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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Flash Company Date: 01 Mar 05 - 07:30 AM Leadfingers is right about Spike's epitaph, took a long time to get there. Disraeli, on being told on his death-bed that Queen Victoria wanted to come and see him 'Oh no, she'll want me to take a message to Albert!' FC |
Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Georgiansilver Date: 01 Mar 05 - 03:57 PM "words" is the last word in famous last words. Best wishes, Mike. |
Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: robomatic Date: 02 Mar 05 - 07:31 AM "Holy Crap! The Eiffel Tower!" -charlie lindbergh |
Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Pete Peterson Date: 02 Mar 05 - 09:27 AM I thought I had read that Ned Kelly's last words were "Such is life." |
Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Susu's Hubby Date: 02 Mar 05 - 12:49 PM Has anybody got a light? (Pilot of the Hindenburg) |
Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Lanfranc Date: 02 Mar 05 - 02:31 PM "Tell Laura I Love Her" Johnny Alan |
Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: ranger1 Date: 02 Mar 05 - 02:33 PM "trust me, I'm a professional..." |
Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Lanfranc Date: 02 Mar 05 - 02:43 PM "Je veux qu'on danse Quand c'est qu'on me mettra dans le trou" "I would like you all to dance on my grave" Jacques Brel ("Le Moribond") As mistranslated into "Seasons in the Sun" Alan |
Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: robomatic Date: 03 Mar 05 - 11:09 AM tastes like chicken -donner party |
Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: heric Date: 03 Mar 05 - 08:19 PM Of course I live to tell the tale, but when my horse did a full on summersault on a steep granite rubble bank, 10,000 feet up into the Ansel Adams wilderness, I thought long and hard as we sped forward: "If I become a quad, my wife is going to be SO pissed." |
Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Mr Red Date: 22 Nov 19 - 07:05 AM Erwin Schrödinger: "Before you lower me into the ground, please open it up to make sure I'm dead." |
Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Raedwulf Date: 22 Nov 19 - 08:11 AM "No, I'm not standing too close to the eaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!!!" The gods only know what has possessed Mr Red to resurrect a 14 year dead thread. Or perhaps Mr Red knows? ;-) |
Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Mr Red Date: 22 Nov 19 - 09:07 AM Yea I read the joke in an old unread New Scientist (Nov 19 2016) - see nuclear fusion thread. And NO, I don't have a red nose |
Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Jack Campin Date: 22 Nov 19 - 09:38 AM I would like you all to dance on my grave Which reminds me of what has to be the ultimate bad movie review. Boris Vian, author of "J'Irai Cracher Sur Vos Tombes", went to see the American film made from it, "I Will Spit On Your Grave". He didn't like it very much and died of a heart attack in his seat. |
Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: gillymor Date: 22 Nov 19 - 03:30 PM Tarzan: Who greased the grapevineeeeeee... |
Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Steve Shaw Date: 22 Nov 19 - 06:29 PM Apollo to mission control I think we're in sight of our goal But this reading of g Seems excessive to me I think we are near a black |
Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: JHW Date: 24 Nov 19 - 06:10 AM My dad's birthday today though long RIP. He used the expression 'famous last words' as a retort. |
Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Thompson Date: 27 Nov 19 - 04:22 AM Was it Heinrich Heine who was asked by some tactless religioso as he lay dying whether he thought God would forgive all his great sins, and answered, "Naturally; that's His trade." |
Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Mrrzy Date: 27 Nov 19 - 09:49 AM People are hanged. Pictures are hung. Yeah- and so are horses. The voice recorder on planes tend to record the final words of the pilot as Oh, shit. |
Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: mayomick Date: 27 Nov 19 - 03:15 PM The Catholic and Protestant bishops of Cork who hated each other were both dying , the Protestant in a Protestant hospital, the Catholic in Cork's Catholic hospital .The news came to the Catholic bishop that his rival had died . His last words reputedly before dropping dead himself were : "Now the bastard knows who the real bishop of Cork is". |