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Crumb
06-15-2006, 08:21 PM
Match these last words to the person who uttered them before they died.
My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.
Can this last long?
Tell them I had a wonderful life.
Brothers! Brothers, please! This is a house of peace!
Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!
I'm all right.
Jesus, I love you. Jesus, I love you.
Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius. Will you remember to pay the debt?
My God, what's happened?
I'm losing.
Oh Lord, my God!
Dying is easy, comedy is hard.
God Bless, God Damn!
Please put out the light.
I have a terrible headache.
Lord help my poor soul.
Drink to me!
I will see you tomorrow if God wills it.
We all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summer. The poor get it in the winter.
If you don't like it, you can just fuck off!
Shoot me in the chest!
Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!
Die my dear, why that's the last thing I'll do
Mozart! Mozart!
Nothing more than a change of mind, my dear. I always talk better lying down.
I'm shot
Strike the tent.
I wish I was skiing." [Nurse: "Oh, <blank>, do you ski?"] "No, but I'd rather be skiing than doing what I'm doing
I should have drunk more Champagne.
Is someone hurt?
That's very obvious..
Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it! This is...
Send Mike immediately!
I am ready to go to the Father's house. (Not in English)
"Is it the Fourth?" [Doctor Robley Dunglison: "It soon will be."] "I resign my spirit to God, my daughter to my country."
Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees.
I'm tired of fighting.
I see black light.
This is funny.
This is a mortal wound, doctor.
I feel pain here.
This is absurd! This is absurd! (Not in English)
I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring.
I am not the least afraid to die.
I'm bored with it all.
Now I can cross the Shifting Sands.
How were the receipts today at Madison Square Garden?
[Asked by Mrs. Clark if he knew what day it was.] "Oh, yes; it is the glorious Fourth of July. It is a great day. It is a good day. God bless it. God bless you all. [He then lapsed into unconsciousness. He awakened later, and mumbled] Thomas Jefferson..."
Here are the names to choose from, if you want to see:
Oscar Wilde
William III of England
Ludwig Wittgenstein
George Bernard Shaw
Robert E. Lee
Bat Masterson
Santa Anna
Edgar Allan Poe
Theodore Roosevelt
Florenz Ziegfeld
Richard Feynman
Malcolm X
John Adams
Charles Darwin
Groucho Marx
Thomas Jefferson
Lyndon Johnson
James Madison
Sigmund Freud
Doc Holliday
John F. Kennedy
Joseph Smith
L. Frank Baum
Robert F. Kennedy
David A. Johnston, volcanologist with the United States Geological Survey
Pope John Paul II
Stonewall Jackson
Alexander Hamilton
Stan Laurel
Charles de Gaulle
Keith Moon
P.T. Barnum
Harry Houdini
John Lennon
Winston Churchill
Benito Mussolini
John-Maynard Keynes
Pablo Picasso
Victor Hugo
Pope John Paul I
Frank Sinatra
Karl Marx
H. G. Wells
Mother Teresa
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Gustav Mahler
Socrates
Diana, Princess of Wales
godfry n. glad
06-15-2006, 08:24 PM
Without looking, I'd say that #15 is Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
#48 is John Adams.
#8 is Socrates.
Crumb
06-15-2006, 08:26 PM
Oh I hope I didn't mislead you the spoiler does not give the answers in order, just all the people listed.
Crumb
06-15-2006, 08:27 PM
You are right on both 15 & 48. Funny you got 15 first, it was reading the end of an FDR biography that made me think of this thread.
godfry n. glad
06-15-2006, 08:31 PM
Oh I hope I didn't mislead you the spoiler does not give the answers in order, just all the people listed.
No, you didn't mislead me at all. That's what I figured it was, but I thought I'd take a shot without any prompting whatsoever.
It seems that three is it.
lisarea
06-15-2006, 08:35 PM
The first one I've heard, and IIRC it was:
Oscar Wilde?
Haven't looked at anything else yet, including the answers. Thought I'd stop and smell the roses while I'm putatively ahead and all.
Crumb
06-15-2006, 08:38 PM
You are all correct so far! Good job, I would have gotten none of these.
godfry n. glad
06-15-2006, 08:39 PM
#4 is Malcolm X
#32 is David A. Johnston
#35 is Thomas Jefferson
After these, I'm in the guessing zone.
Dingfod
06-15-2006, 08:40 PM
#39 "This is funny." was Doc Holliday of Tombstone and Dodge City fame, talking about his bare feet because he was sure he would "die with his boots on."
godfry n. glad
06-15-2006, 08:42 PM
#22 ~ George Bernard Shaw?
#21 ~ Benito Mussilini?
Crumb
06-15-2006, 08:43 PM
Screw spoilers.
Nine down!
Crumb
06-15-2006, 08:45 PM
#22 ~ George Bernard Shaw? :larrow: :sadno:
#21 ~ Benito Mussilini? :larrow: :yup:.
That makes 11.
Shaw was the first one wrong.
godfry n. glad
06-15-2006, 08:45 PM
Screw spoilers.
Nine down!
Out of twelve? Or is that due to crossposting?
Plant Woman
06-15-2006, 08:52 PM
Oh shoot someone got #32.
I think they left out the "Oh **** " part.
Dingfod
06-15-2006, 08:57 PM
#1 is Oscar Wilde
Dingfod
06-15-2006, 08:59 PM
#5 is Mr. Zeigfeld of Zeigfeld Follies fame.
Crumb
06-15-2006, 09:00 PM
lisarea got that one Dingbat.
Crumb
06-15-2006, 09:00 PM
#5 is Mr. Zeigfeld of Zeigfeld Follies fame.
:yup:
12 down
Dingfod
06-15-2006, 09:01 PM
#14 I think is Teddy Roosevelt.
godfry n. glad
06-15-2006, 09:03 PM
#1 is Oscar Wilde
Yeah, but lisarea beat you to it.
#31 ~ Richard Feynman?
Crumb
06-15-2006, 09:03 PM
#14 I think is Teddy Roosevelt.
:yup: 13/48
lisarea
06-15-2006, 09:04 PM
30 is RFK, and I ain't spoilerizing anymore.
Crumb
06-15-2006, 09:04 PM
#31 ~ Richard Feynman?
:nope:
Crumb
06-15-2006, 09:05 PM
30 is RFK, and I ain't spoilerizing anymore.
:yup: 14/48
Dingfod
06-15-2006, 09:06 PM
Guessing: #32 is David Johnston, volcanologist.
lisarea
06-15-2006, 09:06 PM
#1 is Oscar Wilde
Yeah, but lisarea beat you to it.
#31 ~ Richard Feynman?
I think Feynman might be 43.
Plant Woman
06-15-2006, 09:08 PM
Die my dear, why that's the last thing I'll do. Harry Houdini
#26 I'm shot John Lennon
Crumb
06-15-2006, 09:08 PM
Guessing: #32 is David Johnston, volcanologist.
Behind but correct.
I think Feynman might be 43.
:yup: 15/48
Crumb
06-15-2006, 09:09 PM
Die my dear, why that's the last thing I'll do. Harry Houdini
#26 I'm shot John Lennon
:thumbsup:
17/48
Plant Woman
06-15-2006, 09:11 PM
#12 Dying is easy, comedy is hard. Groucho Marx
#41 I feel pain here. Diana, Princess of Wales
Crumb
06-15-2006, 09:14 PM
Die my dear, why that's the last thing I'll do. Harry Houdini
Oops this is wrong, back to 16/48
#12 Dying is easy, comedy is hard. Groucho Marx
#41 I feel pain here. Diana, Princess of Wales
These are wrong, too.
Plant Woman
06-15-2006, 09:16 PM
#28 This one is Groucho Marks: I wish I was skiing." [Nurse: "Oh, , do you ski?"] "No, but I'd rather be skiing than doing what I'm doing.
#12 I think I had it wrong in my last post is it Stan Laurel? Dying is easy, comedy is hard.
Crumb
06-15-2006, 09:18 PM
:nope: Sorry.
godfry n. glad
06-15-2006, 09:21 PM
#22 ~ Winston Churchill ?
#24 ~ Gustav Mahler ?
#29 ~ George Bernard Shaw ?
lisarea
06-15-2006, 09:24 PM
#12 I think I had it wrong in my last post is it Stan Laurel? Dying is easy, comedy is hard.
This one is bugging me. I think it was a writer of some sort, but nobody on the list seems right.
ETA: Wait. Was THAT Shaw?
Crumb
06-15-2006, 09:24 PM
#22 ~ Winston Churchill ?
:nope:
#24 ~ Gustav Mahler ?
:1thumbup: 17/48
#29 ~ George Bernard Shaw ?
:nope:
Crumb
06-15-2006, 09:25 PM
This one is bugging me. I think it was a writer of some sort, but nobody on the list seems right.
It was a writer.
lisarea
06-15-2006, 09:32 PM
#12 I think I had it wrong in my last post is it Stan Laurel? Dying is easy, comedy is hard.
This one is bugging me. I think it was a writer of some sort, but nobody on the list seems right.
ETA: Wait. Was THAT Shaw?
Ha. I got impatient and looked it up. It was Shaw!
I can't hardly even BELIEVE how much I rock!
Crumb
06-15-2006, 09:34 PM
:yup: 18/48
Cheater!
lisarea
06-15-2006, 09:41 PM
:yup: 18/48
Cheater!
Hmmph.
I only cheated AFTER THE FACT. If I'd been wrong, I would have gracefully admitted as such. And you cannot prove otherwise without going and inventing some parallel universe in which I am sometimes wrong or whatever, so: HUH!
Crumb
06-15-2006, 09:42 PM
:rolleyes:
Crumb
06-15-2006, 10:28 PM
Here are some ficticious last words:
49. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships
on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter
in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will
be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
50. Ohhhhh... What a world! What a world!
51. The ship, out of danger? Don't grieve Admiral -- it is
logical. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the
few, or the one.
52. I think.... I feel good about it.
53. How do I look?
54. Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line."
Hahahahahahahahahahaha!! Hahahahahahahahahahaha! Hahaha--
55. I would have followed you, my brother... My captain... My king.
56. I'm sorry, children.
57. Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do. I'm half crazy all for
the love of you. It won't be a stylish marriage, I can't
afford a carriage. But you'll look sweet upon the seat of a
bicycle built for two.
58. I'm cold.
59. The only way to stay out of the funny pages is for one of
you to kill Wadsworth... NOW!
60. Sometimes I just kill myself! Hahahahaha!
61. What's that smell?
62. I'm all right... I just got the wind knocked out of me,
that's all...
63. Life is so beautiful.
64. The rest is silence.
Sgt. Horvath, Saving Private Ryan
Vizzini
Tyler Durden, Fight Club
The Wicked Witch of the West, The Wizard of Oz
Snowden the gunner, Catch 22
The Joker, Batman
Spock
Boromir
Marvin the Paranoid Android
HAL 9000
Prince Hamlet of Denmark, Hamlet
Bill, Kill Bill
Mr Boddy, Clue
Chef, from South Park
Roy, Blade Runner
Don Vito Corleone
lisarea
06-15-2006, 10:34 PM
49. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships
on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter
in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will
be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
That's from Bladerunner? Dunno the guy's name.
51. The ship, out of danger? Don't grieve Admiral -- it is
logical. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the
few, or the one.
The Spock from the Star Tracks.
54. Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line."
Hahahahahahahahahahaha!! Hahahahahahahahahahaha! Hahaha--
Guy offa Princess Bride.
56. I'm sorry, children.
Chef.
57. Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do. I'm half crazy all for
the love of you. It won't be a stylish marriage, I can't
afford a carriage. But you'll look sweet upon the seat of a
bicycle built for two.
Hal 9000
Crumb
06-15-2006, 10:37 PM
5 for 5 lisarea! :woohoo:
23/64
lisarea
06-15-2006, 10:54 PM
And 61 is:
Tyler Durden
Crumb
06-15-2006, 10:55 PM
:yup: 24/64
godfry n. glad
06-15-2006, 10:56 PM
55 ~ Boromir
58 ~ Sgt. Horvath
59 ~ Snowden
60 ~ The Joker
64 ~ Hamlet
godfry n. glad
06-16-2006, 01:09 AM
#27 ~ Robert E. Lee
#36 ~ Stonewall Jackson
#31 ~ John F. Kennedy
#47 ~ I can't think that this would be anybody on this list but P.T. Barnum
Crumb
06-16-2006, 01:30 AM
55 ~ Boromir
:yup:
58 ~ Sgt. Horvath
:nope:
59 ~ Snowden
:nope:
60 ~ The Joker
:yup:
64 ~ Hamlet
:yup:
Crumb
06-16-2006, 01:33 AM
#27 ~ Robert E. Lee
:yup:
#36 ~ Stonewall Jackson
:yup:
#31 ~ John F. Kennedy
:yup:
#47 ~ I can't think that this would be anybody on this list but P.T. Barnum
:yup:
Crumb
06-16-2006, 01:34 AM
Here are those that remain:
2. Can this last long?
3. Tell them I had a wonderful life.
6. I'm all right.
7. Jesus, I love you. Jesus, I love you.
10. I'm losing.
11. Oh Lord, my God!
13. God Bless, God Damn!
16. Lord help my poor soul.
17. Drink to me!
18. I will see you tomorrow if God wills it.
19. We all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summer. The poor get it in the winter.
20. If you don't like it, you can just fuck off!
22. Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!
23. Die my dear, why that's the last thing I'll do
25. Nothing more than a change of mind, my dear. I always talk better lying down.
28. I wish I was skiing." [Nurse: "Oh, , do you ski?"] "No, but I'd rather be skiing than doing what I'm doing
29. I should have drunk more Champagne.
33. Send Mike immediately!
34. I am ready to go to the Father's house. (Not in English)
37. I'm tired of fighting.
38. I see black light.
40. This is a mortal wound, doctor.
41. I feel pain here.
42. This is absurd! This is absurd! (Not in English)
44. I am not the least afraid to die.
45. I'm bored with it all.
46. Now I can cross the Shifting Sands.
50. Ohhhhh... What a world! What a world!
52. I think.... I feel good about it.
53. How do I look?
58. I'm cold.
59. The only way to stay out of the funny pages is for one of
you to kill Wadsworth... NOW!
62. I'm all right... I just got the wind knocked out of me,
that's all...
63. Life is so beautiful.
godfry n. glad
06-16-2006, 02:00 AM
Thanks for posting the remainder...it prevents my having to jump back and forth....
okay....
20 ~ Keith Moon
42 ~ Sigmund Freud
46 ~ L. Frank Baum
godfry n. glad
06-16-2006, 02:05 AM
Now... The religious ones...
#7 ~ Mother Teresa
#11 ~ Pope John Paul II
#18 ~ Pope John Paul I
oh, oh, oh....
# 29 ~ John Maynard Keynes
and I think
#19 ~ Victor Hugo
Crumb
06-16-2006, 02:11 AM
20 ~ Keith Moon
42 ~ Sigmund Freud
46 ~ L. Frank Baum
#7 ~ Mother Teresa
#18 ~ Pope John Paul I
# 29 ~ John Maynard Keynes
:yup:
#11 ~ Pope John Paul II
#19 ~ Victor Hugo
:nope:
Crumb
06-16-2006, 02:14 AM
2. Can this last long?
3. Tell them I had a wonderful life.
6. I'm all right.
10. I'm losing.
11. Oh Lord, my God!
13. God Bless, God Damn!
16. Lord help my poor soul.
17. Drink to me!
19. We all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summer. The poor get it in the winter.
22. Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!
23. Die my dear, why that's the last thing I'll do
25. Nothing more than a change of mind, my dear. I always talk better lying down.
28. I wish I was skiing." [Nurse: "Oh, , do you ski?"] "No, but I'd rather be skiing than doing what I'm doing
33. Send Mike immediately!
34. I am ready to go to the Father's house. (Not in English)
37. I'm tired of fighting.
38. I see black light.
40. This is a mortal wound, doctor.
41. I feel pain here.
44. I am not the least afraid to die.
45. I'm bored with it all.
50. Ohhhhh... What a world! What a world!
52. I think.... I feel good about it.
53. How do I look?
58. I'm cold.
59. The only way to stay out of the funny pages is for one of
you to kill Wadsworth... NOW!
62. I'm all right... I just got the wind knocked out of me,
that's all...
63. Life is so beautiful.
Here are some more:
65. I know you have come to kill me. Shoot, coward. You are only going to kill a man.
66. I die.
67. Go away. I'm all right.
68. I have had no real gratification or enjoyment of any sort more than my neighbor on the next block who is worth only half a million.
69. Nurse, It was I who discovered leeches have red blood.
70. Tomorrow, I shall no longer be here.
71. I am not going. Do with me what you like. I am not going. Come on! Come on! Take action! Let's go!
72. We must be on you, but cannot see you. Gas is running low.
73. Please don't let me fall.
74. It's very beautiful over there.
75. I will be glad to discuss this proposition with my attorney, and that after I talk with one, we could either discuss it with him or discuss it with my attorney if the attorney thinnks it is a wise thing to do, but at the present time I have nothing more to say to you.
76. Leave the shower curtain on the inside of the tub.
77. It was a great game.
78. Who is it?
79. Only one man ever understood me. And he really didn't understand me.
80. . . . the fog is rising
81. No.
82. Are you happy? I'm happy.
83. Friends applaud, the comedy is over.
84. Tell mother, tell mother, I died for my country. . . . useless . . . useless . . .
85. My design is to make what haste I can to be gone.
86. I killed the President because he was the enemy of the good people, the good working people. I am not sorry for my crime.
Crumb
06-16-2006, 02:19 AM
Here is the remaining list of persons. I think I got all that were matched.
William III of England
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Che Guevara
Alexander Graham Bell
Georges Cuvier
Leonhard Euler
Amelia Earhart
Bat Masterson
Santa Anna
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Ethel Barrymore
Billy the Kid
Thomas Edison
Georg Wilhelm Hegel
Edgar Allan Poe
Charles Darwin
Groucho Marx
Emily Dickinson
John Wilkes Booth
Sitting Bull
Oliver Cromwell
Conrad Hilton
William Vanderbilt
Lyndon Johnson
James Madison
Joseph Smith
Lee Harvey Oswald
Nostradamus
H. G. Wells
Bing Crosby
Leon Czolgosz
Mary Surratt
Pope John Paul II
Alexander Hamilton
Stan Laurel
Charles de Gaulle
Harry Houdini
Winston Churchill
Pablo Picasso
Victor Hugo
Frank Sinatra
Karl Marx
H. G. Wells
Sgt. Horvath, Saving Private Ryan
The Wicked Witch of the West, The Wizard of Oz
Snowden the gunner, Catch 22
Marvin the Paranoid Android
Bill, Kill Bill
Mr Boddy, Clue
Don Vito Corleone
godfry n. glad
06-16-2006, 02:30 AM
Again, working without the list on the new ones...
#72 ~ Amelia Earhart
#84 ~ John Wilkes Booth
#86 ~ Czilard (damned if I can remember his given name or if my spelling is correct), President Garfield's assassin. ETA: Leon Czolgosz
Now, I'll have to look at the list.
lisarea
06-16-2006, 02:30 AM
22: Mother Theresa
(Actually, Karl Marx, I think.)
lisarea
06-16-2006, 02:31 AM
Ooh, 65 is Che Guevara!
I was wondering why he wasn't on the list.
godfry n. glad
06-16-2006, 02:35 AM
Um, you said my guess of #7 was right for Mother Teresa. You put her on the list to still be matched.
I'd suggest not adding more until either all the ones you've put up have been matched or you have to tell us because we all lost interest.
Crumb
06-16-2006, 02:39 AM
Again, working without the list on the new ones...
#72 ~ Amelia Earhart
#84 ~ John Wilkes Booth
:yup:
#86 ~ Czilard (damned if I can remember his given name or if my spelling is correct), President Garfield's assassin. ETA: Leon Czolgosz
Yes, but he was McKinley's assassin.
godfry n. glad
06-16-2006, 02:40 AM
#34 ~ Pope John Paul II
#19 ~ H.G. Wells
#44 ~ Charles Darwin
#22 ~ Karl Marx
Crumb
06-16-2006, 02:43 AM
22: Mother Theresa
(Actually, Karl Marx, I think.)
Karl Marx is correct.
Ooh, 65 is Che Guevara!
:ffnod:
#34 ~ Pope John Paul II
:ffnod:
#19 ~ H.G. Wells
:ffno:
#22 ~ Karl Marx
:ffnod:
lisarea
06-16-2006, 02:48 AM
Is 75 Lee Harvey Oswald?
Crumb
06-16-2006, 02:50 AM
Is 75 Lee Harvey Oswald?
:ffnod:
lisarea
06-16-2006, 03:55 AM
YOU GUYS! COME ON! WE GOTS TO FINISH.
I think 34 is John Paul II because it sounds kind of popey and kind of familiar, like it happened recently.
I think maybe 77 is Bing Crosby, because I must have read some list of these things once, and I have this horrible notion that his last words had to do with golf.
Come on. I'm really starting to pull these out of my ass. If someone doesn't help, I'm going to be WRONG eventually. And we can't have that.
Dingfod
06-16-2006, 03:47 PM
More famous last words: "I'd like to know who the fuck shot me."
Charles Atlas, playing J.R. Ewing at the end of the final episode of Saturday Night Live that he appeared on.
godfry n. glad
06-16-2006, 04:48 PM
More famous last words: "I'd like to know who the fuck shot me."
Charles Atlas, playing J.R. Ewing at the end of the final episode of Saturday Night Live that he appeared on.
I'd like to know why I should know or care who the fuck Charles Atlas is/was.
Dingfod
06-16-2006, 05:11 PM
Why the surly attitude?
Dingfod
06-16-2006, 05:14 PM
I got it wrong anyway, it's Charles Rocket. Atlas, Rocket, easy mistake.
Crumb
06-16-2006, 05:54 PM
I think 34 is John Paul II because it sounds kind of popey and kind of familiar, like it happened recently.
:ffnod:
I think maybe 77 is Bing Crosby, because I must have read some list of these things once, and I have this horrible notion that his last words had to do with golf.
:ffnod:
godfry n. glad
06-16-2006, 06:17 PM
Why the surly attitude?
Just another day in the hellhole called "work".
godfry n. glad
06-16-2006, 06:20 PM
I got it wrong anyway, it's Charles Rocket. Atlas, Rocket, easy mistake.
It seems that we don't share the same definition when it comes to "famous". The only Charles Atlas I know of would have had a quote like, "Don't let them kick sand in your face! Don't be a 98 pound weakling." Not something about being shot, and I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have used the term "fuck".
As far as I'm concerned, Charles Rocket is even more obscure than Charles Atlas.
Dingfod
06-16-2006, 06:35 PM
godfry, it's the line that famous, not the mostly unemployed after that incident Charles Rocket. Saturday Night Live was never really live after that, they put in a time delay so no more of the seven deadly words could go on the air. History didn't stop in 1945 you know.
godfry n. glad
06-16-2006, 07:18 PM
godfry, it's the line that famous, not the mostly unemployed after that incident Charles Rocket. Saturday Night Live was never really live after that, they put in a time delay so no more of the seven deadly words could go on the air. History didn't stop in 1945 you know.
That's from Saturday Night Live, eh? Well, it was probably after the originals moved on. I quit watching after that because it was pure crap.
That one obscure actor/comedian said "fuck" on television is hardly a reason for fame.
So, I suppose you know who said, "I bet that made his putter stand up," don't you? And, who it was said to.
Dingfod
06-16-2006, 07:25 PM
No, I don't. Were they famous last words?
godfry n. glad
06-16-2006, 07:33 PM
No, I don't. Were they famous last words?
No, they weren't. But then, neither was the phrase of Rocket's which you cited as his "last words".
Dingfod
06-16-2006, 07:36 PM
I beg to differ.
godfry n. glad
06-16-2006, 07:38 PM
No need to beg. So, differ.
Dingfod
06-16-2006, 07:40 PM
Oh, that I am.
godfry n. glad
06-16-2006, 07:41 PM
C'mon... I want to hear your lame explanation.
Dingfod
06-16-2006, 07:43 PM
Why?
SharonDee
06-16-2006, 07:48 PM
:sisfight:
beyelzu
06-16-2006, 07:49 PM
ok, i will explain.
metaphorically it was indeed his last word, as it was death for his fucking career.
now can you two kids please get along.
why so snippy godfry?
godfry n. glad
06-16-2006, 07:55 PM
ok, i will explain.
metaphorically it was indeed his last word, as it was death for his fucking career.
now can you two kids please get along.
why so snippy godfry?
No, it was not the death of his career. He went on to further comedy and acting in both film and television. It was a crimp, for sure, but a temporary one.
Post-SNL career
Rocket recovered from this early career setback and acted in many films, including Earth Girls Are Easy, It's Pat, Dances with Wolves, and Dumb and Dumber, often portraying the antagonist. On the small screen, he managed to secure a series of guest spots on several 1980s sitcoms, co-starred in the failed 1992 comedy-drama series Tequila & Bonetti, and played rival network president Ned Grossberg on the 1980s cyberpunk series Max Headroom.
As the 1990s wore on, beneficial roles were few and far between, as Rocket struck out in such box office duds as Titan A.E. and Fathers' Day and in the short-lived 2000 John Goodman series Normal, Ohio on the Fox network. Nevertheless, he found limited success in guest spots on many popular television programs in the late 1990s and early-to-mid 2000s, including The King of Queens, Touched By An Angel, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent, the last of which marked his final appearance on network television. He also lent his voice to popular video game titles Star Wars: Starfighter, Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter (as the character "Nym" in both games), Descent 3, and Age of Mythology.
His final film role came in the 2003 movie Shade, starring Sylvester Stallone and Melanie Griffith.
So, how long was he on SNL?
How long was the rest of his career?
And...if you read the thread, bub, you'll see I've already answered your question.
thedoc
01-10-2012, 01:34 AM
#17 - Omar Khayyam, If it ain't it ought'a be.
And much as Wine has played the Infidel
And robbed me of my robe of Honour, well ...
I often wonder what the vintners buy
One half so precious as the stuff they sell
"Did God set grapes a-growing, do you think,
And at the same time make it sin to drink?
Give thanks to Him who foreordained it thus--
Surely He loves to hear the glasses clink!"
(#91, p. 48)
Crumb
01-10-2012, 06:17 PM
I have no fucking clue.
Sock Puppet
01-10-2012, 06:18 PM
Sherlock Holmes?
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