On a similarly ironic note (but far more sensible), Hector Munro's (Saki) last words, spoken just before a sniper shot him in the trenches during WW1 are reputed to have been: 'Put that damned cigarette out!'
Oh - and urban legend has it that there have been quite a few firearms instructors who's last words were along the lines of: 'Point that *(&(*&" thing somewhere el...'
Last edited by straycat; 7th-March-2008 at 01:25 PM.
I'm not sure what my last words would be, but do you think I'd have time to start my own RIP thread on the forum?
Let your mind go and your body will follow. – Steve Martin, LA Story
A roof workers mate allegedy suggexted that they shoulduse boards on an corrugated asbestosroof on a factory, but the roofer said, stepping out, £When the good Lord want to take me ..."
There was also a report of a doctor who was visiting a patient, but paused to take his own pulse and said "Stopped.".
Ideal last words: "I knew she was only 21, but I didn't know she was your daughter. Now put the gun down, please - don't you know I'm 98 years old?"
More likely last words: "Don't worry, it's perfectly sa..."
Most likely last words: "Oh sh*t."
"Let us now relieve the Romans of their fears by the death of a feeble old man" - Hannibal
"Die, my dear Doctor? That's the last thing I shall do." - Lord Palmeston
And my favourite -
"It has all been very interesting" - Lady Mary Wortley Montague
Mel Blanc's epitaph (the chap who voiced Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam, Barney Rubble, and hundreds of other cartoons) was "That's all Folks!".
Think I'd like this as my choice as well
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