Zen <databank@nash.mindspring.com> 01/15/97 08:56am >>>

Yup, I remember that one. The one thing about it was the springs are

CURSED

because someone or something DROWNED in them. Since Akane is

still alive,

the spring should not have been cursed in the first place.
On another note, there was once a very amusing way I thought could

end the

series. Ranma and Co. reach the Cursed Springs but the Nannichuan

no longer

exists. There is however, a new spring that hasn't claimed a victim
yet.....

Anou...  Zen so dislikes being contradictory, but...

It is not necessary to DIE to drown.

It is just necessary to get water in your lungs.

Zen the Heretic-

To continue this train of thought, the Japanese verb used to refer to this
process can also (according to Kenkyusha's Collegiate Japanese-English
dictionary) mean "immerse" as well as "drown".  

tom