# List the Battle Cries! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 25, 2003, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-battle-cries/157465 "2003-02-25T19:51:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-battle-cries/157465/41 "2003-02-26T02:19:07Z")
_ **Yee haw!!!** _ The Rebel Yell of course. ---
**Author:** ![Rock-n-Rolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/22d042/32.png) [@Rock-n-Rolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rock-n-Rolga)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-battle-cries/157465/42 "2003-02-26T02:19:17Z")
“Lean thusa orm!” “The Alars - or at least one - are upon you!” “Come on, you Lions!” ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-battle-cries/157465/43 "2003-02-26T02:23:04Z")
“Let’s Rock” ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_The\_Diver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Buck\_The\_Diver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_The_Diver)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-battle-cries/157465/44 "2003-02-26T02:32:17Z")
“Let’s roll.” Thomas Burnett, Flight 93. September 11, 2001. ---
**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-battle-cries/157465/45 "2003-02-26T03:29:38Z")
“Sumbitch!” "They can take our land, but they can never take our _ **FFFFFFRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDOOOOOOMMMMM!!!"** _ ---
**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-battle-cries/157465/46 "2003-02-26T04:41:26Z")
“Hulk SMASH!” “Damn the torpedos, full speed ahead!” “Once more into the breach…” ---
**Author:** ![Kalashnikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/2bfe46/32.png) [@Kalashnikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalashnikov)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-battle-cries/157465/47 "2003-02-26T04:46:24Z")
_ **WOLVERINES!!!** _ [sub](I can’t believe I forgot that one.)[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Spavined\_Gelding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Spavined\_Gelding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spavined_Gelding)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-battle-cries/157465/48 "2003-02-26T04:48:57Z")
The one we all learned in infantry school: \*\* With me, with me!\*\* And the one we really used: **Get off your sorry ass and get up there.** And General Armistead at Gettysburg: **Virginians, with me! Give ‘em the cold steel, boys!** ---
**Author:** ![caffeine\_overdose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85e7bf/32.png) [@caffeine\_overdose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caffeine_overdose)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-battle-cries/157465/49 "2003-02-26T04:59:45Z")
“Let’s lock and load” “Mole lave” which is greek for “come and get them”. Leonidas, the king of the Spartans said this when an army one hundred times the size of his army asked for his weapons ---
**Author:** ![Hermann\_Cheruscan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b782af/32.png) [@Hermann\_Cheruscan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermann_Cheruscan)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-battle-cries/157465/50 "2003-02-26T05:14:52Z")
Go Tom Go, Go Tom Go , Kick em in the balls, Kick em in the balls. ---
**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-battle-cries/157465/51 "2003-02-26T05:16:05Z")
“Let’s show this prehistoric bitch how we do things downtown.” “Your move, creep.” ---
**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-battle-cries/157465/52 "2003-02-26T05:17:17Z")
Oh yeah, and “Forth Eorlingas!” ---
**Author:** ![Katisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Katisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katisha)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-battle-cries/157465/53 "2003-02-26T05:37:50Z")
“Baruk Khazad! Khazad ai-menu!” Always liked that one… 😉 And, of course, “God for Harry, England, and St. George!” ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_The\_Diver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Buck\_The\_Diver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_The_Diver)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-battle-cries/157465/54 "2003-02-26T05:48:05Z")
“Come and take it” Texas’ first battle flag, Battle of Gonzales. ---
**Author:** ![Trucido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@Trucido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trucido)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-battle-cries/157465/55 "2003-02-26T06:07:50Z")
“Montjoy! Saint Denis!” “Hoch! Hoch!” “Ut! Ut! Godemite! Olicrosse!” “Za Rodinu!” ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-battle-cries/157465/56 "2003-02-26T06:28:25Z")
I’ve always been partial to… “Allah Akbar!” Or… “Over the top, lads!” Or even… “We’ll get it back, or choke their rivers with our dead!” ---
**Author:** ![Bluesman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@Bluesman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bluesman)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-battle-cries/157465/57 "2003-02-26T06:40:45Z")
Hey, y’all 'member the dramatic, climactic confrontation scene in Wizards? The good wizard tells the evil wizard, “Mom taught me a little trick while you weren’t around ::whips out pistol and fires a round through the evil wizard’s chest, another through his head::, you sonofaBITCH!” I said it on the rifle range once while I fired my three “zero” rounds, but was told if I ever did it again, I’d have to go see a counselor.😛 ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-battle-cries/157465/58 "2003-02-26T07:16:18Z")
Weird, **Bluesman** , I just watched that movie tonight…after trying to find a copy of it for about 10 years. ---
**Author:** ![sciguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@sciguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciguy)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-battle-cries/157465/59 "2003-02-26T07:47:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by vertigo \* > \*\*I came here to do two things: chew some bubble gum and kick some ass. And I’m all outta bubble gum! \*\* Wah, no fair! That was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw this thread. Followed closely by: > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Rabid\_Squirrel_ > **This - is - my - BOOMSTICK!** Hmm, must be some others around here… Come get some! Long live the fighters! Bum ba-da bum bum! Bum ba-da BUM BUM! \ The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. (not really a battle cry, but appropriate I think) ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-battle-cries/157465/60 "2003-02-26T08:02:34Z")
**OG SMASH!** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-battle-cries/157465.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-battle-cries/157465.md?page=4)