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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: GUEST,Uncle DaveO Date: 19 Feb 05 - 10:25 AM Brucie, my understanding is that W. C. Fields actual last words were: "On the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia." Dave Oesterreich |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: GUEST,Paranoid Android Date: 19 Feb 05 - 11:00 AM "I see the prodigal son has returned". (Last words from the fatted calf) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Liz the Squeak Date: 19 Feb 05 - 12:06 PM I sincerely hope that mine are going to be 'Sweet Mercy darling, that was fantastic, what a way to celebrate my hundredth birthday! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Liz the Squeak Date: 19 Feb 05 - 12:08 PM Alright, so Beethoven's were 'Friends applaud, the comedy is over'.... All the last words you would ever want to know are here and some of them are hysterical! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: HuwG Date: 19 Feb 05 - 01:13 PM A friend of mine went on the BBR Radio 4 quiz programme, "Brain fo Britain" (presented by Robert Robinson), about five or six years ago. She was asked, "The last words of which U.S. President were, 'I have a terrible headache ?'". Quick as a flash she replied, "Kennedy". As the audience choked on guffaws, she realised her mistake and tried to put the toothpaste back in the tube by saying, "Sorry - I meant Lincoln". Even the normally imperturbable Robinson had to rebuke the audience by saying, "It's not funny". **** Re. the death of General Sedgwick (which as JohnInKansas pointed out, I spelled incorrectly in my first post); the Confederate army did possess a small number of Whitworth sniping rifles. They had a smaller bore than the Enfield rifle which equipped the British army and many Confederate troops, and could take a more powerful charge. So, it was not impossible for a Whitworth bullet to arrive ahead of the bang, if the unfortunate General was picked off with one of these. (Whitworth rifles were not really practical as general issue weapons. They quickly fouled and became almost impossible to load.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: number 6 Date: 19 Feb 05 - 03:23 PM HuwG ... off topic in some sorts here, but u might find this interesting ... ... John Kennedy once shocked Britain's (then) Prime Minster Harold Macmillan in telling him "he had to have sex every day or else he got a headache". |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Peace Date: 19 Feb 05 - 03:28 PM I think you're correct about that, Uncle DaveO. But I like the other too. Both fall so well within the parameters of the character he projected. I understand that he actually gave large sums of money to orphanages during the course of his life. He was not the Scrooge he wanted the world to think he was. Interesting man. Of course, as he said, "Anyone who hates dogs or kids can't be all bad." And he wasn't. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Don(Wyziwyg)T Date: 19 Feb 05 - 07:43 PM Uncle Dave-O, Not his last words. The Philadelphia comment is the epitaph on his tombstone. Don T. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Mudlark Date: 19 Feb 05 - 09:17 PM From wisewoman amateur weather forecaster..."My sense is that the rains are over.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Peace Date: 19 Feb 05 - 09:50 PM Not on his tombstone, I don't think. That's myth, but also a good one. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Peace Date: 19 Feb 05 - 09:55 PM Re Fields' 'tombstone" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Ebbie Date: 19 Feb 05 - 10:18 PM Way off topic: Something I have never heard discussed is what happens in the first moment or two (or three?) after a person is beheaded. I would imagine there is no pain because the path is broken but would the person still be able to think for that moment? Would the person be aware that s/he is near as dead as can be? I remember accounts such as one woman whose eyes "looked accusingly" at her accuser. Is that possible, do you think? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Peace Date: 19 Feb 05 - 10:25 PM Remarks from WC Fields |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: SINSULL Date: 19 Feb 05 - 11:05 PM Et tu, Brute? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Don(Wyziwyg)T Date: 20 Feb 05 - 06:22 AM Thanks for those Brucie. Another well loved myth gone boom, but a host of new quotes. Life ain't so bad, I suppose. Don T. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Peace Date: 20 Feb 05 - 05:23 PM Don(Wyziwyg)T, I thought that for most of my life. It was a shock to me, too. Didn't find out until I was in my late 40s. Peed me off. It would have been a great tombstone. Better than the one he has, that's fer shore. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Liz the Squeak Date: 20 Feb 05 - 05:26 PM Spike Milligans' last words are not as reported above, but were his choice for his tombstone, but I don't know if they made it there. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Cluin Date: 20 Feb 05 - 05:54 PM I think I can see our house from here ~ Icarus Trans: "I think I can see our house from here!" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Don(Wyziwyg)T Date: 20 Feb 05 - 06:57 PM Liz, I just bought a book about Spike, and when I get time I'll scan it to see if it answers that one Don T. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: GUEST,noddy Date: 21 Feb 05 - 05:36 AM Air Hostess.... where does this door lead toooooo Scientist ...Dont be silly the Nitro is in the other bottle Joe Simpson, Author of Touching The Void, His will probably be "OH NO Not Again!" (Hope its not for a while tho.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: JennyO Date: 21 Feb 05 - 09:03 AM "OH NO Not Again!" I believe that was what the bowl of petunias said as it crashed onto an alien planet. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Mrrzy Date: 21 Feb 05 - 09:17 AM Voltaire, as a nurse lit a candle: What, the flames already? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Susu's Hubby Date: 21 Feb 05 - 02:06 PM I promise...OJ...I didn't sleep with him.......... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: GUEST,Royal expert Date: 21 Feb 05 - 05:04 PM In 1066...quote from King Harold...."Watch that bugger, he'll have someones eye out"! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Bunnahabhain Date: 21 Feb 05 - 05:31 PM "Don't be stupid, I'll never fall for that old trick, there's nothing behind m.." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Cluin Date: 21 Feb 05 - 06:55 PM "Ever since that f__king movie, everybody wants to play chicken with me!" ~ James Dean |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Charley Noble Date: 21 Feb 05 - 07:50 PM "We'll all go together when we go!" Tom Lehrer Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Bunnahabhain Date: 21 Feb 05 - 08:04 PM I'd rather kiss dead Mattie's lips, than you in you finery. Lady Arlen |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Bunnahabhain Date: 21 Feb 05 - 08:35 PM Comrade, dear comrades, don't you venture in, There's deep and false waters in the lakes of Cool Flynn. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Bobert Date: 21 Feb 05 - 08:57 PM I told ya' I was sick... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Bert Date: 21 Feb 05 - 10:07 PM JFK - "I need this parade like I need another hole in the head" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Ebbie Date: 21 Feb 05 - 10:15 PM Susu's Hubby, I don't get the implication of your remark of 2:06. I presume you are referring to Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend. Please keep in mind that Nicole was no longer Simpson's wife, no matter how often she has been called "his wife"; she was not cheating on him; they were divorced. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: HuwG Date: 22 Feb 05 - 04:38 AM "A horse ! A horse ! My kingdom for a horse !" - Richard III (allegedly). "Is that straight" - Jesse James (allegedy, straightening a picture frame before being shot in the back by Bob Ford) "A woman rang the Weather Centre, and said she'd heard that there was a hurricane on the way. Well don't worry - there isn't" - UK Weather Forecaster Michael Fish, hours before "The Great Storm" of 1987 killed 13 people and uprooted half the trees in the South and Midlands. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: GUEST,chip2447 Date: 23 Feb 05 - 12:31 AM While not quite last words, they seem to very appropriate to this thread. This afternoon, while napping on the couch my 5 year old niece approached with 2 pieces of lathing strips (18"x1"x1/4"). Now said niece is very keen about swords and sword fighting, and is rather zealous in her attempts to get uncle Chip to teach her more. She woke me when she placed one of her "swords" in my hands. Waving her other sword around, she looked at me, sans glasses, and a bit grumpy from having my afternoon nap disturbed, then she looked back at her sword, calmly looked back at me and removed the lathing strip from my hand. I heard her say as she headed for the kitchen for a snack... "Probably not a very good idea." Chip2447 (not grumpy after that) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Tam the man Date: 23 Feb 05 - 02:59 PM In the words of late John Lennon "that's no a fuckin' gun" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Peace Date: 23 Feb 05 - 03:37 PM "Oh, yeah?" Last thing I remember after saying that was that. I went into a spin backkick and blocked a really good roundkick with the side of my head. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Georgiansilver Date: 23 Feb 05 - 03:43 PM The most famous of all "Last words" is GOODBYE! Goodbye..and Best wishes, Mike. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Bunnahabhain Date: 23 Feb 05 - 03:54 PM So long, and thanks for all the fish. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Little Hawk Date: 23 Feb 05 - 04:00 PM "NOW we have them!" - George Armstrong Custer (he was always a real optimist...) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Georgiansilver Date: 23 Feb 05 - 04:04 PM King Harold of England in 1066 said "Watch that guy, he'll have somebodys eye out" Best wishes, Mike. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: GUEST,Tiger Date: 23 Feb 05 - 08:42 PM Mr. Peanut:
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Cluin Date: 23 Feb 05 - 09:31 PM "One more good push here, an' I cain get back to my peanut butter an' nanna samwich" ~ Elvis |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Bob Hitchcock Date: 28 Feb 05 - 03:18 PM Liz the Squeak, you are correct. The quote was to be placed on Spike Milligans headstone, however a fight ensued within his family and the last I heard no inscription has been made. It's a bit like one I read about some time ago which read - "She always said her feet were killing her, I guess she was right" Bob |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Peace Date: 28 Feb 05 - 03:44 PM Goodbye. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Peace Date: 28 Feb 05 - 03:46 PM In GWTW, did anyone actually say, "Frankly, Scarlett . . . "? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: jacqui.c Date: 28 Feb 05 - 05:05 PM The memory is alittle shaky but I think that it was at the end of the film when Clark Gable says "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn". Not the last words in the film - those are Scarlett's -"tomorrow is another day". |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: rumanci Date: 28 Feb 05 - 05:08 PM yes ...........Jacqui's right mind you I have heard somebody quite recently say them *g* |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Leadfingers Date: 28 Feb 05 - 06:16 PM I understood Spike Milligan's epitaph IS 'I told you I was Ill' - But its in Gaelic |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Georgiansilver Date: 01 Mar 05 - 03:26 AM Frankly my dear Leadfingers....... Best wishes, Mike. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: GUEST,John Gray in Oz Date: 01 Mar 05 - 07:25 AM From Ned Kelly, Australia's famous bushranger, just before he was hung ; "tell them I died game". And to me, from our destroyers Engineering Officer just before I was put ashore in Danang to fly to Saigon and then back to Oz ; "don't worry - its all organised". The Americans then put me on a plane to Phu Bai where they lost me for 2 weeks and I was being shot at. Whenever I hear, don't worry - its all organised, I twitch a little. JG/FME |
