Amusing Last Words Before They Died

[Sir Burr]

"Do you know where I can get any shit?"

Lenny Bruce - American comedian.

"Never felt better"

Douglas Fairbanks Snr - American movie star.

"Bugger Bognor!"

George V - King of England.

"Born in a hotel room, and God da.mn it, died in a hotel room"

Eugene O'Neill - Nobel and Pulitzer prize winning dramatist.

"Sargeant, the Spanish bullet isn't made that will kill me".

William "Buckey" O'Neill - American adventurer, just before he got hit in the mouth by a Spanish bullet in the Spanish - American war.

"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist.....

General John Sedgwick - American civil war general.

"Don't let it end this way. Tell them I said something"

Pancho Villa - Mexican revolutionary to news reporters.

"Either this wall-paper goes, or, I do!"

Oscar Wilde - Irish playwright, author and humourist.

Edited March 17, 2005 by Sir Burr

[pitrevie]

"Do you know where I can get any shit?"

Lenny Bruce - American comedian.

"Never felt better"

Douglas Fairbanks Snr - American movie star.

"Bugger Bognor!"

George V - King of England.

"Born in a hotel room, and God da.mn it, died in a hotel room"

Eugene O'Neill - Nobel and Pulitzer prize winning dramatist.

"Sargeant, the Spanish bullet isn't made that will kill me".

William "Buckey" O'Neill - American adventurer, just before he got hit in the mouth by a Spanish bullet in the Spanish - American war.

"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist.....

General John Sedgwick - American civil war general.

"Don't let it end this way. Tell them I said something"

Pancho Villa - Mexican revolutionary to news reporters.

"Either this wall-paper goes, or, I do!"

Oscar Wilde - Irish playwright, author and humourist.

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I told them I was ill! On Spike Milligan's (Irish comedian) gravestone

Edited March 17, 2005 by pitrevie

[Thetyim]

Is that correct, Pitrevie.?

He always wanted it to read " I demand a second opinion"

Edited March 17, 2005 by Thetyim

[Sir Burr]

On the tombstone of Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny is:-

"That's all folks".

On W.C. Fields tombstone:-

"Here lies W.C. Fields

I would rather be living in Philadelphia".

[Abandon]

Lady Sale, ferocious Expat in Afganistan during the wipeout of the British army.

Grave reads..

"here lies all that can die of Lady Sale"

[TizMe]

"Here lies Edmund Blackadder. And he's bloody annoyed"

[pitrevie]

Is that correct, Pitrevie.?

He always wanted it to read  " I demand a second opinion"

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I haven't seen the actual tombstone just a picture and those were the words on it. But maybe I am wrong, the guy was so inventive that any similar phrase would have been typical of him.

[TizMe]

BBC News Tuesday, 13 April, 2004

No headstone on Milligan's grave

Comedy legend Spike Milligan's grave still has no headstone, more than two years after his death.

The delay is because his family have not decided what the gravestone should say.

The former goon was buried close to his home in Udimore, East Sussex, after he died in February 2002.

Fans visit his grave but it is marked only by some plants and a small statue.

Mr Milligan famously quipped that he wanted his gravestone to say: "I told you I was ill."

But his widow Shelagh told the BBC on Tuesday that the line was only a joke and it was not an epitaph he would have wanted.

She said she and other relatives were still to decide what the stone should say.

Milligan formed the Goons with Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine and was widely regarded as one of the greatest influences on British comedy.

A private funeral was held for him at St Anthony of Padua Church in Rye, close to his home and was attended by about 100 mourners.

The comedian was buried at St Thomas' Church in nearby Winchelsea, his coffin draped in the Irish flag.

About 700 people attended a memorial service for him at St Martin-in-the-Fields in central London in June 2002.

Bill Horsman of the Goon Show Preservation Society, said: "He wrote his own epitaph "I told you I was ill" and I'm not sure whether that should be there but we would like to see a proper headstone for Spike."

[TizMe]

BBC News 24 May, 2004

Milligan gets last laugh on grave

Comedy legend Spike Milligan has finally got the last laugh, more than two years after his death.

It follows an agreement with the local diocese over the wording on the headstone of his grave at St Thomas's Church in Winchelsea, East Sussex.

Relatives of the former Goon have now decided that it can bear the star's epitaph: "I told you I was ill."

However, the inscription had to be written in Gaelic in order for it to be approved by the Chichester Diocese.

Milligan, who was an Irish passport holder, was buried close to his home in Udimore after he died, aged 83, from liver failure in February 2002.

But fans visiting his grave found it was only marked by some plants and a small statue because his family had been unable to agree on the headstone.

It now bears the words "Duirt me leat go raibh me breoite", or "I told you I was ill", and the English words "Love, light, peace". Bill Horsman, chairman of the Goon Show Preservation Society, said: "News of the headstone going up on Spike's grave is marvellous.

"We had been very concerned for some time about the situation.

"It was very sad that the grave was in such a state, but it was down to very sensitive family problems and we simply could not get involved.

"We're very pleased it's been resolved and with such a classic Spike line.

"We all fell about laughing when we heard it."

Milligan formed the Goons with Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine and was widely regarded as one of the greatest influences on British comedy.

Edited March 18, 2005 by TizMe