldn't select the public they got to meet. (I think this would probably take up all 4 changes.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Then, the gifts : for myself : a job. If only money could buy that...
For my husband, the flat of his choice in Big Apple.
The balance I'd donate to the first two Etribers who claim something ;-)

The people I'd like to have around : Frederic Chopin, Rene Char, Antoine de St Exupery and Audrey Hepburn.

If I were almighty :
-Stop tribal wars and HIV from killing Africa and bring that continent to a decent level of development and wealth ;
-Make sure the movie by Al Gore, "an inconvenient truth" will actually never come true ;
-Stop the depletion of the Amazonian forest ;
-Make sure the best way to be understood is not remain silent

 

When through hell, just keep going. W. Churchill

1. Szegedian fish soup (at midday on Christmas Eve)

2. Fried carp with family version of French Salad (creation of a cousin of a grandfather of mine)

3. Turkey stuffed with maroon, also with above garnish

4. Mákosguba

Hmmmm... I have no clue what billionaires put under the Christmas tree, and what can be gift and what is more fitting for 'just' buying. If I had a lot of money, I'd invest it into various regenerative energy and rail projects, various third-world development projects, and possibly the UN, neither of those can be a gift. Hmmmm-mmm... maybe a real-life locomotive for myself, a shop for the closest?... this one is really hard.

-4 famous people with whom you would like to share a friendly Christmas lunch (or Boxer day lunch) if you could summon them from the grave ;

I always dreamt of meeting Jules Verne, so why not on Christmas? I guess Ghandi would love to come despite being a religious Hindu. Then... Isaac Asimov, he would certainly entertain the guests. Whom also? ...maybe Jean Gabin.

-4 things you would change in the world to come were you almighty ;

1. Kill all cars, except those of doctors and other emergency personnel.

2. Create a law of physics that makes every small-arm fall apart upon first use.

3. Create a network of ghosts who disperse spin to make every potentate who'd gain or sustain power by instigating violence a laughing stock or prison inmate.

4. Change the number of things I can change in the world from 4 to 1,000,000.

4 courses (or beverages)...

The best anti-pasti (can't tell you where from; I've eaten 'em, but in different places, so put 'em all together and voila!  Ecco ci qui!); a plate of fresh panzarotti con salsa di noci (I ate this when I first went to Genova....never found it as good again); that's enough food, so now someone can supply drinks...port is always good (with cheese!)...

4 gifts from my really, really deep pockets (but not of the Bill Gates variety)

1. A lifetime of money a friend of mine, so he can go and do wonderful things

2. A factory full of engineers interested and skilled in renewables.  This is for Jerome: he gets to be boss.

3. The European transport network.  This is for DoDo.  He gets all the cash (and power) he needs to make it work...and he gets to decide where Europe ends (and if he gets too linear, I will feed him cannabis cookies until he sees clearly the kinkinesses...though I think this will be unnecessary)

4.  Ah...I realise the above weren't me or my relatives...so for me and my relatives I would buy international railtickets for the world, valid from today and with no expiry date...to be used as often as we like.

H.L. Mencken and Hunter S. Thompson...the table would be littered with goodies as the two of chatted.  And then I'd have Nicola Tesla (hoping he could chat) and...argh, the choice!  How about Lin Yutang?  I dunno...not sure if all four would amalgamate...but hey, there'd be plenty of parties they'd know about and we could all meet up three days later and see what had happened...

If I were God

Well...where would be the fun in that?  Oh...okay, I know.  I would make the pinocchio situation: if you told a lie your nose would grow.  And I would make all humans beautiful to other humans...and I would...er...hey, Bill Hicks has to come to the party, too!  And I'd be fascinated to hear Bach talk to Debussy.  And and and....

And another happy Christams to yez, Angnes!

Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.