BS: Famous exit lines

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Joe_F
Date: 10 May 03 - 08:12 PM

Oh, all the money that e'er I spent,
I spent it in good company,
And all the harm that e'er I did,
Alas! it was to none but me,
And all I've done for want of wit
To memory now I can't recall,
So fill to me the parting glass.
Good night, and joy be with you all.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: gnu
Date: 10 May 03 - 09:27 PM

Joe.... that's cheatin !!!

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Stewie
Date: 10 May 03 - 10:03 PM

'At least I died like Christ - between two rogues'. Supposedly by the dying Voltaire with a priest and lawyer at the bedside.

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: diesel
Date: 11 May 03 - 12:10 AM

Thanks Peter T - I did so want to include that one - one off he most poignant exits ever

"I am just going outside and may be some time" : Captain L. E. G. Oates of the 6th Inniskilling (Eniskillen??) Dragoons

rgds

Diesel

http://www.south-pole.com/p0000090.htm

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Firecat
Date: 11 May 03 - 02:21 PM

"I'll be revenged on the whole pack of you." Malvolio in Twelfth Night

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 May 03 - 05:07 PM

"Ah, hell, it can't be THAT deep!"

"'Course I can do it -- this ol' pickup's got four wheel drive!"

"Gimme another beer and I'll show you."

"'Cause you're a wussy, that's why!"

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: katlaughing
Date: 11 May 03 - 05:46 PM

What! will not the knaves be ruled? Damian, my lance. Advance banner. Lay on your spears in the rest. Crevecoeur to the rescue!

Count of Crevecoeur in Quentin Durward

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: pict
Date: 11 May 03 - 09:08 PM

The dying words of a Scottish Gael after receiving a mortal wound to the face.

"You've ruined a better face than your own!"

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Midchuck
Date: 11 May 03 - 09:28 PM

The story is that Ethan Allen, in his last illness, was being "comforted" by a clergyman who said to him, "General Allen, the angels are waiting for you."

His last words were supposed to have been "Well, God damn 'em, let 'em wait!"

Peter.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Kaleea
Date: 12 May 03 - 12:59 AM

& then there's:

   Batman at the end of most of his TV shows, pondering the severity of the villain's evil influence on the voluptuous girl of the week, who was soon to be residing at the "Bruce Wayne Home for Wayward Girls":
             "Poor, deluded child!"

& Batman's announcer:
    "Same Bat time, same Bat channel!

    we can never forget all the hairspray that went into Jack Lord's teased & coifed hairdo when we tuned in each week because we were told--
               "Be there! Aloha!"

My Grandad's last words before his passing in the hospital:
   "Nursing Home?! I'll go to the boneyard before I go into one of those Godforsaken places!!" And he did, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Firecat
Date: 12 May 03 - 09:35 AM

"And I would have gotten away with it too, if it hadn't been for those pesky kids!!!" Every single baddie in Scooby Doo!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Mr Red
Date: 12 May 03 - 10:32 AM

Er - the Royal Infirmiry in the centre of Worcester (UK) has strips painted on the floor so you can get to the ward of your choice (the visitors that is). So I offer you, folks, the one that ends at the door the red line.

Oh disaster, it is the entrance and you wanted exit lines!!

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: The O'Meara
Date: 12 May 03 - 11:26 AM

1. From the movie The Cherokee kid - Otter Bob is dying, makes a speech he knows will be remembered as his immortal dying words, and dies.
The C.K. is paniced and yells "BOB!" Bob looks up and says "WHUT?"
C.K "Don't die!"
O.B. "You idiot. Now everybody will remember my dying words as 'WHUT!'" and dies for good.

2. Dying words from the deep south: "Y'all watch this..."

O'Meara

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: thehiker
Date: 12 May 03 - 07:00 PM

In the words of the only sane person present on the first day of the Battle of the Somme
"F%£K this for a game of soldiers I'm off"

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Cluin
Date: 12 May 03 - 08:23 PM

We are the boys of chorus
We hope you like the show
We know you're rootin' for us
But now we have to go....

Now I know you know where that one comes from.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: GUEST
Date: 12 May 03 - 11:05 PM

From Honkey Tonk Man:

"I have conceived!"

"Hold the bus!"

"But didn't you mean all those nice things you said to me last night?"

"HOLD THE BUS!"

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: GUEST,Larry Kaufman
Date: 13 May 03 - 02:14 PM

1. Elvis has left the building
2. George S. Custer "What Indians?"
3. From Groucho Marx
    Hello, I must be going, I'm glad I came
    But still the same I must be going
    I came to say I cannot stay I must be going
    I'll stay a week or two, I'll stay the summer through
    But I am telling you, I must be going

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: IanC
Date: 14 May 03 - 08:45 AM

I think the Voltaire quote (repeated a few times above) is inaccurate ... according to most sources, he was asked by the priest to renounce the devil (part of the process of shriving him) and replied "This is no time to make new enemies."

:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: IanC
Date: 14 May 03 - 08:58 AM

Here's one that's well attested and is close to my favourite.

Latimer & Ridley (burnt alive at Oxford in the year 1555):

Then they brought a lighted fagot, and laid the same down at Ridley's feet; upon which Latimer said calling out from the fire, "Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
(from Foxe's Book of Martyrs)

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: 8_Pints
Date: 14 May 03 - 08:09 PM

Spike Milligan's epitaph ......'I told I wasn't well!'

Manager to redundant employee ....'I don't know how we're going to manage without you, but we are going to try!'

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: GUEST
Date: 15 May 03 - 08:21 AM

"Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast" Arnold Rimmer, of Red Dwarf

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Cluin
Date: 15 May 03 - 09:25 PM

"When you're ready to talk aboutmore money and thome therioth thcripth with romanth, you know how to reach me..."
   ~ Herve Villechaize

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Troll
Date: 16 May 03 - 02:54 AM

Amos, Durante's famous exit line was, "Goodnight Mrs. Callabash, wherever you are."; not Mrs. Murgatroyd.

Bob and Ray: "this is Bob saying,'Write if you get work', and Ray,'Hang by your thumbs'."

troll

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: GUEST,Johnny in OKC
Date: 16 May 03 - 04:14 AM

"Confusion, catastrophe and mayhem --
my work here is finished!"

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: gnu
Date: 16 May 03 - 05:27 AM

Cluin... you should have put a "tea cup down" warning on that one.

wetgnu

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Micca
Date: 16 May 03 - 06:16 AM

Window Cleaner on window ledge on Skyscraper wearing safety harness addressing broken harness on next window " AAAAARRRGGGGH? What do you mean AAAAARRRGGGGH?"

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Shields Folk
Date: 16 May 03 - 09:50 AM

Put that bow and arrow down, you'll have somebodys eye out!

Harold of Wessex (1066)

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: The Walrus
Date: 16 May 03 - 06:38 PM

"Oh! I must be turning into a god"
The Emporor Vespasian

Not last words but two epitaphs:

On David Lloyd-George

"Lloyd-George, no doubt,
When life ebbs out,
Will ride in a firey chariot.
He'll be driven 'in State',
On a red-hot plate
With Satan and Judas Iscariot"

On Oscar Wilde: (I've heard this attributed to Whistler)

"When Oscar went to meet his God,
'twas earth to earth and sod to sod.
It was for sinners such as this
Hell was created bottomless."


Regards

Walrus.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 17 May 03 - 02:29 PM

Well, there are a few favorites of mine.

When WC Fields lay on his deathbed he (allegedly) heard a newsboy hawking papers out on the bitter old, snow-covers streets. "I think I'll leave all my money to the poo newsboys," he said, feebly. A moment later, he said "On second thought, fuck the newsboys."

and,

When someone famous (memory faileth) was about to be hanged he said :I pray you will assist me to the top of the ladder. As for the descent, I shall fend for myself."

and (as I'm told by a friend at the NTSB), the universal last words recorded by pilots who are about to crash are "Oh shit..."

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Amos
Date: 17 May 03 - 07:28 PM

"What is it, my beloved, that carries you away???"

"Why it is my horse, love, it is my horse!"

(from some obscure Shakespearean scene misplaced in memory and misquoted, no doubt....)

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: The Walrus
Date: 17 May 03 - 08:50 PM

Dick,

"...When someone famous (memory faileth) was about to be hanged he said :I pray you will assist me to the top of the ladder. As for the descent, I shall fend for myself."..."

That sounds like Sir Walter Raleigh, he was beheaded by order of James I (or I of England & VI of Scotland to be pedantic).

Walrus

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: GUEST
Date: 17 May 03 - 08:55 PM

And now for the Prologue - Frankie Howerd in Up Pompeii

I need this parade like I need another hole in the head - John F Kennedy

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: GUEST,Johnny in OKC
Date: 18 May 03 - 10:39 AM

Can't leave this thread without mention
of the greatest exit line of all:

"Hi-yo, Silver, away!"

For Brits, this was the tag line of
the Lone Ranger. Silver was his mighty
horse.

JOHNNY in OKC

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Cluin
Date: 21 May 03 - 02:59 PM

"Well, that's the news and I am outta here!"
    ~ Dennis Miller

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 04 May 09 - 03:13 PM

When reading Keats' Ode to a Nightingale in college, I was struck by the poem's power, but particularly by the closing lines.
The poet hears the call of the nightingale in a solitary woods, and the sound seems to draw his soul out of his body in an exquisite way that suggests a beauty in final release, in the act of dying amid such perfection. And the hint that dying might be only an awakening into a different reality.
These are the last lines..

"Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades   
Past the near meadows, over the still stream,   
    Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep   
          In the next valley-glades:   
Was it a vision, or a waking dream?   
    Fled is that music:—do I wake or sleep? "

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Skivee
Date: 04 May 09 - 04:45 PM

Mary
"Abe, stop fidgetting!"

                        Abe
"You said this play was going to be funny. It's lasted three hours and only started 40 minutes ago...I wish someone would just shoot me."

   (cue commotion at rear of presidential compartment)


                Mr. Lincoln Exits

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 04 May 09 - 05:18 PM

Gertrude Stein's last words:

"What is the answer? (long pause) In that case, what is the question?"

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: curmudgeon
Date: 04 May 09 - 08:20 PM

I have been led to believe that Raleigh's last sentence was, "This is sharp medicine, but it cures all ills."

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Joe_F
Date: 04 May 09 - 09:28 PM

Just a moment, Father; we'll leave together.
-- Mme le Pompadour, to the priest preparing for her last rites

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Little Hawk
Date: 04 May 09 - 11:29 PM

Mr Red, I think that was Reynolds, early on the first day of Gettysburg. He was shot dead at very long range by a Confederate sniper, and the Union lost one of their best generals.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Allen in Oz
Date: 05 May 09 - 12:36 AM

" Such is Life"

Ned Kelly and (I think) George 111

Ad 1943

ps, Gertrude Stein's quote was to Alice B Toklas


AD

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Jack Campin
Date: 05 May 09 - 04:50 AM

Probably an urban legend, but Nikola Tesla is said to have been shaking his fist at the sky while watching a thunderstorm, shouting "I'VE MADE BETTER LIGHTNING THAN THAT!!!" Whereupon he fell down dead with a heart attack.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Ythanside
Date: 05 May 09 - 05:57 PM

'That wallpaper will be the death of me.'

Napoleon Bonaparte

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 05 May 09 - 07:13 PM

"and AwwwwWWWayyy we go!"
.....Jackie Gleason, with appropriate body language and background dance music.

A little traveling music

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Ed T
Date: 05 May 09 - 08:42 PM

Exit, stage left: frequent exit line in Snagglepuss cartoons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW4pvbjZAeM&feature=related

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Ythanside
Date: 06 May 09 - 02:57 AM

'Lizzie, put that axe down this minute!'

Mr Borden

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Donuel
Date: 06 May 09 - 10:15 AM

rosebud

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Ed T
Date: 06 May 09 - 04:59 PM

"It seems like a good day to have a last day",
Exit quote from Pierre Trudeau, on stepping down as Canada's Prime Minister, at a news scrum Feb. 29, 1984.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Gurney
Date: 06 May 09 - 05:40 PM

A famous English physician, whose name escapes me, took his own pulse:
"Stopped!"


"And it's goodnight from me....."
"And it's goodnight from him!"

The Two Ronnies.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 May 09 - 06:18 PM

"And THAT is my LAST post on this thread!" (uttered by numerous offended people on this forum as they stalk off...most of them then lurk around for awhile watching the continuing progress of the thread in question) ;-)