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I'm amazed at your amazement.
I'd have expected at least this much out of any such silly comparison, even here. Try:
Or any other conflict between trochees.
Most of your amazement can be explained by you thinking that that 'pirates vs ninjas' belongs in the same reference class as:
That seems utterly ridiculous. Are you being disingenuous or are you serious?
I'm being serious. See http://xkcd.com/856/
I think the relevant reference class is "trochees with a 'vs.' between them", and you can find many such engaging debates on the Internet. I'm skeptical that anyone would care to compare pirates and ninjas if they were called something else.
I don't think the trochee pattern is so critical to these debates. Cavemen vs. astronauts is a notorious counterexample.
I wonder why no one ever phrases it cavemen vs. spacemen.
Cavemen is a trochee. Astronauts is a dactyl, which is why it's less funny, but still close enough to a trochee.
Well cavemen are well-known in the literature for their pterodactyl-defeating skills, so I suppose that would generalize to other dactyls.
Oddly, I don't think I've encountered anything vs. astronauts before.
I retract my statement. I've seen the entirety of Angel.
Come to think of it the only times I've heard the debate is between Angel and Spike and Bones and Booth. I hadn't caught the easter egg until now.