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- From: thayne@unislc.uucp (Thayne Forbes)
- Subject: Re: Famous Last Words???
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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 20:05:08 GMT
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- News Administrator (news@geovision.gvc.com) wrote:
- : dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks) writes:
- : >enpnjat@gdr.bath.ac.uk (N J A Thorne) writes:
- :
- : Well, I'm not going to ignore the request. I suggest "Panati's Extraordinary
- : Endings of Practically Everything and Everybody" Charles Panati, ISBN
- : 0-06-055181-X (or 0-06-096279-8 for the paperback). Harper and Row, New
- : York. It's the only book I've seen with a good collection of "famous last
- : words". Inspite of the good concept, it was actually a disappointing book -
- : not as good as his other book "Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things".
- :
- Although not exactly what you asked for, Malcolm Forbes wrote a little
- book a few years ago (have to be a few years ago huh...) called
- 'They went that-a-way' It was about the ultimate dimise of lots of
- people. A lot of it was quite good, and there were a few last words.
-
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- Thayne Forbes
- thayne@unislc.slc.unisys.com
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