BS: Famous exit lines

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: gnu
Date: 10 May 03 - 09:27 PM

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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: katlaughing
Date: 09 May 03 - 11:26 PM

Seeyasoon

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: Little Robyn
Date: 09 May 03 - 10:06 PM

Tatty bye - Doddy (and the Diddy men)

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Cluin
Date: 08 May 03 - 05:09 PM

Cue theme music.

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: 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: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 May 03 - 04:49 PM

Good night Sue Ellen

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: Strupag
Date: 08 May 03 - 03:47 PM

Time for bed - Zebedee

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: 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: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 08 May 03 - 12:36 PM

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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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