# 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:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**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, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-say-to-get-people-to-die-for-you/399436/61 "2007-04-14T23:38:37Z")
[QUOTE=Der Trihs] That only works if you’re Uruk-Hai . . . or a gay man or straight woman. 😃 [/QUOTE] Precisely. I envision a three-pronged assault… so to speak. I should mention that I’ve been mingling the blood of straight women and anthropomorphic cat-beings. Tortured and mutilated, and now… perfected. Against the power of my bisexual cat-girl armies there can be no victory. Plus I intend to record the whole thing on _palantir_. It would be wise to join with me, my friend… ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-say-to-get-people-to-die-for-you/399436/62 "2007-04-15T00:27:38Z")
[QUOTE=Terrifel] Against the power of my bisexual cat-girl armies there can be no victory. [/QUOTE] Never discount the power of tuna. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-say-to-get-people-to-die-for-you/399436/63 "2007-04-15T00:38:28Z")
[QUOTE=Zany Zeolite Zipper] Fight and you may die. Run and you’ll live – at least a while And dying in your beds many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they’ll never take our freedom! William Wallace [/QUOTE] Gobbel gobbel gobble! Gobbel gobbel, gobbel GOBBEL! Turkey ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-say-to-get-people-to-die-for-you/399436/64 "2007-04-15T00:46:10Z")
::standing in stirrups:: “Texans _always_ move them!” _– Robert E. Lee, Battle of the Wilderness_ ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-say-to-get-people-to-die-for-you/399436/65 "2007-04-15T00:49:09Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] Never discount the power of tuna. [/QUOTE] The time of tuna is over! They are leaving these shores, abandoning this land to its fate. Every day more tuna pass into the West, until at last their chunk light glimmers and is lost, and they behold a fair green hill under a swift sunrise. The power of tuna is fading; you did not seriously think that they could contend with my bisexual cat-girls? _There are none who can._ My control is absolute: I have a private store of Old Tabby, the finest catnip in the Southfarthing. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-say-to-get-people-to-die-for-you/399436/66 "2007-04-15T01:06:05Z")
[QUOTE=Terrifel] The time of tuna is over! They are leaving these shores, abandoning this land to its fate. Every day more tuna pass into the West, until at last their chunk light glimmers and is lost, and they behold a fair green hill under a swift sunrise. The power of tuna is fading; you did not seriously think that they could contend with my bisexual cat-girls? _There are none who can._ My control is absolute: I have a private store of Old Tabby, the finest catnip in the Southfarthing. [/QUOTE] Did you have a question to ask, or do you want to make a speech? ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-say-to-get-people-to-die-for-you/399436/67 "2007-04-15T13:45:19Z")
[QUOTE=faithfool] – George Gipp to Notre Dame’s Knute Rockne, 1920 Hey, it’d work for me. [/QUOTE] reminds me of: "The last thing he said to me, doc, he said, “Sometime when the crew is up against it, the breaks are beating the boys, tell them to get out there and give it all they got and win just one for the Zipper. I don’t know where I’ll be then doc, he said, but I won’t smell too good, that’s for sure.” _Dr. Rumack_ ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-say-to-get-people-to-die-for-you/399436/68 "2007-04-15T14:29:37Z")
[QUOTE=si\_blakely] I prefer the Wee Free Men \*\*They can tak’ oour lives, but they cannae tak’ oour troousers!" \*\* Si [/QUOTE] Slight nit pick here,they know that their lives cant be taken because the WFM all believe that they are already dead. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-say-to-get-people-to-die-for-you/399436/69 "2007-04-15T14:44:43Z")
A little off topic but had to post it . After the surrender of the Argentinian army in the Falklands war a Falkland Island woman shouted out to some Brit. Paras trudging by in Port Stanley " Thank all of you from the bottom of our hearts for everything youve done for us ,we owe you our freedom !" The incredulous reply from the Para was"We didnt do it for you ,we d have done it if you were F\*\*\*\*\*g Chinese ! Its our job!" ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-say-to-get-people-to-die-for-you/399436/70 "2007-04-15T15:42:53Z")
[QUOTE=Lust4Life] A little off topic but had to post it . After the surrender of the Argentinian army in the Falklands war a Falkland Island woman shouted out to some Brit. Paras trudging by in Port Stanley " Thank all of you from the bottom of our hearts for everything youve done for us ,we owe you our freedom !" The incredulous reply from the Para was"We didnt do it for you ,we d have done it if you were F\*\*\*\*\*g Chinese ! Its our job!" [/QUOTE] Well, I stand corrected: obviously this plucky soldier had been rallied to action by the \*\*Paul in Saudi \*\* school of Inspirational Speech. “My CO told me never to make it personal, ma’am… we are honor-bound not to think about what we do. I may still have to kill you; we never know about these things.” ---
**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 15, 2007, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-say-to-get-people-to-die-for-you/399436/71 "2007-04-15T16:47:52Z")
[QUOTE=Lust4Life] …The incredulous reply from the Para was “We didnt do it for you ,we d have done it if you were F\*\*\*\*\*g Chinese ! Its our job!” [/QUOTE] I know I can’t put myself in the head of a bone-tired, unbathed, hungry, put-upon and maybe even shell-shocked Para, but jeez, what a jerk! ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-say-to-get-people-to-die-for-you/399436/72 "2007-04-15T18:22:30Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] If you fly the plane into the building, you get 72 virgins. [/QUOTE] That’s not true. Everybody knows what you actually get is 72 raisins 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-say-to-get-people-to-die-for-you/399436.md?page=3)