Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot/Real Life


 * Weapons: monkeys on fire, bomb-dropping bats and war pigs.
 * The term polymath is a person whose expertise spans a significant number of different subject areas.
 * Jean Cocteau: a French poet, novelist, artist, filmmaker, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, diarist, ballet scenarist, illustrator and playwright.
 * Rolf Harris: Musician, singer-songwriter, composer, television personality, broadcaster and painter.
 * Five of those six things can be summed up as: makes music and appears on TV.
 * Woody Allen, according to Wikipedia is: "an award-winning American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian and playwright". And a philanthropist, and had sex with his (adopted) daughter.
 * According to the artist info for these cat headphones "Traci Medeiros-Bagan is an avid vegan feminist artist that believes in the power of reclaiming home crafts and mixing mediums to create unique handmade products that reject conformity and add to the Handmade/DIY Revolution!"
 * Benjamin Franklin. Founding Father of the United States of America... and inventor of the lightning rod, among many other crafts!
 * The term "Renaissance Man" has also been used to describe polymaths, as some of the more famous Renaissance-era men tended to be polymaths. Leonardo da Vinci was both a painter and an inventor in a wide range of studies including medicine, architecture and even what we would now call robotics. Michelangelo was a painter, sculptor and architect. Galileo was an astronomer and worked on improving several astronomical charting devices such as telescopes and compasses. Nicolaus Copernicus may take the cake though. He was an astronomer, jurist, mathematician, artist, translator, governor, diplomat, economist, a scholar of the classics, physician and topped it off by speaking four languages.
 * The Curse of DarKastle ride at Busch Gardens Williamsburg takes the riders through a castle haunted by a werewolf ghost.
 * This "Brian Kid". Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yTgMf1cOcQ
 * Voytek the soldier bear, a Nazi-killing, drinking and smoking bear that fought for the Polish army.
 * Chinese Armies in World War II. Due to the Nationalists receiving aid from USA, Britain, France, and Nazi Germany (for fighting Communists) and with the Communists receiving aid from (again) USA, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union, their soldiers wore a kitbash of equipment. Therefore, it was possible to find a Nationalist soldier in a German Steel Helmet, wearing a British uniform, using an American submachine gun, and having a local Chinese made copy of a German pistol in some holster around him.
 * Chinese guerillas take it a bit further by using captured Japanese weapons.
 * To put that into perspective the Chinese used every small arm available in the Second World War.
 * Even the weapons themselves were mash-ups. One Chinese warlord had his soldiers use the German C96 as a sidearm, but had a surplus of .45 ACP for his copies of American Thompson SMG's. Thus he created the Shanxi Type 17, a C96 in the .45 caliber. A Chinese-made version of a German-made pistol firing an American-made pistol cartridge.
 * Mother Angelica, more commonly known on the internet as the pirate nun.
 * And Samuel Pallache, the Moroccan rabbi-pirate.
 * The vampire squid, an actual animal that lives in the deep ocean. The squid's scientific name is Vampyroteuthis infernalis, which means 'vampire squid from hell'.
 * It's harmless, though. Don't let the spiky cape-tentacles fool you.
 * Interestingly, the vampire squid is considered neither a squid nor an octopus. It's the single surviving member of the order Vampyromorphida, though it shares physical similarities to both.
 * The Pirate Castle, London
 * Hobart's Funnies, a modified tank division from WWII. Go to "designs" and read on - it starts out with a flame-thrower tank and things get even awesomer from there.
 * The LeMat revolver, a Confederate pistol that combined Revolvers Are Just Better, Shotguns Are Just Better, and Hand Cannon into one convenient package. Favorite weapon of Confederate general J.E.B. Stuart.
 * The 2010 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremonies featured Celtic Tap-dancing Punk Fiddle players.
 * Robosaurus the robot dinosaur, and its various imitators.
 * A peace-loving fellow in Santa Barbara has trained his cat to ride his dog, and his rat to ride his cat. The resulting triple-decker pet stack regularly appears on YouTube and Animal Planet.
 * GNU Emacs not only lets you edit text, you can compile a program and receive your e-mail while chatting on IRC and playing Tetris. And you can download thousands of extensions from the Internet...
 * Look at any (voice)actor's career, and imagine them as a mashup of characters they've played. For example: Fred Tatasciore is a cross-dressing schizophrenic corporate executive psychic zombie robot prison warden brainwashed villain-slash-assassin man-fish that you shouldn't make angry.
 * Manny Pacquiao, the eight-division champion boxer/singer/actor/Filipino Congressman. Yes, all four careers at the same time.
 * Real Historical Ninja clans usually associated themselves with particular warlords. Now, those who were unlucky enough to service warlords on the losing side, often ended up getting kicked out from their home villages and in general become outlaw and brigands. Some of them, especially those who specialized in water-based guerrilla warfare, ended up pursuing... piracy. That's right. Real, historical Ninja-Pirates.
 * Hattori Hanzo himself. Believe it or not, this legendary Ninja actually considers ninjutsu and ninja-ism a secondary profession, he's more of a Samurai in service of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Yep, he's both ninja and samurai in the same time. Funny that his secondary profession is the one that gets infamous.
 * Depending on which rumors/stories/theories/books you believe, Christopher Marlowe was a playwriting Catholic gay Atheist double-agent spy who came back from the dead to write Shakespeare's plays.
 * The Platypus. Part beaver, part duck, part lizard, mildly venomous. All Australian.