# Famous Last Words **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 13, 2005, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/326086 "2005-10-13T16:29:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/326086/41 "2005-10-14T19:06:01Z")
“…Hymie, won’t you do what I ask you this once? Look out! Mamma, mamma! Look out for her. You can’t beat him. Police, Mamma! Helen, mother, please take me out. Come on, Rosie. O.K. Hymes would not do it; not him. I will settle…the indictment. Come on, Max, open the soap duckets. Frankie, please come here. Open that door, Dumpey’s door. It is so much, Abe, that…with the brewery. come on. Hey, Jimmie! The Chimney Sweeps. Talk to the Sword. Shut up, you got a big mouth! please come help me up, Henny. Max come over here… French Canadian bean soup…I want to pay, let them leave me alone.” Dutch Schultz noted gangster of the early 20th century Sort of captures it all doesn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Lennon\_Lives](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f04885/32.png) [@Lennon\_Lives](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lennon_Lives)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/326086/42 "2005-10-14T23:08:07Z")
> [@Krokodil](#): > > Another ironic military quote, from Gen. George Armstrong Custer: > > “Hurrah, boys, hurrah! We’ve got them right where we want them!” Unless I’m being whooshed, since there was no survivors from the battle, how would someone know GAC’s last words? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/326086/43 "2005-10-14T23:23:54Z")
> [@TV time](#): > > “…Hymie, won’t you do what I ask you this once? Look out! Mamma, mamma! Look out for her. You can’t beat him. Police, Mamma! Helen, mother, please take me out. Come on, Rosie. O.K. Hymes would not do it; not him. I will settle…the indictment. Come on, Max, open the soap duckets. Frankie, please come here. Open that door, Dumpey’s door. It is so much, Abe, that…with the brewery. come on. Hey, Jimmie! The Chimney Sweeps. Talk to the Sword. Shut up, you got a big mouth! please come help me up, Henny. Max come over here… French Canadian bean soup…I want to pay, let them leave me alone.” > > Dutch Schultz [Here’s the whole thing, for anybody who’s never read this whole bizarro thing.](http://www.bway.net/~abbot/gunshot.html) > [@Lennon Lives](#): > > Unless I’m being whooshed, since there was no survivors from the battle, how would someone know GAC’s last words? There were survivors. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/326086/44 "2005-10-14T23:25:01Z")
> [@Lennon Lives](#): > > Unless I’m being whooshed, since there was no survivors from the battle, how would someone know GAC’s last words? That point is raised on [this page,](http://www.sonofthesouth.net/union-generals/custer/custers-last-words.htm) which claims that the last quote which can be reliably attributed to George is “Custer’s luck! The biggest Indian Village on the Continent!” ---
**Author:** ![gaucho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@gaucho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaucho)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/326086/45 "2005-10-14T23:28:35Z")
Bien sur Dieu me pardonerra, c’est son métier. -Heinrich Heine ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2005, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/326086/46 "2005-10-15T02:01:47Z")
“Useless, useless” John Wilkes Booth WC Fields’ accountant was standing by his deathbed. Fields asked “So I have enough money to buy every child in NYC a new bicycle?” When told he was correct, Fields said “Well, fuck 'em.” “Holy cow, look at all the Indians” George Custer ---
**Author:** ![Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boulter_s_Canary)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-last-words/326086/47 "2005-10-17T11:51:27Z")
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