"Lets Roll", have you have other's saying this??

[4dsc]

I have heard two people say "lets roll" in the past week. What's up with "lets roll"?? Right-wing rallying cry or what??



DEAN in 2004!!

[w13rd0]

1. Yeah, although I heard it at my Dean Meetup...

...along with "Bring it on" and "Is our children learning?". But of course, we were making fun of Bush, so I don't think it counts.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. People soon forget

This is what Todd Beamer said to his wife just before the passengers in the fourth hyjacked plane tried to take it over on 9-11. They were all killed when the plane crashed, but folks generally assume that they prevented the hyjackers from smashing into some government building in DC by doing so. So I wouldn't call it a right wing rallying cry-they were last courageous words of an American in a tight spot (and a lot more courageous than the Chimp saying'bring 'em on'). No wonder the freepers want to usurp it.

[Stanchetalarooni]

3. I remember hearing feint echoes of....

....General George Armstrong Custer shouting over and over again amidst the pounding of the hooves and the screeching whoops, "Let's Roll".

[YellowRubberDuckie]

4. I have the t shirt!

Bought it at walmart for 5 bucks...it's comfy. It's a BEEFT T! LOL
Duckie

[nuxvomica]

5. People were using that expression before 9/11

I have used it in the past but now feel uncomfortable doing so, as though it's somehow disrespectful. Go figure.

[Mr. Brown of MD]

6. Uh, I don't think so

"roll" being slang as it is for "leaving to go somewhere" (or something), "let's roll" is not an uncommon thing to hear.

Let's look at a sample conversation:

Friend A: "Hey, we should go see (insert movie)."
Friends B and C: "Yeah, sure," etc.
Friend A: "Cool, let's roll."

I think that phrase is only a right-wing rallying cry if it's a right-winger saying it to other right-wingers, implying that we should be invading heathen countries left and right.

-CollegeDude
Else I'm some unwitting pawn, not all that likely if you ask me