MR


to ML <ranma@ML.usagi.org>
from Hotnit <hotnit@acsu.buffalo.edu>
subject MR
date Sun, 28 Feb 1999 20:45:24 -0500 (EST)
Greg:

>>I wouldn't say it supported hate at first sight, but it definately
>>doesn't strongly support love at first sight.   Well at least in not in
>>the relationships that aren't just nifty plot devices or quick fixes
>
>I wouldn't support either extreme, just really quickly developing fun
>stuff!

But where is the dividing line between "quickly developed looney tunes
type fun stuff" and sheer laziness?  I have no idea what I'm talking
about, but since I had no idea what you were talking about I'd say
we're even...

>What do you think is more powerful?
>A. Soun's Demon Head
>B. Genma in Full Ki-out Panda form...
>C. Happosai in his rounds, or
>D. Ranma and his Ki blasts?

"You can not stop Happosai, you can only hope to contain him."
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Olin inquires:

>Oh come on, I hope we aint that bad.  Are we?  I've been gone for a
>while. Any of us who are that rabid need a little lesson in the means of
>going about things.

[Hotnit]:  Tell them your story Vladamir, you poor soul...
[Vladamir]:  The murderers wiped out my entire town because they
suspected us of being the dissedents!!!  The KGB's brutality knows no
bounds!
[Hotnit]:  KGB?!  What about the KTF?!  I asked you about the KTF!!!
[Vladamir]:  Oh, my bad comrade.  I thought you were talking about KGB.
The KTF?  They seem to be such nice people...
[Hotnit]:  Arghh!!!  What a waste of time!!! Get out of here!!!  Go!!!
[Vladamir]:  Does this mean Vladamir doesn't get "big american bucks" for
the movie rights to story?
[Hotnit]:  You're not moooooving...
[Vladamir]:  *shrugs and walks off*
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Cici:

>(Hey, Kimmee, there's no rules in our handbook or on the cereal boxes
>against pelting the object of our fandom, right?)

*holds up Box*  See?!  It says, "No pelting the object of our fandom"
right here on this box of Hotnit Flakes!  Yes sir, right here in plain
english that was definately not written on the box with a marker five
minutes ago! (Hotnit's picture falls of the box along with the labelling
revealing Michael Jordan's face and the Wheaties(tm) logo...)  Uh, I can
explain this...  Er, you see, every 1000th box of Hotnit flakes falls
apart to reveal a box of Wheaties underneath. It means you like win money
and stuff.  I think I'll just go and collect my winnings now... 
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Snapple Girl:

>>To paraphrase the great Jack
>>Nickelson, "Where does she hide those wonderful toys?"
>
>Wasn't it "he"?  i thought he was talking to batman!
>And wasn't it "Where does he get those wonderful toys?"

Wasn't that a paraphrase I wrote?  I thought I said paraphrase.
Didn't Hotnit say "To paraphrase..."?

>Little do you know there are no acorns in ohio!  only buckeyes!
>muhahaha!

No acorns?  Damn!!!  Foiled again by ignorance!!!
[Ignorance]:  Did you truly think that you'd win Hotnit?  Don't make me
laugh!!!

So what is a "buckeye" anyway?    

>I just went to the new Blockbuster here, and they didnt have any humorous
>anime!  Only Ghost in the Shell, Akira, and Ninja Scroll, etc.  In other
>words, NO RANMA!  What is this world coming to?

Maybe the Ranma just didn't get there yet... Watch Akira...most likely
AGAIN! I guarantee you'll catch something you didn't catch the first
fifty times. And if it's you first time seeing it, have plenty of aspirin
on hand...  <sexist pig remark> Skip Ninja Scroll, it might be too bloody
for a Guuuurl... </sexist pig remark>  <Snip Hotnit's getting punched in
the eye and crying...>
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Stacy:

>     I have never read fan fiction before.  With such debates over
>marring characters, and strange twists on the characters, i have to
>wonder is it really worth it.  What do you guys think?  While I'm
>speaking mainly of RAnma 1/2 fan fiction, I just have this feeling most
>FF is the same.

Never read any myself.  I tend to avoid it because from what I'm hearing
around here either the author:

1. Makes the series completely dark and devoid of any humor.

2. The story is funny but not Takahashi type funny.  I'd explain but
my vocabulary is too limited.  You just don't run Seinfeld type jokes on 
the Wayan's Brothers or South Park....  Yeesh, I knew I shouldn't have
tried to explain...

3.  I don't think it's possible for a fanfiction writer to be as unbiased
about the characters as the original creator.  The creator may like some
characters more than others but still loves them all.  The jist(sp?) I'm
getting is that FF writers biases come out in their work...

4.  Makes it overly romantic.  Romance is good, but when the fiction is
such that if it were published in paperback format, the cover would have
Ranma's face would be pasted on Fabio's body...

<SIDETRACK>
Anyone see the Conan O'brien where he's interviewing Fabio about one of
his "new books"?  Fabio's talking about how he had "some" help from a
ghost writer.  Conan was asking how involved was he in the writing
process. Let's just say it ended up something like this...

[Conan]: *looks in the book*  There's a character named Ignatius in here,
who's that?

[Fabio]: ...................

*Conan throws the book down and starts laughing*

I was laughing so hard I was crying...  Forget Letterman and Leno,
Conan is the man!!!
</Sidetrack>

5.  Keeps it lighthearted, but there's still no humor.

6.  And finally, no pictures! Ack!!!  But picture good!!!  Me want
picture!  Moving or still, make no difference!
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