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Thread #121983 Message #2670024
Posted By: Skivee
02-Jul-09 - 03:36 PM
Thread Name: BS: Quiz: Last Words
Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words
I'm sorry Rap, ole buddy, but you got them all wrong
Correct answers, as checked out in Barlett's Mis-Quotations follow:
1. "¿Quien es? ¿Quien es?" Leon Trotsky, while vacationing in Mexico
2. "The flames?" Already? Joan of Arc
3. "Every man for his beliefs! Hurrah for Jeff Davis! Let 'er rip!" Le Pétomane
4. "Is it not meningitis" Typhoid Mary
5. "I've never felt better." Job
6. "Moose...Indian...." Gen. George Custer, on his way to a Canadian hunting trip via the Little Big Horn
7. "Such is life." The super-computer, Deep Thought
8. "Strike the tent." P.T. Barnum, on seeing the elephants charge
9. "No." P.T. Barnum's assistant, who did not see the elephants
10. "I'm bored with it all." God