BS: Famous last words

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.)

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.

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!"

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

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.

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 Feb 05 - 11:05 PM

Et tu, Brute?

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: Peace
Date: 19 Feb 05 - 10:25 PM

Remarks from WC Fields

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?

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: Peace
Date: 19 Feb 05 - 09:55 PM

Re Fields' 'tombstone"

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.

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....

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.

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.

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".

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".


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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.)

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

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

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)

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

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

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!

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

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.

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."

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?

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: Peace
Date: 19 Feb 05 - 01:20 AM

That is a great parting line, Art.

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

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

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: GUEST,Paranoid Android
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 09:48 PM

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.

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?"

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?

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: Peace
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 05:52 PM

Course, there's nothing famous about it.

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.

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

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

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: Peace
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 04:33 PM

Quotes

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.

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!

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?

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!"

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

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: gnu
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 03:40 PM

Oh, it'll clear up on it's own.

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!"

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.

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

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: bobad
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 03:02 PM

"BADGES? we don need no stinkin badges."

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.)