Famous Last Words

[Merrick]

A ssuming you don't get unexpectedly creamed by a speeding bus, what would your's be? A few to get you started:

"Either those drapes go, or I do" - Oscar Wilde

"I am about to — or I am going to — die: either expression is correct" - Dominique Bouhours, famous French grammarian

"Hurry up, you Hoosier bastard, I could kill ten men while you’re fooling around!" - Carl Panzram, serial killer, shortly before he was executed by hanging.

"Now, now, my good man, this is no time for making enemies." - Voltaire when asked by a priest to renounce Satan.

"Now why did I do that?" - General William Erskine, after he jumped from a window in Lisbon, Portugal in 1813.

[Aristus]

1. "Jefferson still survives." John Adams, July 4th, 1826.

Jefferson had actually died a few hours earlier on the very same day.

[Westegg]

9. D'oh!

[texas1928]

2. "Hey ya'll, watch this!"

Any redneck.

[Aristus]

3. I thought it was "Hold my beer, 'n' watch this!"

B-)

[texas1928]

4. Hell no, we do it with beer in hand.

That is usually the foil.

[AngryAmish]

8. only in Wisconsin

[madinmaryland]

5. "This is not being recorded. Everything is cool"

Elliot Spitzer.

[DarkTirade]

6. I can't top Voltaire and Wilde's.

So I'm not even gonna try. :)

[Westegg]

13. Oh, I'll top them. Just you wait...

...I've got it ALL planned out. It's (tee-hee!) perfect.

You guys are gonna LOVE it. Mind you, it's gonna be on my sesquicentennial. So you've got a hundred years and change to wait. But stick around. My last words will be, uh, deathless.

[flvegan]

7. "Mike Tyson is your husband, and he's pulled in the driveway?!!?"

[geardaddy]

10. Check's in the mail.

[DS1]

11. Nobody will need more than 640K of RAM

Bill Gates

[billyskank]

21. The internet is a fad, as well.

More prescient wisdom from Bill.

[Dr. Strange]

12. Zeno of Elea

Normally, I might be worried about this bus coming towards me. But before it hits me, it will have to travel half the distance. Then it will have to travel half of the remaining distance. Then half again, and half again, ad infinitum. Such an event would require an infinite amount of time, which is clearly--SPLAT!

[Karenina]

14. From pilots...

OH SHIT!

[x-g.o.p.er]

15. Gimme a match, I think the gas tank's empty

My brother in law. He really is that dumb.

[JoePhilly]

16. I hid 100 million dollars in the .... gasp...errr ...aaa.... ugg.

[Perry Logan]

17. Henry James: "So here it is at last, the distinguished thing!"

http://www.bartleby.com/66/48/30448.html

[Dave_Fl_50]

18. "Hold my beer and watch this"

[Rob H.]

19. I've always read that Voltaire's last words were

"What? The flames already?" when a bedside lamp flared brightly right before he died.

:shrug:

[SKKY]

20. "Hole? It's gonna be huge!" Kurt Cobain.

[mulsh]

22. " Well go ahead and shoot...bitch"

a witness statement from police recs contained in a medical examiner's report I read when I worked for the Alameda Co (CA) Coroner's office. she went ahead and shot him.

[JoePhilly]

23. Turn it off! Turn it Off!! Turn it Off!!!!!!!!!

[struggle4progress]

24. What a friendly tiger!

[Xipe Totec]

25. Vas is for supper, schnookums ?

Asparagus?!

[Xipe Totec]

26. Roger, go at throttle up

T+1:07............PILOT..... Yep, that's what I've got, too.

T+1:10............COMANDER..... Roger, go at throttle up.

(NASA: SSME at 104 percent.)

T+1:13............PILOT..... Uhoh.

T+1:13.......................LOSS OF ALL DATA.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

27. I am so sleepy ~ Insomniac.

[AwakeAtLast]

28. Maybe not famous, but I found it funny

They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist. . . .
Killed in battle during US Civil War.
~~ General John Sedgwick, Union Commander, d. 1864

[Merrick]

29. "Sure, Mr. (famous baseball player), I'd love to go for a ride in your plane!"

could also work for folk singers.

[Rabrrrrrr]

30. "Dad, are you drunk again? What's that... is that... AUGHHHHH!!!......

(notice my symbolic lack of a final quote mark)

[Rabrrrrrr]

31. "You'd love to have me for dinner, Mr. Lechter? How nice. I'll be there at 7:00."

[YankeyMCC]

32. "Well that was interesting." nt

[texas1928]

33. "what's that noise?"

[SCantiGOP]

34. Some English guy

I don't think he was famous, just some aristocrat that was on his death bed with the family around him. No one had detected any movement or breathing for several minutes and someone said, "Do you think he's dead?" Someone else said, "Feel the bottom of his feet; no one ever died with warm feet." Without opening his eyes, and just before he died, he whispered, "Joan of Arc did."

[PVnRT]

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