Man on his deathbed

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Man on his deathbed
« on: 8 Oct 2013, 01:30 pm »
Charles Willams is on his deathbed, and knows the end is near. He is with his nurse, his wife, his daughter,
and two sons.  he says to them:
 
"Leroy, I want you to take the Beverly Hills houses.
 
Mary, take the apartments over in Los Angeles Plaza.
 
Jim, I want you to take the offices over in City Center.
 
Doris, my dear wife, please take all the residential buildings downtown."
 
The nurse is just blown away by all this, and, as Charles slips away, she says , "Mrs. Williams, you must be so proud of your husband! Your
husband must have been a brilliant, hard-working man to have accumulated all this property."
 
Sarah replies, "what property? ... the asshole had a paper route!"
 

dflee

Re: Man on his deathbed
« Reply #1 on: 8 Oct 2013, 03:04 pm »
I give.
Who's Sara?
Good one!

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Man on his deathbed
« Reply #2 on: 8 Oct 2013, 06:00 pm »
Denis Norden mentioned this presumably true anecdote on the BBC radio series, My Word!
Dominique Bouhours was a French Jesuit priest, essayist, classicist, and grammarian.
On his deathbed in 1702, his last words (translated from French) were, "I am dying, or, I am about to die.
Either is correct." 

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Re: Man on his deathbed
« Reply #3 on: 9 Oct 2013, 07:58 pm »
News paper route, hard job.