# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![lokij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5e9695/32.png) [@lokij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lokij)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-battle-cries/157465/101 "2003-02-27T07:47:44Z")
“Lo there do I see my father, Lo there do I see my mother, and my sisters and my brothers, Lo there do I see the line of my people, back to the beginning, Lo they do call to me, They bid me to take my place among them in the halls of Valhalla, Were the brave may live forever” - 13th Warrior, Eaters of the Dead “Remember the Maine!” - Spanish American War “Come on boys, They couldn’t hit an elephant at this dist…” - Last words of Union Colonel Sedgwick “Ut! Ut! Godemite! Olicrosse!” Last cry of the housecarl’s at the battle of Hastings (Out! Out! God Almighty! Holy Cross!) “Bonzai!” - Japanese battle cry “Ayo Gurkhali” - Ghurka battle cry (The Ghurkhas are upon you) ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-battle-cries/157465/102 "2003-02-27T08:04:27Z")
[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=163429&highlight=smooch](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=163429&highlight=smooch) Is the rist example of **Og Smooch!** and it’s actually attributed to Freyr. I’ve been using it ever since. ahem. \*\* Strike him, Centuwian… vewy woughly!!!\*\* ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-battle-cries/157465/103 "2003-02-27T08:28:17Z")
“LePetomaine!” Up the Creek was a seriously underrated movie. ---
**Author:** ![jonpluc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/fbc32d/32.png) [@jonpluc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jonpluc)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-battle-cries/157465/104 "2003-02-28T00:28:44Z")
I spit my last breath at thee… ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-battle-cries/157465/105 "2003-02-28T00:50:39Z")
A fiery horse with a speed of light, A cloud of dust, and a hearty **"Hi-Yo, Silver!"** (Cue William Tell Overture …) ---
**Author:** ![The\_MacDairmuid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_MacDairmuid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_MacDairmuid)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-battle-cries/157465/106 "2003-02-28T06:29:09Z")
**BMalion** , I was hoping to be the first to put up ‘An Darach Mor!’ Oh well. From my younger days in MacColin, “Take no prisoners, eat the wounded!” ---
**Author:** ![Feynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@Feynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feynn)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-battle-cries/157465/107 "2003-02-28T08:14:57Z")
Hold my drink, this shouldn’t take too long. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-battle-cries/157465/108 "2003-02-28T21:34:16Z")
R.A.F in WW2– **TALLYHO!!!** 🙂 Now _they_ were _heroes_. ---
**Author:** ![Mothchunks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a587f6/32.png) [@Mothchunks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mothchunks)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-battle-cries/157465/109 "2003-02-28T23:49:23Z")
“Come fate, unto the list, and champion me to the utterance!”~Macbeth ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-battle-cries/157465/110 "2003-03-01T02:01:41Z")
**TORA! TORA! TORA!** [sub]ya gotta admit, it was effective[/sub] “I’m not gonna hit you, I’m not gonna hit you…the hell I’m not!” - John Wayne ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-battle-cries/157465/111 "2003-03-01T02:19:34Z")
TASTES GREAT! Will you give all you can give so that our banner may advance? Some will fall and some will live will you stand up and take that chance? The blood of the martyrs will water the meadows of France! ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-battle-cries/157465/112 "2003-03-01T02:50:28Z")
I’d favor Geronimo when he leapt from an aircraft crying,_MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!_ ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-battle-cries/157465/113 "2003-03-01T03:01:50Z")
> [@](#): > > Come on you SOB’s, do you want to live forever!! > > GySgt Dan Daley > The Battle at Belleau Wood Yes, as a matter of fact, I DO want to live forever! ---
**Author:** ![\_etalhea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/779978/32.png) [@\_etalhea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_etalhea)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-battle-cries/157465/114 "2003-03-01T03:25:27Z")
Melenkurion Abatha! (bonus points if you can tell me what book that’s from) ---
**Author:** ![Beardedcrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a4c791/32.png) [@Beardedcrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beardedcrow)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-battle-cries/157465/115 "2003-03-01T04:15:06Z")
“I go! For Grid, for Goofy, and Saint Walt! Haveatyou!!” ---
**Author:** ![sciguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@sciguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciguy)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-battle-cries/157465/116 "2003-03-01T05:07:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by //\etalhea|) \* > \*\*Melenkurion Abatha! > > (bonus points if you can tell me what book that’s from) \*\* After smacking around my brain since it kept insisting LoTR, I finally remembered it was from the Thomas Covenent series. I feel better now. And just so I’m contributing something: “From Hell’s heart, I stab at thee!” ---
**Author:** ![Eternal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@Eternal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eternal)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-battle-cries/157465/117 "2003-03-01T05:19:57Z")
How could it be that none else has yet mentioned “SPOOOONNNNN!!!” ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-battle-cries/157465/118 "2003-03-01T06:09:48Z")
_ **Down Styphon!** _ for all you Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen fans ---
**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-battle-cries/157465/119 "2003-03-01T07:11:48Z")
[sub]Pssst, **Eternal**? Third post, page one.[/sub] 😉 ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-battle-cries/157465/120 "2003-03-01T18:10:42Z")
[sub]apologies if these have been posted[/sub] “Damn the torpedoes! Full Speed Ahead!” - Admiral David Glasgow Farragut (1801-1870). “I have not yet begun to fight!” - John Paul Jones, September 23, 1779, to the 44-gun Royal Navy frigate Serapis Both survived to have those lines written down. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-battle-cries/157465.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-battle-cries/157465.md?page=7)