In a message dated 5/23/99 8:29:42 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
schell@interlog.com writes:

Another day of busy body, idle mind, and I started thinking on this. It's
 not really workable as a story, but I was surprised at just what you could
 get if you twisted things a bit.
 
 
 Ranma Saotome, raised from childhood by his father to be the ultimate man,
 a man amoung men in fact.
 Is the leader of a group of companions who journey the world to fight evil.
 

I can see this.

 
 Ranko (Pat) Saotome, Ranma's well build, and trouble loving cousin, or is 
she?

I can see this also.

 
 Akane (Monk) Tendo, the worlds greatest chemist, her deep dark secret, many
 of her greatest inventions started out as an efort at cooking. An example,
 the toll house cookie formula that supplies the basis for all the armor
 plating on most of Doc's craft.
 

BOY, can I see this. ^_^

 Nabiki (Ham) Tendo. Worlds greatest lawyer. Could sell refrigerators to
 Eskimos, and who's main pleasure in life is thinking up new things to
 embarrass her sister Monk.
 

Hmm... Seeing things evern more!

 Ryouga (Remi) Hibiki, Worlds Greatest engineer, has built projects in some
 of the most remote places on earth, not always by choice. It was the
 sometimes the only way he could earn plane fair home. the strong man, who
 favorite hobby is putting his fist through doors, walls, floors, and the
 occasional Tank. Unkown to anyone else except Doc, he is also Monk's Pet
 Pig Habis Corpus.
 

Whoo, am I seeing things already!

 Tatewaki (Jonny) Kuno. Worlds formost Archeologist and expert on ancient
 artifacts,  never met a word he didn't like, the longer the better.

Seeing SO much...

 
 Gosunkugi (Long Tom), Pale, looks like he's ready to keel over at any
 minute, worlds greatest electrical engineer.
 

Hmm... the ACTUAL Long Tom was a pretty dangerous scrapper. so I don't see 
this quite as much.

 
 
 Like I said, you'd never make a story out of it, but it was interesting how
 some of the things worked together.

Sounds like a dare to me.  Maybe I'll drag out some of m,y olf Doc Savage 
novels and see what I can do... heh.


kenko