Let's have a "famous last words" thread, real or otherwise, your choice

[krispos42]

Real: "I'm ashamed of you, dodging that way. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance." -Union Major General John Sedgwick, seconds before being shot in the head by a Confederate sharpshooter at 1,000 yards.

Legendary: "Hey, what does this button do?"


:-)

[Aristus]

1. "Either that wallpaper goes, or I do." - Oscar Wilde.

B-)

[krispos42]

5. That's a hell of a way to go...

Sounds more like something Paris Hilton would say! :-)

[Captain Angry]

2. "Hey! Watch this!"

Those have been the last words for many a person.

[krispos42]

4. "Here, hold my beer"...

:rofl:

[kath]

28. aww, you beat me to it! I think I read that in one of the "Darwin Awards" books.

yeppers, the last words of many a stupid person...

[qwertyMike]

3. Lord Nelson at Trafalgar (?)

"Kismet (Fate), Hardy"
Though most say it was
"Kiss me, Hardy"

You know those upper-class Brits . . . . and Sailors

[swag]

6. "LSD, 100 micrograms I.M."

Aldous Huxley in a note to his wife. She obliged and he was injected twice before his death.

[Xipe Totec]

7. Roger, go at throttle up.

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

(NASA: SSME at 104 percent.)

T+1:13............PLT..... Uhoh.

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

http://history.nasa.gov/transcript.html

[Ptah]

13. Thank you for that.

I still hear those words with every shuttle launch.

:hug:

[Xipe Totec]

18. All I have to do is look above my monitor.

[krispos42]

19. Ooooo, good one indeed n/t

[La Lioness Priyanka]

8. its either me or your messiness

i suspect the messiness would win

[Ptah]

9. Safety lock-outs are for p****es

In the shop the other day.

[krispos42]

22. Cue "You Light Up My Life"

*bzzt!!!*



"Hey, what's that funny smell?"

:rofl:

[DarkTirade]

10. I drank WHAT?!?! - Socrates

[flvegan]

11. "...tombstone me right fucking now!"

[La Lioness Priyanka]

12. ..

:rofl:

[Jamastiene]

14. It'll never happen to me.

Hey, y'all. Watch this.

Here. Hold my beer.

Those were the first two that came to mind.

[datasuspect]

15. 18:04:01 TWR Delta one-ninety-one heavy,

regional tower, one seven left cleared to land, winds zero nine zero at five, gusts to one five.

18:04:05 CAM-2 Alright!

18:04:06 RDO-1 Thank you, sir.

18:04:06 CAM-2 Before Landing Check.

18:04:07 CAM-2 Landing Gear?

18:04:08 CAM-1 Down, three green.

18:04:10 CAM-3 Flaps, slats.

18:04:10 TWR American three-fifty-one, if you can make that next high-speed there, pull up behind Delta and hold short of one seven right, this frequency.

18:04:12 CAM-1 Thirty three, thirty three, green light.

18:04:13 CAM

18:04:15 AA351 Three-fifty-one.

18:04:15 CAM-3 Fourteen, green.

18:04:18 CAM-2 There's lightning coming out of that one.

18:04:19 CAM-1 What?

18:04:21 CAM-2 There's lightning coming out of that one.

18:04:22 CAM-1 Where?

18:04:23 CAM-2 Right ahead of us.

18:04:30 CAM-3 You get the good legs, don't ya?

18:04:30 TWR Delta ten-sixty-one, cross one seven right without delay, ground point six five after you cross.

18:04:36 DL1061 Understand, Delta ten-sixty-one.

18:04:38 TWR Three-fifty-one, cross one seven right, ground point six five after you cross.

18:04:41 CAM-1 I don't have a DME on mine.

18:04:43 CAM-2 I don't know, you haven't had it for the last five minutes.

18:04:45 TWR Delta nine-sixty-three and American six- nineteen, cross one seven right, ground point six five after you cross.

18:04:52 AA619 American six-nineteen.

18:04

18:05:08 CAM-1 Seven sixty two in the baro.

18:05:12 CAM-1 I'll call 'em out for you.

18:05:13 CAM-2 Alright.

18:05:14 AA178 You want American one-seventy-eight to turn the corner?

18:05:16 TWR Yes, sir, everybody around the corner when you're number one.

18:05:19 CAM-1 Watch your speed.

18:05:20 TWR American one-fifty-six contact departure.

18:05:21 CAM-3 (Unintelligible) idle....

18:05:21 CAM-1 You're gonna lose it all of a sudden, there it is.

18:05:24 AA156 American one-fifty-six, so long.

18:05:26 CAM-1 Push it up. Push it way up.

18:05:27 CAM-1 Way up!

18:05:28 CAM-3 Way up!

18:05:29 CAM-1 Way up!

18:05:29 CAM

18:05:30 CAM-1 That's it.

18:05:36 TWR American six-twenty-two cleared for takeoff.

18:05:36 CAM-1 Hang onto the son of a bitch!

18:05:38 AA622 Cleared for takeoff, American six- twenty-two.

18:05:39 CAM-2 What's the vee-ref?

18:05:40 TWR American five-eighty-six, into position and hold one seven right.

18:05:43 AA586 Into position and hold.

18:05:44 GPWS Whoop Whoop Pull Up!

18:05:45 GPWS Whoop Whoop Pull Up!

18:05:45 CAM-1 TOGA

18:05:46 CAM

18:05:46 CAM-? Holy shit!

18:05:47 CAM-1 Push it way up!

18:05:48 GPWS Whoop Whoop Pull Up!

18:05:49 GPWS Whoop Whoop Pull Up!

18:05:49 TWR: ...well, uh, expedite down to the taxiway thirty-one and a right turnoff, the traffic's a mile final.

18:05:52 CAM

18:05:53 N15JF Juliet Fox, roger.

18:05:53.5 CAM-? Shit!

18:05:55.5 CAM-? Oh shit!

18:05:55.5 CAM

18:05:58 CAM

[Xipe Totec]

17. Don Estridge died on that one

I can't imagine how different the world would be today, if he hadn't been on that flight.

[Skittles]

33. I aways thought PSA 182 in 1978 was the worst

because it was so utterly avoidable :(

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSA_Flight_182

[limit18]

16. I'd rather be fishing.

Executed in electric chair, Louisiana.
~~ Jimmy Glass, d. June 12, 1987

[irish.lambchop]

20. "I Told You I Was Sick"

A Grave Book of Curious Epitaphs
by Nigel Reese

[REP]

21. "Am I dying, or is it my birthday?" - Lady Astor

[leeroysphitz]

23. Since there are no other Simpsons fans around I'll profer the following gem.

"I'll die before I surrender, Tim!" -Civil war era general who was speaking to somebody named Tim just before he was shot in the head.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

24. Gary Gilmore, before facing the firing squad:

"Let's do it."

[Deja Q]

25. "Carrot juice, carrot juice, carrot juice"

:)

[gratuitous]

26. "Don't let it end like this; tell them I said something!"

Also, this one from the 2008 Detroit Pistons:

"Oh come on, we can beat the Sixers in our sleep!"

[krispos42]

27. Legendary: "After all, what's the worst that can happen?"

:-)

[Recovered Repug]

29. Damn. Where'd all these Indians come from?

George Custer

[Oeditpus Rex]

30. 'Right. Silly little bleeder. One rabbit stew, comin' right up.'

—Sir Bors

[krispos42]

32. Careful! That' rabbit's dynamite!

:-)

[vixengrl]

31. 'I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis."

Humphrey Bogart.

I prefer Scotch, or at least bourbon, myself. But I suspect the cigarettes did in Bogart.


"Let's cool it brothers . . ."
Spoken to his assassins, 3 men who shot him 16 times.
~~ Malcolm X, Black leader, d. 1966

He still wanted to talk--"cool it". That's a lot of hits to take, and still want to talk.


"I am curious to see what happens in the next world to one who dies unshriven."
Giving his reasons for refusing to see a priest as he lay dying.
~~ Pietro Perugino, Italian painter, d. 1523

Me, too.

[MonkeyFunk]

34. "Nobody shot me."

Frank "Tight Lips" Gusenberg, to police, just before dying after being shot in the St. Valentine's Day massacre.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

35. "O me, I am slain" -Polonius in Hamlet

[YankeyMCC]

36. "Jefferson survives"

[NoPasaran]

37. "Don't give up the ship!"