In a message dated 4/30/99 3:54:03 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
BrianP@nhspokane.com writes:

           Ranma  Saotome
             19xx to 1999
    "I ate what was set before me."
 

WINCE<<  Aside from the obligitory "Akane never killed anyone with her 

cooking....  Yet." comment, I was most drawn to the end quote here.  I do 
recognize it, but I've read "the Cat" and all of Heilein's works, and I dont 
remember seing it in "CAT".  It does, however, definatly appear in one of his 
"Teen" works, Starman Jones.

Once again, though, Akane shows a bit to much sensitivity about her cooking 
skills, though.  This epitath would describe Ranma in more ways than one.  
Not just at the dinner table (Regardless of who was cooking) but in life in 
general.  Yes, the man did use the Satome secret Technique once in a while, 
but he always returned to finish what he started.  eventually.  He never 
backed down from the challenges life threw at him.  And yet Akane sees this 
simple affirmation of Ranma's philosopy twords life as a subtle jab that it 
was her cooking that did him in.