# Famous Last Words **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 20, 2000, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/30065 "2000-08-20T17:27:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2000, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/30065/21 "2000-08-21T02:26:06Z")
> [@](#): > > I think _somebody_ has Gary Larson’s Off-The-Wall Farside Calendar for 2000. This comic appeared for Saturday the 12th and Sunday the 13th of August. I’m sure _somebody_ has the calendar, but I don’t! I read the quote many many years ago, and it popped into my head recently. So I did a search to find the source. ---
**Author:** ![randomlyblanks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@randomlyblanks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randomlyblanks)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2000, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/30065/22 "2000-08-21T04:01:56Z")
“I will always remember the last words of my grandfather-- A TRUCK!!!” Emo Phillips “That guy has to see us” James Dean, before being in a car accident ---
**Author:** ![TN\_hippie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@TN\_hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TN_hippie)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2000, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/30065/23 "2000-08-21T04:09:36Z")
“Shall I get us some popcorn, Mary?” Abraham Lincoln ---
**Author:** ![TN\_hippie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@TN\_hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TN_hippie)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2000, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/30065/24 "2000-08-21T04:20:24Z")
“Why do those lights flash when I push this button?” –trainee at Chernobyl nuclear plant ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2000, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/30065/25 "2000-08-21T04:30:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Saint Zero \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by pepperlandgirl \* > > \*\* > > > > > [@](#): > > > > > > “Is Adams still alive?” > > > – Thomas Jefferson (I think) > > > > I think you got it bass-ackwards. Adams said “At least Jefferson lives!” Right after Jefferson died and right before Adams died. > > \*\* > > Probably, I wasn’t sure it was right to start with. 🙂 \*\* From “Bland Ambition” by Steve Tally, a biography of those that achieved the vice-presidency: > [@](#): > > When Adams did die, his demise became something of a historical curiosity. On the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence – unknown to Adams – Thomas Jefferson had died in his home in Virginia. Near death, Adams had become unconscious that morning, but at about one o’clock in the afternoon, Adams awoke and whispered, “Thomas Jefferson survives!” Thse were his last words, and he died later that evening. VP’s have a funny thing about last words and death. John Garner, FDR’s first VP, said this to JFK when the latter came to visit Cactus Jack on his 95th birthday: “You’re my president and I love you. I hope you stay in there forever.” Kennedy was assassinated later that day. Personally, I like the last words of Alben W. Barkley, Truman’s VP: “I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.” After he said that, he fell dead of a heart attack. ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2000, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/30065/26 "2000-08-21T04:36:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Johnny L.A. \* > \*\* > I’m sure _somebody_ has the calendar, but I don’t! I read the quote many many years ago, and it popped into my head recently. So I did a search to find the source. > \*\* I read it in a _Reader’s Digest_ fact book of some sort, and again in _Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader_. He really said it, just before being shot by an enemy sniper. I thought of it as soon as I saw the thread title. And **poogas21** –I think he said “That guy has to stop, he’s seen us.” ---
**Author:** ![Narile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@Narile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Narile)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2000, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/30065/27 "2000-08-21T06:46:04Z")
Lets see if any of you can guess this one… ‘Tag, your it.’ ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2000, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/30065/28 "2000-08-21T08:14:43Z")
“If I don’t see you, good afternoon, good evening and good night.” - The Truman Show ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2000, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/30065/29 "2000-08-21T09:40:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Whammo \* > \*\*On a tombstone… > > “I told you I was sick.” \*\* That’s supposed to say: On a hypochondriac’s tombstone: I told you I was sick. ---
**Author:** ![Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myron_Van_Horowitzski)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2000, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/30065/30 "2000-08-21T19:30:56Z")
The “Tag, you’re it!” is from a great old cartoon in _Mad Magazine_: The old man is on his deathbed, beckoning his old friend to come closer. He bends to hear his last words and… I’m definitely gonna do it that way. ---
**Author:** ![Narile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@Narile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Narile)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2000, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/30065/31 "2000-08-21T20:21:03Z")
Myron, though _Mad Magazine_ might have done a cartoon about it, it is a famous last word quote from 1912 or thereabouts. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2000, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/30065/32 "2000-08-21T20:23:24Z")
“MM-mm, ain’t Miss God kickin’ up somethin’ fierce?” —famed drag queen Bert Savoy, just before being struck by lightning in 1923 ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2000, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/30065/33 "2000-08-21T20:27:07Z")
“you won’t shoot me. You’re a police man, there are rules for police men” the first terrorist killed by John McClain in Die Hard… ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2000, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/30065/34 "2000-08-21T23:19:21Z")
–Why on earth did I do that? British Army commander William Erksine, after throwing himself off the top floor of a building (1813) And closely related: –Goodbye, everybody! Stephen Crane, on jumping off a ship crossing the Atlantic ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2000, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/30065/35 "2000-08-22T01:58:31Z")
“I remember the words of my dear old father just before they sprung the trap. _(i.e, just before they hanged him)_ He said 'My boy, you can’t cheat an honest man. Never give a sucker an even break, and never try to wise up a chump.” -W.C. Fields ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2000, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/30065/36 "2000-08-22T02:35:22Z")
The last word on most recovered flight recorders is “shit”. ---
**Author:** ![jcarbon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d78d45/32.png) [@jcarbon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jcarbon)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2000, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/30065/37 "2000-08-22T03:21:07Z")
semi-hijack "So, Mrs. Lincoln, all things considered, how was the play? ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2000, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/30065/38 "2000-08-22T03:36:01Z")
“I remember my old man’s dying wish, he wanted me in his lap. He was in the electric chair!” Rodney dangerfield ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2000, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/30065/39 "2000-08-22T08:16:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ruffian \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > **I drank what?** > > _Socrates_ > > I know this isn’t a real quote, but it’s a funny one.\*\* The real one is “Crito, we owe a cock to Aesculapius; please pay it and don’t let it pass.” (Of course he said it in Greek.) **Richard P. Feynman** : “I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.” **Heinrich Heine** : “God will forgive me. That’s his job.” **Saint Lawrence** : “Turn me. I am done on this side.” (According to legend, this patron saint of cooks was roasted to death on a gridiron.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/30065.md?page=1)