BS: Famous exit lines

Subject: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Padre
Date: 06 May 03 - 10:31 AM

What is/are your favorite exit line(s)?

Mine is:
'Exit, pursued by a bear' - A Winter's Tale - Act 3, Scene 3

Padre

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Pseudolus
Date: 06 May 03 - 10:34 AM

da-duh, da-duh, da-duh, da-dat's all folks!

Frank

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: mack/misophist
Date: 06 May 03 - 10:47 AM

Aroint, thou raunch fed runions.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 06 May 03 - 11:05 AM

Either that wallpaper or I is going to have to go..... Oscar Wilde?
On the whole I'd rather be in Philadelphia...... W C Fields.
Say good-night Dick. Good-night Dick..... Dan Rowan & Dick Martin.

I'll get me coat.......Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Beccy
Date: 06 May 03 - 11:50 AM

Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn... Rhett Butler


I still think its the best cinema exit line of all time.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 06 May 03 - 11:54 AM

As we say in the old country, AMF...Adios, my friend. (other words also)

Hasta later. (a mix of Spanish and English)

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 06 May 03 - 01:32 PM

"I have been and always shall be your friend..."

Or my new fave...

"Victory is Mine!", from Stewie on The Family Guy

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 06 May 03 - 03:52 PM

I think I feel much better now....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Schantieman
Date: 06 May 03 - 03:57 PM

Bugger Bognor!

S

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: PageOfCups
Date: 06 May 03 - 04:11 PM

"Exit, stage right" [or left, depending] -- Snagglepuss

PoC

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: GUEST,Peter from Essex
Date: 06 May 03 - 04:16 PM

Giok, Dan Rowan stole that line. I'm not 100% sure but I think it was from George Burns - "Say goodnight Gracie".

Personally I'll go for Bugger Bognor! too.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Beccy
Date: 06 May 03 - 04:47 PM

Peter, you're right! It was George Burns, "Say Goodnight, Gracie"
Gracie: "Good night, Gracie..."

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: TIA
Date: 06 May 03 - 05:21 PM

"Attaboy, Clarence" (It's a Wonderful Life)

"Louie, this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship." (Casablanca)

"For a moment there I thought we were in trouble." (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)

"Do you play the balalika?" (Dr. Zhivago)

"What, the flames already?" (Voltaire's last words)

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Allan C.
Date: 06 May 03 - 05:29 PM

"And now, on behalf of our sponsors and staff, I'd like to thank you for allowing me to be a part of your evening. Until this time next week we'll say 'goodbye' for now and may God bless." - Red Skelton

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Allan C.
Date: 06 May 03 - 05:33 PM

"I'm so glad we had this time together
Just to have a laugh and sing a song.
Seems we just get started and before you know it,
Comes the time we have to say 'so long'" - Carol Burnett

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: GUEST,Bronx Bombarde
Date: 06 May 03 - 05:34 PM

I love you all....now piss off!

Ozzie Ozbourne

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: GUEST,Martin Gibson
Date: 06 May 03 - 05:48 PM

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Jeanie
Date: 06 May 03 - 05:59 PM

LADY: To bed, to bed ! There's knocking at the gate. Come, come, come, come, give me your hand. What's done cannot be undone. To bed, to bed, to bed.                                 
                                                          (Exit)
DOCTOR: Will she go now to bed ?

Macbeth Act V Sc. 1 ll. 62-65

Well....it always makes me laugh, anyway !

- jeanie

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 06 May 03 - 06:30 PM

Kiss my ass goodbye!

John Prine "Please Don't Bury Me"

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: RangerSteve
Date: 06 May 03 - 06:42 PM

Sorry, but I've got some Burns and Allen shows on video tape, and Gracie just said "Goodnight". Not "Goodnight Gracie". She wasn't that dumb.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: khandu
Date: 06 May 03 - 08:21 PM

The "Say 'Goodnight', Dick" was not original to Rowan and Martin, nor to George and Gracie. It was originally spoken by Harry Lee Wigley.

My favorite exit line is from my Grandfather, who on his deathbed, looked at me and said "Aaaaaauuuuuuuggggggghhh"

khandu

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: curmudgeon
Date: 06 May 03 - 08:39 PM

"This is sharp medicine, but it cures all ills."

-- Sir Walter Raleigh

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Joe_F
Date: 06 May 03 - 08:39 PM

If desperate, you can always fart & say "Divide that among you!"

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Cluin
Date: 06 May 03 - 08:49 PM

"Well, I'll just be saying Cheery-bye, then... Cheery-bye!"
    ~ Robbie Coltrane as the Ghost of Christmas in Blackadder's Christmas Carol


"Gazpacho Soup!"
    ~ Rimmer, when he died.


"Oh Damn! I've shat myself!"
    ~ Dave Thomas (not the hamburger guy) in an old Second City Skit as a dying celebrity wishing to leave some witty final words.


"Hey! Y'all watch this!"
    ~ Bobby Sue Jim Bob Perdue atop the wood chipper.


Oh, for fuck's sakes!"
    ~ Amelia Earhart

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 May 03 - 08:51 PM

"You won't have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore..."

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: khandu
Date: 06 May 03 - 09:45 PM

"Am I not on the right train?" Judge Crater

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 May 03 - 10:30 PM

"CURSES!!! Foiled again!" - Snidely Whiplash and innumerable similar villains and scoundrels in top hats and black capes...

"Hasta la vista, Baby!" - Schwarzenneger

"AYYYY-DRIENNNNNNNE!!!!!" - Rocky Balboa (okay, it's not exactly an exit line, but it is memorable for sheer relentless persistence...and it closed the scene.)

"Oh, Cisco!" "Oh, Pancho!"

"Who was that masked man?"

"W-I-I-I-I-I-I-L-L-L-L-L-M-A!!!!"

LOL! I like the concept of this thread...

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 06 May 03 - 10:44 PM

See ya tomorrow, God willin' and the creeks don't rise.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Little Hawk
Date: 07 May 03 - 12:12 AM

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Pow! Krang! Squeeeee! K'bap! Bang! Wham! Bing!" etc...

(end of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)

"Rattatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatat!!!!!" (end of Bonnie and Clyde)

"CRASH!!!!!" (end of Vanishing Point)

Too bad I don't know more HTML, just to add visual effects.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Mark Clark
Date: 07 May 03 - 12:24 AM

I always liked Polonius' line from Hamlet: “Oh, I am slain.”

      - Mark

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: GUEST,Anahootz, sans biscuit
Date: 07 May 03 - 12:27 AM

"My work here is done"

Don't know who said it first, but I've been using it alot lately...

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: mack/misophist
Date: 07 May 03 - 01:15 AM

Back to George Burns and Gracie Allen; I can't remember if they said it at ther end of every show, but it was a trademark of theirs. I used to watch faithfully.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: GUEST
Date: 07 May 03 - 02:18 AM

Shhhhhh!      (End credit on Simpsons)

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: alanabit
Date: 07 May 03 - 02:33 AM

"Die my dear doctor? Why that is that is the last thing I shall do."
(Palmerston)

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: C-flat
Date: 07 May 03 - 02:35 AM

Not an exit line exactly, but the bum note played on the saxaphone at the end of the Muppet show always made me laugh!
For real movie exit lines take a look here.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: alanabit
Date: 07 May 03 - 02:35 AM

"The rest is silence." It is spoken by Hamlet - whom I have always thought of as the most egocentric and mean spirited of all Shakespeare's villains. He sure gave the Dane some good lines though!

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Allan C.
Date: 07 May 03 - 03:06 AM

Annahootz "Our work here is done, Tonto" was a common pre-exit line for The Lone Ranger. I'm not sure if it originated there, though.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Allan C.
Date: 07 May 03 - 03:09 AM

"He-e-e-e-ey Bill! Wait for me!" - Jingles P. Jones (played by Andy Devine) in the "Wild Bill Hickok" TV series.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: GUEST,Seacat
Date: 07 May 03 - 03:16 AM

From the two Ronnies;

Ronnie barker, (wearing thick glasses)"My goodness, is that really the time?"

Ronnie Corbett, "My dear chap, thats the barometer you're looking at"

Ronnie Corbett, "Well, it's high pressure i was going then"

Well, it made me laff!

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: GUEST,tooligan1
Date: 07 May 03 - 03:17 AM

One night after an audience gave me a hard time I gave them my best parting shot, which went like this.

Here's to you and here's to me
The best of friends we'll always be
And should we ever disagree
F**k you here's to me

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: fat B****rd
Date: 07 May 03 - 04:07 AM

There were two Alamo (John Wayne version) characters whose lines consisted of "Do this mean what I think it do ?" and "It do", and those were their last words.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 07 May 03 - 04:42 AM

"But I'm a man!!"
"Well nobody's perfect"
Jack Lemmon and Joe E Brown at the end of "Some like it Hot" (Great movie)

Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Schantieman
Date: 07 May 03 - 07:40 AM

alanabit - Hamlet a villain?   I thought he was the much-troubled victim & hero. Discuss.

Pirates of Penzance. Act Two. Exit of the police:

"We go we go we go we go we go."


Bye

S

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: jeffp
Date: 07 May 03 - 07:59 AM

"Jefferson still lives!"
- John Adams

(He was wrong. Jefferson had died a couple of hours earlier.)

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: gnu
Date: 07 May 03 - 08:03 AM

"He who fights and runs away lives to fight another day." Said by I can't recall just before jumping out a castle window to the water below after being outmatched in a sword fight.

A bit astray, but, famous last f***in words... Captain of Titanic : "What the f*** was that?", Custer : "Look at all the f***in Indians." I'm sure someone else can remember the other half dozen or more.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: GUEST,pedants revolt
Date: 07 May 03 - 09:29 AM

TIA
Wasn't it Claude Rains saying "Round up the usual suspects" or did he speak after?

Was it Palmerston or Disreli that said "I think I will have one of Bellamy's Pork Pies" ?

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: MMario
Date: 07 May 03 - 09:41 AM

Merry Meet, Merry Part, and Merry Meet again!

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Trevor
Date: 07 May 03 - 11:21 AM

'Infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me' Kenneth Williams as Julius Caesar in Carry On Cleo I think.

'Now I'm REALLY pissed off...' - a climber acquaintance heard this as somebody shot past him, downwards, with the hold in his hand. (He died).

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: gnu
Date: 07 May 03 - 11:46 AM

"I hate this part of the job." Heard from a roofer sliding off the eave of a house. (He was OK.)

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Kim C
Date: 07 May 03 - 11:54 AM

Y'all go to hell, I'm going to Texas. ------ David Crockett, after not being reelected to the Senate.

And I really, REALLY like the goodbye scene in Shakespeare in Love. Makes me bawl every time.

General Stonewall Jackson is reported to have said, "Let us cross over the river and rest in the shade of the trees." Robin and Linda Williams wrote a great song based on it. Makes you wonder what he was seeing.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Hillheader
Date: 07 May 03 - 11:55 AM

Bill Shankly (late, great Liverpool Manager) was being presented with Manager of the Year award. Billy Bremner spend about 5 minutes telling everyone why Shankly was the worthy winner.

Shanks appeared, took the trophy and said "Thank's Billy. I deserve it" then walked off stage to the applause of his own team and stunned silence everwhere else. Priceless.

Davebhoy

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: YOR
Date: 07 May 03 - 12:18 PM

Put a fork in me I'm done!

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: GUEST,alinact
Date: 07 May 03 - 01:35 PM

"What the fuck was that?" - The Mayor of Hiroshima.

Allan

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 07 May 03 - 01:37 PM

What the f**k was that?....The mayor of Hiroshima.

Well! he started it.
OK. I'll get me coat, tara chook.
Hame'lldaeme.....Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Gareth
Date: 07 May 03 - 02:13 PM

Twas Pitt the Younger who said he would have one of Bellamys Pies.

but recall :-

"Its perfectly safe"

"Its only a 100 meter swim"

"The safety catch is on"

"Its not poisenous"

Gareth

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Amos
Date: 07 May 03 - 02:28 PM

"Good night, Mrs. Murgatroyd, wherever you are."

"Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow
That I shalls ay good night until tomorrow!"

A

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: GUEST,Martin Gibson
Date: 07 May 03 - 02:53 PM

Goodbye Amigos!

See you Soon! Hah HAH!

Pancho & Cisco

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Renegade
Date: 07 May 03 - 03:31 PM

Kim C: I always liked Stonewall's. R E Lee said, "Strike the tent", (or something close) which is a little more of this earth than SJ's.

On the lighter side, I always liked Dale and Roy's exit line:

"Happy Trails to you...until we meet again."

Bill

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Kim C
Date: 07 May 03 - 04:19 PM

Yep. Strike the tents. But Lee was a little more earthy than Stonewall anyhow. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 May 03 - 05:16 PM

For last words, I like the Union general who, during the US Civil War, said, "Why, they [the Confederates] couldn't hit an elephant at this dist...." Might have been Generalf Sedgewick.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: SINSULL
Date: 07 May 03 - 06:08 PM

Ettu Brute?

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Amos
Date: 07 May 03 - 07:41 PM

"'Tis not so deep as a well -- nor so wide as a church door.
But 'tis enough -- 'twill serve!" (Mercutio, IIRC)

I think I know how he felt, sometimes! :>)

I wish I could remember the story about the renowned mathematician on his deathbed who said he looked forward to learning, in the afte rlife, the answers to two great mysteries -- one of which was the secret of fluid dynamics, and the other being "what do women want?".

A

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: JedMarum
Date: 07 May 03 - 07:57 PM

Thank you very much, ladies and gentelmen. If you enjoyed the music tonight my name is Jed Marum. If you did not enjoy the music tonight, I'm Rick Fielding!"

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Cluin
Date: 07 May 03 - 09:24 PM

Gnu, That line was from the 1965 Blake Edwards movie "The Great Race". It was spoken by the evil Baron Von Shtuppe (played by Ross Martin) as he ducks out of the duel with Leslie (Tony Curtis) when it becomes evident he's losing. He leaps to the open window sill in the high tower which overlooks the moat 50 or 60 feet below and throws his sword at Leslie.

Leslie: (parrying the sword away easily) "Running away Baron?"
Von Shtuppe: "A very wise Englishman once said He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day Farewell, Leslie. I have a boat waiting."

Then the Baron dives out the window and crashes through the middle of the rowboat waiting below, splintering it to kindling.

Still love that movie. A Classic.


Another great exit line:

"Here's a quarter. Go downtown and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face! Good day to you,madam."
    ~ John Candy in Uncle Buck (the only good scene in that movie)

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Doug_Remley
Date: 07 May 03 - 09:36 PM

"Fuck'em if they can't take a joke."

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: SINSULL
Date: 07 May 03 - 10:04 PM

End of Part I:
"As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again!"
End of Part II:
"Tomorrow is another day..."

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Alba
Date: 07 May 03 - 10:33 PM

Here's to my Love! O true Apothecary! Thy drugs are quick thus with a kiss I die. (Romeo)

Oh sigh A:>)

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 May 03 - 10:46 PM

"I don't see how they can make a profit on this stuff at $1.29 a liter."

"Lay on, MacDuff, and cursed be him who first cries, 'Hold! Enough!'"
(Always thought it should have been "Lay off, MacDuff, I've had enuff.")

Not a line, but a sight: a crown in a thorn bush.

"The flames? Already?" -- Voltaire.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 08 May 03 - 03:56 AM

"The orchestra would like you to know we love you madly"
(Duke Ellington)
"Thank you, you've been a wonderful audience -not tonight, obviously but I'm sure you have been some time" (RtS)
RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Mudlark
Date: 08 May 03 - 05:26 AM

My favorite exit line was spoken by the exitor, not the exitee...a classic Thurber cartoon of fencers, one saying to the other "Touché!" as his blade swishes right thru his opponent's neck.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 08 May 03 - 05:54 AM

He's a quarter, call somebody who cares. (Country music song.)

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: gnu
Date: 08 May 03 - 06:56 AM

Cluin... I KNEW it was The Great Race ! However, about all I can remember for sure these days is not to trust my memory.

"Where's your sprirt of adventure?", I said to my ex, who did not want to cross the brook in my 4X4 pickup. After six hours of me cutting trees, digging and jacking, we walked 8 km, including a shortcut through a swamp, before we met a fishing party. She never really liked the woods after that. And I've never been stuck again.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Blues=Life
Date: 08 May 03 - 08:45 AM

Doug, I prefer the other version of that line:

"Joke 'em if they can't take a fuck!"
Robin Williams, at the end of one of his first HBO specials.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Kim C
Date: 08 May 03 - 09:47 AM

Yep, Rapaire, that was Sedgewick just before he was hit by a Confederate sharpshooter. It was an honorable show of bravado, though.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: GUEST,Cecil
Date: 08 May 03 - 11:17 AM

"Screw you guys, I'm going home!"

-Eric Cartman

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 08 May 03 - 12:36 PM

"Head 'em up. Move 'em out." Rawhide

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Gareth
Date: 08 May 03 - 01:15 PM

"I'm a fighter not a quitter "

Ieuan Wyn Jones (leader of the Welsh Nationalist Party) speaking shortley before his resignation @ 1700 BST 09.May.03

Gareth - (Tears running down his trouser legs.)

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 May 03 - 02:42 PM

Touch of schadenfreude there Gareth. Remember what BH Calcutta [Failed] said in The Perishers. "It are wicked to mock the afflicted"
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Strupag
Date: 08 May 03 - 03:47 PM

Time for bed - Zebedee

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: GUEST,Kim C no cookie
Date: 08 May 03 - 04:26 PM

Has anyone said, Goodnight, John Boy?

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 May 03 - 04:49 PM

Good night Sue Ellen

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Peter T.
Date: 08 May 03 - 04:59 PM

"I'm going out now, I may be gone for some time." (Can't believe this thread got this far without that). yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Cluin
Date: 08 May 03 - 05:02 PM

"Lucyyyyyyy... You got some `splainin' to do"

"WAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH......"

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Cluin
Date: 08 May 03 - 05:09 PM

Cue theme music.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: GUEST,Martin Gibson
Date: 08 May 03 - 05:14 PM

"Tally Ho and away we go."

"See ya next week with a bran new show."

Heckel & Jeckel

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: musicmick
Date: 08 May 03 - 05:58 PM

Cluin, it's true that the line in question was from "The Great Race" but it was used as a comic tribute to "The Prisoner of Zenda" where the villain, played by James Mason, says, "I shall live to fight another day.", as he leaps from a castle window to avoid swordplay with Stewart Granger.
Legendary folksinger, George Britton, used to torture his kids with gems like "Hasta Lumbego". That they still speak to him is a wonder.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Cluin
Date: 09 May 03 - 12:58 AM

Oh, right, musicmic. Thanks. I'd totally blanked on that one. Maybe because I'd just watched "The Great Race" again last weekend.

"Hasty Banana"
    ~ Bugs Bunny

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Hrothgar
Date: 09 May 03 - 04:27 AM

According to Arthur Bryant, Pitt the Younger's last words were "Oh, my country! How I leave my country!"

The Bellamy's pies story came from Disraeli on very dubious evidence.

Mind you, Bryant would always put out the best version for a Tory.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Watson
Date: 09 May 03 - 05:13 AM

What fucks like a tiger and winks?

(exit winking) - Reginald Bosanquet

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: GUEST,Claymore
Date: 09 May 03 - 09:23 AM

In a Safety class I teach my vocational students, I remind them that, as a cop, I often only heard three types of final words;

Oh God!

Oh, Shit! or ...

Huh?

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: GUEST,ari
Date: 09 May 03 - 01:02 PM

i like Puck's speech at the end of midsummer night's dream

how about orlando gibbons (not really an exit line, just a poem):

The silver swan, who living had no note
When death approached unlocked her silent throat
Leaning her breast against the reedy shore
Thus sung her first and last, and sung no more
Farewell all joys; O death, come close mine eyes
More geese than swans now live, more fools than wise

Cheerios!

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Cluin
Date: 09 May 03 - 01:17 PM

"Cheerio".... a good Tull song:

Along the coast road, by the headland,
The early lights of winter glow.
I'll pour a cup to you, my darling.
And raise it up, say Cheerio!

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Mr Red
Date: 09 May 03 - 04:24 PM

Which Yankee/Confedrate general was it that on returning from a reckie in front of his own lines was told to be carefull and replied

"Why they couldn't hit the side of a barn at this distan........"

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Little Robyn
Date: 09 May 03 - 10:06 PM

Tatty bye - Doddy (and the Diddy men)

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

"We'll have a merry time again
With Robin and his Merry Men,
And the folks who'll bring him to you then
Would have a word with you."
(break for commercial)

and the ever-popular--"It's time for us to leave her."

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 May 03 - 11:26 PM

Seeyasoon

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Gareth
Date: 10 May 03 - 03:43 AM

"Tatty bye - Doddy (and the Diddy men)"

Actuall, Robyn, I thought that this proceeded "I'll take payment in used notes!"

Gareth

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Mr Red
Date: 10 May 03 - 09:27 AM

Leanardo da Vinci - I'll get my coat (of paint)....

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Peter T.
Date: 10 May 03 - 10:03 AM

THIS WAY TO THE EGRESS (P.T. Barnum). yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Firecat
Date: 10 May 03 - 10:35 AM

Prince George "Er, no, actually Baldrick, I'm not dead! You see I had a cigarillo box too, look!" Hunts in his pockets "Oh, damn, I nust have left it on the dresser!" (End of Blackadder The Third, Dual And Duality)

Blackadder "Seems perfectly alright to me! And now at last I shall be King of Eng....." (End of The Black Adder, The Black Seal)

Blackadder "Madam, life without you was like a broken pencil"
Queenie "Explain?"
Blackadder "Pointless" (End of Blackadder II, Chains)


So??? I'm a Blackadder fan!!

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) ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Ed T
Date: 06 May 09 - 06:29 PM

It's time gentlemen please, it's time you're no longer here
It's time gentlemen please, it's time to drink up your beer!

Closing song, the Pig n Whistle TV show.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Ed T
Date: 06 May 09 - 07:17 PM

George Bernard Shaw's epitaph reads:
"I knew that if I lived long enough, something like this would happen."

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Ron Davies
Date: 06 May 09 - 09:02 PM

I'm pretty sure I got this from Mudcat--don't know specifically who:

You may not know that vehicles sold in the US have "black boxes", similar to those in planes. The National Highway Safety Admininistration has been checking the black boxes in vehicles after accidents fatal to all the occupants. They've uncovered a fascinating pattern. In most states the last words spoken in the vehicle are usually: "Oh, f---".    But in Texas, Alabama, and West Virginia the last words are:   "Here, hold my beer and watch this."

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 06 May 09 - 10:22 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) ;-)

I love it, LH! Even better, the "Farewell Mudcat" Threads where some whiner decides to announce his departure from the Forum because

a)"This no longer a forum about folk music, and I must gather my dignity and leave..aloha"
b)"I have been insulted for the last time...goodbye"
c) "My comments have been edited, removed, and I can no longer submit to the heavy hand of the Moderators...farewell"

Really, my least favorite kind of thread I must say, and I can imagine the "leaver" savoring all the calls to desist and forgive. Reminds me of the King who decided to hold his state funeral before his death, in order that he could hear all of the praise and adoration which would otherwise have been wasted.

Some of them even start another thread announcing their return so that the tender souls who begged them not to go in the first place can welcome them back with open arms.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: frogprince
Date: 07 May 09 - 12:41 PM

"This is funny" - Doc Holliday

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: GUEST,Slag
Date: 07 May 09 - 04:33 PM

I've seen this one more than once:

"It's the blue wire. It's always the blue wire..."

Shwit, Shwit, Shwit (Zorro's parting comment).

"A little traveling music, please..." Jackie Gleason

"I never felt better..." spoken by a many. Which reminds me...

I read in a book of famous last words of a noble lady ( a duchess or some such ) who lay dying, to her doctor "Anyone who can fart like that can't be too bad off."

In response to the shrew's question, "Where are you going?" "To the store to get some (name your product)!"

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: robomatic
Date: 07 May 09 - 04:37 PM

Little Hawk:

Reynolds was a good man, too good to be branded with such a quote:

General John Sedgwick, Union Commander in the U.S. Civil War, who was hit by sniper fire a few minutes after saying:

"They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance."

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: meself
Date: 07 May 09 - 05:42 PM

There was a news story last year about an execution in North Caolina, or some such place. The condemned man was hoping for a reprieve from the Governor. About five minutes before the execution, he was informed that his request for a reprieve had been denied. His reply: "Well - you can tell Governor Smith he's lost my vote!"

(I'm not sure the governor's name was Smith, though ... )

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Ed T
Date: 07 May 09 - 07:58 PM

"It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man."
Scott Elledge, on his retirement as a Professor at Cornell

"My work is done. Why wait" George Eastman

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Donuel
Date: 07 May 09 - 09:05 PM

I was just trying to have octuplets

Manny Ramirez

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Ed T
Date: 07 May 09 - 11:45 PM

After sex exit:

I'm done, are you?

Is this your bra?

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Stringsinger
Date: 08 May 09 - 05:54 PM

Buddy Rich (in this somewhat apocryphal story) was reputedly asked by the doctors
if there was anything that could be eliminated to make his final moments more comfortable. The be bop jazz drummer didn't miss a beat. "Yeah," he said, "Country music."

Frank

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Little Hawk
Date: 08 May 09 - 08:11 PM

Reynolds was a very good man, robomatic. My regrets if I misquoted him. I think he was too busy at the time to make quips about elephants anyway. ;-) That first day at Gettysburg was a darned hazardous business if you were positioned where Reynolds and Buford were.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Art Thieme
Date: 08 May 09 - 09:41 PM

I've always felt that he guy that threw the switch to execute John Wayne Gacy really missed the boat when he did not say:


"Say goodnight, Gacy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

I AM REALLY PROUD OF COMING UP WITH THAT ONE!!!

Art

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Midchuck
Date: 08 May 09 - 10:15 PM

After sex exit:

...

Is this your bra?

How did you mean that to be stressed?

"Is this your bra?" or "Is this your bra?"

It makes a difference, although either could be dangerous.

Peter

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 08 May 09 - 11:45 PM

Yes Darling, I'll come to bed. Go ahead and I'll be up...and if I'm not up within an hour, you can go ahead and start without me.--Black Adder

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Peace
Date: 09 May 09 - 02:46 AM

I don't know whether anyone has yet posted the gem attributed to WC Fields (probably myth, but who knows with WC).

The story goes that as he was about to die--within minutes--he turned to Barrymore and said, "Lionel, I look back on the times I was rued to little kids and I'm sorry. The times I told stray dogs to get lost and when they didn't leav I kicked them. The times I was miserable to orphans and other people. Lionel, I'm sorry." Story goes that Fields then closed his eyes and seemed to expire. As Barryn\more was leaving the room, he heard a noise behind him. He turned, and Fields had raised himself to his elbows. He said, "Lione, on second thought, fuck 'em." THEN he died.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous exit lines
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 09 May 09 - 04:16 AM

Can't really think of any so "I'm outta here"