On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Razorclaw X wrote:

 Shampoo constantly drugging food.

There's precedent in both the anime and mangs for this; the fanfic 

convention

is the KIND of drug used, specifically Passion Spice. A LOT of people 

think

that PS is a part of the actual story, but it's not.

  I have no idea what Passion Spice is. And that's probably a Good Thing 
(TM) from what I've heard of it. 
  And shouldn't we be more concerned about the overuse of Kodachi 
drugging food/having her Acme junior chemist kit? 

Actually, I thought the point was whether Shampoo -always- drugs the food
she feeds Ranma.  I know that there was the mushroom incident, but how
many other times in the manga does she try such a thing?  OTOH, Kuno
mentions that Kodachi usually poisons her food, which is why he declines
to eat her cookies.

 Cursed people not aging in cursed form.  (Re: Tarou)

Actually, whether the girl that drowned was young, or made Cologne look
like a toddler is academic.  The springs are named in Chinese (or Shampoo
would have fallen into the Neko-nichuan, instead of the Maonichuan), and
Niang is an older word in Chinese that means the feminine sex in general.
It is not limited to young girls, or girls 'within the ages of N and M'.
So, the spring is really the 'Spring of Drowned (really old word for
girl)'. 

Perhaps the translation of 'young girl' is a fanfic convention? ^_^

Of course, if one goes with the 'template' version on Jusenko, then
retaining the template of a young girl might very well stop aging.
However, the Herb story is supposed to debunk this theory (though I might
have a good workaround to preserve 'fic validity').

-Natsume Ranma Ranma
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The sardines weren't worth the trouble.  A few more shots, then 
Ryoga-san would overheat and explode.  Ducking around a corner, 
I managed to lose him as I entered the ramshackle residence of 
my Anime supplier.

One look at his face and I knew that I was betrayed.  "Tell me."
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"Try Jason Liao." he whispered, before he slumped to the floor.
I heard the sounds of a door splintering as I left through the 
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