Best-Worst-Last-First-Whatever Lists

[sdreid]

My Living Premier Rock Super Group:

1-Drums-Chris Cester(Jet)
2-Keyboards-Jerry Lee Lewis
3-Bass-Paul McCartney(The Beatles)
4-Guitar-Pete Townshend(The Who)
5-Vocals-Richard Ashcroft(The Verve)

Here Cester is the one not too well known so try this.

(Full screen, full volume and headphones recommended!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ITAgm0rpws

[RivkahChaya]

Famous last words:

1. "Here, hold my beer."
2. "Hey guys, watch this!"
3. "This is what I was doing when I broke it."*
4. "Backward, march. Double time, march!"*
5. "According to the Axe ads, if I spray this, I don't need a shower," (said by a private who brought a bottle of Axe, instead of soap, a washcloth, and a towel to a week long field training exercise. The whole thing escalated until he got demoted. My husband was his platoon leader. Thanks, Axe.)
6. "Nah, you don't need a helmet."
7. "If it weren't OK, why would they sell cable splitters at Walmart?"
8. "I feel fine. I don't need to take the antibiotic for seven more days. I want a beer."

*Both really happened to my husband, and both resulted in wrist fractures. The first time, he was seven, and he broke his right wrist while demonstrating to someone how he broke his left wrist. The second time was his stupid lieutenant's fault. He made people run backwards in formation, and a bunch of them fell, and my husband broke his wrist.

[sdreid]

Famous last words:

1. "Here, hold my beer."
2. "Hey guys, watch this!"
3. "This is what I was doing when I broke it."*
4. "Backward, march. Double time, march!"*
5. "According to the Axe ads, if I spray this, I don't need a shower," (said by a private who brought a bottle of Axe, instead of soap, a washcloth, and a towel to a week long field training exercise. The whole thing escalated until he got demoted. My husband was his platoon leader. Thanks, Axe.)
6. "Nah, you don't need a helmet."
7. "If it weren't OK, why would they sell cable splitters at Walmart?"
8. "I feel fine. I don't need to take the antibiotic for seven more days. I want a beer."

*Both really happened to my husband, and both resulted in wrist fractures. The first time, he was seven, and he broke his right wrist while demonstrating to someone how he broke his left wrist. The second time was his stupid lieutenant's fault. He made people run backwards in formation, and a bunch of them fell, and my husband broke his wrist.

9."No problem-it's all about how pit bulls are raised."
10."Your husband is still at work, isn't he?"

[Robert]

11. "Shut up, Ally."

[Steadmund Brand]

Reminds me of the old George Carlin bit about things you never hear... my favorites were

1- "Dad, you should really drink more"
2- " hand me that piano"


Steadmund Brand

[Mayerling]

Major General John Sedgewick at the battle of Spottsylvania Court House, Va., June 1864 - to reassure his men about Confederate snipers, while peering over a parapet: "Why they can't hit an elephant at....!" He fell dead a moment later.

Millard Fillmore (13th President of the U.S.): "The nourishment is palpable." (when given some soup on what was his deathbed)

John Adams (2nd President of the U.S.): "Thomas Jefferson survives!" [sometimes given as "Thomas Jefferson still lives!"] Adams and Jefferson had jointly been responsible for the creation of the Declaration of Independence in July 1776, and it was now July 4, 1826 the 50th Anniversary of the event. Ironically, as Adams died he did not know that Jefferson had died a few hours earlier, also on the 4th of July - the 3rd President's final words being, "Is it the Fourth?!"

James Canham Read (murderer, in 1894, of his girlfriend Florence Dennis at Prittlewell, England). In a state of physical collapse he was brought to the scaffold, and while being set up for his departure said, "Will it hurt??!"

Charles Frohman (theatrical producer), on board the sinking RMS Lusitania on May 7, 1915 - reportedly (the words are given differently by different survivors) he said when talking to others facing the end with him, "Why fear death, it's the most beautiful adventure in life!" (sometimes given as "Why fear death, it's a beautiful adventure!") Frohman, one of the leading theatrical producers of the day in the U.S. and Britain, was a close friend and collaborator to James Barrie, and had produced (among other plays) "Peter Pan", in which a version of this statement appears.

John Wilkes Booth (American actor, scion of the theatrical family, and assassin of 16th President Abraham Lincoln), when shot by federal troops (possibly by Sergeant Boston Corbett) at Garrett's Farm in Bowling Green, Virginia on April 26, 1865, said both "Tell mother I died for my country!" and, after asking for his hands (which his wound prevented him from lifting) to be lifted up, looked at them and said, "Useless, useless!"

Charles Dickens (following what appears to have been a fatal stroke in June 1870) having fallen down a woman (Ellen Tiernan, his girlfriend??) rushed to him, and he muttered, "Not on the floor!"

Abram Hewitt (son-in-law and partner of Peter Cooper, American inventor, businessman, and philanthropist; and - in his own right - one time Mayor of New York City in 1886: he beat Theodore Roosevelt and Henry George for the post) was dying in an oxygen tent in 1903. Being tired of his being kept alive by the means used, he pulled out the oxygen tube in his mouth and said, "I now declare myself officially dead!!"

Theodore Roosevelt (26th President of the United States) went to bed, on January 5, 1919 and told his wife Edith, "I wonder if you know how much I've loved Sagamore Hill" (his and Edith's home - still standing as a museum - in Oyster Bay, New York). Shortly afterwards, when his valet was checking up on him for the night, he said, "Please put out the light James." He died during the early hours of January 6th. [When news of his death in such a quiet fashion reached the public, Vice President Thomas Marshall said, "Death had to take him when he was asleep. Had Roosevelt been awake there would have been a fight!"]

Jeff

[Robert]

May be apocryphal but beautiful if true :

Oscar Wilde gazing at wallpaper : "One of us has got to go."

[RivkahChaya]

9."No problem-it's all about how pit bulls are raised."

Hey! Pit Bulls are my favorite breed. I've owned a full Pit, and a Pit-GSD mix. They were both great dogs. Neither of them ever attacked anyone, FTR. And they both slept in the bed with me. They were very loyal, and very cuddly.

My brother is also a Pittie fan, and has his third Pit now. He usually adopts adult rescues, so he gets them at 2-4 years old, and they are always very sweet.

It's about how they are raised, but it's about how they are bred, too, and there are bad breeders. Don't get a Pit puppy from a backyard breeder who clearly fights his dogs, and think it's all in how it's raised. But there are people who breed for personality. Pits can have beautiful personalities. Then, of course, you still do need to raise it right. The meanest dog I ever met was a Golden Retriever that a guy I knew was trying to rehabilitate, after it had been kept locked in a crate in a garage for a year. He said he thought it had a chance as long as it didn't have brain damage from carbon monoxide.

[sdreid]

My Living Premier Rock Super Group:

1-Drums-Chris Cester(Jet)
2-Keyboards-Jerry Lee Lewis
3-Bass-Paul McCartney(The Beatles)
4-Guitar-Pete Townshend(The Who)
5-Vocals-Richard Ashcroft(The Verve)

Here Cester is the one not too well known so try this.

(Full screen, full volume and headphones recommended!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ITAgm0rpws

Again preferebly, in their prime.

[sdreid]

My best rock bands x #s:

2 members-The White Stripes
3 members-Cream
4 members-The Beatles
5 members-The Rolling Stones
6 members-Iron Maiden

And, for those who think 2 member bands come up short. And, half the band is a very good hot chick drummer!

Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuRd1yqGDeE

[sdreid]

My all time female rock supergroup:

1-Drums-Meg White(The White Stripes)
2-Keyboards-Tori Amos
3-Bass-Nicole Fiorentino(The Smashing Pumpkins)
4-Guitar-Bonnie Raitt
5-Vocals-Janis Joplin

[GUT]

My all time female rock supergroup:

1-Drums-Meg White(The White Stripes)
2-Keyboards-Tori Amos
3-Bass-Nicole Fiorentino(The Smashing Pumpkins)
4-Guitar-Bonnie Raitt
5-Vocals-Janis Joplin

What about Karen Carpenter on Drums and Suzi Q on Bass?

[sdreid]

What about Karen Carpenter on Drums and Suzi Q on Bass?

Suzi Quatro was my close call for second. I remeber Karen Carpenter drumming but I have to say my drum pick was the easiest. In my opinion, Meg White, in her prime, was one of the best drummers ever; male or female.

The Hardest Button to Button by The White Stripes with Meg White on drums:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPCqC-9aZXo

[GUT]

Suzi Quatro was my close call for second. I remeber Karen Carpenter drumming but I have to say my drum pick was the easiest. In my opinion, Meg White, in her prime, was one of the best drummers ever; male or female.

The Hardest Button to Button by The White Stripes with Meg White on drums:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPCqC-9aZXo

But my two add enormously to the vocals.

And agree White is a great drummer, not sure about best ever, but great.

[sdreid]

White's style is natural and raw, I think that's what I like. As a bonus, she looks bubblicious in that video wearing those leather pants and that painted on Army t-shirt ;-p