Ninja hedge

I didn't explain the second example of the ninja archetype, but some people have thought that the young man quoted only said that ninjas (as well as giant squid and whales) were inherently funny. Attempted denials like this are just a ninja hedge. The example given is what we care about: a funeral mass over-run by regular people rather than priests should also be over-run with ninjas, giant squid and whales. Therefore the ninjas are clearly at mass, so it is another instance of the ninja archetype.