"What would you say" Topic

Ok, a small game

Lets say you are a famous gunfighter of the west, you can be "good" like Wild bill or bad as Hardin.
You can by choose which time it happens, from the 40s to 1900s

Here's the setup, you have killed many a man, and you are conciderd one of the best shooters in the west(you can choose weapon(s))
In the end your enemies(who ever they may be) track you down and corner you, the ods mean certain dead, but you can get some of them with you, in esence, you'll go down in a blaze of glory.
You know you are about to die, but you also know this fight is going into the history books. just before everybody draws iron, you have a chance to say some imortal words.

What would they be?

What would your last words before dying in a blaze of glory be.

Hard to improve on this:

Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
~~ Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary, d. 1923

LLC aka Ron

Take a page from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,

"Who are those guys?"

mjc

I always liked:

Spitting out a wad of blood-stained phlegm, he growled at the approaching Federales, "Who dies first?"

"Hell's coming with me!" from Tombstone
or
"I'll shoot the first man who speaks" from Have Gun, Will Travel

…ummmm…hold on a second guys, I think I left my keys in the buckboard.

"If you don't appolgize, my mule might get the crazy idea you are laughing at him." -Clint Eastwood

I wouldn't say anything. In the words of Tuco (from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly):

"When you need to shoot, shoot. Don't talk."

"Hey, I hear they're serving free drinks across the street to the next ten people to walk through the door!"

"Is your shoe untied?"

"Just so I know, what time is it?"

"You got a back door?"

"I knew I was going to Die today, Did you?"

"Wew wuddaya know, just wun buwwet weft…"

The Kid drew his pistol and the Doc did too,
Doc shot the Kid all through and through.
The Kid looked up, and said, "Now I'm free,
"'Cause you'll never get me to that hanging tree."

"Well boys who wants to get famous." a Young Gunsesque remark

Or Dave Rudabaugh's last words

I see mighty few friends and a lot of enemies. (loose recollection).

I am sure I will think of more. La Long Carabine's does take 1st prize.

If you knew one of their names, say ' OK _____, lets take 'em like we agreed'

Why die alone?

Lo there do I see my father.
Lo there do I see my mother.
Lo there do I see my brothers and my sisters.
Lo there do I see the line of my people back to the beginning.
Lo they do call to me
they bid me take my place among them in the Halls of Valhalla,
where the brave may live forever.

Hmm, probably loses a bit in the gunpowder age.

I like "Your place in hell is determined by the size of the honor guard you bring with you."

"Now you'll never know where I hid all that gold"!!

"Give me one second while I just crank up this Gatling gun"

Did I forget to mention my last name is Winchester?

Hang on there pardner.

I'm one of the best shootists ever? And then you go and tell me I'm cornered by a bunch of my enemies?

If I was that good, I wouldn't have any enemies. None living that is (tip o' the hat to The Magnificient Seven).

But … how about "Y'all can go to Hell, I'm goin to Texas". It was good enough for Davy Crockett.

I regret I only have one life to give to my Texas. Draw you SOB's.

"Tell Bill I always loved him."

Heh. That'll keep 'em guessing!

I've given this a lot of thought and I think I would say

"This will be intresting!"

It's linda vauge, did I mean it will be intresting to see how many I kill, or just to see how I die ect.

"Hey, what's that over there?!?"

"I don't seem to have enough bullets for all of you. Can I borrow one of your guns?"

Or if I can choose my own weapon, no need for last words, the sawed off shotgun shoud take care of all of them.

"Any man doesn't want to get killed can clear on out the back" is both apt and useful… might reduce the odds a little.

If we have to come up with something of our own, how about: "You sons a'bitches better make damn sure I'm dead…"
Or maybe: "There ain't enough o'you to call it even… but I guess it'll do."

If they caught me in a building, I'm shooting out an oil lamp and we can all go out in an inferno. That way nobody sees the end, nobody gets a trophy, and nobody can say for sure who put me down. And their wounded can damn well burn!
…and the credits can roll over the flames…

As I said, the ods are impossible, so if you have 1 revolver you might face 12 guys, with two revolvers mabye 20,

If you got a gatling, you might be faced with 200

The point is, when the dust and smoke settles, you'll be dead.

Okay, the outcome is Boot Hill, that's accepted… after all, there'd be little point in 'Famous Last Words' otherwise!

BUT… it's still worth reducing the odds. It makes the difference between a crowd of jeering saddle-tramps posing for daguerrotypes with your bullet-riddled corpse – and one or two badly-wounded survivors crawling away from the carnage as you spit curses after them with your last breath.

>>As I said, the ods are impossible, so if you have 1 revolver you might face 12 guys, with two revolvers mabye 20,<<

LOL. Interesting math. My revolvers only hold 6 bullets *each*.

I would yell "Look Out for that bear!!" real loud and while they either turned to look or stood there in confusion then I would either start shooting or run out the back.

Too bad Clint never died in one of his movies. If so we would all have the perfect last words. Still a lot of good ones out there.

>>Too bad Clint never died in one of his movies. <<

He died in "Honky Tonk Man", "The Beguiled", possibly in "High Plains Drifter", probably in "Escape From Alcatraz, and most recently in "Gran Torino".

Okay… If I were trying to be sneaky, I'd open my eyes wide in shock and yell, "Ethel, you put your clothes on! You shameless hussy!"

Then when they turned to look, I'd skeedaddle!

"LOL. Interesting math. My revolvers only hold 6 bullets *each*."

Hence the impossible ods, even if you get 6 kills with 6 shots, they will still riddle your body with bullet.

>>if you have 1 revolver you might face 12 guys,<<

Well, if you line them up and shoot two of them at a time with each bullet as Charles Bronson did with his prisoners in "Villa Rides" it might work. (-:

Shadow

Ok guess I was way off then. (He had already "died" in Pale Rider and High Plains Drifter I suppose only he didn't have a death scene.)

ALV

Eat lead…

Some one call the Undertaker and get a bunch of nails. My hammers are gonna fall.

>>Proving that he didn't die in ONE of his movies!<<

LOL. Ya got me pardner!

If I have my2 Schofields and there are 20 of them I'd say,
"Why don't you boys go and get yourself some help?"
Count Natokina.