# Famous Last Words **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 1, 2002, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/106604 "2002-05-01T01:18:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/58956e/32.png) [@nani](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nani)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2002, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/106604/1 "2002-05-01T01:18:20Z")
I feel like this should go in MPSIMS, but I am not really sure. Whatever… No, this is not about the last words of dead people. This is a thread speculating on what the living will say on their death bed. Hopefully It will be fun… Rules: Should be technically alive. Preferably well known, but can be someone only you know, I don’t give a crap. All right, now for my humble addition: Hugh Hefner: “Now I wish I spent more days in the office.” 😃 :wally ---
**Author:** ![Schnitte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/schnitte/32/9033_2.png) [@Schnitte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schnitte)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2002, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/106604/2 "2002-05-01T15:48:06Z")
Lieutenant Columbo: “Just one last questio, sir…” ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2002, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/106604/3 "2002-05-01T16:11:24Z")
Bush Jnr “Oh what the hell, one more pretzel isn’t going to hurt me …” ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2002, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/106604/4 "2002-05-01T16:38:55Z")
Ted Kennedy: “Hah! You finally got me, you…ah…Bastard!” Little Richard: “Ain’t nobody gonna give me credit for doin’ this first!” O.J.: “Looks like someone else is gonna have to track down the \*REAL \* killer now!” Ross Perot: “Wait, wait! Can I finish? Can I finish?” Me: “It’s a fair cop.” * * * She said she loved me like a brother. That’s great, cause she’s from Mississippi! ---
**Author:** ![Arken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@Arken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arken)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2002, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/106604/5 "2002-05-01T16:44:23Z")
Miss Cleo: “I knew it.” Andy Rooney: “Have you ever noticed that when people are dying they always-- GURK!” Ricky Martin: “Now I’m dyin’ la muerte loca.” Will Shortz: “What’s a six-letter word for ‘pass away’?” Regis Philbin: “That’s my final answer.” Mrs. Alex Trebeq: “Alex, you’re dying.” Alex: “Could you state that as a question, please?” Steven Speilberg: “Cut! That’s a wrap!” (come on, you knew this next one was coming) Ah-nuld: “I’ll be back” ---
**Author:** ![Booker57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Booker57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Booker57)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2002, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/106604/6 "2002-05-01T16:52:18Z")
This makes me wonder what Harpo Marxs’ last words were? ---
**Author:** ![Wartime\_Consigliori](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9d8465/32.png) [@Wartime\_Consigliori](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wartime_Consigliori)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2002, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/106604/7 "2002-05-01T20:56:10Z")
ANY Redneck: “Hey Y’all! Watch this!!” ---
**Author:** ![Debaser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3da27b/32.png) [@Debaser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Debaser)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2002, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/106604/8 "2002-05-01T21:25:34Z")
Me: “In leu of flowers, vote libertarian!” ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2002, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/106604/9 "2002-05-01T21:44:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Booker57 \* > \*\*This makes me wonder what Harpo Marxs’ last words were? \*\* Here’s a story Groucho told: > [@](#): > > It was a story about a man, who was condemned to be hanged, and the priest had said to him “Have you any last words to say, before we spring the trap?”. And the man says “Yes”, he says, “I don’t think this damn thing is safe.” ---
**Author:** ![roadrunner70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@roadrunner70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roadrunner70)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2002, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/106604/10 "2002-05-02T00:26:50Z")
😃 ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2002, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/106604/11 "2002-05-02T03:09:26Z")
At a gangsta rap party: “I love the police”. August 2001: “I rate Enron, Global Crossing and KMart as all buys”. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2002, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/106604/12 "2002-05-02T07:39:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Booker57 \* > This makes me wonder what Harpo Marxs’ last words were? _HONK!_ ---
**Author:** ![LolaBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@LolaBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaBaby)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2002, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/106604/13 "2002-05-02T09:20:46Z")
Al Gore: “Of course I’m going to Heaven! I created God!” ---
**Author:** ![Ell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47774/32.png) [@Ell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ell)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2002, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/106604/14 "2002-05-02T09:51:36Z")
Wildest Bill: Gotcha Ya! ---
**Author:** ![drollman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f04885/32.png) [@drollman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drollman)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2002, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/106604/15 "2002-05-02T16:43:23Z")
“Captain, Come here! I found something!” – Ensign Jimmy on the original “Star Trek” ---
**Author:** ![roadrunner70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@roadrunner70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roadrunner70)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2002, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/106604/16 "2002-05-02T19:41:00Z")
Ron Goldman: “Say, aren’t you O.J. Simp…” [sub]sorry, couldn’t resist[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2002, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/106604/17 "2002-05-02T20:08:11Z")
“Oh yeah? You and what army…” - Osama Bin Laden