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Posted by Truman White (# 17290) on
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In the week we remember "It is finished!" what other famous last words come to mind?
Posted by HCH (# 14313) on
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There is a web site full of such:
Famous Last Words
Posted by Truman White (# 17290) on
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Originally posted by HCH:
There is a web site full of such:
Famous Last Words
What's your fave?
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on
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Originally posted by HCH:
There is a web site full of such:
Famous Last Words
There's an extra "http://" in that link.
Posted by balaam (# 4543) on
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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
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Originally posted by HCH:
There is a web site full of such:
Famous Last Words
There's an extra "http://" in that link.
And you didn't correct it. Tch tch.
Posted by balaam (# 4543) on
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General John Sedgewick - "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..."
Posted by Moo (# 107) on
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Goethe: Mehr Licht! (more light}
Moo
Posted by Percy B (# 17238) on
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bugger Bognor
.....claimed to be George V's
Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on
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From the link -James Thurber: quote:
"God bless... God damn."
Posted by Hilda of Whitby (# 7341) on
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Apparently this is apocryphal, but I have always been fond of Oscar Wilde's last words, as he lay dying in a dumpy apartment in Paris with hideous wallpaper:
"This wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has to go."
I also really like the dying words of General Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson:
"Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees."
Posted by Mere Nick (# 11827) on
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"Hey guys, watch this!"
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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This is my epitaph; I likely will live another 30 years or beyond:
Posted by Firenze (# 619) on
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Originally posted by Sir Kevin:
This is my epitaph; I likely will live another 30 years or beyond:
If that's what you're having on your gravestone, then I think it gets the Puckoon response: Foolin' nobody but himself.
Posted by blackbeard (# 10848) on
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Spike Milligan: I told you I was ill.
Posted by Chorister (# 473) on
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Mine would have to be 'She was always trying'.
I hope the Duke of Edinburgh goes down with something suitably pithy. Such as is his usual form.
Posted by rolyn (# 16840) on
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"Kiss me Hardy" ---- Lord Nelson.
Posted by Chorister (# 473) on
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Iain Banks has recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. I reckon this quote is a pretty classy way of dealing with the shock:
"I've asked my partner Adele if she will do me the honour of becoming my widow."
Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on
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Kev - and this will be mine: "Here lies Karl: Liberal Backslider, idiot, heretic, and miserable sod. And if you thought he was pissed off when he was alive, you don't have a clue how he feels about being dead."
[ 04. April 2013, 13:41: Message edited by: Karl: Liberal Backslider ]
Posted by The Mid (# 1559) on
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"I am just going outside and may be some time" - Captain Oates' last words during Scott's British Antarctic Expedition.
Posted by Truman White (# 17290) on
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Epitaph rather than last words - on a gravestone in Ireland:
Here lies the body of Johnathan Mound
Lost at sea and never found.
Posted by Percy B (# 17238) on
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no .... Awfully jolly of you to suggest it, though
Mgr Ronald Knox, - someone had suggested reading to him from his translation of Gospels, as he lay dying.
Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on
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...and I want no anniversary of death rubbish: I'll die in my own home, clothed, when I see fit.
My grandmother on 29th February, just before she slipped off her shoes to nap after lunch, never to awaken.
A lady who always got what she wanted.
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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Above, very good.
Posted by Pulsator Organorum Ineptus (# 2515) on
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"I think I could eat one of Bellamy's veal pies" - William Pitt the younger.
Posted by rolyn (# 16840) on
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"Don't die like I did" --- George Best.
Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on
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Originally posted by L'organist:
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...and I want no anniversary of death rubbish: I'll die in my own home, clothed, when I see fit.
My grandmother on 29th February, just before she slipped off her shoes to nap after lunch, never to awaken.
A lady who always got what she wanted.
I've only just noticed the date she died - she really was a determined lady.
Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on
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W C Fields
"I would rather be living in Philadelphia"
... Actually, whether they were his last words is a moot point, but he did always say it was what he wanted on his gravestone; sadly, he didn't get his wish.
Posted by Mudfrog (# 8116) on
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Originally posted by rolyn:
"Don't die like I did" --- George Best.
Wow, those really are words of regret.
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