Great Words for Great Occasions

[Agathon]

I just learned something I never knew. Apparently NASA never broadcast the final words of the last men to leave the moon.

Eugene Cernan: "Let's get this mutha outta here!"


That has to rank with Walt Whitman's dying words: "Hold me up. I want to ****!"


Or our own Edmund Hillary's words on being the first man to conquer Mt Everest:

"Well George. we knocked the bastard off!!"


Anyone have any other funnies like this? I always think it is more human and revealing than some of the obviously prepared remarks that folk use.

[Boris Godunov]

"[Those Rebs] couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--"

--Last words of Union Gen. John Sedgwick, Battle of Spottsylvania, 1864.

(EDIT: Amended, as my memory of it was faulty)

[Boris Godunov]

"Codeine . . . bourbon."

--Tallulah Bankhead, d. December 12, 1968.

[Agathon]

[Agathon]

Actually reading through the transcripts for the Challenger disaster it appears that all astronauts are foul mouthed yobs.

[KrazyHorse]

The transcript I just read ends with the pilot saying "uh oh" as the only acknowledgment of a problem, followed immediately by a loss of signal

[Asher]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
The transcript I just read ends with the pilot saying "uh oh" as the only acknowledgment of a problem, followed immediately by a loss of signal

Me too...

Maybe he's referring to the comments refering to the ship as a "mother".

Kiwis are weird...

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
"[Those Rebs] couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--"

--Last words of Union Gen. John Sedgwick, Battle of Spottsylvania, 1864.

(EDIT: Amended, as my memory of it was faulty)

A bit of an urban legend. Sedgwick was actually killed a couple of minutes after having repeated a couple of times (to one of his soldiers) "They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance".

[KrazyHorse]

"I am about to -- or I am going to -- die; either expression is used." - Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian

[KrazyHorse]

"Why yes - a bulletproof vest." - James Rodges' reply to a query for last requests, immediately before being shot by a firing squad

[Saras]

'What the **** was that?' - mayor of Hiroshima, 1945
'Let the ****ing woman drive' - Challenger crew

[molly bloom]

I love George Sanders' louche disdainful farewell:

"Dear World. I am leaving you because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck."

In 1972, Sanders wrote his brief billet-doux to the world, then took an overdose of sleeping pills.

Possibly the thought of having to star in krap like 'The Kremlin Letter' (where he had to drag up) or 'Psychomania' soured him on the world.

"Acting is like roller-skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting."

[Last Conformist]

"Don't let it end like this. Say that I said something!"
-- Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary.

[Boris Godunov]

"If this will offend you, please leave the room."

--Pennsylvania State Treasurer R. Budd Dwyer, seconds before placing a revolver in his mouth and blowing his own brains out on national television after being convicted on charges of bribery, fraud, racketeering, etc. Jan. 1987.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by molly bloom
"Acting is like roller-skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting."

Judging by some of the roles I remember seeing him in (The Last Voyage), he should have stuck around a bit longer to hone his skill.