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 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
“Shall I get us some popcorn, Mary?”
Abraham Lincoln
“Why do those lights flash when I push this button?”
–trainee at Chernobyl nuclear plant
From “Bland Ambition” by Steve Tally, a biography of those that achieved the vice-presidency:
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.
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.”
Lets see if any of you can guess this one…
‘Tag, your it.’
“If I don’t see you, good afternoon, good evening and good night.” - The Truman Show
That’s supposed to say:
On a hypochondriac’s tombstone:
I told you I was sick.
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.
Myron, though Mad Magazine might have done a cartoon about it, it is a famous last word quote from 1912 or thereabouts.
“MM-mm, ain’t Miss God kickin’ up somethin’ fierce?”
—famed drag queen Bert Savoy, just before being struck by lightning in 1923
“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…
–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
“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
The last word on most recovered flight recorders is “shit”.
semi-hijack
"So, Mrs. Lincoln, all things considered, how was the play?
“I remember my old man’s dying wish, he wanted me in his lap. He was in the electric chair!” Rodney dangerfield
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.)