A friend, Doug, is about to move on to a different job. At the risk of being 180 degrees from solving the 4 biggies...... this is just too much fun, wide, and witty not to share. Yes, Doug is (also) in the performing arts.
Things said at the close of a life chapter.........
(Who can name where they're from? Any Doug missed?)
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What better way to commemorate my impending departure from than with a kitchen full of bread products? I must have learned something in those seven years.
1 - It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done: it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
2 - M-I-C, see you real soon. K-E-Y. Why? Because we like you.
3 - So long. Farewell. Auf wiedersein, adieu. Adieu. Adieu. To yew and yew and yew.
4 - Th-th-th-th-that's all folks.
5 - Live long and prosper.
6 - May the Force be with you.
7 - I'm leaving on a jet plane. Don't know when I'll be back again.
8 - Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
9 - Oh, Auntie Em. There's no place like home.
10 - I'll go back to Tara, after all, tomorrow is another day.
11 - Rosebud.
12 - You won't have Richard Nixon to kick around anymore.
13 - I hereby abdicate the throne of England for the woman I love.
14 - On the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia.
15 - It was great fun, but it was just one of those things.
16 - Turn out the lights. The party's over.
17 - We've come to the last dance.
18 - I am just going outside and may be some time.
19 - Let us cross over the river and sit under the shade of the trees.
20 - And the days dwindle down to a precious few.
21 - Good night, Chet. Good night, David.
22 - This is your announcer, Pierre Mancini, speaking.
23 - So long, it's been good to know ya. That dusty old dust is a-gettin' my home and I've got to be moving along.
24 - Take this job and shove it.
25 - I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more.
26 - Oh, Danny boy, I love you so.
27 - May all your days be circus days.
28 - Yonder lies a steel drivin' man, lord, lord.
29 - Goodnight, sweetheart, well it's time to go.
30 - A sadder and a wiser man he rose the morrow morn.
31 - Now I'm oiled. Keep me from the rats.
32 - Good night and good luck.
33 - Good night, Mrs. Calabash - wherever you are.
34 - Now it's time to say goodbye to Jed and all his kin.
35 - I've always depended on the kindness of strangers.
36 - Remember me as one who loved not wisely, but too well.
37 - The rest is silence.
38 - Parting is such sweet sorrow.
39 - A horse, a horse. My kingdom for a horse.
40 - For he's gone and married Yum-Yum.
41 - Eloi, Eloi, Lama Sabachthani?
42 - Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty, I'm free at last.
43 - Some day, when things look real tough for old Notre Dame, tell the boys to go out there and win one for the Gipper.
44 - Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
45 - Is this the end of Rico?
46 - And now, it's on to Chicago and let's win there.
47 - I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
48 - Attaboy, Clarence.
49 - We'll take a cup of kindness yet for auld lang syne.
50 - That was a great game of golf, fellas.
51 - Thomas Jefferson lives.
52 - Et tu, Brute?
53 - The horror. The... horror.
54 - They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--
55 - A salesman has got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.
56 - Old soldiers never die. They just fade away.
57 - Say goodnight, Gracie.
58 - The Giants won the pennant!
59 - Open the pod bay doors, Hal.
60 - Sincerely yours, The Breakfast Club.
61 - KHAQQ calling Itasca. We must be on you, but cannot see you. Gas is running low.
62 - Oh, the humanity.
63 - Hello, I must be going.
64 - Always look on the bright side of life.
65 - That's the way it is. Thursday, September 27, 2007.
66 - Made it, Ma! Top of the world!
67 - Look for the Union label.
68 - And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
69 - Ladies and Gentlemen, Elvis has left the building.
