Famous Last Words

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Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2018 9:12 pm

'Wait a minute'- Pope Alexander VI, talking to god

'Am I dying, or is this my birthday?'- Nancy Astor

'Pardonnez-moi, monsieur' - Marie Antoinette, after stepping on her executioner's foot.

'Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight' - Lord Byron

'Take a step forward, lads - it'll be easier that way - Robert Erskine
Childers, to his firing squad

'I can't sleep - J.M. Barrie

'I should never have switched from scotch to martinis' - Humphrey Bogart

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

Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2018 12:03 am

'Mein Fuhrer - I can walk' - Peter Sellers (Dr Strangelove, 1964)

Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2018 12:44 am

^^ LOL...can't even read that without doing it in that voice...

Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2018 1:41 am

In a redneck drawl...

"Hey fellers, watch this."

Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2018 2:27 am

"Let us cross the river together, and rest in the shade of the trees."
'Stonewall' Jackson.

"Strike the tent."
Robert E. Lee.

Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2018 5:14 pm

Union General John Sedgwick, during the American Civil War:

"Oh, come on, men, come on! The rebels could not hit an elephant at this dist---"

Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2018 9:25 pm

And now, some alleged Darwin Award nominees (no guarantees of veracity).

"'I'll show you how to set it off" - just before biting down on a blasting cap.

"Here I am Lord, let me have it" - while standing up in a boat as an electrical storm was raging.

"Watch this!" - just before cutting off his own head with a chainsaw.

"It's not loaded" - just before putting a pistol to his head to show his wife that he could be trusted with his gun collection.

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B8er wrote:

Hold my beer...

Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2018 1:34 am

Further Last Words.

'Dawn it … Don't you dare ask God to help me' -Joan Crawford to her housekeeper, who had begun to pray aloud

'I've never felt better' -Douglas Fairbanks

'I'm bored with it all' - Winston Churchill

'Please put out the light' - Theodore Roosevelt

'God will pardon me, that's his line of work' - Heinrich Heine

'Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough' - Karl Mark, to his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last words for the
sake of posterity

'I've had eighteen straight whiskies, I think that's the record' - Dylan Thomas

'Go away, I'm all right' - H.G.Wells

P.P.S
'Books are a load of crap' - Philip Larkin

Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2018 5:50 pm

"What's the hurry?" -- convicted murderer Charles Starkweather, when Nebraska state prison officials came to escort him from his cell to the electric chair.

"I did not get my Spaghetti-O's, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this." -- convicted murderer Thomas Grasso before his execution in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, commenting on his last meal.

Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2018 8:57 pm

"F* that gator" ~ Texas guy right before jumping into alligator infested lake and immediately getting eaten.

https://tinyurl.com/y9zhu7k6

Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2018 1:43 am

And some more pre-execution FLWs:

Do not hang me high, for the sake of decency - Mary Blandy

My God, do you think it's safe? - Dr. William Palmer

Shoot straight, you bastards! - "Breaker" Morant

Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2018 6:00 pm

not exactly his last words, but :

Spike Milligan's epitaph 'I told you I was ill'