Famous last words

[Harvestman]

Whilst talking with friends the other day I recalled an incident I saw in a karate class when I was living in Scotland. A little kid in the front row of the class, a newbie, put his hands in his pockets. The instructor pounced, grabbing the kid by the arms and holding them trapped in the pockets.

"Never put your hands in your pockets!" he yelled, "I've got your arms trapped. How are you going to escape now, eh?". Without a moments thought the kid swung a leg and kicked him in the groin.

Fair play to the guy. As he folded to the ground he managed to squeak out "Well done!".

Most of the senior grades got into trouble for laughing.

Anyway, I was wondering what buschraft-related famous last words (not necessarily fatal) you might have heard.

Here are some fictional ones:

"I'm sure it isn't a Death cap"
"Don't worry, its perfectly safe so long as you're careful"
"Of course I've tied the hammock securely. Those ropes will hold, no problem"

 

[beachlover]

"Move out of the way. This'll get the fire going......"

 

[Everything Mac]

Me - thinking "Its ok I won't slip and cut myse..............OWWWWW" - blood every where, lost the feeling in it for some months and to this day is a little tender if caught right.

 

[Nagual]

"Ach, it's not flowing that fast.."

 

[_mark_]

"Of course it's safe to drink."

 

[Radix lecti]

"Its this F%$*>@ way i tell you". A guy in my platoon many years ago map reading whilst holding his compass next to his SLR rifle.

 

[Harvestman]

Me - thinking "Its ok I won't slip and cut myse..............OWWWWW" - blood every where, lost the feeling in it for some months and to this day is a little tender if caught right.

Dare I ask what "it" was?!

 

[SimonM]

On the range with a GPMG...Do NOT shoot the sheep...Watch & shoot, Watch & shoot....STOPPPP!:yikes:

Simon

 

[JonathanD]

I'd spent almost three hours looking for adders just outside of St Ives with a colleague. I'd found shed skins, grass snakes, lizards and everything else but live adders. My colleague piped up that it was getting late and we didn't stand a chance of finding one, when bang, he was bitten just to the side of his Achilles tendon. Brilliant. No envenomation took place though, and he was a cracking little juvenile that was almost blue in colour.

 

[Toddy]

"That won't burn...........well, you know ? it might"

Graham_S will remember the incident...........and a firesteel reduced to a skinny curved thing over a weekend by a very young Ross

M

 

[Barn Owl]

'You're no' sinking'.

Had to be there,mud related not canoe...

 

[Harvestman]

"I wonder how firm that boggy patch is? It looks ok.... oh. Err, help."

Lost count of how often I've done that one. You'd think I might learn...

 

[Broch]

"we'll be OK camping up here; the wind will die down soon"

On top of Glyder Fawr in February.

Broch

 

[Everything Mac]

Dare I ask what "it" was?!

my trigger finger

 

[Extreme Pilgrim]

"Is that a log floating towards us?"

 

[DavidJT]

"it's not that c'c'c'cold!"
(Me, New Years Eve 2000, on a frozen Lake in Norway)

 

[Extreme Pilgrim]

"Coconut trees are great place to attach a hammock"

 

[Man of Tanith]

when i nod my head you hit it!

 

[dwardo]

Yeah its cooked, stop worrying......

 

[Nagual]

"I know where I'm going"
and
"We've plenty of time"

I was wrong on both counts...