BS: Famous last words

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.

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".

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"

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."

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: GUEST,milk monitor
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 02:01 PM

Houdini, as above.

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.

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: GUEST,Russ
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 01:45 PM

Hold my beer.

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?)

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."

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: *Laura*
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 01:14 PM

that one was literally his last words.

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: pdq
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 01:10 PM

"Don't worry, he's never bitten anyone!"

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.

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..."

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.)

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: open mike
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 12:51 PM

look ma, no hands !

Subject: RE: BS: Famous last words
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 12:46 PM

George Custer: F*ck me ...

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.

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?