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Harry Potter: Ninja or Pirate?

Posted April 30, 2002 11:26 PM.

Nick: Do you think Harry Potter is a Ninja or a Pirate?
Tom: I think Harry Potter is definitely a Ninja
Tom: it's the cloak of invisibility
Nick: Really?
Tom: but Ron Weasley is WAY pirate
Nick: I would have said the relentless good feeling made Harry a pirate.
Tom: I'm going to categorise EVERYONE into categories of ninja and pirate from now on
Tom: Kate - ninja
Tom: Mella - pirate
Tom: Toby - pirate
Tom: Nick - ninja
Tom: Fenner - ninja
Tom: Tom - ninja
Tom: Saddam Hussein - pirate
Tom: Margaret Thatcher - pirate
Tom: Bill Gates - pirate
Tom: Steve Jobs - ninja
Tom: Noah Wyle - pirate
Tom: Steven Spielberg - pirate
Nick: Can I post this list?
Tom: if you want!
Nick: Nahhh.
Tom: I didn't think so
Nick: Half the names mean nothing...
Tom: pussy
Tom: - ninja
Tom: doggy - pirate
Nick: But you could post a list...
Nick: Doggy?
Nick: Oh, right.
Tom: doggies! SOOOO pirates.
Nick: That's SO true.
Nick: My God.
Nick: Now that would start a discussion, all right.
Tom: Hahaha
Nick: And Ninjas are, of course, creatures of the night, subversive, rejecting the male authority...
Tom: exactly
Tom: much like...
Tom: Britney Spears
Tom: - ninja
Nick: Subtle rather than confrontational, weaker in a head-on confrontation...
Tom: actually no. she's a pirate
Nick: What?
Tom: close run thing though
Nick: Thank you.
Tom: depeche mode are ninjas
Nick: Yes.
Nick: Harrison Ford?
Nick: Pirate.
Tom: pirate
Nick: George Clooney?
Tom: pirate
Nick: Pirate city....

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