where does the line 'today is a good day to die' originate?

[Romulan_Knight]

Romulans.... what a bunch of pointy eared cowards!

They wouldn't know a straight up fight if one erupted in the middle of them!

Tell that to me when i declock behind you and fire a plasma torpedo into your warp drive.
we romulans are not yellow belles we are smart to not carge right into a battle unlike those dumb as a brick klingons who think "TODAY IS A GOOD DAY TO DIE".

 

[Frostmarrow]

I like:

"Wake up! Time to die!"

Leon, Bladerunner

 

[Viking Bastard]

Star Trek - A Future of Misattribution.

Today is a good day to die, and Vengeance is a dish best served cold are not original to Klingons. (And for that matter did Kahn ever meet a Klingon?)

Oh, thou of little faith!

 

[Greylock]

(And for that matter did Kahn ever meet a Klingon?)

Which Kahn? Madeline?

*rimshot*

Wow. Got to use the same bad joke twice in one week.

 

[Vigilance]

The important question is who coined the SMART version of the war-cry, i.e. "Today is a good day for somebody else to die!"

Well Patton famously said "The point of war is not to die for your country, its to make some other bastard die for his."

Which is sort of the same idea.

Chuck

 

[rbingham2000]

Today is a good day to die, and Vengeance is a dish best served cold are not original to Klingons. (And for that matter did Kahn ever meet a Klingon?)

Indeed. The "Good Day to Die" maxim has lots of different origins from all over the world. My major recollection of it was that it was a major maxim among the Samurai of Feudal Japan.

And "Revenge is a dish best served cold" was a Sicilian proverb, if I recall correctly.

 

[ssampier]

[hijack]
I always liked, "their's not to reason why, their's but to do or die." It's a poem called, "Charge of the Light Brigade" by Lord Tennyson Alfred.
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[Zander]

Today is a good day to diet.

The slimmer's mantra.

http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=128859

 

[Gentlegamer]

It is correct, I went with my girlfriend to a lecture given by Wilma Mankiller* who wrote the book "_Every day is a good day_", and she talked about the origins of the title and how it related to the famous war cry. Basically it's part of a philosophy of courage and optimism, and how life isn't worth living if you're being too cautious or pessimistic.

Hey, you need to go over and share this in the "Return to the Tomb of Horrors thread" . . .

 

[Gentlegamer]

[hijack]
I always liked, "their's not to reason why, their's but to do or die." It's a poem called, "Charge of the Light Brigade" by Lord Tennyson Alfred.
[/hijack]

See also The Trooper, by Iron Maiden . . .