# Famous Last Words
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/192708
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [August 3, 2003, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/192708 "2003-08-03T12:08:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2003, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/192708/1 "2003-08-03T12:08:58Z")
Screw him! I’ve got the right of way.
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2003, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/192708/2 "2003-08-03T12:21:42Z")
What’s this button do?
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### Author:  [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2003, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/192708/3 "2003-08-03T12:33:16Z")
My favorite has long been the _purported_ last words of Oscar Wilde, as he lay on his death bed in a cheap hotel:
“Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.”
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### Author:  [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2003, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/192708/4 "2003-08-03T13:46:40Z")
Look, if it was electric, could I do _this_?
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2003, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/192708/5 "2003-08-03T14:00:02Z")
“They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance”
_– Last words of Gen. John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania 1864)_
“Watch _this!_”
_– Lots of people_
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### Author:  [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2003, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/192708/6 "2003-08-03T16:18:47Z")
Of _course_ I trust you.
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### Author:  [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2003, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/192708/7 "2003-08-03T16:27:28Z")
That’s not the right way to do that. Let me show you how it’s done…
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### Author:  [@Shaolinrabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shaolinrabbit)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2003, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/192708/8 "2003-08-03T16:30:26Z")
Watch _this_, y’all!
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### Author:  [@look\_ninjas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/look_ninjas)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2003, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/192708/9 "2003-08-03T16:38:27Z")
If this vest can stop a bullet, I think it can stop a knife, thank you very much.
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2003, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/192708/10 "2003-08-03T16:44:24Z")
This lake is frozen solid and I can skate all the way across…
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### Author:  [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2003, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/192708/11 "2003-08-03T17:09:25Z")
“What was that Indian’s name again?”
Posted in memory of my late father who served in a WWII paratrooper regiment for a time. We used to crack up over that old joke as we celebrated our 5 days-apart birthdays!
Q
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### Author:  [@MonkeyMule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMule)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2003, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/192708/12 "2003-08-03T17:30:09Z")
Sure they _LOOK_ dangerous, but Lions are just pussy cats at heart…
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### Author:  [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2003, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/192708/13 "2003-08-03T17:39:01Z")
Leave me alone, I know what I doing!
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### Author:  [@thinline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinline)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2003, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/192708/14 "2003-08-03T18:27:08Z")
I’ve probably done this at least a thousand times.
eeniE, meeniE, miniE, mo!
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### Author:  [@dbygawdcapn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbygawdcapn)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2003, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/192708/15 "2003-08-03T18:58:33Z")
I was just kidding honey.
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### Author:  [@CaptBushido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptBushido)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2003, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/192708/16 "2003-08-03T19:06:47Z")
Maybe not last words said, but last heard:
“Yeah, impressive, but can you do it WITH YOUR EYES CLOSED?”
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### Author:  [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2003, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/192708/17 "2003-08-03T19:08:24Z")
Yeah yeah the subway is coming…let me take a whizz out on the tracks .
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### Author:  [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2003, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/192708/18 "2003-08-03T19:11:29Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Copaesthetic \*
> \*\*Watch _this_, y’all! \*\*
“Shoot - that ain’t nothing. Watch **this**!”
Regards,
Shodan
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### Author:  [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2003, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/192708/19 "2003-08-03T19:16:46Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Copaesthetic \*
> \*\*Watch _this_, y’all! \*\*
“Shoot - that ain’t nothing. Watch **this**!”
Regards,
Shodan
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### Author:  [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2003, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/192708/20 "2003-08-03T19:19:13Z")
A rather common one, I suspect: “Oh shit, oh shit oh shitohshitohshitohshit.”
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