# Pirates vs. Ninjas
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates-vs-ninjas/299267
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [April 14, 2005, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates-vs-ninjas/299267 "2005-04-14T11:41:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2005, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates-vs-ninjas/299267/1 "2005-04-14T11:41:10Z")
Pirates vs. Ninjas.
Where did this internet meme come from? Why is it still hip? Why won’t it go away?
IT HAS HAD ITS FUCKING RUN. FIND A NEW HELLA RAWKING BLOG CATCHPHRASE. FOR THE EVER FUCKING LOVE OF FUCK ON A STICK.
That is all. Thanks. Haven’t used my caps lock in a while.
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### Author:  [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2005, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates-vs-ninjas/299267/2 "2005-04-14T11:45:49Z")
The damned Pirates would lose this one too.
😉
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### Author:  [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2005, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates-vs-ninjas/299267/3 "2005-04-14T12:09:02Z")
It may have started with the coolest website of all time, and by “cool” I mean “sweet”:
[http://www.realultimatepower.net](http://www.realultimatepower.net)
(And even though I’m the rare kind of person who likes both, ninjas totally take this one.)
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### Author:  [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2005, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates-vs-ninjas/299267/4 "2005-04-14T12:11:31Z")
Perhaps you wouldn’t be so pissed off if all your base weren’t belong to us.
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2005, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates-vs-ninjas/299267/5 "2005-04-14T12:38:19Z")
Watch out, man.
I heard a ninja flipped out and killed some kid just because the kid typed in all-caps.
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### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2005, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates-vs-ninjas/299267/6 "2005-04-14T12:43:46Z")
Pft. Pirates vs. Ninjas is _so_ played. Today’s meme is Robots vs Zombies. Get with the program.
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### Author:  [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2005, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates-vs-ninjas/299267/7 "2005-04-14T12:49:57Z")
I was a ninja one…for twenty minutes…in 1960.
How about [Ninja Wizards](http://medievalist.org/gifs/mordor.gif)!!
Man! That would be so frickin’ awesome!!
Praise be to Weird Earl (and Billy Rubin) for that one.
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### Author:  [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2005, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates-vs-ninjas/299267/8 "2005-04-14T12:50:28Z")
What about zombie pirates vs. ninja?
Marc
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### Author:  [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2005, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates-vs-ninjas/299267/9 "2005-04-14T12:51:09Z")
and of course that should read “I was a ninja _once_…” :smack:
can’t even get my doper jokes right…there goes my membership.
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### Author:  [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2005, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates-vs-ninjas/299267/10 "2005-04-14T13:07:14Z")
“funny” answer: I cannot believe I am seeing this discussion again! It is really disturbing how this debate sticks simply to Pirates and Ninja. Every intelligent person knows that you need [Monkeys and Robots](http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/10/10377.phtml), too. :mad:
Real answer: Once upon a time, net users channeled their inner child, to debate on which was cooler, Pirates, Dinosaurs, or Ninjas. Eventually, the idea became, who could win in a fight.
[http://www.ubersite.com/m/15641](http://www.ubersite.com/m/15641)
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2005, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates-vs-ninjas/299267/11 "2005-04-14T13:22:53Z")
> [@MGibson](#):
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> What about zombie pirates vs. ninja?
>
> Marc
Zombie Pirates vs. Robot Ninjas.
Vs Flying Monkeys.
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### Author:  [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2005, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates-vs-ninjas/299267/12 "2005-04-14T13:26:58Z")
Where does the jar of mayonnaise fit into all this?
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### Author:  [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2005, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates-vs-ninjas/299267/13 "2005-04-14T13:52:37Z")
Well, if you don’t believe that ninjas have REAL Ultimate Power you better get a life right now or they will chop your head off!!!
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### Author:  [@RandomLetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandomLetters)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2005, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates-vs-ninjas/299267/14 "2005-04-14T14:08:42Z")
Whichever side had a 1920’s style “Death Ray” would win.
Or Batman, if he is prepared.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2005, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates-vs-ninjas/299267/15 "2005-04-14T14:12:08Z")
I dunno…what side is Uncle Cecil on?
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### Author:  [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2005, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates-vs-ninjas/299267/16 "2005-04-14T14:24:15Z")
\*\*Monkey Ninjas! ATTAAAAAACK!!!"
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### Author:  [@Khan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khan)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2005, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates-vs-ninjas/299267/17 "2005-04-14T14:26:24Z")
I can’t help but think that no one adds Vikings as a contender because everybody knows they’d kick everyone else’s ass.
_sack and pillage_
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### Author:  [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2005, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates-vs-ninjas/299267/18 "2005-04-14T15:09:38Z")
Ninjas would totally flip out and kill all the Vikings, and then they’d wail on their guitars and pork some hot babes. And if the Vikings teamed up with the pirates, the ninjas would just call in some hippos to help them out!
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### Author:  [@c\_goat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/c_goat)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2005, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates-vs-ninjas/299267/19 "2005-04-14T15:43:57Z")
How about [Mafia vs. Ninja](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0198684)s?
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### Author:  [@The\_Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tim)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2005, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirates-vs-ninjas/299267/20 "2005-04-14T15:50:05Z")
There is an RPG called Monkey, Ninja, Pirate, Robot. You fight aliens.
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