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Real Ultimate Power - Definition and Overview |
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The Official Ninja Webpage: Real Ultimate Power! is a humorous website created by "Robert Hamburger" about ninjas (see Ninjas in Western Fiction), whom he constantly describes with superlatives typically used by adolescent boys, such as "totally sweet". The site has become very popular and has generated large amounts of attention including hate mail, as well as a number of parodies. Hamburger describes ninjas through three "facts":
- Ninjas are mammals
- Ninjas fight all the time
- The purpose of the ninja is to flip out and kill people
The site contains a variety of dubious information on ninjas, including a timeline of ninjas throughout history ("4.5 billion years ago: Ninjas discover flipping out and thus God gives them dominion over everything totally sweet"), as well as illustrated instructions on how to commit seppuku using a frisbee. It also details, by means of several mock-up CNN and MSNBC news articles, a fictional lawsuit brought against Robert Hamburger by a mother concerned that the website was negatively influencing children.
Robert Hamburger is almost certainly a fictional character, though not much is known about the website's true creator. Based on the fact that most of the pages on the Real Ultimate Power site are hosted on the MIT personal web server in the account owned by Jeremy Couillard, it has been suspected that he is the true author of the site. He denies it and claims that he just hosts it.
Much of the humor associated with the Real Ultimate Power website is obscure, drawing on the common youthful obsession with ninjas by elementary and junior high school-age children.
REAL Ultimate Power, The Official Ninja Book (ISBN 080652569X) was published in July 2004.
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