BS: Quiz: Last Words

Subject: BS: Quiz: Last Words
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Jul 09 - 05:59 PM

Here are the last spoken words of some famous (and infamous) people. Can you name the speaker...without loooking it up? I'll post the answers tomorrow.

1. ¿Quien es? ¿Quien es?

2. The flames? Already?

3. Every man for his beliefs! Hurrah for Jeff Davis! Let 'er rip!

4. Is it not meningitis?

5. I've never felt better.

6. Moose...Indian....

7. Such is life.

8. Strike the tent.

9. No.

10. I'm bored with it all.

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words
From: Joe_F
Date: 01 Jul 09 - 06:15 PM

2. Voltaire (but I have also heard it attributed to Heine)

11. What is the question?

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words
From: Jack Campin
Date: 01 Jul 09 - 07:47 PM

7. Ned Kelly

12. Bugger Bognor!

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words
From: frogprince
Date: 01 Jul 09 - 08:05 PM

1. Pancho Villa? (I really have no idea).

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words
From: catspaw49
Date: 01 Jul 09 - 09:05 PM

11. Gertrude Stein


I dunno' these but I always liked what a hero of mine, Richard Feynman, said.....

"I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring."


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words
From: Claymore
Date: 01 Jul 09 - 09:16 PM

I believe that #1 is Billy the Kid in the dark just before he was shot by Pat Garrett.

2# is attributed to Voltaire and I think #8 is possibly Rob't E. Lee, unlike Jackson who wanted to cross the river and rest under the trees.

I'm also going out on a limb that #3 was uttered by the old man who fired the first shot at Fort Sumner and was later recognized by some Confederates at First Bull Run and when asked to repeat, he was the only one to put a round into the Stone Bridge, causing complete panic in the new Union Army. I can't recall his name but Edward Ruffin sticks in my mind.

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words
From: heric
Date: 01 Jul 09 - 09:38 PM

13. Let's do it.

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words
From: Riginslinger
Date: 01 Jul 09 - 09:56 PM

6. Tonto

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words
From: Midchuck
Date: 01 Jul 09 - 10:00 PM

1 is Henry McCarty.

Peter.

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words
From: Little Hawk
Date: 02 Jul 09 - 01:50 AM

The dying Pancho Villa, apparently at a loss for some noble words to say in his final moments, reputedly said with his last breath:

"Tell them I said something. It can't end this way..."

Then there was Sandy, Little Orphan Annie's dog:

"ARF!"

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words
From: catspaw49
Date: 02 Jul 09 - 03:41 AM

The last words I remember my Dad saying were, "Don't bury me in that HongKong suit."

You figure it out............

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words
From: mandotim
Date: 02 Jul 09 - 03:46 AM

5. Lord Palmerston?
12. George V

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words
From: fat B****rd
Date: 02 Jul 09 - 03:51 AM

13. Gary Gilmore
12. George V


14. "Shoot straight you bastards"

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words
From: Tug the Cox
Date: 02 Jul 09 - 04:46 AM

I thought Palmerston said 'Die, my dear doctor, that's the last thing I will do.

15) Then I must die beyond my means.

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words
From: Cool Beans
Date: 02 Jul 09 - 10:27 AM

16. I told you I was sick.
(Actually an epitaph, not last words.)

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Jul 09 - 12:27 PM

Okay, here's the answers:

1. Henry McCarty, a/k/a Billy the Kid.
2. Voltaire, but possibly also others.
3. Boone Helm, as he was hung by the Montana Vigilantes (look him up).
4. Louisa May Alcott.
5. Douglas Fairbanks, St.
6. Henry David Thoreau.
7. Ned Kelly.
8. Robert E. Lee.
9. Alexander Graham Bell (actually done in sign language to his deaf wife).
10. Winston Churchill, who then slipped into a coma.

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words
From: Tug the Cox
Date: 02 Jul 09 - 03:22 PM

15. Oscar Wilde.
16. Spike Milligan.

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words
From: Skivee
Date: 02 Jul 09 - 03:36 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Jul 09 - 03:54 PM

That last one should be "God, as He slipped into a coma."

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words
From: Skivee
Date: 02 Jul 09 - 04:02 PM

Sorry, It seems that in my copy he was being mis-quoted by Neitsche.

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words
From: kendall
Date: 02 Jul 09 - 07:50 PM

You learn something every day. I didn't know Billy the Kid spoke Spanish.

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Jul 09 - 09:50 PM

Kendall, he lived and worked with the Hispanic/Mexican population of New Mexico and was quite popular with them. Most of the folks down that way at the time spoke at least some Spanish.

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words
From: Tug the Cox
Date: 03 Jul 09 - 10:13 AM

Yeah, that's because of the hidden racism in the film industry. Cowboy heroes are usually played by all american boys that could have stepped out of an east coast college.

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words
From: alanabit
Date: 03 Jul 09 - 10:23 AM

I have heard that quote above for Oscar Wilde: "Then I must die beyond my means."
The other last words attributed to him were, "Either that wallpaper goes or I do!"

I wonder if either is correct?

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Jul 09 - 05:22 PM

Either could be. They both sound like him.