# What to say to get people to die for you? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 10, 2007, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-say-to-get-people-to-die-for-you/399436 "2007-04-10T03:36:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-say-to-get-people-to-die-for-you/399436/41 "2007-04-12T18:56:30Z")
_If you die, you won’t have to do the dishes!_ ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-say-to-get-people-to-die-for-you/399436/42 "2007-04-12T19:09:07Z")
The real secret is Indoctrination. You can’t just up and ask strangers to die for you, you have to carefully brainwash them first. The 72 virgin thing won’t work for you because it sounds Ridiculous until you hear it a few thousand times from people you trust. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-say-to-get-people-to-die-for-you/399436/43 "2007-04-12T20:09:46Z")
“So they’ve got us surrounded, good! Now we can fire in any direction, those bastards won’t get away this time!” Col. Chesty Puller, Chosin Reservior, Korea, 1950. ---
**Author:** ![Frosted\_Glass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frosted_glass/32/3926_2.png) [@Frosted\_Glass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frosted_Glass)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-say-to-get-people-to-die-for-you/399436/44 "2007-04-12T20:50:40Z")
“Perhaps it’s fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom… Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution… but from annihilation. We are fighting for our right to live. To exist. And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: “We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight!” We’re going to live on! We’re going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!” ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-say-to-get-people-to-die-for-you/399436/45 "2007-04-12T20:57:25Z")
“Farm boy, fetch me that pitcher of iocaine.” ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-say-to-get-people-to-die-for-you/399436/46 "2007-04-12T22:08:30Z")
While your there find the WMD. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-say-to-get-people-to-die-for-you/399436/47 "2007-04-13T01:01:35Z")
[QUOTE=Steve MB] “Well, you see, George, I did like it, back in the old days when the prerequisite of a British campaign was that the enemy should under no circumstances carry guns – even spears made us think twice.” –Captain Blackadder [/QUOTE] I always liked: _“When I first joined the Army, we were still fighting Colonial wars. If you saw a man in a skirt, you shot him and nicked his country.”_- Captain Edmund Blackadder. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-say-to-get-people-to-die-for-you/399436/48 "2007-04-13T01:04:10Z")
I say “here, hold this” at the grenade range. They’re dying _near_ me, though, not specifically _for_ me. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-say-to-get-people-to-die-for-you/399436/49 "2007-04-13T01:17:59Z")
Die in everlasting glory, or live in everlasting ignominy, which do you prefer? I thought so. Come on, boys! ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-say-to-get-people-to-die-for-you/399436/50 "2007-04-13T11:46:47Z")
“Trooper, take your squad and kill those annoying little Ewoks, should be a piece of cake.” “Yes sir!” ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-say-to-get-people-to-die-for-you/399436/51 "2007-04-13T13:13:57Z")
“‘Little Big Horn’? What a goofy name for this place. C’mon boys, let’s go kill us some Injuns!” ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-say-to-get-people-to-die-for-you/399436/52 "2007-04-13T20:19:52Z")
…and I just found: “The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them. The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.” \* – George Washington, Address to the Continental Army before the Battle of Long Island (August 27, 1776) \* ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-say-to-get-people-to-die-for-you/399436/53 "2007-04-13T21:55:48Z")
"I know we’re playing Russian Roulette and my turn, but I \*really need \* you to go in placd, just this once. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-say-to-get-people-to-die-for-you/399436/54 "2007-04-13T22:51:12Z")
One rifle for every two men! When the man in front of you falls, pick up the rifle! ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-say-to-get-people-to-die-for-you/399436/55 "2007-04-13T23:26:41Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] "I know we’re playing Russian Roulette and my turn, but I \*really need \* you to go in placd, just this once. [/QUOTE] That’s “go in my place, just this once.” ---
**Author:** ![Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boulter_s_Canary)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-say-to-get-people-to-die-for-you/399436/56 "2007-04-13T23:34:11Z")
“Gentlemen: it is true you have no arms; your enemy, however, to all appearance, have plenty. My advice to you therefore is that as there happens to be a great abundance of stones upon this moor, every man should provide himself, in the first place, with as stout a one as he can manage, rush up to the first Covenanter he meets, beat out his brains, take his sword, and then I believe he will be at no loss how to proceed!”. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-say-to-get-people-to-die-for-you/399436/57 "2007-04-14T21:37:56Z")
“Come on men! They couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn fr…\*” ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-say-to-get-people-to-die-for-you/399436/58 "2007-04-14T22:15:52Z")
> [@](#): > > I’ve got to go, Rock. It’s all right. I’m not afraid. Some time, Rock, when the team is up against it, when things are wrong and the breaks are beating the boys, tell them to go in there with all they’ve got and win just one for the gipper. I don’t know where I’ll be then, Rock. But I’ll know about it, and I’ll be happy. – George Gipp to Notre Dame’s Knute Rockne, 1920 Hey, it’d work for me. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-say-to-get-people-to-die-for-you/399436/59 "2007-04-14T22:38:27Z")
_“You do not know pain! You do not know fear! You will taste Man-flesh!”_ ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-say-to-get-people-to-die-for-you/399436/60 "2007-04-14T22:56:07Z")
[QUOTE=Terrifel] _“You do not know pain! You do not know fear! You will taste Man-flesh!”_ [/QUOTE] That only works if you’re Uruk-Hai . . . or a gay man or straight woman. 😃 "Sons of Gondor! Of Rohan! My brothers! I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails; when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship… but it is not this day! An hour of wolves and shattered shields, when the Age of Men comes crashing down! But it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand! Men of the West! " [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-say-to-get-people-to-die-for-you/399436.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-say-to-get-people-to-die-for-you/399436.md?page=4)