At 09:57 AM 6/13/97 -0700, you wrote:

Dear FFML,
 There has been a rather heated discussion about how the Curses of 
Jusenkyo work.
 Takahashisama has left the point of the mechanics upto the gods, and 
simply used it as a plot device. That is Jusenkyo, a Plot Device.
 Personally, if I were to believe in Magic(like it is presented in the 
Ranma 1/2 comics) and Curses(likewise), I would have to say that they 
make no logical sense.
 Take this for example
   FACT: the Curses of Jusenkyo are tenacious.
 If Ranma(cursed to turn into a girl) leaps into the Nannichuan:
   1: he is cured
   2: Nothing
   3: the curse is 'pushed back' (hotwater = girltype, cold=boy)
   4: he turns into a complete hermaphrodite(all possibly organs)
   5: he turns androgenous (loses all organs)
   6: the curse becomes scizoid(randomly hot/cold/boy/girl)
   7: the curse makes him a whole man, but the mind changes
   8: the curse makes him all woman(mind and body)
   9: the curse makes him a girl w/normal Ranma mind
  10: Ranma gets control over the transformation 
  11: There is no particular trigger (happens whenever)
  12: ect. ect. ect.

 I am a really sick S.O.B. I could come up with these _all_ _day_! 
Simply put, Curses do not make sense. If they did, or if you could use 
them against each other, then they would not be _CURSES_, they would be 
inconviniences.
 Be creative people, that is why we write. 
 
 Turn on
 Move in 
 Think up a storm
 Have fun
 
 Thank you for your time
 turbo@relex.com

jus wondering, when you jump into the spring, the guide says "ooh, verry bad
mr. customer, a thousand" yadda yadda yadda" now whoever fall in take body
of young girl!"  My problem with this is, ranma DOESN'T take her body!  he
takes the body of if he was born female, IE sex appeal of ranma if he was
female.  Mouse still has his bad eyesight, and I'm pretty shure that pchan
has fangs.  So do they really take the other bodies?  or do they just take
the body of A young female/little black pig/cat/ whatever?  <cologne looked
at nyannichuan with a thought rattling around that crafty canny old brain "
spring of YOUNG girl" she thought>
        -Cullen the mostlly sane