# Not-So-Famous Last Words **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 28, 2005, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-so-famous-last-words/310221 "2005-06-28T16:46:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-so-famous-last-words/310221/21 "2005-06-28T18:42:11Z")
> [@Podkayne](#): > > I’d like to just focus my eyes on a point in the distance over someone’s left shoulder, put a pleased expression on my face, and say, “Oh, now I get it!” > [heart monitor]Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee . . . [/QUOTE] A la Sam Kinnison? As for me… Rodents of unusual size? I don’t believe they exist. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-so-famous-last-words/310221/22 "2005-06-28T18:45:25Z")
> [@Daithi Lacha](#): > > Are we sharing an image of a dead old man wearing a huge grin, with his hand clapped over the face of his elderly friend? That cartoon creeped me out when I was little. ---
**Author:** ![Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cornelius_Tuggerson)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-so-famous-last-words/310221/23 "2005-06-28T18:49:38Z")
> [@neofishboy](#): > > “It is accomplished.” Last Temptation of Christ? ---
**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:** [June 28, 2005, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-so-famous-last-words/310221/24 "2005-06-28T18:55:07Z")
Shit. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-so-famous-last-words/310221/25 "2005-06-28T19:06:50Z")
“The angels are waiting for me? Well, God damn them, let’em wait!” IRL a paraphrase of the last words of Ethan Allen, the Revolutionary War hero, not the furniture magnate ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-so-famous-last-words/310221/26 "2005-06-28T19:06:51Z")
“Gotcha ya!” ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-so-famous-last-words/310221/27 "2005-06-28T19:12:28Z")
“Woo hoo! I am dying like a mother fuck!” ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-so-famous-last-words/310221/28 "2005-06-28T19:15:22Z")
All this time, I’ve been peeing in the sink. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-so-famous-last-words/310221/29 "2005-06-28T19:17:45Z")
Would I have friends, or admirers? If so, and I wanted to screw with their minds, I might say “My father, my father, why hast thou betrayed me?” If not, my final words would most likely be, “Initiate destruct sequence alpha.” ---
**Author:** ![vl\_mungo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-so-famous-last-words/310221/30 "2005-06-28T19:23:40Z")
when I was younger I wanted to be… _you’ll never take me alive coppers!!!_ now that I am older and much more mature, I think it will probably be… _check this out… ya wanna see something cool?_ ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-so-famous-last-words/310221/31 "2005-06-28T19:36:08Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > All this time, I’ve been peeing in the sink. _Life in Hell?_ ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-so-famous-last-words/310221/32 "2005-06-28T19:57:31Z")
> [@GrizzRich](#): > > “If I’m lyin’, I’m dyin’!” I bet Yogi Berra has that one reserved 😉 As for me: _ **Whatever you believe, the stars are my destination.** _ ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-so-famous-last-words/310221/33 "2005-06-28T20:06:49Z")
I drank what?! ---
**Author:** ![swanky\_glue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@swanky\_glue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swanky_glue)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-so-famous-last-words/310221/34 "2005-06-28T20:07:18Z")
Well, knowing the reputation that the funeral home in my hometown has, I would probably say something like “Goodbye, so long, and please don’t let the mortician have his way with me.” ---
**Author:** ![erirelackawanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6de8d8/32.png) [@erirelackawanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erirelackawanna)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-so-famous-last-words/310221/35 "2005-06-28T20:27:32Z")
Hoping that my last seconds on earth, I’d be surrounded by friends, I’d screw with em! Something to the effect of: “All this time I’ve been leading a secret life.” ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-so-famous-last-words/310221/36 "2005-06-28T20:37:02Z")
> [@Daithi Lacha](#): > > _Life in Hell?_ Yes, but I don’t know if it was Akbar or Jeff. How about Destruct zero, zero, zero destruct zero ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-so-famous-last-words/310221/37 "2005-06-28T20:51:51Z")
**Beware of Doug** Not only is that a quote from Churchill, it is also the last line of the cinematic classic “Millennium” > **[Quotes from "Millennium"](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097883/quotes)** > > Louise Baltimore: Your mother was a cash register! ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-so-famous-last-words/310221/38 "2005-06-28T21:19:09Z")
Forty-two. ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-so-famous-last-words/310221/39 "2005-06-29T01:07:38Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > Tag! You’re it! I’m what? ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-so-famous-last-words/310221/40 "2005-06-29T01:12:42Z")
“No . . . _I_ am your father! Come with me and we can rule the galaxy together!” Tripler It’s either that or “I’m Lando Calrissian . . . and you should try my Colt .45” [sub]Thanks to 'Whose Line is it Anyway?"[/sub] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-so-famous-last-words/310221.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-so-famous-last-words/310221.md?page=3)