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- From: glazier@isr.harvard.edu (Andrew Baker Glazier)
- Newsgroups: alt.quotations
- Subject: Re: Famous Last Words???
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.142217.23783@burrhus.harvard.edu>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 14:22:17 GMT
- References: <1992Dec30.135322.879@gdr.bath.ac.uk> <1992Dec31.072218.23753@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec31.072218.23753@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> bscott@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ben Scott) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec30.135322.879@gdr.bath.ac.uk> enpnjat@gdr.bath.ac.uk (N J A Thorne) writes:
- >>Can anyone recommend to me a good (and accurate)
- >>source of "famous last words" quotes? Is there
- >>such a thing as a book on the subject??
- >
- >Well, maybe not, but I've always had a favorite in this category:
- >
- >-----
- >
- >"...and always remember the last words of my grandfather,
- >who said "A truck!"..."
- > - Emo Philips
- >-----
- >
- >"What do you do if you step on a mine, Captain?"
- >
- >"Well, the usual procedure is to leap 200 feet in the air and spread
- scatter
- >yourself over a wide area..."
- > - Captain Blackadder, _Blackadder Goes Forth_
- >
- >. <<<<Infinite K>>>>
- >
- >--
- >|Ben Scott, professional goof-off and consultant at The Raster Image, Denver|
- >|Internet bscott@nyx.cs.du.edu, or call the Arvada 68K BBS at (303)424-6208.|
- >|"Don't tug on that - you never know what ][The Raster Image IS responsible |
- >|it might be attached to." Buckaroo Banzai][for everything I say! | *Amiga* |
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- --
- "A horse! A horse! Somebody give me a horse, man, because|glazier@
- I come to bury this dirtball, not to praise him. Whaddya |harvard.isr.edu
- think I am? Whether it's nobler for the mind to make people suffer with all
- these totally outrageous arrows arrows for a fortune, or what!" -- D.R.
-