>to Stiffanie:
>In all those times that Shampoo was stuck with Ranma (in various
>places),I don't think her intentions were to have sex with him, then
and
>there. It just doesn't make much sense.


I'm not actually sure that she was after sex, even that time with Ranma
in book 38.  Maybe, maybe not.  What I was saying is that she wanted to
make out with a reluctant guy.  But the closest she's come to sex is
probably still book 38.

Zabby :

<  Bitter End sure would

make for interesting discussion fodder, for example, but I don't know if
I
could sit down and read it all again.>
>It *is* really long, but it didn't take that long(he he, already read
it twice).

I don't think I wanna read Bitter End ever again.  Akane was just so out
of it there, and so's Ranma, in fact.  It takes things too much to the
extreme, I didn't enjoy it in the least.

Though, Paint is a lot worse than Bitter.

<In fact, i read a fanfic once where there was this great line....
"Fathers, friends, and fiancees might try to influence his actions,
water may come to wash his manhood away, but the Art... that was his,
and it would always stay with him."

>Do you remember what it was called? The quote sounds familiar to me.

That's "Borrowed Time" by Nightelf, or Nicholas Leikfer, or something
like that.  It's kinda nice, a story of what'll happen to Shampoo if she
doesn't get Ranma as her husband.  It isn't too easy on Shampoo, but she
isn't a villain here, too.  In fact, she's the heroine!  so Shampoo
fans, try it out.

Though of all of Nightelf's works, I liked "A Man I'll Never be" the
most.  Short, emotional, and to the point.

Stiffanie Flores