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What have Pirates got to do with it?

  
  

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Cloudhands
12:08 / 23.06.02
what are the skills that ninjas and both value most in themselves? - fighting
what would ninjas and pirates to sort out who was better - they'd have a fight, and who'd win the fight?- the ninjas, being trained fighters and not piss heads.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
14:57 / 23.06.02
You really haven't been reading the other pirate threads, have ye?

Pirates would so win. And the alcohol just enables their wounds to be self-cleaning, too.
 
 
grant
16:11 / 24.06.02
Dead pirates




...come back.
 
 
Knight's Move
16:41 / 24.06.02
Fractionally off topic but in light of an earlier post: Robert Mitchum could have had Frank, Dean, and any pirate he wanted to as he is by far fucking cooler than any man who ever lived.

Ninja is the way though. Wasn't there a pirate member of the Family Ness? Who wants to back a force of people who allow singing dinasaurs from the bottom of Loch Ness into their group?

Actually, maybe that would be kinda cool.
 
 
rizla mission
10:34 / 25.06.02
That ghost ship picture is fantastic. Ya can't beat a good ghost ship. A friend of mine claims he saw one whilst going to Africa on a boat. And when he got there, he was chased by a Rhino.. Ar, for a life of adventure!

Pirates, Ninjas or ROBERT MITCHUM! Now that throws a spanner in the works..
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
15:18 / 25.06.02
Can't we just club together and get Robert Mitchum a galleon? That'd make things a whole lot easier.
Arr.
 
 
Grey Area
16:08 / 25.06.02
Can't we club together, get a galleon and chase Robert Mitchum with it instead? Much more entertaining...

Arr-lidl-o-lay-dee-hoo.
 
 
higuita
09:59 / 26.06.02
I note no-one's coming up with cool people who might be ninjas. Robert Mitchum, for example, couldn't be a ninja. He may have been in a film about Yakuza and had a mate who was a ninja (thank you, Mr Feng), but he's not the type.
Nor is anyone else cool. Like George Kennedy, John Cassavates or Lee Marvin. Dirty Dozen? Pirates. Magnificent Seven? Pirates. Seven Samurai? Pirates.
I just can't figure out whether Michael Caine is a pirate. Might be because me blunderbuss blew off me thinking tackle when Nick startled me earlier, but I'm really not sure. Little help?
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
10:51 / 26.06.02
Famous Ninjas:

(fictional)

Michael Corleone
Obiwan Kenobi
Sherlock Holmes

(living)
Tsutomu Shimomura
Vincenzo Natali
Issa Kostoev
 
 
Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero
17:51 / 26.06.02
Christopher Walken is a ninja, or at least pulling off an incredible simulation. I think Ed Asner is too (it's the perfect disguise!).
 
 
higuita
09:51 / 27.06.02
Ok - I concede those points - but Sonny Corleone was a pirate and was much cooler. Thinking about it, you get Al Neri as well, which is a blow, but there's always Luca Brasi for the pirate side, so every cloud...

I always thought of Christopher Walken as more the scary pirate that your mum won't let you play with.
 
 
Saint Keggers
02:29 / 28.06.02
Actually I think of Christopher Walken as something infinitly more evil that either pirate or ninja..he's a mime. I came to the conclusion after the "for lunch I was a crocodile" inccident.
 
 
RiffRaff
04:02 / 28.06.02
I came to the conclusion after the "for lunch I was a crocodile" incident

I'm not sure why it matters, but I'm incredibly pleased that someone remembers that little story, which I told the last time I was here... seems like ages ago.

Personally, I can't decide who I favor, pirate-vs-ninja-wise. Pirates have the bloodlust, the parrot-alert system, and vast amounts of alcohol... but the ninjas have the mad skillz. Also, it would make a trememdous difference wether the fight was on land or on a galleon in the middle of the sea...

Also, this has probably been posted before, but just to make sure: PVP's Pirate vs. Ninja week starts here.
 
 
rizla mission
09:26 / 28.06.02
Pirates have "mad skillz" (emphasis on the mad) too, Y'know! You just try sailing a galleon through a monsoon with a bottle of rum in yer belly and a wooden leg! Ar, then we be seein' who's the boss!
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
12:21 / 28.06.02
RiffRaff: nah. Y'want to see them battle it out they way they were born to. From the creaking, warped timbers of a stolen galleon to the quiet cramp of the shadows, pirates and ninjas have longed to see who, truly, is the greater. And now, they have the chance:

with volleyballs.

(You'll want to check out this thread, also.)
 
 
moriarty
05:42 / 09.07.02
Shruiken and Crossbones, the Adventures of the Dread Captain Ninja. A movie proposal.



East meets West, Crouching Tiger meets Treasure Island, in this rollicking action adventure comedic romance that brings together two great fads that will appeal to tweeners and jaded hipsters alike. Strike while the iron is hot!
 
  

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