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01 Jul 09 - 05:59 PM (#2669258) Subject: BS: Quiz: Last Words From: Rapparee 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. |
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01 Jul 09 - 06:15 PM (#2669269) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words From: Joe_F 2. Voltaire (but I have also heard it attributed to Heine) 11. What is the question? |
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01 Jul 09 - 07:47 PM (#2669325) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words From: Jack Campin 7. Ned Kelly 12. Bugger Bognor! |
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01 Jul 09 - 08:05 PM (#2669334) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words From: frogprince 1. Pancho Villa? (I really have no idea). |
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01 Jul 09 - 09:05 PM (#2669361) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words From: catspaw49 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 |
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01 Jul 09 - 09:16 PM (#2669369) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words From: Claymore 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. |
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01 Jul 09 - 09:38 PM (#2669381) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words From: heric 13. Let's do it. |
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01 Jul 09 - 09:56 PM (#2669392) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words From: Riginslinger 6. Tonto |
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01 Jul 09 - 10:00 PM (#2669396) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words From: Midchuck 1 is Henry McCarty. Peter. |
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02 Jul 09 - 01:50 AM (#2669490) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words From: Little Hawk 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!" |
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02 Jul 09 - 03:41 AM (#2669511) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words From: catspaw49 The last words I remember my Dad saying were, "Don't bury me in that HongKong suit." You figure it out............ Spaw |
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02 Jul 09 - 03:46 AM (#2669515) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words From: mandotim 5. Lord Palmerston? 12. George V |
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02 Jul 09 - 03:51 AM (#2669518) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words From: fat B****rd 13. Gary Gilmore 12. George V 14. "Shoot straight you bastards" |
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02 Jul 09 - 04:46 AM (#2669541) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words From: Tug the Cox I thought Palmerston said 'Die, my dear doctor, that's the last thing I will do. 15) Then I must die beyond my means. |
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02 Jul 09 - 10:27 AM (#2669725) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words From: Cool Beans 16. I told you I was sick. (Actually an epitaph, not last words.) |
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02 Jul 09 - 12:27 PM (#2669846) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words From: Rapparee 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. |
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02 Jul 09 - 03:22 PM (#2670013) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words From: Tug the Cox 15. Oscar Wilde. 16. Spike Milligan. |
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02 Jul 09 - 03:36 PM (#2670024) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words From: Skivee 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 |
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02 Jul 09 - 03:54 PM (#2670038) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words From: Rapparee That last one should be "God, as He slipped into a coma." |
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02 Jul 09 - 04:02 PM (#2670046) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words From: Skivee Sorry, It seems that in my copy he was being mis-quoted by Neitsche. |
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02 Jul 09 - 07:50 PM (#2670211) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words From: kendall You learn something every day. I didn't know Billy the Kid spoke Spanish. |
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02 Jul 09 - 09:50 PM (#2670262) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words From: Rapparee 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. |
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03 Jul 09 - 10:13 AM (#2670643) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words From: Tug the Cox 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. |
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03 Jul 09 - 10:23 AM (#2670650) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words From: alanabit 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? |
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03 Jul 09 - 05:22 PM (#2670971) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Last Words From: Rapparee Either could be. They both sound like him. |