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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? |
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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. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: TheBigPinkLad Date: 18 Feb 05 - 12:46 PM George Custer: F*ck me ... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: open mike Date: 18 Feb 05 - 12:51 PM look ma, no hands ! |
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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.) |
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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..." |
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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. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: pdq Date: 18 Feb 05 - 01:10 PM "Don't worry, he's never bitten anyone!" |
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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. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: *Laura* Date: 18 Feb 05 - 01:14 PM that one was literally his last words. |
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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." |
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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?) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: GUEST,Russ Date: 18 Feb 05 - 01:45 PM Hold my beer. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: GUEST,milk monitor Date: 18 Feb 05 - 02:01 PM Houdini, as above. |
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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." |
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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" |
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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". |
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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. |
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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.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: bobad Date: 18 Feb 05 - 03:02 PM "BADGES? we don need no stinkin badges." |
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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 |
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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. |
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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!" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: gnu Date: 18 Feb 05 - 03:40 PM Oh, it'll clear up on it's own. |
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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 |
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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!" |
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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? |
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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! |
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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. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Peace Date: 18 Feb 05 - 04:33 PM Quotes |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Peace Date: 18 Feb 05 - 05:52 PM Course, there's nothing famous about it. |
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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? |
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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?" |
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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. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: GUEST,Paranoid Android Date: 18 Feb 05 - 09:48 PM |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Peace Date: 19 Feb 05 - 01:20 AM That is a great parting line, Art. |
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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? |
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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." |
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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. |
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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 |
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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! |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: robomatic Date: 02 Mar 05 - 07:31 AM "Holy Crap! The Eiffel Tower!" -charlie lindbergh |
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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." |
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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) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: Lanfranc Date: 02 Mar 05 - 02:31 PM "Tell Laura I Love Her" Johnny Alan |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: ranger1 Date: 02 Mar 05 - 02:33 PM "trust me, I'm a professional..." |
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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 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: robomatic Date: 03 Mar 05 - 11:09 AM tastes like chicken -donner party |
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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." |
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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." |
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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? ;-) |
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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 |
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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. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words From: gillymor Date: 22 Nov 19 - 03:30 PM Tarzan: Who greased the grapevineeeeeee... |
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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 |
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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. |
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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." |
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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. |
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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". |
