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Famous last words
Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 4:14 pm
by McEve
I'll start with the classic:
"Look ma - no hands!"
your turn
Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 10:41 am
by McEve
No takers..? But there are so many good ones! Maybe it's a bit morbid..... ah well, here's another one, a real one!
Allen, Ethan (1738-1789)
"Waiting are they? Waiting are they? Well....let 'em wait."
Ethan Allen was a U.S. patriot and leader of the Green Mountain Boys during the American Revolution. Allen's last words were a deathbed response to an attending doctor who attempted to comfort him by saying, "General, I fear the angels are waiting for you."
Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 11:42 am
by sharko
Ibsen, Henrik (1828-1906)
"On the contrary."
Henrik Ibsen was a Norwegian playwright who achieved international recognition for such classics as A Doll's House and Hedda Gabler. Ibsen suffered a stroke in 1900 and spent the last years of his life confined to bed. One day, he heard his nurse remark to a visitor that he was feeling better. "On the contrary," cut in Ibsen just before he died.
How about that!
Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 11:44 am
by sharko
Kennedy, John F. (1917-1963)
"That's obvious."
Kennedy had just responded to the Texas governor's wife's comment, "Mr. President, you can't say that Dallas doesn't love you" when the first of Oswald's bullets struck him in the head.
Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 11:46 am
by sharko
Garrett, Johnny Frank (?-1991)
"I'd like to thank my family for loving me and taking care of me. And the rest of the world can kiss my ass."
Garrett brutally murdered a Catholic nun in 1981. Caught, tried, and convicted, Garrett was finally executed in 1991 after exhausting his legal appeals process.
Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 2:01 pm
by McEve
Bankhead, Tallulah (1902-1968)
"codeine . . . bourbon"
Tallulah Bankhead was one of this century's first show business personalities. Her most famous movie role was in Alfred Hitchcock's film, Lifeboat. Notorious for her outrageous behavior and habitual abuse of alcohol, opiates, marijuana, and tobacco, Bankhead died in 1968 when a bout of Asian flu was more than her emphysema could tolerate. Before slipping into a coma after being hooked to a ventilator in a New York City hospital, her only discernible words were barely audible requests for codeine and bourbon.
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 1:02 pm
by sharko
Narvaez, Ramon Maria (1800-1868)
"I do not have to forgive my enemies. I have had them all shot."
Ramon Narvaez was a Spanish politician and general who served repeated terms as prime minister during the mid-18th century.
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 4:40 pm
by Ed_R
" I drank WHAT?"- Socrates
"Hold my beer."- way too many idjits
"Watch This!" - way too many idjits, again;)