Subject: [FFML] Re: [Spamfic][Ranma] The Books of Doctor Tofu
From: "Larry F" <lwf58@cvalley.net>
Date: 9/20/2005, 8:42 PM
To: "'Joe Fenton'" <jlfenton@npgcable.com>
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Subject: [FFML] Re: [Spamfic][Ranma] The Books of Doctor Tofu



Larry F wrote:


"That's the point. You have to have a degree or a teaching 
certificate 
before you can open up a school these days."

I think sometimes people overblow that a bit. First, if Ranma 
had a reputation, he'd have no trouble getting students 
regardless of any accreditation. Second, I'm sure Japan has 
colleges like many in the US - all he'd have to do is show a 
few skills and they'd make sure he never paid a cent or 
attended a class to get a degree as long as he was on a 
school team for something. As big as baseball is in Japan, 
he'd probably go for that. He could get by without showing 
off too much.

	Since I was just dashing these off on the spur of the moment, I
didn't do much research other than looking over the floor plans of the Tendo
house and yard, and looking at a picture showing the kitchen furnishings.
The part about certification is based on Maison Ikkoku, in which the main
character, Yusaku Godai, has to have certification to work in a preschool /
daycare center. It seemed reasonable that the Japanese might have similar
rules about any type of school, given how regimented a society they have.
However, after doing a bit of searching on the net, it's probable that the
various schools are allowed to give out their own licenses without
government oversight.

	I can't be absolutely certain of that, however, because most of the
references to such things are by web sites that are trying to add an air of
legitimacy to their chief instructor by claiming they've been licensed in
Japan. Such claims are immediately suspect in my book. I'm a firm believer
in what Robert Heinlein once said: "If a person has to wear a sign that says
'I am', he ain't."



I'll tell you, in all the time I attended the University of 
Houston, I never once saw an athlete on campus. Not once. I 
didn't know a single person who had ever seen an athlete on 
campus. The closest I can come is my best friend's roommate's 
cousin's sister claims to have seen an athlete cross the quad 
once. Seriously. No foolin'.

	^_^



"Oh, welcome home, Ranma. The table? I usually have a book 
under the 
leg to keep it level, but I had to return it earlier today."

"Return it...? You mean... that's what you use those books 
you borrow 
from Doctor Tofu for?!"

"Well, of course, silly. You don't think I actually -read- 
those dry, 
dusty old things, do you?"

:)  Very humorous.

	Thank you. Nice to see that it caught someone's fancy. ^_^




"Oh, my god," he gasped as he desperately tried to quell 
the guffaws 
that were threatening to do him in. "A hardbound edition of the 
'Harlequin Romance Anthology, Volume Twenty'? Who'd have 
ever thought 
that the doc was addicted to trashy romance novels?!"

He gets them strictly for the patients in the waiting room. ;)

Very nice set of little stories. :)

	LOL.



     Ja mata,
     Larry F

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