BS: Famous last words

Subject: BS: Famous last words
From: Susu's Hubby
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 12:34 PM

We've got plenty of gas!

I know right where we are!

Hey ya'll....watch this!




What are some of your famous last words?

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: GUEST,ClaireBear
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 12:40 PM

As spoken by our raft guide as we attempted the biggest hole on the lower Kings River in Califirnia:

"Piece of ca--"

He never finished that sentence, what with being underwater and all.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 12:46 PM

George Custer: F*ck me ...

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: open mike
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 12:51 PM

look ma, no hands !

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: gnu
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 12:53 PM

Where's your spirit of adventure ? (We got the truck out of the brook the next day.)

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 12:56 PM

"I feel better now..."
"Bugger Bognor!"

My father in law: "Nice bit of soup dear..."

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: lady penelope
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 01:01 PM

"there, that's not going anywhe......"

On too many occassions.....................


TTFN Lady P.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: pdq
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 01:10 PM

"Don't worry, he's never bitten anyone!"

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: *Laura*
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 01:14 PM

"I have just drunk eighteen whiskeys, I think that is a record"
- can't remember who said it though.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: *Laura*
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 01:14 PM

that one was literally his last words.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 01:30 PM

"Of course I've turned the power off!"

"Would I do something that wasn't safe?"

"That warning is only on there to cover the company's ass."

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 01:38 PM

What the hell was tha.... ? - Mayor of Hiroshima.

"INJUNS AARRGGHH"   - 50% of Hollywood 5th Cavalrymen

"What happens if I hit it with a hammer?" - Alfred Nobel inventing dynamite(in truth, it didn't actually kill him. Just blew him through the wall of his garden shed....but What if?)

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: GUEST,Russ
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 01:45 PM

Hold my beer.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: bobad
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 01:47 PM

"Either the wallpaper goes, or I do."
                   Oscar Wilde

"Bless you Sister, may all your sons be bishops".
                     Brendan Behan to the nursing sister who was taking
                     his pulse.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: Chris Green
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 01:50 PM

"Glug glug bubble bubble glug glug" - the captain of the Titanic.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: GUEST,milk monitor
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 02:01 PM

Houdini, as above.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 02:09 PM

"Just sit still. I'll handle these guys."

"Oh! That was your wife!"

"Is it red to positive or red to negative? Oh, well. Let's just try this and see if it works."

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: fat B****rd
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 02:15 PM

"Shoot straight, you bastards. Don't make a mess of it"

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: HuwG
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 02:16 PM

"Renounce the Devil and all his works ? This is no time to be making fresh enemies !" - Voltaire (allegedly)

"The rebels couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..." - General A.P. Sedgewick, commanding VI Corps of the Union Army in 1864.

According to Alfred Marx, the famous Jewish teacher Rabbi Lipzin said as he lay dying, "Life is like a barrel of water." Then he lapsed into a coma. His perplexed students, unable to fathom his meaning, shook him back into consciousness and asked him what he meant. He said, "OK. So life isn't like a barrel of water".

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: GUEST,Puck
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 02:30 PM

For the information of *Laura* as above your quote was from Dylan Thomas, who had got up on the morning of his death and drank, I believe, something like 27 straight whiskeys in a little over an hour and used those words as you quoted before retiring to his deathbed.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: Susu's Hubby
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 02:57 PM

Where are all those gardeners doing here?......David Crockett (when he looked over the Alamo walls.)

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: bobad
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 03:02 PM

"BADGES? we don need no stinkin badges."

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 03:04 PM

"I don't need any help, I can do it by myself."

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: Peace
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 03:11 PM

WC Fields (I think this is a tale, but a good one) was on his death bed. He said, "When I look back at my life, Lionel, I see I have done many things wrong. I hated dogs and I shouldn't have. I hated old people and I shouldn't have. I hated children and I shouldn't have. And for that I am terribly sorry." Fields then lapsed into seeming unconsciousness and his breathing began to slow. His chest fell. Lionel got up and walked away to inform people that the great comedian had passed on. As he was reaching for the door knob he heard a noise behind him. He turned. Fields was upright in the bed. Fields looked at Lionel Barrymore and drawled, "On second thought, Lionel, fuck 'em!" Then he died.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: Cluin
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 03:13 PM

"I don't need a stunt man! I'm Vic Morrow!"

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: gnu
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 03:40 PM

Oh, it'll clear up on it's own.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 03:45 PM

Beethoven's last words were allegedy 'Die? My dear Doctor, that's the last thing I shall do!'

There was a famous general whose last words were reputedly... 'Don't be silly they couldn't hit an elephant at this dist...'

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: Chris Green
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 04:04 PM

Somerset Maugham - "Dying is a very dull and dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it."

Catherine de Medici - "My God! I'm dead!"

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: Peace
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 04:08 PM

Hamlet said that, too. (I am dead, Horatio.) Lots of it going around then, huh?

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: Chris Green
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 04:10 PM

The difference is that Hamlet said it several times, if you look at the text! People obviously took a lot longer to die in the Renaissance!

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: alanabit
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 04:13 PM

'Die? My dear Doctor, that's the last thing I shall do!'
Liz, I believe that was actually Palmerston.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: Peace
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 04:33 PM

Quotes

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: *Laura*
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 04:48 PM

There is actually a book published of 'famous last words' - it's very funny.
xLx

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: number 6
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 05:31 PM

"You'll have to excuse me, I have one excurciating headache"

FDR to his mistress Lucy Mercer.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: Peace
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 05:52 PM

When I realized I was going to take a 40' fall to gravel and small rocks and there was nowt I could do to stop it, my last recollection is having muttered, "Crap!" About a half second later I was unconscious. Missed the experience of the fall totally.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: Peace
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 05:52 PM

Course, there's nothing famous about it.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 06:38 PM

brucie
I slipped atop a huge mound of ice trying to see the water and fell into Niagara Falls at Terrapin point many Januarys ago. My fingernails actually gripped the edge of ice as the current was grabing me up to the waist. I remember thinking "this is serious".
I was rescued by my fellow music students. Good thing I wasn't wearing gloves. They have since dynamited Terrapin Point due to many such accidents.

Did you really have a 40 ft. fall through thin air?

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: Peace
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 07:01 PM

Yes to that, Don. Only thing that got broken was my jaw, palate, front teeth and skull. I think what must have saved my life was the crushed gravel at the bottom. Cushioned the fall just enough. But I was unconscious for the whole thing.

So I guess from your experience that you are not a fan of cold baths? Interesting isn't it that one's impending doom occasions the silliest of thoughts. I came close at a fire some years ago and all I could think just before getting out of the place that flashed over was, "I wonder if my lid will melt?"

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: Bob Hitchcock
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 09:26 PM

"See, I told you I was ill". - Spike Milligan.

"Hey, watch this". - unknown.

"The Indians around here are very friendly". - Gen. Custer.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: GUEST,Paranoid Android
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 09:48 PM

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: mack/misophist
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 10:27 PM

A mn was in an airplane to vidiotape some sky diving friends. He became so engrossed in what he was doing that he followed them out the door. Without a chute. The camera recorded his last word. Shit.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: Teresa
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 10:43 PM

Ok, this guitar is just about tun ... *snap*

Doing techie stuff on folks' computers: Ok, there's one more thing I can try.

Teresa

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 11:19 PM

last words of jazz drummer Buddy Rich. In the hospital, his nurse asked him, "Is anything bothering you?" He answered, "Country music."----and died. (A true story from all I can find out.)

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: Peace
Date: 19 Feb 05 - 01:20 AM

That is a great parting line, Art.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Feb 05 - 01:49 AM

I wonder what will happen when I press this button?

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 19 Feb 05 - 04:08 AM

They always overspecify things lke this, of course it's safe...

What's this coin in my beer?



and the horror movie special.

"You six stay here, I'll go and get help."

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: sixtieschick
Date: 19 Feb 05 - 04:15 AM

"My wallpaper and I are having a fight to the finish, and one of us has got to go."

Alternatively,

"I am dying beyond my means."

--Oscar Wilde.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 19 Feb 05 - 05:56 AM

I'm going out now, I may be gone some time.

Captain Oates [ a very gallant gentleman ]

eric

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 19 Feb 05 - 07:58 AM

Said by myself on several occasions...

Of course it'll hold my weight

One more can't hurt

Sure, the water's deep enough

Kneepads? Kneepads are for pussies!

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 19 Feb 05 - 08:06 AM

HuwG (and LTS)

A well known quote, although more frequently told locally as "Those b....ds couldn't hit an elephant from th."

Reports are he died before the sound of the shot arrived, although most Confederate arms fired subsonic balls/minies, making this likely a slight exaggeration.

Historical records sometimes vary; but the name in local records was Sedgwick, not Sedgewick. The county where Wichita Kansas sits (or some would say squats) is named for him.

John