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Apparently the voice behind Bugs Bunny has just died. I'd like to think that his last words were...
"What's up Doc?"
Apparently the voice behind Bugs Bunny has just died. I'd like to think that his last words were...
"What's up Doc?"
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In reply to Sean Kelly:
It's a great shame that Wilde never said, "Either those curtains go or I do."
It's a great shame that Wilde never said, "Either those curtains go or I do."
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In reply to Sean Kelly:
Don't worry, it's not loa. ....
Not sure who, but it was from the book 'famous last words'
Don't worry, it's not loa. ....
Not sure who, but it was from the book 'famous last words'
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In reply to Sean Kelly:
Apparently WC Fields, a life time atheist, was found thumbing through a Bible. When asked why he reputedly said in his well known American tone "I'm looking for a loophole"
Al
Apparently WC Fields, a life time atheist, was found thumbing through a Bible. When asked why he reputedly said in his well known American tone "I'm looking for a loophole"
Al
In reply to Removed UserDeleted bagger:
On his grave, not his last words.
> Spike Milligan; "I told you I was ill" but in Gaelic.
On his grave, not his last words.
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In reply to Sean Kelly:
"I'm just going outside. I may be gone some time."
Titus Oates. Antartica 17th March 1912.
"I'm just going outside. I may be gone some time."
Titus Oates. Antartica 17th March 1912.
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In reply to Sean Kelly:
'Bugger Bognor' was not bad - shows rare wit for a member of the Royal family.
'Bugger Bognor' was not bad - shows rare wit for a member of the Royal family.
In reply to Gone for good:
Oh FFS that was Captain Lawrence Oates.
> "I'm just going outside. I may be gone some time." > Titus Oates. Antartica 17th March 1912.
Oh FFS that was Captain Lawrence Oates.
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In reply to Andy Morley:
Known to friends and family as Titus. FFS It was Scott that wrote his last words in the diary, not me!
> Oh FFS that was Captain Lawrence Oates.
Known to friends and family as Titus. FFS It was Scott that wrote his last words in the diary, not me!
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In reply to Gone for good:
In that case I'll let you off. There was a real Titus Oates though, way back.
> Known to friends and family as Titus. FFS It was Scott that wrote his last words in the diary, not me!
In that case I'll let you off. There was a real Titus Oates though, way back.
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In reply to Andy Morley:
Various versions online, and oft misquoted , but the most common seems to be :-
"I am just going outside and may be some time."
Not 'gone' sometime .
But we get the drift
> In that case I'll let you off. There was a real Titus Oates though, way back.
Various versions online, and oft misquoted , but the most common seems to be :-
"I am just going outside and may be some time."
Not 'gone' sometime .
But we get the drift
In reply to Sean Kelly:
"The weather report is favourable for tomorrow. With God’s help, I feel hopeful. The men are in splendid spirits. The wire has never been so well cut, nor the Artillery preparation so thorough."
General Sir Douglas Haig's diary entry on the eve of the opening of the Battle of the Somme. The next day proved to be the most disastrous day ever suffered by a British army with 60,000 casualties of whom nearly 20,000 were killed - mainly due to the wire proving to be uncut by the artillery preparation.
"The weather report is favourable for tomorrow. With God’s help, I feel hopeful. The men are in splendid spirits. The wire has never been so well cut, nor the Artillery preparation so thorough."
General Sir Douglas Haig's diary entry on the eve of the opening of the Battle of the Somme. The next day proved to be the most disastrous day ever suffered by a British army with 60,000 casualties of whom nearly 20,000 were killed - mainly due to the wire proving to be uncut by the artillery preparation.
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In reply to Sean Kelly:
I don't know of any but I can think of some...
Do you think it looks hungry?
I definitely switched the power off.
Nah Ive done this loads of times
Is this loaded?
One anchor is more than enough
But I never wear a helmet
I don't know of any but I can think of some...
Do you think it looks hungry?
I definitely switched the power off.
Nah Ive done this loads of times
Is this loaded?
One anchor is more than enough
But I never wear a helmet
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In reply to Sean Kelly:
"KHAQQ calling Itasca. We must be on you, but cannot see you. Gas is running low."
Last radio communiqué before her disappearance. Amelia Earhart, d. 1937
(nicked from www.corsinet.com/braincandy/dying.html)
"KHAQQ calling Itasca. We must be on you, but cannot see you. Gas is running low."
Last radio communiqué before her disappearance. Amelia Earhart, d. 1937
(nicked from www.corsinet.com/braincandy/dying.html)
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In reply to Sean Kelly:
Villa, Francisco `Pancho' (1878-1923) "Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."
Villa, Francisco `Pancho' (1878-1923) "Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."
In reply to Eeyore:
In fairness to the men who died I don't think they thought like that. They were full of infectious optimism and buoyed up by the mistaken belief that they were going to succeed in the "big push". They thought it was going to be a walk over. Yes, they realised that there were going to be casualties and they genuinely believed they were going to be light. Of course they all hoped that it wouldn't be them, but they were prepared to do their duty for cause they believed in "for King and Country". We might mock this concept these days, but it was an ideal firmly held by each and every one of them, because they were all volunteers. No one had any idea of the disaster that was to unfold and they never knew because the dead are beyond feeling or knowledge in retrospect.....
> I don't want to die / I'm scared of dying / I'm sorry etc.
> By 'the many'.
In fairness to the men who died I don't think they thought like that. They were full of infectious optimism and buoyed up by the mistaken belief that they were going to succeed in the "big push". They thought it was going to be a walk over. Yes, they realised that there were going to be casualties and they genuinely believed they were going to be light. Of course they all hoped that it wouldn't be them, but they were prepared to do their duty for cause they believed in "for King and Country". We might mock this concept these days, but it was an ideal firmly held by each and every one of them, because they were all volunteers. No one had any idea of the disaster that was to unfold and they never knew because the dead are beyond feeling or knowledge in retrospect.....
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In reply to Trangia:
I very much doubt they felt like that in 1917. Fatalism was the prevailing emotion by that time rather than the fervour of patriotism!
I very much doubt they felt like that in 1917. Fatalism was the prevailing emotion by that time rather than the fervour of patriotism!
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In reply to Trangia:
I don't dispute what they thought might happen, I just wanted to express what might of been their last words.
> In fairness to the men who died I don't think they thought like that.
I don't dispute what they thought might happen, I just wanted to express what might of been their last words.
In reply to Sean Kelly:
Some of these are quite interesting.
http://m.mentalfloss.com/article/58534/64-people-and-their-famous-last-word...
Some of these are quite interesting.
http://m.mentalfloss.com/article/58534/64-people-and-their-famous-last-word...
In reply to Eeyore:
Relative of mine died in it. Came back from the front for two weeks R&R before the big push, told the family he was going back to die. 19 years old.
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Relative of mine died in it. Came back from the front for two weeks R&R before the big push, told the family he was going back to die. 19 years old.
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In reply to Gone for good:
I agree. 1916 and the Somme was the turning point and the end of the fervour of the New Army. The soldiers of 1917/18 were conscripts, who still did their duty, as you say with fatalism, yet a surprising determination to "get the job done". Lyn MacDonald explores this in depth in her book "To The Last Man", and her research and interviews with veterans shows that they were proud of what they had done and did not regard themselves as victims.
She explodes the myth that conscripts make poor and unwilling soldiers.
I agree. 1916 and the Somme was the turning point and the end of the fervour of the New Army. The soldiers of 1917/18 were conscripts, who still did their duty, as you say with fatalism, yet a surprising determination to "get the job done". Lyn MacDonald explores this in depth in her book "To The Last Man", and her research and interviews with veterans shows that they were proud of what they had done and did not regard themselves as victims.
She explodes the myth that conscripts make poor and unwilling soldiers.
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In reply to Sean Kelly:
Kismet Hardy...
Horatio Nelson elequently reflecting on his life ending at the moment of his greatest triumph, and for the next 200yrs everyone just thinks he wanted mansnogs.
Kismet Hardy...
Horatio Nelson elequently reflecting on his life ending at the moment of his greatest triumph, and for the next 200yrs everyone just thinks he wanted mansnogs.
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In reply to DerwentDiluted:
Or was that just a supposedly more manly Victorian reinterpretation? (Hardy did kiss him, after all.)
Or was that just a supposedly more manly Victorian reinterpretation? (Hardy did kiss him, after all.)
In reply to Sean Kelly: "hey, is my go pro light on?"
In reply to MysteriousCeorl:
I think Jimmy Jewels last word was 'Shit' as he fell off Poor Mans Peuterey an easy solo in trainers for the man who had soloed The Axe and most other welsh classics up to E4.
I think Jimmy Jewels last word was 'Shit' as he fell off Poor Mans Peuterey an easy solo in trainers for the man who had soloed The Axe and most other welsh classics up to E4.
In reply to thomm:
So you think he might actually have said <in the voice of Kenneth Williams>
"Ooooh 'ello sailor, wiv me eyes 'alf closed yer look just like Emma 'amilton"
So you think he might actually have said <in the voice of Kenneth Williams>
"Ooooh 'ello sailor, wiv me eyes 'alf closed yer look just like Emma 'amilton"
In reply to Al Evans:
Al, I have met so many people who were on that crag when Jimmy died. Boy, it must have been crowded!
> I think Jimmy Jewels last word was 'Shit' as he fell off Poor Mans Peuterey an easy solo in trainers for the man who had soloed The Axe and most other welsh classics up to E4.
Al, I have met so many people who were on that crag when Jimmy died. Boy, it must have been crowded!
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In reply to Sean Kelly:
"Ah, what the f*ck?"
I can't remember his name, all of a sudden. An American climber falling past the party he'd come to rescue on El Cap. Jim Madsen, do I mean?
jcm
"Ah, what the f*ck?"
I can't remember his name, all of a sudden. An American climber falling past the party he'd come to rescue on El Cap. Jim Madsen, do I mean?
jcm
In reply to Sean Kelly:
Apparently Tom Simpson's last words were "on, on, on" (after he'd asked Harry Hall to put him back on his bike)
(from Simpson's biography by W. Fotheringham)
Apparently Tom Simpson's last words were "on, on, on" (after he'd asked Harry Hall to put him back on his bike)
(from Simpson's biography by W. Fotheringham)
In reply to Sean Kelly:
"Get out here ! I'm getting killed!Hit him with a pan!"
Timothy Treadwell's plea to girlfriend after grizzly began its fatal attack on him (and later, her)
"Get out here ! I'm getting killed!Hit him with a pan!"
Timothy Treadwell's plea to girlfriend after grizzly began its fatal attack on him (and later, her)
In reply to Tom Valentine:
My mistake. Treadwell did not tell her to use a pan, the girl did it by her own initiative, causing it to loose its grip on his head and attack his leg then drag him away.
My mistake. Treadwell did not tell her to use a pan, the girl did it by her own initiative, causing it to loose its grip on his head and attack his leg then drag him away.
In reply to Sean Kelly:
"Giving a hell of a bloody row in here... I can't see anything... I've got the bows out... I'm going... U-hh..."
Donald Campbell in Bluebird K7
"Giving a hell of a bloody row in here... I can't see anything... I've got the bows out... I'm going... U-hh..."
Donald Campbell in Bluebird K7
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In reply to Sean Kelly:
The great cyclist Jacques Anquetil to Raymond Poulidor, who was forever just behind him at the finish line: "Poor Raymond, so, I go before you. Once again you come second".
The great cyclist Jacques Anquetil to Raymond Poulidor, who was forever just behind him at the finish line: "Poor Raymond, so, I go before you. Once again you come second".
In reply to Sean Kelly:
I wasn't there, it's just hearsay.
> Al, I have met so many people who were on that crag when Jimmy died. Boy, it must have been crowded!
I wasn't there, it's just hearsay.
In reply to Sean Kelly:
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeubel (today) "I'm not concerned about Deutsche bank."
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeubel (today) "I'm not concerned about Deutsche bank."
In reply to Sean Kelly:
" better to burn out than to fade away", Kurt Cobain
And i believe the bad guy in Highlander said it aswell but they weren't his last words!
" better to burn out than to fade away", Kurt Cobain
And i believe the bad guy in Highlander said it aswell but they weren't his last words!
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In reply to Sean Kelly:
Was it Nigel Lawson who uttered the immortal assessment in the 80s "Only a blip ..." Just like the weather forecaster before the great storm of October 1987
Was it Nigel Lawson who uttered the immortal assessment in the 80s "Only a blip ..." Just like the weather forecaster before the great storm of October 1987
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In reply to Sean Kelly:
"Drink to me, drink to my health. You know I can't drink anymore."
Picasso's last words immortalised in song by Paul McCartney
"Drink to me, drink to my health. You know I can't drink anymore."
Picasso's last words immortalised in song by Paul McCartney
In reply to Hat Dude:
Not last words but I like the story of the funeral of the person who invented the USB connection.
Apparently they lowered the coffin in but it wouldn't fit so they lifted it back out, turned it round and it went in the second time.
Not last words but I like the story of the funeral of the person who invented the USB connection.
Apparently they lowered the coffin in but it wouldn't fit so they lifted it back out, turned it round and it went in the second time.
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In reply to drmarten:
A bit like trying to get the writer of the hokey cokey in their coffin, they put the left leg in.....then the fun started.
A bit like trying to get the writer of the hokey cokey in their coffin, they put the left leg in.....then the fun started.
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In reply to Sean Kelly:
Not last words, nor from anyone famous but a farmer friend up the valley refers to certain people as being "Educated beyond their intelligence".
Not last words, nor from anyone famous but a farmer friend up the valley refers to certain people as being "Educated beyond their intelligence".
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In reply to Sean Kelly:
This guy must be a more recent voice for the characters. The classic cartoons from the 40s and 50s were nearly all voiced by the genius Mel Blanc who died in 1989: my favourite gravestone of all time: name, dates, Star of David, "Man of a 100 Voices" and
"That's All, Folks!"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Blanc#/media/File:Mel_Blanc_4-15-05.JPG
This guy must be a more recent voice for the characters. The classic cartoons from the 40s and 50s were nearly all voiced by the genius Mel Blanc who died in 1989: my favourite gravestone of all time: name, dates, Star of David, "Man of a 100 Voices" and
"That's All, Folks!"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Blanc#/media/File:Mel_Blanc_4-15-05.JPG
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In reply to Trangia:
Didn't know that. Have just lost another smidgeon of igorance. We all make mistakes, but...
Mick
> The wire has never been so well cut, nor the Artillery preparation so thorough."
Didn't know that. Have just lost another smidgeon of igorance. We all make mistakes, but...
Mick
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