Subject: Re: [FFML] [SPAM] Language Difficulties
From: Ben Kosse
Date: 12/2/1996, 8:15 AM
To: fanfic@fanfic.com

Anyway, it's not the Ranma 1/2 team going to an English-speaking country; 
actually it's quite the opposite.
And here comes the *big* revelation: I'm not actually writing a fanfic; rather
an interactive fanfic: a text adventure game.
    Oh! Oh! I'll playtest it. :)

Other places included in this game include Hitchhiker's Guide and the
Discworld 
series.  The Babel Fish will be in there, but until the player has it, all
he won't be able to understand all of the Ranma 1/2 characters; only those who
can and wish to converse with him in English.
     Nabiki (about business), Tofu, small pieces of conversation with
Ryouga, Cologne, Happosai. That's about it, I think.

I've got eight ways of killing it so far: Can anyone think of a suitable ninth?
(If it helps, imagine this is Shampoo-neko we're talking about (it isn't, but
it might help some of you))
     Don't hurt 'Poo! :(

The nine ways so far are thus:
1. Skinning a cat
2. Curiousity killed the cat
3. Drowning it in cream
4. Making sure a cat doesn't land on its feet
     This wouldn' happen to involve stapling a piece of toast to the cat's
     back, butter side up, would it? :)

5. Cat on a hot tin roof
6. Too small to swing a cat in
7. The classic drowning-cat-in-a-sack trick
8. Shroedinger's Cat (don't ask)
     You're right. I won't.

A ninth: given the propensity for cats to become roadkill-- flat cat.
--
Ben Kosse bmk7411@cs.rit.edu
BGC Otaku and worshipper of the Red-Eyed Goddess. Member of ShAS.
Anime, RPG's, computers, poetry (read/write), music (listen/compose).
Author of the Bubblegum Crisis theme pack (see the homepage below).
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