Ranma 1/2 is used without permission

        "The Meaning of Life" was written by Offspring, and is on the album
Ixnay on the Hombre

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        [Guitar comes in, we see Ranma walking along a deserted dirt path
lined on both sides by majestic trees]
        Ranma: On the way
Trying to get where I'd like to stay
Always feeling steered away

        [Camera shows view behind Ranma, where Genma, Soun, Cologne, Nabiki,
Kuno, Ryoga.... the list is extensive... are walking behind him, angry
expressions on their faces]
        Ranma: By someone trying to tell me
What to say and do.

        Ranma: But I don't want it
I gotta go find my own way
I gotta go make my own mistakes
Sorry man for feeling
Feeling the way I do.

        [Cut to scene of Akane, Shampoo, Ukyo, and Kodachi trying to
force-feed Ranma]
        Ranma: Oh yeah, oh yeah
Open wide and they'll shove in 
Their meaning of life
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Not for me I'll do it on my own
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Open wide and swallow
Their meaning of life.
Can't make it work your way.
Thanks, but no thanks!

        [Cut back to the path. Ranma stands at a fork in the road. To the
left is a brightly lit path, with everyone standing before it, looking at
Ranma expectantly. To the right is a shadowed trail, one can't see past a
few meters on it]

        Ranma [looking left]: By the way
I know your path has been tried and so
It may seem like the way to go
Me, I'd rather be found
Trying something new

        [Ranma begins to walk down the right path, but stops and looks at
them again]
        Ranma: And the bottom line 
In all this seems to say
There's no right and wrong way

        [Ranma points at Genma]
        Ranma: Sorry if I don't feel like
Living the way you do.

        [Ranma strides purposefully down the right-hand path]
        Ranma: Oh yeah, oh yeah
Open wide and they'll shove in
Their meaning of life
Oh yeah, oh yeah
But not for me I'll do it on my own
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Open wide and swallow
Their meaning of life
Can't make it work your way

        THANKS BUT NO THANKS! [Chorous repeats one more time as Ranma
disappears down the path]

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        Don't ask me where this came from. I was listening to the song, and
it popped into my head. I just thought I'd write it down and send it to the
ML. C&C is welcome, flames are not.

        Hope you enjoy it!

Jed