*sigh*  Bicker, bicker, bicker...

 >  Hell, a many of the "fanfic cliches"
 >have been shown to be accurate anyway.
 
 Of course not. If they were accurate ("accurate" meaning shown in the 

manga, 

 or at least consistent with it) they wouldn't be cliches.

And if they were in the manga, sugar, that would no longer be fanfiction
(which is the grey area we all tread here), but plagarism.  Or, at best,
novelisation.

Please, Gary, I thought the line about stealing stuff on fire was funny
(and who knows if my yatai was or wasn't alight when he lit off with
it all those years back?  No, wait... Ran-chan was on the roof... never
mind) and isn't that sometimes more important than whether it's canon
or not?  We all know that Hammerspace is a fanfiction cliche as well, 
and that it violates canon, yadda-yadda-yadda, but when Kenjiko does
that whole thing on the beach or what have you, it's too funny to bother
arguing with it.

I say if the line's plausible (and I think Ran-chan sometimes has a pretty
low opinion of his dad, so I'd say it is), let it stand.  It's like that 
fellow 
who decribed another guy as "the only person I ever knew with rubber
pockets, so he could steal soup."  Sure, that's not literally true, but the
idea's there - the fellow being described is dishonest and a theif.  *I*
think that applies to Genma-baka.

Of course, I realize I'm biased.  Still... can we put the kibosh on this
arguement?  Arigatou.

Itsu mo,
Ucchan  ^_^