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I would posit that such a trait is correlated with being a fur fan. Doubt there's causation, though. Unless someone wants to try to prove it somehow. Razz

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Better than ninja-encyclopedia-salesmen. Now that's a scary thought.

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Ah yes, the age old question:

Pirate or Ninja?

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Don't know. Maybe Pirate.

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I think I would have to choose Ninja but it's a real toss up for me.

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I find that this (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0121.html) illustrates my arguments rather well. Very Happy

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Ow! I really don't like to step in into that.

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Yeah.I too would definetly go for pirate.More fun that way.Sailing the seas,kicking but all the way,treasures...ah,i can already smell the sea Smile

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I'd say neither, as:
1) "a ninja's duty in life is death" (his or another), and
2) a pirate, legends and stories aside, tends to meet a NASTY end (if it's not the gallows, it's scurvy) unless he makes it to privateer (i.e. state-sanctioned pirate...

If I really were to choose, I'd say ninja, since to kill you back an opponent has to KNOW that you're there, knowhatImean? Very Happy

But otherwise, I'd go third party and vote Giant Robot Pilot. Who needs stealth or swashbuckling when you got at least three thousand tons of massive behemoth ready to wreak havoc to anything the same size or smaller? Very Happy

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That was very funny.

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For me, the debate over Ninja vs. Pirate has never been an issue, because my friends pretty much sorted it out... It all has to do with the numbers, thanks to the Law of Inverse Ninja Strength, which basically dictates that the more ninjas you have, the easier they are to defeat. One Ninja would be unstoppable, but an army of ninjas get taken out by a lone combatant all the time. Pirates, for the most part, have no real problem with numbers, and in fact tend to become stronger with greater numbers. So we basically concluded that, one on one, a ninja (like, say, Hattori Hanzo) vs. a pirate (like Captain Jack Sparrow), the ninja will win every time (sorry Jack). But pit an entire clan of ninjas vs. the full crew of a pirate ship, and the pirates will more than likely pull out the win.

A more interesting debate that I found later would involve ninjas vs. zombies. This brings up a sticky situation of Zombie Pirates (such as those in the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie), as they would naturally overcome ninjas due to a lack of meaty-vital-bits. Anyone who's ever played D&D knows the undead are immune to critical hits and sneak attacks, which is basically all ninjas are... sneak-attacking, back-stabbing crit-machines. Then another friend mentioned the number of robotic or cybernetic ninjas out there (like Cyrax, Sektor, and Smoke from the Mortal Kombat games), thus creating an even playing field again between Zombie Pirates and Cyborg Ninjas...

...and that's why I say Space Monkeys win every single time, because no one ever suspects the monkey with the ray-gun! Laughing

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Space Monkeys?

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Ninja's vs. Pirates? Boy,did this spin away from the whole Scarlett Blut subject.Not that I'm compliaining,mind. Wink

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And Space Monkeys!

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and Spagetti Monster!!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spagetti_monster

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Hah.Wow.The statement is priceless.Talk about a total crackpot!

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Hey, no fair throwing deities into the fray. Next thing you know, we'll be throwing in Thor and Cthulu too...

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Oh yeah, and for folks who were confused about the "Space Monkeys" reference...

http://www.answers.com/topic/monkeys-in-space

http://www.primatesworld.com/SpaceMonkeys.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Simian_and_the_Space_Monkeys

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_monkeys

http://ham.space.umn.edu/kris/animals.html

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You just invented a new word.

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Actually "Pastafarian" is what the Spagetti Monster is called

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I really love spaghetti! Razz

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I love my Spaghetti with meatballs but that's not the point right now.

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Me too!I love the italian cuisine and the chinese. Laughing

Isnt it interessting what twists this thread has taken?

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Lets esstablish an order of Spagetti! XD

and yeah, people do invent deities when they ahve abolutely notting else to do, one of my friends was once so bored on history of art lesson that he invented an ultimate god ROOT. Philosophy of this relligion is very simple: free interpretation of the root, and that all what is necessary XD

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If I can recall right, a few of the characters presen here fall under that category.

*Nods towards Pafehi and Bi-ancha*

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