At 22:28 2000.09.08, Rebeka Thomas wrote:

>       As Ranma returned to the courtyard, he was greeted by the
>peculiar sight of a fuming Shampoo glaring at Hilda, who was draped
>all over a not-successfully-escaping Mousse.
>
>       "Viking girl being too too familiar with Mousse," the Amazon
>growled.

heh.

she sounds like a cross between herself and Kuno  :)

>       "Shampoo no want Mousse, but Mousse is Shampoo's Mousse that
>Shampoo no want!"

wtf?! run that by me again?

makes perfect sense :)

>       Mousse was struggling against the grip of a remarkably tall and
>pneumatic blonde in a honest to gosh chainmail bikini who was
>cuddling him and caressing him and hugging him and squeezing him and
>doing damn near everything but calling him George.  She apparently
>preferred to call him Angel.

change "George" to "Nancy" to score an obscure reference. extra points ifyou
get it without my explanation as well.

but she's not petting him or patting him, either..... and I really don't want to know what happens when he's a bad Angel :)

>       Cologne was not rolling on the ground laughing her
>multi-centenarian ass off, but that was only because she had an image
>to maintain.  Instead, she was perched on her staff giggling
>furiously.

LOL!

quite so. being her size, she doesn't have much of an ass left...

>       "Shampoo no care if stupid Mousse want fool around with Horny
>Girl."
>
>       "Shampoo, it's -- aw, let GO-- it's not what it LOOKS like!"

this sounds vaguely familiar.... ;)

>       "I don't suppose someone can explain what's actually going on
>here?" asked Ukyo.
>
>       "Well, the girl in the chainmail bikini is a Chinese Viking who's
>in love with Mousse although it doesn't seem that he returns the
>favor, Ryoga got turned into a girl by a bucket of magic mud, which
>is annoying Mousse because HE wanted to turn into a girl instead of
>Ryoga, so he could go to Berlin.  Or something like that," Akane
>explained.
>
>       Akane's explanation made little or no sense to Ukyo, but that was
>okay.  Making little or no sense was par for the course in Nerima,
>especially at this house.  It was, actually, something of a relief.

Nabiki should open up a Cliff Notes shop in Nerima to help people keep track of who is who, what, where, dating who, and avoiding who :)

>       It was obvious to the disinterested observer-- or would have been
>had there been a disinterested observer available-- that Ryoga still
>wanted to kick duck ass, and that at any moment, Shampoo and Hilda
>would be at each other's throats.  Only a person of unparalelled
>diplomatic ability could possibly defuse the situation.
>
>       Of course, those are not something common to Nerima.

how about dai?

no, for a job like this, you need an expert: Mikado! :)

>       "Ohayo, Eiko-chan!"

would that be Eiko as in A-ko?

Certainly sounds it...

>       "Figures."  (Cute girl out of nowhere, targets onto Fred Yamada
>in a heartbeat-- why do the martial artists get all the girls?)

heh.

you'd think he'd ask Ranma for lessons.... :)

>       Not nice at all.

understatement? overstatement?

sideways statement. definitely sideways.

diagonal statement. definitely.

>       "Um... not that I care, because I still intend to kill you,
>duck-boy, but should we wait for them to fight first?"  Ryoga asked.
>
>       "They won't.  They're not allowed.  Ancient Amazon/Viking peace
>treaty.  They WILL insult each other for hours, though, that's legal,
>as long as they don't do it in Chinese," Mousse explained.

wierd.

you're only now realizing this? :)

>       Ranma emerged in a pait of cut-offs and a t-shirt.  "Okay, I
>guess the fight can begin..."

wow! i can make an actual suggestion instead of colour commentary! heregoes:
pait -> pair.
back to your regularly scheduled commentary...

>       "We can't fight yet, Ryoga.  Amazon and Viking law requires that
>the battle of insults be finished first... it would be an incredible
>insult to interrupt it," continued Mousse's explanation.

LOL! i bet half your readers won't get this!

damnit! this is just on the edge of my memory! can i get a hint?

>       "It's not meant to be!  It's meant to be a warning that I'm going
>to kill you!"

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!

is it Ryoga's time of the month? She seems awfully short-tempered :)

>       "Oi, Fred!  Naw, not at all, but I'm not certain there's going to
>be a proper fight-- things are a little wierd right now..."

you have a thing for understatement, don't you? it's kinda like Happy's thing for underwear, but different....

>       They both paused to try to remember where they had seen the new
>arrival, and then blinked.
>
>       "Our date!" they chorused.

i don't remember any such appearance.

from chapter 7.2:
"Ah, what a kawaii little kitty!" enthused a girl whose sole job was to make tea. She
was, in fact, probably the best tea-maker in Nerima. Her name was Eiko Hasagawa,
and she was one of the few practitioners of Martial Arts Tea-making (which is not
the same as Martial Arts Tea Ceremony). As a martial art, it wasn't quite in the
league of the bigger players in Nerima, but it was fine for the typicalmugger,
molester, and/or wandering karate wannabe. As food-based martial arts went, it was
quite respectable.

>       Hiroshi just scratched his head.  More Ranma.  That's the only
>thing he could think, More Ranma.
>
>       "Stupid ugly silly nasty no-talent Amazon bitch!"
>
>       "Horny slutty goofy fat mean geeky girl!"
>
>       "Who you call geeky?"
>
>       "Shampoo call horny slutty goofy fat mean geeky girl geeky!"

wow... hilda ought to drop stupid, she was able to repeat her insultexactly.

wouldn't that constitute backing down, and hence forfeighting the match?

>       Ryoga decided to side with Shampoo on this.  "She's right.  I'm
>not a girl."
>
>       "Yes, you are," corrected Ranma.  "If you weren't, those panties
>would pinch something awful and you wouldn't fill out that top like

heh. do most guys consider that thing (the thing which would be pinched) tobe
awful?

okay... token grammar nitpick done.

token nitpick of token grammar nitpick:
it's actually correct the way it's written, it's just not perfectly clear.
</nitpick>

>       From a mix of one accurate and a group of flawed propositions,
>Tatewaki Kuno had managed to come to a completely accurate
>conclusion.

LOL!!!!!!!!!! that's the funniest thing i've ever heard. not the stupidest; the
various horse laws in canada have it beat, and many more stupider thanthose,
but it's the funniest.

you should see some of the driving laws in the states...

>       See?  Complete and Total Idiot does not always equal stupid.
>
>       Just usually.

oww... i just fell out of my chair...

have a band-aid.

>switching between idle darts at Ranma's being a tramp (to which Ranma
>retorted with the epithet "Sow") and reminding Mousse that she was

sow?

female pig. highly appropriate, no?

>still going to kill him, Ukyo's attempts to try to get a proper
>clarification of what exactly was going on (she was still somewhat
>confused), Shampoo's insistance in Chinese that it was soooo obvious,
>only a Viking wouldn't get it, and Cologne's finally collasping in

i thought they weren't allowed to insult in chinese.

i think this is an exception because it's not a continuation of the earlier insult-war...

>       "NO!  IT'S NOT LIKE THAT!  I WAS TRYING TO GET TO BERLIN!"
>
>       Shampoo sniffed.  "Mousse want be pervert girl, Shampoo no care."

/me facefaults, breaking her monitor, then proceeds to haul the pink oneback
    out of the trash dumpster. don't ask. you don't want to know.

pink? with ruffles? :)

>       Mousse had a close scrape when Hilda decided that the duck she
>saw would make a perfect dish to try to win Mousse's affections.
>Although she thought it was terribly unfair that the duck would fight
>back.

isn't this usually Ryoga's schtick? :)

>
>       Next on Girl Days--
>
>       We get to see Ryoga's short sojurn on the other side, we get to
>see her in a bikini for actually logical and sensible reasons, and we

reasons such as..?

i suppose we have to wait.... my guess is sunbathing and shocking Kuno :)

>get to see Kasumi get a LITTLE rattled.

ohmygod, the next one's gonna be TEN times as wierd?!

>       We also get a lot of gratuitous fanservice.
>
>       And we get to REALLY confuse the HELL out of a certain yak-boy...

who?

Pantyh-urk! help. can't breathe. ok. taro. taro. happy?

[Taro] Not really, but it's a start.



-Z

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