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Post by Roboto701 on Mar 15, 2008 19:58:47 GMT -5
Exactly...
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Post by Lukas on Mar 16, 2008 10:54:30 GMT -5
Is that good?
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Post by Roboto701 on Mar 16, 2008 21:28:49 GMT -5
Very.
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Post by Lukas on Mar 19, 2008 17:02:16 GMT -5
Loner! That's why I told you you had no buds! "Nothingness is the answer to all, child."
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Post by Roboto701 on Mar 21, 2008 11:44:26 GMT -5
Uh... huh... *Looks oddly at Pothead* ... *Scrathches head*
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Post by Lukas on Mar 23, 2008 14:44:15 GMT -5
>_< What are you looking at?! *Spits on Roboto's face and runs to lock self at dark room*
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Post by Roboto701 on Mar 24, 2008 21:54:22 GMT -5
>_< *Wipes spat off face and tosses grenade into room where Pothead ran*
*Ninja Smoke* *Dissappears*
*The entire floor asplodes*
*Ninja Smoke* *Reappears*
HAH!
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Post by Lukas on Mar 27, 2008 19:18:57 GMT -5
>_> *Pulls a Steve* Plagiarism!
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Post by Roboto701 on Mar 27, 2008 22:08:11 GMT -5
You created "Ninja smoke"? I think not.
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Post by Lukas on Mar 28, 2008 11:03:57 GMT -5
I think yes. You know it.
Me: *Ninja Smoke* *Disappears*
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Post by Roboto701 on Mar 28, 2008 22:05:35 GMT -5
Uh... huh... *Watches an episode of Naruto on Youtube* ... No, I think not.
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Post by Strider on Mar 29, 2008 8:56:42 GMT -5
Naruto never originally created it either. "Ninja smoke" was really smoke bombs. It was used by Chinese ninjas way back in the day.
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Post by Lukas on Mar 30, 2008 8:47:35 GMT -5
Yep, but the whole *Ninja Smoke* *Disappears- was my idea!
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Post by Roboto701 on Mar 31, 2008 21:01:05 GMT -5
No, not at all. Actually, assassins used smoke bombs for a quick getaway to escape being captured by guards. The literally "disappear" out of sight. The smoke from the bombs creates enough of a distraction and temporarily blinds the enemy, giving the ninja easily enough time to make a dash for the nearest exit.
I wouldn't call them "ninjas" though. There was never such thing as a person who could throw a metal star across long distances and hit a target on the mark, nor anyone who could clone themselves for that matter. Ninjas are fictional, but Chinese assassins are close enough minus the supernatural powers.
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Post by Strider on Apr 9, 2008 20:01:16 GMT -5
n the history of Japan, a ninja (忍者, ninja?) was someone specially trained in a variety of unorthodox arts of war. The methods used by ninja included assassination, espionage, and a variety of martial arts.
In the Japanese culture, they were usually trained for dangerous missions.Their exact origins are still unknown. Their roles may have included sabotage, espionage, scouting and assassination missions as a way to destabilize and cause social chaos in enemy territory or against an opposing ruler, perhaps in the service of their feudal rulers (daimyo, shogun), or an underground ninja organization waging guerilla warfare.
"Ninja is the on'yomi reading of the two kanji 忍者 used to write shinobi-no-mono (忍の者), which is the native Japanese word for people who practice ninjutsu (忍術, sometimes erroneously transliterated as ninjitsu). The term shinobi (historically sino2bi2 written with the Man'yōgana 志能備), has been traced as far back as the late 8th century when Heguri Uji no Iratsume wrote a poem[1][2] to Ōtomo no Yakamochi. The underlying connotation of shinobi (忍) means "to steal away" and—by extension—"to forbear," hence its association with stealth and invisibility. Mono (者, likewise pronounced sha or ja) means "person."
The word ninja became popular in the post-World War II culture. The nin of ninjutsu is the same as that in ninja, whereas jutsu (術) means skill or art, so ninjutsu means "the skill of going unperceived" or "the art of stealth"; hence, ninja and shinobi-no-mono (as well as shinobi) may be translated as "one skilled in the art of stealth." Similarly, the pre-war word ninjutsu-zukai means "one who uses the art of remaining unperceived."
Other terms which may be used include oniwaban (お庭番 "one in the garden"), suppa, rappa, mitsumono, kusa (草 grass) and Iga-mono ("one from Iga").
In English language, the plural of ninja can be either unchanged as ninja, reflecting the Japanese language's lack of grammatical number, or the regular English plural ninjas."
As what Wiki says.
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