Warren Zevon - "I'll sleep when I'm dead"
nap well, buddy
Warren Zevon - "I'll sleep when I'm dead"
nap well, buddy
"Why not?"
"What do you mean, 'eye' of the hurricane?"
"Last words are for fools who haven't said enough." - Karl Marx
"So it goes."
I can't believe no one has gone with the Steve Irwin one!
"Ah, 'tis just 'lil sting ray, he won't hurt cha!"
Winston Churchill on his 90th birthday-
" If I'd known I was going to live this long I would've taken better care of myself."
W C Fields (an athiest) on his deathbed,reading a bible-
" I'm checking for loopholes."
the last person to be executed in the electric chair at the Cook County jail (Chicago)-
"Well, this should teach me a lesson."
"My god my god, why hast thou forsaken me?" -Jesus Christ
I think those would be his NEXT to last words
My favorite tombstone inscription, from the town of Tombstone:
Here lies (whoever), hanged. He was right, we was wrong, but we strung him up and now he's gone.
WhatDoIKnow wrote:
Thomas Jefferson's epitaph supposedly says, "Here Lies An American."
Original epitath:
Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom and FATHER of the University of Virginia
Today:
This original marker, placed at the grave of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello, Virginiain 1826, constructed from his own design, was presented July 4, 1883, by the Jefferson heirs to the University of Missouri. First state university to be founded in the Louisiana Territory purchased from France during President Jefferson's administration. The obelisk, dedicated on this campus at commencement June 4, 1885, commemorates Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, whose faith in the future of western America and whose confidence in the people has shaped our national ideals; commemorates the author of the Declaration of Independence and of the Virginia statute for religious freedom, founder of the University of Virginia, fosterer of public education in the United States.
John Adams died on July 4th, 1826 (50th anniversary of the signing of The Decleration of Independence). His last words were of his political rival and friend ...
"Only Thomas Jefferson survives"
Little did he know that, only hours earlier, Jefferson died that July 4th as well.
Convicted murderer George Appel's final words before being executed in the electric chair in New York in 1928 were - "Well, gentlemen, you are about to see a baked Appel."
Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore's final words before being put to death on January 17, 1977, by a volunteer firing squad were --
"Let's do it!"
Convicted serial rapist and killer John Wayne Gacy's final words before being executed by lethal injection, on May 10, 1994, were --
"Kiss my ass."
hold my beer watch this
wow. i guess i killed the thread with that one.
"No, I don't think we need to go to the hospital"
"Don't worry, it's not that deep"
Praise Allah!
There was a guy who held a "contest" of sorts to see who could mail him the funniest joke before he was put to death by lethal injection. His goal was to leave the world with everyone laughing, as he was going to tell this joke as his last words... I'm still trying to find if A) the contest is over and B) what the winning joke was.
End of the line wrote:
Oscar Wilde - either that wallpaper goes or I do
That's always been my favorite, edging out Pistol Pete Maravich's, "I feel great. I should do this more often."